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by rvense 4y ago
I can come over? You can cook while I tell you more about words you use wrong.
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by rvense 4y ago
The plagues of Egypt were awesome. Nuclear weapons are awesome. Your breakfast was not awesome.
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by rvense 4y ago
Probably some trains, planes and ships from the 90's. At least I remember Cory Doctorow describing airplanes as "flying Solaris boxen with badly-secured SCADA controllers" in his "The upcoming war on general purpose comp
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by rvense 4y ago
It's true that babies don't get stolen here, but laptops and phones left in public certainly do. The resale value is better and the punishment much less severe if you get caught. (The link in the article you posted mentions 97 cas
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by rvense 4y ago
This is just a GUI for the underlying Pipewire sound software, which is what the applications actually talks to. I don't think you get something like that on Windows.
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by rvense 4y ago
It's the same main author, I think. He writes the Qtractor DAW, too.
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by rvense 4y ago
It's true that the G4 processor was introduced in 1999, before OS X was even in beta. But I think OS X was the default installation on all Macs from 10.2 in around 2002 at the latest. The aluminium Powerbooks and iBook G4s were introdu
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by rvense 4y ago
> Isn’t that slavery with extra steps? That's a pretty wild comparison? > What if I moved out of the country? This seems bizarre to me as an American. I’d do as little work as possible for that time and be resentful about it. Wel
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by rvense 4y ago
Absolutely not true in Denmark. A good reason can be something like "we are eliminating this position for strategic reasons", and the only money it will cost you is the three-six months (depending on how long they've been at
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by rvense 4y ago
> Anarchy as complete lack of structure is always used to attack and denigrate it by its opponents And has been for 150 years. There's a treatment of it in the Conquest of Bread where you get the impression that Kropotkin was alread
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by rvense 4y ago
Why another OS? Why does anyone ever do anything?
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by rvense 4y ago
They weren't referring to my dumb joke, but to the claim that there were negative comments. I thought I saw one or two as well, maybe they were deleted.
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by rvense 4y ago
Well, our prophet pg did write somewhere that the reason to join a startup was to get rich. These people aren't coding for the lambos? Seems immoral to me /s
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by rvense 4y ago
Very few of those who don't go to university are doing so for financial reasons. Not everyone needs a three-to-five-year academic education, but nobody should be blocked because of who their parents were.
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by rvense 4y ago
I heard they started actually talking to their users, and most of their users are office workers who'd rather have McBooks.
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by rvense 4y ago
USB? You mean that thing that all the 8051s use to talk to each other?
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by rvense 4y ago
68020 and 68030 were fully 32 bit, wasn't it? They had the dynamic sizing thing so they could boot of one EPROM, but they had the full bus expose AFAIK.
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by rvense 4y ago
I've never seen a metal rod, but a long plastic arm that goes all the way through the case is common on many types of electronics.
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by rvense 4y ago
Startup life, living the dream! You've been bookmarked, I'll be back in a few days. This looks amazing.
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by rvense 4y ago
Most of these small ARM micros are an external memory interface and a good OS away from being a mid-90's workstation. The larger ones (high-end Cortex-Ms) are probably comparable to Powermacs of the early 2000's.
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by rvense 4y ago
> Forums weren't replaced by discord. Forums were replaced by Reddit. Technically, reddit and Discourse is more like forums, but a lot of things that would have been a forum 15 years ago are now Discord "servers".
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by rvense 4y ago
It's been like this for at least 50 years, maybe more - the underlying system of credit associations goes back to the lat 1700's. The mortgage market was very tightly regulated to really only permit the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage
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by rvense 4y ago
30 year fixed-rate is very much the norm here in Denmark. There was a period of experimentation leading up to 2007, but I think fixed rate is very popular. I'm certainly happy that's what we went for when we bought our first house
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by rvense 4y ago
Yes, regulating Bitcoin directly would be bad. The much better solution is to make it more expensive for everyone else who has no interest in it to cook their food. That's obviously the correct way to deal with this.
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by rvense 4y ago
They're a legal requirement in Denmark. Some take them off, especially the Tour de France LARPers that go in groups in the countryside, and just shout at you instead. Everyone hates them.
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by rvense 4y ago
As far as I remember, in those days here you often paid nothing or very little out of pocket for a new phone. It was more like an extra 10-20EUR on your monthly subscription. At least for the phones normal people had.
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by rvense 4y ago
Services as a software substitute...
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by rvense 4y ago
One of the most interesting concepts in the philosophy of natural language is "the cooperative principle"[0] as described by Paul Grice. Basically, to understand what other people are saying requires us to cooperate with them, tha
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by rvense 4y ago
Can someone explain to me how raising interest rates combats inflation? Doesn't it do the opposite? If rates go up, financing becomes more expensive, meaning I'll need more money to do business, meaning I'll have to raise my
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by rvense 4y ago
I recently saw a Twitter thread with citations for sentiments like "nobody wants to work anymore" going back to the 1800's.

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