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by skissane 1y ago
> Erased generics the type information is not available at run time. That's the way Java does it and it kinda sucks. To be more precise: in Java, generics on class/method/field declarations are available at runtime via ref
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by skissane 1y ago
> but the effects on my quality of life are substantial -- I simply don't enjoy food right now. This is in part psychological, because what I used to enjoy was the psychological effect of eating, but not completely. I hope this will
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by skissane 1y ago
Confiscating a subsidiary doesn't shut down its computer systems. That would require humans to do additional – and very likely criminal – acts of retaliation.
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by skissane 1y ago
The Soviets had ternary computers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun Then they decided to abandon their indigenous technology in favour of copying Western designs
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by skissane 1y ago
Related trick I've learnt: binary data containing lots of 0x40 may be EBCDIC text, or binary data containing embedded EBCDIC strings – 0x40 is EBCDIC space character Probably not a very useful trick outside of certain specific environm
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by skissane 1y ago
> and the EU has no leverage to do anything about it Absolutely they do have leverage – maximum they could possibly do would be confiscate Amazon's EU assets (physical, financial, corporate and intellectual)
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by skissane 1y ago
That would be illegal. They are offering this service to EU governments (and government contractors) under contractual terms which promise EU management. Replacing the EU management with a US manager would at a minimum be a breach of contra
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by skissane 1y ago
Right, and then if the US parent company orders EU managers to violate EU law, and when the managers refuse, replaces them with EU managers stupid enough to obey an illegal order - then what happens? The new EU managers get arrested and pos
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by skissane 1y ago
I know people (even members of my own family) who have resigned jobs because they felt the personal legal risk to themselves was excessive. In my experience, it is a much more common event at the C-suite level, where that risk is most acute
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by skissane 1y ago
> Being "100% subject to European law" doesn't override the parent company's obligations under US law. At best, it creates a legal conflict where AWS must violate either US or EU law. Which one will the US parent comp
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by skissane 1y ago
> Australia is a former colony, France is a former colonizer Australia is a "former colonizer" too – the UK transferred the colony of British New Guinea to Australia in 1902; in 1914, Australian troops conquered the colony of G
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by skissane 1y ago
I don’t understand what taxing “network effects” has to do with Georgism though - Georgism argues land should be taxed specially because (1) there is fundamentally a finite quantity of it, (2) it is natural not human-made. Network effects d
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by skissane 1y ago
Part of steelmanning / reading charitably is trying to put aside overly emotive/rhetorical/alarmist presentations of an idea and just concentrate on the facts of the matter. Suppose that Madeupistan is a wealthy developed cou
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by skissane 1y ago
> Immigrants don’t generally earn much, let alone work legally and pay taxes. They are not paying our retirement. They require doctors and produce our “medical deserts” (the name we use in France where social security fails because of la
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by skissane 1y ago
I’m sympathetic to your overall point - I’m not a convinced Georgist but I’m open-minded about the idea - but I’d question some of your specific examples > even domain names, With an alternative DNS root, you can have any domain name you
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by skissane 1y ago
It isn’t just employees. The manager/owner of the coffee shop I buy coffee from most mornings is very friendly - I’m sure part of this is just her personality, but it is also good business sense - there are lots of other places people
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by skissane 1y ago
> How is it "less hassle"? You've got to use a second, fiddlier protocol and you've got to worry about collisions and translations. Because, while less common than it used to be, software that has weird bugs with IPv6
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by skissane 1y ago
Once Linux implements it, I think odds are high that FreeBSD sooner or later does too. And maybe NetBSD and XNU/Darwin/macOS/iOS thereafter. And if they’ve all got it, that increases the odds that eventually OpenBSD also impl
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by skissane 1y ago
Why run your K8S cluster on IPv6 when IPv4 with 10.0.0.0/8 works perfectly with less hassle? You can always support IPv6 at the perimeter for ingress/egress. If your cluster is so big it can’t fit in 10.0.0.0/8, maybe the rig
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by skissane 1y ago
> I care about the salaries and working condition of garbage men, teachers and doctors, even if they don't value mine. All three of those jobs you listed have vested interest groups who are standing in the way of a better life for t
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by skissane 1y ago
> Meanwhile, US companies remain the global leaders in the development of pharmaceuticals and medical equipment No denying the US plays a huge role in the global pharmaceutical industry - but Europe does too - semaglutide (Ozempic/R
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by skissane 1y ago
Wifi networks are very common today, and yet there are heaps of businesses installing them (and they normally have to install Ethernet at the same time, to connect the access points to the broadband router/modem). The same is true of a
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by skissane 1y ago
You don’t need Windows for networking. There was lots of networking software for DOS. NetWare was the most popular, but there were heaps of alternatives: Microsoft/IBM LAN Manager, Banyan VINES, DEC Pathworks, Sun PC-NFS - most of thos
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by skissane 1y ago
We lived in different geographies (you were somewhere in the US, I was in Sydney, Australia), being exposed to different types of enterprises: for me a private Catholic high school, and the Australian branch of the global US-headquartered p
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by skissane 1y ago
I totally believe they get swamped with eager candidates, but highly experienced ones? Someone ex-NASA may well have deep experience in certain specific areas which few other candidates could claim. The thing about a voluntary "deferre
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by skissane 1y ago
> if there was a digital network there is a good chance it was Novell or Token Ring As the other commenter pointed out already, the vast majority of Netware networks used Ethernet. I knew what Token Ring was, but I don't think I eve
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by skissane 1y ago
Not in homes, in institutions (workplaces, schools, universities, government agencies, etc). In the early 1990s, a lot of places were in the process of replacing 10Base2 with 10BaseT, so there was still heaps of 10Base2 installs around. 10B
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by skissane 1y ago
I used to work on a Java app where we did this… we had a layer of POJO value classes, a layer of ORM objects… both written by hand… plus for every entity a hand-written mapper which translated between the two… and then sometimes we even had
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by skissane 1y ago
> While your preferred specification is excellent, It’s “an ethernet port” in ordinary usage. Or “ethernet jack” in more technical contexts and entirely sufficient for Ali Express. Right, in your average 2020s home or office, "Ether
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by skissane 1y ago
> Emacs was born on mainframes and made its way to UNIX much later, after vi had already become the standard. Berkeley released the first version of vi in 1978–development had started in 1976 but I don't believe pre-1978 versions we

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