smokeypanda

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by smokeypanda 3y ago
I'm sure economies of scale would bring down the price somewhat if the majority of the industry's manufacturing was done in developed countries.
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by smokeypanda 3y ago
Lightweight web browsers don't have as large of an attack surface, particularly if they eschew JS, cookies, etc or you disable them. Nyxt is alpha software, so YMMV until it's more feature complete, and independently audited to co
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by smokeypanda 3y ago
ESR is on record stating that the original focus of 'cathederal' was on GCC and Emacs, the terminology was applicable to proprietary software and top-down corporate cultures.
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by smokeypanda 4y ago
Your first reading was correct. The ambiguity is whether the comment was referring 'we'(author is part of referenced group), or 'them'(author is describing disgruntled group), possessing the viewpoint that the overturnin
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by smokeypanda 4y ago
That's a rather presumptive over-simplification of what effect software cracking had and has on employed programmers' livelihoods. It's not a direct 1 to 1 relationship between a cracked installation and lost sale, nor does p
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by smokeypanda 4y ago
Do any sources state that Valve transitioned to a traditional hierarchy? There's been reports of cliques and internal opaqueness going back a decade, but the only concrete difference I've heard versus pre-2012 is a shift towards m
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by smokeypanda 4y ago
There's also the iw4x project that brings community servers and patches to the 2009 Modern Warfare 2. The game mechanics, asinine matchmaking algorithm, map design, and monetization model of 2019+ Call of Dutys don't spark joy for
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by smokeypanda 4y ago
Libertarianism and Austrian economics has a perception of outright rejecting empiricism and other rational thought, so I'd like to add a clarification. Libertarian theory doesn't deny naturally occurring downturns in economies, bu
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by smokeypanda 4y ago
I don't have an expert understanding of how cookies or VPNs function, but these are the two categories of causes that I came up with. Both seem more likely than Google having timing data from a third-party service. Within the first cat