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by troad 2y ago
The last new OS that a mid-2012 MBP received was High Sierra, in 2017. That was the OS that added warnings about the impending breakage of all existing 32-bit apps (!), you may recall. My own MBP from the same era as yours succumbed to a lo
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by troad 2y ago
That's not what "rent seeking" means. Rent seeking is the term for manipulating institutions, customs or laws for the purpose of extracting money without creating anything.
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by troad 2y ago
> It's terrible terminology to be sure It's a fairly common pattern in English: e.g. "moral - amoral - immoral", or "political - apolitical - anti-political". > it's surprising that no one in the cha
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by troad 2y ago
By phone standards, yes. By computer standards, absolutely not.
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by troad 2y ago
That's interesting; I find vim so much more intuitive than emacs. I find commands easier to reason about (and easier on the fingers) than chords. `dd` over `C-a C-k` or `C-S-Backspace`, for example. I also think the discoverability in
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by troad 2y ago
I feel like the oldest cycle in tech is the "easy and good enough" defeating the "more elegant / powerful, but more tricky". Re VS Code, I wouldn't say it's in a weird limbo - on the contrary, I think that
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by troad 2y ago
> And yet I get down-voted for expressing a well-reasoned opinion against vim and Emacs. Calling people whose editor preferences differ from yours "obsessed" "editor-hipsters" is not a well-reasoned opinion, nor is sa
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by troad 2y ago
That is amusing! I'd think that your Android app would be using a different rendering engine to my desktop browser though? There must be something non-standard about those images.
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by troad 2y ago
As a programmer with almost exclusively statically-typed compiled language experience, I used to strongly believe this too. In the last year, though, I've seriously toyed around with a number of dynamic languages, really trying to grok
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by troad 2y ago
Nor did mine, interestingly. I'm not entirely sure why, the HTML for the first image seems to render fine on its own. It's a very long <picture> tag, seemingly optimised to return different sizes at different resolutions. It
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by troad 2y ago
This is so cool. I love this so much. I read the article on my RSS, and then immediately hopped over to HN just so I could upvote. > Fortunately though, over the course of Bauble’s development, I had produced a comprehensive suite of tes
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by troad 2y ago
Yes, in much of the world there are mandatory passenger-facing emergency break levers in every carriage of passenger trains. The US is the outlier here. And yes, passengers should absolutely be able to bring their vehicle to an immediate
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by troad 2y ago
> Imagine letting a passenger in a car use the e-brake at any time. Alright, I'm imagining. Seems extremely sensible, especially in an AI-operated vehicle. Much of the world (the US being an outlier) puts passenger-facing emergency
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by troad 2y ago
> there is no chance in hell that Ukraine will be admitted to Schengen in less than 10-15 years - if at all. The main concerns about new states joining Schengen are usually that (a) there may be too many immigrants from the new member to
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by troad 2y ago
Arguing that the US is more of a colonialist power than Europe is certainly a bold bit of rhetoric. Europe maintains a vast colonial empire to this day. You can 'but Iraq!' all you want, but you're attempting to make the ab
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by troad 2y ago
> Expending your territorial control is colonialism, even when you pay to convince your future subjects to fall willingly under your colonial rule, it is still colonialism. The EU has many people and offices working on promoting and faci
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by troad 2y ago
> However it would be foolish to think that any more infrastructure would be built under the USA’s colonial rule than Denmark’s. As I've noted elsewhere, you're conflating actual honest colonialism (Denmark's) with a hypot
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by troad 2y ago
I'll try to clarify my reasoning. From a purely legal perspective, the US is not bound by domestic Danish law under any circumstances (and vice versa: cf the doctrine of state immunity). From the perspective of legal philosophy, the US
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by troad 2y ago
Exactly. Both of these are Danish laws illegitimately extended to Greenlandic territory, at a time when the Greenlanders were (a) forcefully incorporated into Denmark, and (b) had no ability to make or unmake Danish law. Greenland, were it
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by troad 2y ago
Not OP, but I think there's a valid argument about how "modern" those countries are. It's generally accepted that Romania and Bulgaria were let into the EU somewhat early, mainly for geopolitical reasons (foreclosing Rus
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by troad 2y ago
A very typical European understanding of the US - "I read an article about... ", "I saw on Reddit that... ", "I saw an Onion video that said... " <obviously reductionist caricature follows>. You're w
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by troad 2y ago
Sure, that arch exploitative act of "trying to set up a factory" in an impoverished area. God forbid the locals get wages and a chance at better living conditions, when they can instead be forced to remain a living museum of impov
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by troad 2y ago
Good news, they get to keep all of them. In the US, natural resources belong to whoever owns the land, which would be the state government and the people of Greenland. Y'all can fear-monger about 'neo-colonialism', but the on
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by troad 2y ago
I'm talking about a cash in hand offer: a literal bank wire to every person in Greenland. Greenlandic politicians holding out for a different offer might find themselves voted out by people that rather like the idea of $50k in cash ($2
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by troad 2y ago
Fisheries are a significant part of Iceland's economy, though. Well-off European states with lots of sea (Norway, Iceland, Greenland, the UK) are disproportionately likely to reject EU membership due to the Common Fisheries Policy. I
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by troad 2y ago
As well as the Virgin Islands, which the US bought from Denmark as recently as 1917. The population of Greenland, per Wikipedia, is 56,583. The US could offer $50,000 to each man, woman, and child in Greenland. That's just over $2.8bn,
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by troad 2y ago
I respectfully disagree, emphasis on respectfully. C++ absolutely does have Rust beat on dev speed on flexibility. I would much rather prototype a quick and dirty gameplay slice in C++ over Rust, and I think so would most people. That flexi
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by troad 2y ago
Rust has really struggled to break through in gamedev. Rust's core premise is trading off dev speed and flexibility for memory safety, but it turns out that dev speed and flexibility is far more important in gamedev than memory safety.
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by troad 2y ago
> To be That Guy: this is an emulator, not a VM. While the term can apply in a descriptive sense, and in the pre-hardware-virtualization past there was some ambiguity, the overwhelmingly common usage of "Virtual Machine" in the
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by troad 2y ago
I wouldn't quite say attrite has fallen out of common use, though it is by its nature rarely encountered. I certainly use it, and it's fairly common in certain fields (e.g. discussions of language attrition, ironically).

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