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Shouldn't this send US credit rating to junk status or something? This is money that is contractually owed, right?
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I'm confused. Saying "Technofeudalism is worse than good old capitalism" and believing communism is a better system are not mutually exclusive. Are they? As for mera25 policies being at odds with communist beliefs, I don&#x27
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Is this nostalgia for "good old capitalism" you accuse him of having is reflected anywhere in the linked article or do you have other sources? One can observe a transition without taking sides, can they?
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I'm trying to imagine someone from Sri Lanka or Indonesia reading this. How do we call that when we deeply sympathize with the schadenfreude you'd be the subject of? There has to be a german word for this.
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Western civilization: from nationalism to feudalism. What a great time to be alive! I'll get my popcorn.
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Plot twist: US government websites are actually experiencing the biggest state sponsored DDoS ever, they can't fight back and this is the best solution to save face they could come up with.
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Not for a long time. We'll keep firing economists in charge until the reported deficit is satisfactory.
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I yearn for the days when we appreciate our billionaires for the world they created.
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That's an impressive collection of tools and apps they've built there. And yet, it doesn't seem like they succumbed to the temptation of making it self hosting! I guess the assembler would need some work to bring it to parity
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Or you could just be pessimistic in your offset calculation and assume that all "in between" unconditional jumps are 5 bytes in length. I know I know, not proper. But I doubt that in real code, that simpler algo would make you mis
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by vdupras 2y ago
Shameless plug, but Dusk OS[1] is a Forth that boots near instantly. It runs on PC, EFI (Intel Macs too), Raspberry Pi models 1, 2, 3, Zero. It has a graphical stack. Still a bit underpowered, but enough to implement uxn[2], which many peop
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I'm not saying that it doesn't work and I'm not saying that I hold the general public in high esteem. What I say is that holding the general public in low esteem while at the same time holding democratic values sacred is, as
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It's self-evident. Propaganda is defused through rhetorical skills. You know, knowing about the general forms of sophism, all that stuff. Rhetorical skills correlate with intelligence.
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Don't we need to have a pretty low opinion of the average american cognitive skill to feel the need to protect them from foreign propaganda for fear it would take a hold on them? If the general public is that stupid and that this kind
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Certainly, but by conflating the two, it makes the mmap trick appear better than it is in reality. There are good chances that a "&" change brings a very significant speedup.
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> The fact that a modulo operation is necessary to index into the array makes this function hard (if not impossible) to vectorize, and thus unnecessarily slow. It seems to me that this benchmark conflates two optimizations that could be
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I don't know where this idea that the RPi has good hardware documentation comes from. One glaring example is its DWC USB controller. Sure, it has a Linux driver that is open source, but its datasheet is not publicly available! So if yo
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This is precisely what I'm looking for too. All critiques of Hancock I can find with my feeble googling skills seem to be focused on unimportant stuff such as encouraging uses of psychedelics and accusations of racism. But what's
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You mean by the history we are told in the Ancient Apocalypse series? No, probably not. But that's the point! New information such as these discoveries in the Amazon show that the stories told by "mainstream archeology" can&#
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Yeah, I'm hesitant about this. One the one hand, experts pile up pretty hard on this series and on M. Hancock. Maybe deservedly, I don't know. But I'm still sour about COVID where experts piled up pretty hard on the lab leak
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Of course, anything is possible, but your opinion then becomes fringe. I'm trying to answer to the parent's question, which was about general sentiment rather than fringe opinions.
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Isn't it basically the only logical conclusion at this point? If you don't like Musk, you don't like Tesla. If you like Musk, you believe what he says, and what he's been saying during his ascension to the White House is
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It can't compile unmodified C code targeting POSIX. That's by design. Allowing this would import way too much complexity in the project. But it does implement a fair chunk of C itself. The idea is to minimize the magnitude of the
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To add a bit to this, although Dusk OS doesn't have the same goals as stage0, that is to mitigate the "trusting trust" attack, I think it effectively does it. Dusk OS kernels are less than 3000 bytes. The rest boots from sour
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I'll ask it first: are missiles still the biggest cause of death in an airplane?
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The opinion that Forth doesn't climb the abstraction ladder well is popular, but I'd be tempted to qualify it as a misconception. My own attempt[1] at a Forth that climbs that ladder is, I think, a good counter example. In my opin
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We invented guns centuries ago. Technology must, by now, be advanced enough to undo the effects of its bullets.
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Not rats, vultures! Vulture Capitalists is a catchy name!
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Duck and Cover ought to be enough for anybody.
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"serious" might not be the right term[1][2], but Dusk OS[3] has a wide set of features, including a C compiler[4] and a Text editor[5] which clocks at 339 lines of code[6][7] (third of a kilo?). You can see the editor in action at

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