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by shadowfox 4y ago
> to think we can build manufacturing plants at the source of raw materials, and near consumers The source of raw materials and consumers may be quite far apart (certainly in the modern world). While it can be argued that maybe they shou
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by shadowfox 4y ago
I am not sure that is true. From what he has mentioned before he is an American of Bangladeshi origin.
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by shadowfox 4y ago
What in your opinion are the positives that came out of colonialism?
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by shadowfox 4y ago
> A private company should not be making decisions on essentially freedom of speech On the other hand, a private company has limited obligation to uphold what is essentially a government concern ... Unless we start redefining a lot of th
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by shadowfox 4y ago
> Any tool that makes you more productive at the cost of taking away the pleasure of figuring it out on your own bores and depresses me I mean, you don't have to use these tools yourself, particularly since you have to pay for it an
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by shadowfox 4y ago
Interesting, but what is the relevance of a mid, last century American president's thoughts on unions to the UK of now with a pretty different political structure and beliefs around collective bargaining?
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by shadowfox 4y ago
> but consists basically of "don't eat processed food or added sugar." Paleo goes a bit beyond that, to be fair.
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by shadowfox 4y ago
> Use of '\n' is always better for printing new lines. Does this do the right thing on Windows?
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by shadowfox 4y ago
> There are excellent books for novice Linux programmers Do you have any suggestions in this regard?
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by shadowfox 4y ago
Out of curiosity, which companies do this sort of research?
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by shadowfox 4y ago
> Meanwhile, Windows without hardware less than 2 years old is absolutely worthless This seems like a massive exaggeration. I am currently running Windows 10 on a refurbished laptop I bought in 2012! (So, actual hardware is even older).
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by shadowfox 4y ago
I don't think the plugin support is quite the same?
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by shadowfox 4y ago
> People essentially slept two times a night. They went to bed at sunset. Then, they woke up for an hour or two around midnight, which apparently was used, everything being dark, for sex and contemplation. And then they fell asleep for a
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by shadowfox 4y ago
> At least in other countries, the upper class ideal is a renaissance man. Sadly, I don't think that is very true in many (most?) places.
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by shadowfox 4y ago
> For Windows users, it's probably worthwhile installing the Windows's Terminal app (from Microsoft) vs using cmd.exe or powershell.exe. While the windows terminal is pretty useful, it is not a command shell; you still have to
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by shadowfox 4y ago
This seems like a bit of a strange take to me. LTU was hardly about DSLs or even particular languages, though of course that came up on and off. It was fundamentally a place with discussions on PL theory and related stuff, with the front pa
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by shadowfox 5y ago
I mean, while this is sort of true in general, I don't know if the poverty/bad-pay argument would apply to authors like Martin or Rothfuss. Writing is of course hard as you say though.
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by shadowfox 5y ago
> about:profiles is actually a useful way to manage multiple logins. I used to have one set of accounts in ff, another in chrome. But now I just have multiple windows open in different profiles (and themes to distinguish) each with diffe
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by shadowfox 5y ago
> was it a big deal, also no Of course, since you weren't the actual target of his rant or his attempts to dig up dirt on that guy.
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by shadowfox 5y ago
That was somewhat anti-climatic for its title.
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by shadowfox 5y ago
> Would you agree to go to jail if a user posts something illegal on a forum you run? > No? Fair and reasonable. Neither do I. Now let's ask ourselves - would ANYONE reply yes? A bit unlikely? You seem to be asking rhetorical que
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by shadowfox 5y ago
Not the OP, but that situation seems to indicate espousing unrealistic values at the least or am I misreading what you are saying?
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by shadowfox 5y ago
You generally need that and typically reasonable experience wrangling different legal matters at scale. I guess Musk was just being Musk.
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by shadowfox 5y ago
A lot of these issues will not be solvable technically, though. Given the way systems/software is built currently, vulnerabilities are going to exist and there are very highly paid and motivated people working on figuring out how to ex
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by shadowfox 5y ago
I may be confused by what you are saying. What is the point of a company having an ideological stance if "free speech", if they are violating that all the time by censoring? How is that different from paying lip service to free sp
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by shadowfox 5y ago
How do you go about converting the papers?
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by shadowfox 5y ago
> She cannot produce language. That you can understand ...
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by shadowfox 5y ago
> I usually assume everyone is stupid, including myself, that's the most humble thing a person can do IMO It seems strange that the most humble thing you can do is to assume everyone else is stupid (even if you were to include you
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by shadowfox 5y ago
I mean it is not just mentioning a specific experience to refute a generalization when there is also this: "Python is the tool of choice for those developers who just want to get stuff done."
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by shadowfox 5y ago
There are somewhat more involved formal treatments like Welterweight Java [1], which adds some more features, but of course, nowhere near the full set of Java features. Some of the citations in that paper are also interesting. I don't

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