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by wvenable 2y ago
I'm not sure how that would play out but I think there is some validness in that concern. It's the same with smartphones; you deny your kid one because you want them to socialize in person but if they're the only kid without
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by wvenable 2y ago
There are many many empty homes in Canada -- in some cases entire "luxury" buildings sit mostly empty. These properties are sold even before they are built to international markets before they are even advertised for sale in Cana
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by wvenable 2y ago
> At a 90 working, 10 non working people ratio, there isn’t going to be much to export, and hence the local currency isn’t going to buy much elsewhere in the world. Canadian currency at the lowest in years. But most of the wealth of Can
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by wvenable 2y ago
This is a fantasy. Those 90 returned people can spend their money anywhere in the world and do. Their relative ranking is multiple larger homes and those 10 working people paying them rent. Land value is not a product of labour -- in Cana
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by wvenable 2y ago
At that point, Canada would just be a state. NAFTA went a long way to improving the movement and people between US and Canada.
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by wvenable 2y ago
The enshitification of health care has been happening whether your bill is paid by taxes or by insurance. Both systems were probably better a few decades ago.
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by wvenable 2y ago
I don't think we have that much of demographic crisis. First of all, the aging population is the one with all the wealth. And secondly, as Boomers, they are a very large generation but will soon be dying off. But more to point, this
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by wvenable 2y ago
In Canada, one cannot lump all immigrants together even those from the same part of the world. Canada used to be pretty strict on immigration only allowing highly skilled individuals from all over the world. But in the last decade this ha
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by wvenable 2y ago
Some abstractions are so ingrained you don't even think of them as abstractions. A file is an abstraction. A socket is an abstraction. The modern terminal is an abstraction. People only notice bad abstractions.
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by wvenable 2y ago
The only way we accomplish anything is abstraction. It's the basis of all computing.
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by wvenable 2y ago
A good abstraction is like documentation written in code.
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by wvenable 2y ago
My car has blind-spot warnings. They do go off when I'm not changing lines or nothing is there. However, it has probably saved me at least once and is therefore totally worth it.
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by wvenable 2y ago
Keywords vs. variables vs. functions <-- these all look the same.
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by wvenable 2y ago
> because they have completely internalised the structure of the program and can think about it as a whole This state is definitely how you can be most productive. However, I've written multi-millions of lines of code and many diffe
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by wvenable 2y ago
I never said that there was an ideal time. But even 20 years ago, there was way less hyper-optimization than now. And 20 years before that there was less still. The famous (although not confirmed) story of American Airlines removing one o
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by wvenable 2y ago
It was much more difficult before computers and before computers were inside of everything.
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by wvenable 2y ago
I believe we live in hyper-optimized times. We are at the stage of capitalism where every single crumb is accounted for, every single blueberry on a muffin is tallied, and it's taking the joy out of life and of society. Even McDonald&
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by wvenable 2y ago
I have read a lot about that time and it doesn't seem particularly biased. Microsoft hated working with IBM and their horrifically old-school way doing software development (e.g. counting lines of code, etc). The bias, in my opinion
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by wvenable 2y ago
The original comment was about running DOS programs under OS/2 1.0. The comment I replied to seemed to be under the impression that OS/2 didn't care about the DOS memory model, but of course it did, because it ran DOS progra
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by wvenable 2y ago
Extended Memory is just the name for memory above 1MB that could be accessed by the 80286 in protected mode. The 286 was still a 16bit processor, still had segments (although descriptors in protected mode) and "one big block of 16-bit
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by wvenable 2y ago
Data harvesting is a-ok. Propaganda by Americans to Americans is protected by the first amendment. But a foreign state harvesting data and applying influence is more straight forward. Look at the proposed solution: Just sell TikTok to som
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by wvenable 2y ago
"What actually happened is that..." Dismisses the entire article which, as far as I can tell, is pretty factual. Admittedly I used your comment as a jumping off point for that observation about recent OS/2 commentary even bey
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by wvenable 2y ago
Whether or not you spell Microsoft with dollar sign it doesn't make every other company the hero. History has turned OS/2 into some kind of folk hero rather than the bloated, mismanaged, expensive, buggy mess that it actually was.
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by wvenable 2y ago
It's funny constantly see a kind of revisionist history where IBM is the misunderstood underdog with the superior technology that was destroyed by the big bad Microsoft. When in reality IBM is this poorly managed monstrosity that was
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by wvenable 2y ago
I've gotten a lot better at "shipping" hobby projects in the last few years. I still start a whole bunch of things and then get busy or distracted or it stops being interesting or I hit a roadblock. But a few years ago I star
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by wvenable 2y ago
My son doesn't use it but I use to help him with his homework. For example, I can take a photograph of his math homework and get the LLM to mark the work, tell me what he got wrong, and make suggestions on how to correct it.
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by wvenable 2y ago
I'm only allowed to view it? I can't download it, convert each word into a color, and create a weird piece of art work out of it? I think I can.
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by wvenable 2y ago
By that logic you're violating copyright by using a web browser.
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by wvenable 2y ago
A product suitable for a mainstream audience is a laptop with a full sized keyboard and a 14" to 17" screen. There are already an entire market of those. I don't really understand the critique.
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by wvenable 2y ago
Your original premise is flawed; there can never be language that is superior in every aspect. Almost everything is a trade off. A technology that is good for one purpose might be wrong for another and vice-versa. Also a new language wil

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