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by rvense 2y ago
Yeah, I've been a Firefox user and Mozilla supporter for approaching two decades now, even used to donate monthly to the foundation. I'm furious over this. I installed LibreWolf on my personal machines last night and expect to uni
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by rvense 2y ago
That seems unlikely - law is very much tied to a place.
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by rvense 2y ago
> It's not a free market if the government... has its thumb on the scales See, this is why libertarianism doesn't make sense. If there's no government intervention, then monopolies, incumbents, and rich and powerful people
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by rvense 2y ago
A while ago I wanted to make a poster for something with an authentic "typewritten" look... unfortunately my 90's Nakajima is much too hifi, and looks more like a bad computer font than a typewriter. Shame, it's got that
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by rvense 2y ago
This has actually been a fairly common position among American libertarians. Alan Greenspan, for instance, was strongly against fraud laws until some time after the financial crisis. The idea was that the market would sort it out. (And no,
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by rvense 2y ago
If humanity lives forever, it will keep on inventing new words and therefore new sentences. So the question of whether or not language is finite is really the same question as whether or not the universe is.
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by rvense 2y ago
Now, that I won't argue with at all! There are some big-brained people that will find ways forward for various users of C++: some will migrate, some will create impressive tooling, and some, likely will evolve the language as it is - i
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by rvense 2y ago
I know enough C++ to understand that "member access operator" example, but not enough to have ever seen that before, and my first thought is just "big yikes". I'm sure there are cases where this will mean you can wr
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by rvense 2y ago
Yeah, sorry, that wasn't meant to be dismissive of stress or burnout. There's probably a reason doctors always ask about it, but it can be an annoying to have to talk about your job when you've got physical symptoms. (As a si
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by rvense 2y ago
"Are you bleeding?" "No." "It's probably stress, then."
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by rvense 2y ago
> You need to know what to build I like to refer to this as "the hardest problem in computer science." Several times over my ten-year career I've spent months building a thing to what we thought were the specs, only to hav
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by rvense 2y ago
It's easy to laugh at quotes like this, but they really had a different understanding of the word computer than we do. These machines were in fact huge and required specialists to use and didn't really do much except calculate. It
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by rvense 2y ago
Well, as you probably know, the first Mac shipped with a 68000 that didn't have the full 32 bit physical address space either, so that upper byte was basically free real estate. (The original Mac hardware is in many ways a masterpiece
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by rvense 2y ago
I think it sounds like a misplaced subsidy. If we're going to use students as state-sponsored labour, surely we can think of a better job for them to do than prop up some foreign enterprise with an unworkable business model...
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by rvense 2y ago
When I think about what a reasonable hourly wage is, I don't see it working in my country at all. My understanding is that the main portion of drivers in Copenhagen is made up of exchange students, who have to work some hours per week
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by rvense 2y ago
Power is when people do what you say.
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by rvense 2y ago
Once I'd started a new job and was asked to write "a little bit" about myself for a slide for the first company meeting. There were a couple of these because we were a bunch of new people and my little bit was in a font like
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by rvense 2y ago
Doesn't that hold for all other applications of software and really technology? Without further context that just seems to be saying you have to, like, think about what the AI is doing and how you're applying it?
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by rvense 2y ago
Yes, and I think silly "tough guy" posturing and a lack of empathy as in that comment is one of the common consequences...
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by rvense 2y ago
I mean, there's not a lot we can do to stop you using the phrase in this way. But you should know that you will cause confusion. The phrase "open source" is, to an awful lot of people, a technical term with a specific meaning
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by rvense 2y ago
Most of the toothbrushes we've owned in our lives still exist. What is the cost of having them around still? I don't know, but I know it wasn't factored in at all when we bought them.
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by rvense 2y ago
Also, for families, that was eight hours of paid work from one parent, not both...
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by rvense 2y ago
I always thought Micropython deserved a C64-like computer (with some pins exposed on top).
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by rvense 2y ago
I think this is changing simply because the rate of change for phones has slowed down like it did for computers. Just like a 2014 computer is a lot closer to a 2024 computer than a 2004 computer was to a 2014 computer in 2014, a five-year-o
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by rvense 2y ago
When I was doing my degree (area studies and linguistics), a friend who was in mathematics liked to tell me that mathematics was the second-most democratic science: all you need is a pen, some paper, and a waste paper basket; the humanities
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by rvense 2y ago
iPhone market share is above 80% in my country (Denmark), and smartphone ownership among adults is close to 100%. At that point, you're infrastructure.
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by rvense 2y ago
Do they actually have lower rates of drug use, though? They also have more negative views of homosexuality, but their gatherings can still make Grindr crash.
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by rvense 2y ago
> It’s also a leap from the “MacOS 9 was not an OS” GP position. That wouldn't be the first time I've heard that statement, even among classic Mac enthusiasts.
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by rvense 2y ago
Impressive work! Of course you can access external RAM, but it comes with some compromises re: speed and usability. Other ARM microcontrollers have a full SDRAM controller on board in its normal address space with very little overhead compa
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by rvense 2y ago
The Pico doesn't have an external memory bus, but something like MacOS Classic for an STM32 with a chunk of SDRAM and VGAish video would be fun.

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