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by rob74 2y ago
If you're mentioning Haiti, it's only fair to add that they were saddled with a crippling debt to France (later to the US - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_independence_debt ) from the very beginning o
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by rob74 2y ago
I was the unfortunate owner of an S3 ViRGE card at the time - the (in)famous "3D decelerator". I managed to get Quake running on it, and it looked nice, but was slower than with software rendering...
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by rob74 2y ago
> And trying to make your own board in that moment, was just an incredible self own. ATI built their own boards too at the time (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_R100_series#/media/File... ), so
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by rob74 2y ago
Ok, I think I know who you voted for in the last election... Yeah, sure, you could argue that it's not democratic to keep extreme parties out of power, but there are multiple examples across history of parties coming to power democrati
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by rob74 2y ago
Free speech? Or free lying?
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by rob74 2y ago
(2022) ...also, threat to privacy, definitely yes, but to democracy? Unregulated social networks are a threat to democracy, but they could exist very well without Chrome.
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by rob74 2y ago
Thanks for the pointer! Those photos are the typographical version of a post-credits scene in movies - you generally don't expect to find something interesting below the listing of all participants in the project (even below the social
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by rob74 2y ago
I assume you are aware of the plot of the first Star Trek movie ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Motion_Pictur... )? Picard was not involved however...
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by rob74 2y ago
Ah, that picture brings back memories - I used to have a successor of that machine in the mid nineties (PS/1000), it looked almost the same, except the handle was rounded and the power button was blue (a big blue button). And the CPU w
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by rob74 2y ago
BTW, Ukraine already had nuclear weapons, but agreed to give them up for security guarantees by the US, the UK, France and Russia (!) in 1994: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum
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by rob74 2y ago
Not sure if he'll care about the specific accident, but he always cares when someone contradicts him...
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by rob74 2y ago
Since you mention the FAA, I wonder what will happen if the NTSB's report on the Washington disaster doesn't match Trump's preconceived conclusions, e.g. by placing most of the blame on the (female) helicopter pilot. If he in
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by rob74 2y ago
Not sure if they even think they need to prove their assertions, after all Musk (same as his "boss"/BFF) has made the most outlandish claims without a shred of evidence (the "radical-left Marxist vipers" at USAID)
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Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights(cnn.com)
296 points by rob74 2y ago|348 comments
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by rob74 2y ago
> panic and recover are best reserved for exceptional circumstances. You might go with Joshua Bloch and say exceptions are also best reserved for exceptional circumstances (which actually only means "things aren't working a
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by rob74 2y ago
It remains to be seen if the person I think you are referring to is a non-dictator. He said he would be a "dictator on day one", and he sure was, but then he somehow forgot to revert to non-dictator mode... Regarding "crashin
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by rob74 2y ago
The US is not going to defend Taiwan because of chips, but China is also not going to attack Taiwan because of chips - if they do, they'll attack it for the same reason Putin attacked Ukraine: an "us vs them" mentality help
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by rob74 2y ago
Ah, ok, I was trying to figure out what the difference is between this case and the thousands of lies that other right-wing figures tell every day, and maybe it's this: never admit that you lied! Or of course it could be that the other
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by rob74 2y ago
Those plastic-foil greenhouses spreading like cancer across the landscape in Spain should be shown (especially up close, where you can better see the dirty tattered foil and the waste they produce) to people who think solar panels or wind t
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by rob74 2y ago
Well, unfortunately "Africa" is only mentioned in the article's title (which got cut to fit into HN's character limit) and not repeated in the article itself. But I can understand the concern: most agriculture (not only
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by rob74 2y ago
Not really a question, just one phrase that left me scratching my head a bit: > The downside to radix-8 multiplication is that multiplying by a number from 0 to 7 is much more complicated than multiplying by 0 or 1, which is almost triv
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by rob74 2y ago
Ok, at 95 that would maybe be understandable, but his wife was considerably younger (63). And what about the dog?
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by rob74 2y ago
Nah, that's just slander propagated by the enemies of the people! Besides, Trump has been saved by God himself when that assassin tried to shoot him last year, so even if he looks like the devil and quacks... er, talks like the devil,
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by rob74 2y ago
> who needs 3 decimal points for a price? Petrol stations... I have no idea how widespread this practice is, but at least in Germany fuel prices have 3 decimal points to better confuse motorists. The third number is usually displayed s
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by rob74 2y ago
> Romania’s public prosecutor’s office said it had approved the brothers’ request to travel to the US pending investigation, and judicial sources told local media they were due to return for a court hearing in March. Right... as if any
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Andrew Tate and brother leave Romania for US after travel ban lifted(theguardian.com)
67 points by rob74 2y ago|64 comments
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by rob74 2y ago
Well, currently the CEO is not only not doing his job at Testla, but actually doing his best to drive away Tesla's customers. And it's working, at least in Europe: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgd
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by rob74 2y ago
Might I recommend switching to Pascal then?
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by rob74 2y ago
Interestingly enough, the K&R variant called "one true brace style" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation_style#One_True_Bra... ) is the "one true style" that is mandatory in Go (although
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by rob74 2y ago
Vote in 2026 (and hope your vote gets counted correctly).

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