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by usrnm 11mo ago
> Windows NT started supporting unicode before UTF-8 was invented That's not true, UTF-8 predates Windows NT. It's just that the jump from ASCII to UCS2 (not even real UTF16) was much easier and natural and at the time a lot of
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by usrnm 11mo ago
Complex societies definitely will survive. Probably, not the same societies that we have today, but I see no problem with that.
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by usrnm 11mo ago
Absolutely nothing in your list prevents the AI from being a bubble. The Internet is an absolute marvel of engineering that completely changed the life of the majority of people in the world, and yet it crashed 25 years ago, and crashed har
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by usrnm 11mo ago
Not sure about that. Internally, maybe it was true at some point, cannot say, but if we look at the US as an international player, when exactly was it ready to sacrifice its own interests for any kind of justice or greater good? And if you
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by usrnm 11mo ago
The map certainly is not built in a eurocentric way. It does reflect the fact that the political history of Eurasia and the Mediterranean region are much better studied and better understood, but this is hardly the fault of the creator of t
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by usrnm 11mo ago
Both are based on khtml. We could be living in a very different world if all that effort stayed inside the KDE ecosystem
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by usrnm 11mo ago
"Killing people I don't like is ok" is not a very nice line of thinking
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by usrnm 11mo ago
> The damage to our future world order I don't think "damage" is the right word, especially outside of the US. Changes aren't necessarily bad, and, as someone living in the EU, I actually like the current trend.
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by usrnm 11mo ago
There are many cases when some downtime is perfectly ok. Or, at least, worth the savings
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by usrnm 11mo ago
It's a tradeoff, different companies are allowed to chose differently or even to change their mind after some time.
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by usrnm 11mo ago
I recently came back from a safari in Africa and the standard vehicle for it is a Toyota J70.
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by usrnm 11mo ago
Watermelons can actually be grown even in Siberia. They will be small and won't taste great, but many people do it just for fun.
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by usrnm 11mo ago
> And then they just kept producing the same model, with extremely minor changes, for decades. That's not true, though. The first models were, practically, Fiats, but then they diverged and the second generation (produced in the 80s
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by usrnm 11mo ago
Modern English is a poor bastard child of a fair Germanic maiden brutally raped by French barbarians
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by usrnm 11mo ago
A hacker news poster is very likely to consume the original English text and never encounter anything else, regardless of whether it's human-translated or not. Just like the people who make these decisions in the first place
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by usrnm 11mo ago
Say what you will about C++, but it is undoubtedly one of the most successful and influential programming languages in history.
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by usrnm 1y ago
To be fair, checking if an interface is nil is very dumb code, and the fact that it doesn't work is one of my biggest gripes with the language. In this case it's clearly the language (creators) who's dumb
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by usrnm 1y ago
I wish some of my dreams really were
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by usrnm 1y ago
For the past 15 years being progressive meant moving everything to the (US-owned) cloud
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by usrnm 1y ago
Aren't there enough wrapper libraries for all programming languages that take care of this under the hood? You don't have to rely on libc only
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by usrnm 1y ago
You don't need to make any changes to your currency to create an alternative to Visa and Mastercard, all you need is political will. Russia created its own system years ago and forced both Visa and Mastercard to comply with it, it&#x27
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by usrnm 1y ago
Both Visa and Mastercard work just fine with the regular old school euro, why would you need something entirely new to create a local competitor to an already existing service?
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by usrnm 1y ago
Absolutely the same change happened in Russia over the past 30 years or so, but it had nothing to do with privatisation or competition, all trains are still operated by the same state-owned corporation.
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by usrnm 1y ago
Aren't we a lot more evolved for hunting animals on foot? The whole thing with us losing our fur and sweating with the whole body, adaptations to running and throwing stuff, all of this makes us better hunters, but not necessarilly fus
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by usrnm 1y ago
Well, the US definitely is dragging the rest of the world, the question is where and whether it's somewhere the rest of the world really wants to go. I think, we'll see soon enough
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by usrnm 1y ago
And now look at how making iPhones in China helped to grow the whole Chinese electronics industry, as opposed to inflating some virtual numbers for the US
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by usrnm 1y ago
GPUs aren't built in the US, though. I wonder, what percentage of all the stuff in a typical datacenter is actually made in the US
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by usrnm 1y ago
You're literally going to compete with the whole United States government, and you call this a recovery plan?
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by usrnm 1y ago
The Internet was the best thing that ever happened to the so called "creeps", should we get rid of it as well?
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by usrnm 1y ago
Just slap a "assert foo.isascii()" at the beginning and proceed? It's just an interview

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