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by wott 6y ago
> Apparently Haskell supports overloading on return type Ada does too.
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by wott 6y ago
It used to be that grey was often the metallic paint, more durable, and was more expensive than all others, and you'd only find it on 'business class' cars. Now they all have the same qualities.
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by wott 6y ago
> Peugeot has some nice special colours. [...] Not that a lot of people buy them, so... Oh, on their catalogues, car manufacturers do still present various colours in general. However, once you get to their seller, he always announces
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by wott 6y ago
> Aerodynamics and safety legislation about things like gaps between engine and bonnet (hood) are harsh mistresses. Yeah, but it is also a bit of an excuse for everyone just copying a model that sold well in the previous year. You can fi
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by wott 6y ago
The practical reason is that it is camouflage to hide dirt and stains.
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by wott 6y ago
It's the same in France. For 20 years, buyers have almost always been given the choice between a grey (now black or white) car that is in stock and can be delivered right away, or a coloured one in many weeks. Now buying a new car is s
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by wott 6y ago
> Seriously though, I have a light yellow car, because it’s always easy to find in the parking lots. A couple of years ago, someone took me to a shop and didn't want to come inside with me and waited in the car. When I came out, I h
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by wott 6y ago
In the France of the universe in which I live, martial law hasn't been in use for over 2 centuries.
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by wott 6y ago
> This sounds like the actual problem is lack of jobs and bad economy. Prominently a lack of the factory production kind of work, I'd say. So you keep people in school system(s) as long as possible. For people who would previously
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by wott 6y ago
> Another one of the Linux projects that the cranky contakerous pissy segment of the FOSS world just loves to spit on & hate, PulseAudio. There isn't one single anti-PulseAudio comment in the thread, and yet you start a top comm
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by wott 6y ago
> The point is that web apps are distributed instantly to users, on demand, anywhere, extremely cheaply, with no middlemen necessary. Back before the web was prominent, software had to be distributed via physical media, usually floppies
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by wott 6y ago
> Here we have the IGPN, which is "the Police of Police" so when an officer does something wrong there's an inquiry about it. But more importantly, there are sanctions. The main role of IGPN is diverting legal action, by b
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by wott 6y ago
I am not sure but I think you misunderstood Mistersquid, in that he associates productivity not only with work but with other things and times in life too. That's why he speaks of unstructured time in contrast. He doesn't make a
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by wott 6y ago
> And I never had problem with switching. Takes a night sleep or two at most. Don't bother to try arguing that here or on Reddit. Apparently 99% of people in those conversations go to sleep, fall asleep and wake up at the exact same
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by wott 6y ago
> here in the EU we have voted No we didn't. It was a crappy Internet poll (brigaded like all Internet polls), with extremely closed and loaded questions on top of that. Cherry on the cake, the EU server crashed when I tried to vali
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by wott 6y ago
The worst are sites which get broken every other year (each time they are redesigned/rewritten) whereas they provide nothing more, feature-wise, than what they provided 15 years ago. And yet it forces you to update your browser to one
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by wott 6y ago
> And of course “any kind of document frame anywhere” was unbelievable at the time. Couldn't Ashton-Tate's Framework do that kind of things too? I can't remember.
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by wott 6y ago
I am not sure but I think I used Compuserve too, in France. AOL came, but later and more as one Internet provider in many, and much like the others. It was a bit difficult for us to understand the image and all the memes about AOL, so you h
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by wott 6y ago
This "Responsible Environment" website pegs my CPU...
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by wott 6y ago
> Interesting, my experience is from Germany where it's much lower, barely breaking 50%. It is not (only) a matter of capacity, it is (also) a matter of culture/habits. In fact, if you look at various European countries, that&#
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by wott 6y ago
> If MDN closes, productivity for millions of web developers across the county will plummet. If that should happen, I would consider it a gift from heaven ;-)
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by wott 6y ago
> Mozilla isn't just about the browser. It's about free and open internet. Which is contradictory with what they have actually been doing for a decade, which is pushing, pushing and pushing again for Web-everything and everyth
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by wott 6y ago
> Finns and Danes are my idols on simplicity, practicality and a hint of elegance. Jesus... I never thought I'd ever read that Finns could be someone's idols when it comes to elegance. But if you fancy wearing sports overwear [
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by wott 6y ago
Agreed. In fact small chores which were a hassle when coming home after a 10-hour long (or longer) day of commuting+work+break+work+commuting can become a welcomed break, for they are actually a break from work, a tiny bit of manual wor
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by wott 6y ago
1. You're conflating X and Xorg. 2. Network transparency is still there and I use it everyday. The problem is toolkits (GTK and others) who decided it would be 'simpler' to redo everything themselves in a canvas. Of course th
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by wott 6y ago
Indeed: as it is said in the post, they had to give up on a feature because they could not implement it in time for their .99 version and they locked themselves in that system.
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by wott 6y ago
Yes, only because the reference point is the average of all manufacturers :-) Last time I checked, they hadn't corrected the documentation of their previous line of SoCs (almost 10 years old), despite acknowledging the errors I reporte
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by wott 6y ago
I doesn't make a difference because in the industry they all are the same and always have been. Except when they are worse. :-/
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by wott 6y ago
> The key is probably this sentence: "In the future, we are also planning to support suspend to RAM." A distant future. A Purism employee (who will probably show up here since he takes part in each HN thread related to Purism
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by wott 6y ago
It's not a matter of contesting the race to thinness. Here, the stuff is as thick as two not-especially-thin phones; it is reaching the realm of PDAs, except it hasn't got the clamshell and the keyboard.

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