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by pyrale 1y ago
> Deuteronomy seems to imply Israel were just the least bad people. As written by a member of "the least bad people". If you're going to have a historical look at events then, you need to take sources with a grain of salt.
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by pyrale 1y ago
The Snowden leaks showed 20 years ago that cisco routers were being sent to NSA for "aftermarket" modifications before being sent to clients. It's not news.
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by pyrale 1y ago
> The last 15 years has been just the commodification Just a lexical correction to your message: the establishment of standard protocols is a process of comodification. The main goal of making a product "unique" and not interop
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by pyrale 1y ago
As usual, the feature is being railroaded by google and other implementers are given the choice between following Chrome's de-facto choices or not implementing it, and breaking websites that will use it anyway.
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by pyrale 1y ago
> The title could have been written as: "Why do I feel everything is broken, and what can I do about it". Sometimes collective action is required to fix an issue. Restricting people to individual action is depriving them of the
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by pyrale 1y ago
> From an American NatSec perspective, French strategic autonomy is viewed as a positive Sometimes. And then, the outcome of that autonomy is that France makes a decision that doesn't please the US, and the US goes ape.
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by pyrale 1y ago
On one hand, there is a will from some people to be less dependent. On the other hand, the EU bodies as well as national reps are besieged by lobbyists and diplomats, and without much backlash from constituents, it's very hard not to f
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by pyrale 1y ago
> But all of them feel videogamey and none of them would pass for a film or a photograph. Or even a reasonably good offline render. Or a painting. They are instantly recognizable as video games, because only video games try to pass off t
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by pyrale 1y ago
> It took explosives for the EU to curtail its Russian natural gas use. Assuming you refer to NS2 blowup, it was unused when it got sabotaged.
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by pyrale 1y ago
This government gives zero fuck, listening to them is like listening to a LLM: they say whatever they think is going to convince you to give them a pass. It's not that they're serious about the grouses, it's that the grouses,
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by pyrale 1y ago
A gard on your pattern match would be enough I guess.
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by pyrale 1y ago
> You can also simulate sum-types via what OOP people would probably call a visitor pattern You can also simulate it by using if/else everywhere. At this point, that means you have zero language feature supporting the use case, and
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by pyrale 1y ago
Close enough :)
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by pyrale 1y ago
They are forcefully pushing for whatever the position of US companies is in conflicts between US companies and EU regulators. The position of the US executive on encryption is well summarized by the Lavabit case.
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by pyrale 1y ago
> Both OVHCloud and Scaleway have been around since 1999, yet haven't ever expanded their core engineering or product responsibilities outside France or the US. Because their business hasn't significantly expanded outside of Fr
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by pyrale 1y ago
> Most French and German PR about "digital sovereignity" rings hollow when the French and German vendors who stand to benefit have largely kept Capex and headcount within France and Germany. You're comparing companies of w
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by pyrale 1y ago
How many secretaries, go-to people, etc. do you have?
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by pyrale 1y ago
> e.g. Richard Lionheart spent more time out of England than in it To be fair, most of his prize holdings were also out of England.
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by pyrale 1y ago
Dunno about op's site, but the news itself comes from a french parliament hearing, has been discussed quite a bit on other news media, and from my experience, is being discussed by people here.
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by pyrale 1y ago
> which disregards that financial backing allows for more resources to solve technical problems. No, I'm not talking about financial backing in general, I'm talking specifically about advertising the language. There's no d
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by pyrale 1y ago
The Java ecosystem has benefited from way more than that. I was specifically refering to advertising. For instance this kind of headlines [1]. [1]: https://www.theregister.com/2003/06/09/sun_preps_500m_java_b.
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by pyrale 1y ago
SML was a generation before ocaml. I would say the two languages from the same generation that competed for academia's mindshare were ocaml and Haskell.
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by pyrale 1y ago
> and yet it’s basically a hobby language. The difference between academia languages such as ocaml or haskell and industry languages such as Java or C# is hundreds of millions of dollar in advertising. It's not limited to the academ
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by pyrale 1y ago
We’re talking about Ukraine and Russia, there has been a war going on for years now. Nobody needs or wants plausible deniability here.
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by pyrale 1y ago
> Article is long, but thorough, but it misses one key preceding influence That's because the article is simply not really exploring distinct genres that had an influence on cyberpunk, but searching its ethos. It's not really l
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by pyrale 1y ago
My favorite one from qntm is probably Miguel Acevedo [1]. It is pretty spot on wrt. several topics related to the current AI boom ; for instance the licensing topic. [1]: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
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by pyrale 1y ago
The scope of the part of this ruling alluded to by this wikipedia quote is extremely limited. All it says is that facebook didn't explicitly promise to not develop header bidding in the future, so the agreement is not a collusion betwe
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by pyrale 1y ago
> Is there a single doctor on the planet who doesn't tell their patients that sunshine and exercise are good for them? Yes, because doctors are secretly plotting alongside with big renewables to trap sunshine with solar panels and i
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by pyrale 1y ago
> The tone of your post just carried an impression of criminality in the sense of wanton fraud Oh, they also did that [1]. If a bank did this kind of stuff, perpetrators would see jail. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by pyrale 1y ago
I don't really mind about what people should do. Cats should probably not kill birds when they aren't hungry. But my opinion has no bearing on cats. My lament is more about the current situation and our apparent inability to esc

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