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1. 211.▲
   by usrnm 8mo ago

   If you write your software only for yourself, do whatever you want, of course. If you want to share it with other people, artificially limiting it without a very good reason will make it less useful and popular.
2. 212.▲
   by usrnm 8mo ago

   I was in Seattle around 8 years ago. If I go tomorrow, will I notice any real difference?
3. 213.▲
   by usrnm 8mo ago

   > I don't see why I would want to use libc To make your code portable? Linux-only software is even worse than Windows-only
4. 214.▲
   by usrnm 8mo ago

   I care more about numerous bugs than I do about performance, to be honest. I'm starting to to regret not switching to Android last time I was upgrading my phone. Even if it is the same bugfest, at least I wouldn't have paid premiu
5. 215.▲
   by usrnm 8mo ago

   You're not surprised the same happened to every other large empire in history, but the USSR baffles you? What about the British Empire? Dutch? France? Austria-Hungary, ffs? The same will happen to the US one day.
6. 216.▲
   by usrnm 8mo ago

   Any source? Because there were definitely norms and standards for buildings in the USSR
7. 217.▲
   by usrnm 8mo ago

   > Nowadays, European companies have developed many modular building techniques It's so fun watching Europeans reinvent the Soviet approach to building that they used to mock and shit on
8. 218.▲
   by usrnm 8mo ago

   I seriously doubt you get sufficiently more earthquakes than, say, Tokio, which is mostly concrete
9. 219.▲
   by usrnm 8mo ago

   Well, you got your citizenship by the mere fact of coming into the world in the country and breathing in it, didn't you?
10. 220.▲
    by usrnm 8mo ago

    Maybe they just need some tea and throw a party, if you know what I mean
11. 221.▲
    by usrnm 8mo ago

    Self-respecting programmers write assembly for the machines they built themselves. I swear, kids these days have no respect for the craft
12. 222.▲
    by usrnm 8mo ago

    > Is it the best bag? No, of course not. Is it a good bag? Absolutely not Plastic is absolutely the best packaging material ever created, it's so good, it feels like magic. It's light, it's cheap, it's waterproof, it&
13. 223.▲
    by usrnm 8mo ago

    > Countries with far fewer natural resources—such as Germany, the Netherlands Where do you think the term "Dutch disease" came from?
14. 224.▲
    by usrnm 8mo ago

    > It is irrational to spend the same amount of energy on mining a digital token when it can be used to build and power actual productive robots It's just as irrational as it was 10 years ago, there have always been more productive u
15. 225.▲
    by usrnm 9mo ago

    The article uses the words "more power" and "overtaking fossil fuels", but the graph is actually about electricity generation. They are not the same thing, at least, in my head, because not all energy consumed in Europe
16. 226.▲
    by usrnm 9mo ago

    Refusal to learn and change, even if it means learning from people you disagree with, is simply arrogant and stupid. The US is the biggest economy in the world with the strongest tech sector in the world, they are obviously doing something
17. 227.▲
    by usrnm 9mo ago

    Just wait until you try to use their trains
18. 228.▲
    by usrnm 9mo ago

    > you have to physically go to the notary and have a person READ OUT all the statutes to you. I guess, you've never bought a house in the Netherlands then, because it's the same exact process
19. 229.▲
    by usrnm 9mo ago

    Bonaire then?
20. 230.▲
    by usrnm 9mo ago

    I'm sure that every polititian in the EU is deeply concerned, isn't it enough?
21. 231.▲
    by usrnm 9mo ago

    > web browser on a device that isn’t serviced by Apple or Google Which browser though? But what you're describing sounds a lot like a Linux tablet, which do exist: https://itsfoss.com/linux-tablets/
22. 232.▲
    by usrnm 9mo ago

    Mercosur has been under construction for more than two decades, it has little to do with Trump
23. 233.▲
    by usrnm 9mo ago

    > Multithreaded by default seems like it would be an insane choice without all the safety machinery You're describing golang, and somehow it's fine. Bugs are possible, but not super common
24. 234.▲
    by usrnm 9mo ago

    But why, couldn't he just fly there on an eagle?
25. 235.▲
    by usrnm 9mo ago

    Torrenting is easy, but what are you goung to do with the torrented files then? Without additional external hardware you probably won't be able to play your downloaded files on your large TV, and most people prefer a laggy simple route
26. 236.▲
    by usrnm 9mo ago

    > The way that orcs are dehumanized Orcs aren't human, though. If anything, they were deelfized
27. 237.▲
    by usrnm 9mo ago

    I'm glad somebody is doing it, even if it's Meta. The world really needs more energy and nuclear is a great option
28. 238.▲
    by usrnm 9mo ago

    The name predates the standardisation. The committee did not come with the whole thing themselves, rather they adopted and expanded already existing library implementations. You could move in C++, with this exact name, long before C++11. Se
29. 239.▲
    by usrnm 9mo ago

    And in Russian we use "jad" ("яд" in cyrillic) for both. Although there is the word "отрава", which can be used for poisons and "яд" is closer to "venom" the difference is almost non-existan
30. 240.▲
    by usrnm 9mo ago

    Just "food". Any kind of Dutch food fits the description.