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by wtracy 6y ago
I imagine it was downvoted because it came across as a jab at the HN moderators. Looking at the bigger picture, yeah, I have to agree. I have seen a virtual coup d'etat on a subreddit dedicated to fast food. (One moderator got kicked o
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by wtracy 6y ago
I'm not aware of any US law that allows the federal government to order a corporation to cease publication of an app. In fact, that would probably be a First Amendment violation.
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by wtracy 6y ago
I'm having a hard time imagining what a ban on an app would look like. Would they impose sanctions on the corporation, and go after any US-based app storefronts that carry the app for breaking a trade embargo? Maybe do the same for any
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by wtracy 6y ago
The hacker community has a tradition of pet projects that take an arbitrary requirement to the logical extreme just to see what's possible. I don't really see this as any different from the people trying to browse the web from a C
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by wtracy 6y ago
You know, someone needs to make an Iron Chef styled reality TV show where teams of web developers are each handed a random recently-expired domain name and challenged to make a viable service that fits that domain.
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by wtracy 6y ago
That strikes me as a good option for a future "professional" tier of the website.
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by wtracy 6y ago
The next globe-spanning total war in the style of World War II will be, yes. But that's not the only kind of war. There's proxy wars like we saw in Korea and Vietnam during the Cold War. There's cyber attacks and other acts o
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by wtracy 6y ago
I'd love to have someone with firsthand knowledge fill me in here, but: I've seen Flash-based feature phones do all kinds of things that desktop Flash struggled to do on (then-contemporary) desktop PCs. I can only conclude that Fl
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by wtracy 6y ago
Satellites have to operate in a very different thermal and radiation environment than most networking hardware. Cooling is very difficult when you're surrounded by a vacuum. Also, without the planet acting as a heat sink, the differe
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by wtracy 6y ago
> the whole point is to use excess power from solar/wind. Thank you. > But converting that into carbon fuels that work directly in existing infrastructure and is effectively carbon neutral is a good option too. This approach seem
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by wtracy 6y ago
I'm going to offer a defense of his definition, then cast it aside and offer a better definition. If you're poor, you spend a lot of time doing tasks yourself that other people would outsource. (Food preparation, home repairs, etc
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by wtracy 6y ago
Definitely look into one of the browser extensions that lets you whitelist JavaScript for individual domains. There's always going to be something that you'll need to use that requires JavaScript. Otherwise, yeah, it's awes
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by wtracy 6y ago
> Wouldn't be legally recognized as a library, which was something the IA spent years clawing to be recognized as. That's an important nuance that I and others missed. > No, it couldn't. Why not? The publishers win a ju
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by wtracy 6y ago
The assertion is that a new organization should have been formed that owns the books and performs the lending, but has no access to the rest of the IA's assets. Then, in the event of a lawsuit, the only thing the publishers could seize
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by wtracy 6y ago
> if your goal is to learn a new programming language, I don't see Zettelkasten being particularly helpful I don't have experience with Zettelkasten, but after reading this article I'm imagining using it for studying algor
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by wtracy 6y ago
I recently paid for a Debian VPS instance, and when I logged in it had Exim already installed. (I think it was running by default, too, but I don't trust my memory. I uninstalled it pretty quickly.)
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by wtracy 6y ago
> EXIM is much easier to configure than postfix. Postfix is faster than EXIM. You might have the two reversed? I don't have hands-on experience with Exim, but every "getting started with email" document on the internet see
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by wtracy 6y ago
No. It looks to be focused on projects that do not use any UI toolkit at all. CLI applications and games, basically.
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by wtracy 6y ago
Plywood is C++ only, so no.
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by wtracy 6y ago
The word "framework" by itself provides no indication of how specialized the tool is, or what problem(s) it aims to solve. The above description indicates that it is a very general-purpose framework (handling things as disparate a
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by wtracy 6y ago
I would love to see a detailed retrospective on your experience.
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by wtracy 6y ago
An amazing number of people make purchasing decisions without seeking advice from existing customers. There are industries where businesses almost never compare notes with each other. (Independent restaurants come to mind. Really, any field
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by wtracy 6y ago
This reminds me of the Extreme Programming "bubble" (for lack of a better word). Really awesome Practice A (skipping up-front requirements development, shorter QA cycles) is made possible by really tedious Practice B (pair program
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by wtracy 6y ago
All I can say is that I wouldn't go into this business today without either lots of automation (someone a while back had a script that flagged single-dictionary-word dot-coms as they expired) or some statistics-backed way of identifyin
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by wtracy 6y ago
I think the implication is that GPU rendering ends up using lower-precision floating point numbers than are available on modern CPUs, which leads to more rounding errors.
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by wtracy 6y ago
As far as I can tell, Pixar only started using GPUs for previsualization around 2013 or 2014. It looks like Renderman didn't have real GPU super until 2018. They've never actually confirmed moving from CPUs to GPUs rendering for t
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by wtracy 6y ago
Take a look at the website for Debian's parent organization, Software In The Public Interest, and see all the projects they are responsible for: https://www.spi-inc.org/projects/ Contributing is not a bad idea.
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by wtracy 6y ago
That's about right. Debian's packages are generally older and more thoroughly tested. Debian also didn't customize things as much as Ubuntu does, so the software you get is much closer to what the "upstream" proje
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by wtracy 7y ago
WSL doesn't meet the project's requirements: https://github.com/darlinghq/darling/issues/260
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by wtracy 7y ago
The only special-purpose device I know of for what you want is Portal TV from Facebook. Most video chat isn't done via television.

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