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by tored 5y ago
Can't really agree. Many of the professional politicians in Sweden doesn't have any formal degree or professional career, they are uneducated broilers, i.e. morons. The ruling political party in Sweden, Socialdemokraterna, has giv
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by tored 5y ago
A huge problem with western democracy is that even if the leader is replaced the political party remains. This breeds corruption and entitlement ("we are the only proper ruling party!") A few examples of political parties over a h
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by tored 5y ago
What is about then? Linux uses glibc? Does the license of glibc state that any operating system using glibc requires to be named GNU/*? Hasn't many of the BSD variants and BeOS/Haiku use(d) the GCC toolchain and glibc?
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by tored 5y ago
Does it say anywhere in the GNU licenses that any operating system or kernel created by the GNU tools must be called GNU/*? To my knowledge no, thus GNU activist has no case here. You are free to use the GNU tools, in accordance to the
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by tored 5y ago
What freedoms am I missing when Linux is not called GNU/Linux?
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by tored 5y ago
gnuplot is not part of GNU
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by tored 5y ago
How is 4GB RAM installed a niche use case? If this is the route software development is intended to take where every app is going to consume +4GB RAM good luck running multiple apps at the same time or running it on a smaller form factor. I
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by tored 5y ago
The problem isn’t necessarily the quality of gradle or maven but rather that you get one more build dependency, thus increasing complexity of the project.
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by tored 5y ago
Thinking of writing an app in Sciter. I’m doing a mixin approach with my own custom backend against Sciter pre-built dll. What would you say is the pros and cons of Sciter? Is it so lightweight as it claims?
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by tored 5y ago
The Swedish system goes deeper than that. Compare the US Department of Justice with the equivalent in Sweden, in Sweden that would be split in multiple different organisations first with Departement of Justice, headed by the minister of Jus
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by tored 5y ago
I would argue that Sweden is not collectivistic at all. In the golden years of the Folkhem (the people's home) Sweden was collectivistic to a larger extent, but because of the massive increase of living standards, a huge middle class
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by tored 5y ago
If feel that most of the time "lagom" is just a myth Swedes has created to hide their extremism behind.
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by tored 5y ago
Here is a good article on the subject of lack of care for the elderly. in Swedish date 2020-05-18, Läkartidningen is a newspaper published by Sveriges läkarförbund, a union for doctors. https://lakartidningen.se/aktuellt&#x2
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by tored 5y ago
Sweden did get things right, however it also got things wrong. Lockdowns and masks are both largely non-effective, Sweden got that right, however what Sweden got wrong was the care for the elderly, many deaths that could have been prevented
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by tored 5y ago
In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic 9 out 10 deaths in Sweden was on persons over 70 years of age and half of them lived in a nursing home. I'm not sure what the current statistics says but probably within the same ballpark. T
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by tored 5y ago
Scalia has some good points, however some notes A gridlocked political system is not guaranteed to create "good legislation" as Scalia puts it, take US as a prime example of that, almost every legislation is packed with pork and o
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by tored 5y ago
Hard part will be to secure that first job with almost no prior experience in programming and no recent formal education. One option could be vocational education (depending on what the education system is in your country), they tend to be
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by tored 5y ago
Don't you need hooks on the application level so the app can handle the lifecycle to avoid polling? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/app_and_envi... https://developer.android.com&#x2
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by tored 5y ago
Reading the Librem app docs it seems like apps are GNOME programs packaged with an manifest. I can’t find anything about app lifecycle. To be able to conserve battery apps works differently than programs, apps can be suspended. That is usua
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by tored 5y ago
> Get 10 random senior programmers in a room, and see if they agree on matters of design, code structure, testing, frameworks, system architecture Programming consist of different schools of thought, similar to philosophy or economics, t
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by tored 5y ago
Agile with managers - We have rearranged your sprints because of super duper important deadline for a very important customer. - But we already begun this sprint! - Yeah, but we are Agile.
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by tored 5y ago
The future of operating systems will be of microtransactions and loot boxes. - Oh, you want to format your hard drive? Purchase in store :-) - Checkout our file utilities bundle, 50% off today! - Congratulations on formatting your hard driv
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by tored 5y ago
A few examples Canada (terrorist, bank accounts frozen) USA (no fly list, bank accounts closed) Sweden & Austria (bank accounts closed) All this with any court order. Doxxing and silencing is done by groups closely related to the regime
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by tored 5y ago
Great article but this was not the kind of chaos engineering I was hoping for.
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by tored 5y ago
The limitations made the web better.
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by tored 5y ago
The web was actually better in the days of IE6 than today.
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by tored 5y ago
When Wikileaks spread information about US war crimes in Iraq it didn’t lead to any uprising in the US at all, protest yes but no uprising. The regime got re-elected. Instead what did happened was the imprisonments of the journalist Julian
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by tored 5y ago
Me prophetically 2 days ago > software developers are smart enough to not download crap from the internet, but they will gladly run npm install with full user privileges. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30684416
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by tored 5y ago
C++ is also hard to read, especially after introducing lambdas.
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by tored 5y ago
As I explained in my response I want EU to become more independent from US https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30688930

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