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by wwtrv 3y ago
> if there's war, but yet the war happened anyway. That doesen't mean that 10 additional wars wouldn't have happened otherwise. It's a bit like saying that safety standards don't matter because people still die i
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by wwtrv 3y ago
> I'm counting the HiFive Isn't it years behind ARM/x86 performance wise? > nonsense to dismiss it as only being for embedded They unlikely to be competitive anywhere else without significant investment. > but it can
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by wwtrv 3y ago
> chugs along for the first 1-2 minutes on startup even once technically booted into Windows. > Opening chrome takes like 10 seconds for the first site to load after double clicking. Seems like there must be some problem with your sys
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by wwtrv 3y ago
> RISC-V servers There are?
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by wwtrv 3y ago
I never realized that it's actually RISC-five and not RISC-/v/.
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by wwtrv 3y ago
And there are some valid reasons for that, most "creative" people not very good at creating stuff that's actually useful for other people.
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by wwtrv 3y ago
If that's the case why not create a legal and transparent process which would allow these people to com here instead of encouraging to them to risk their lives to come here illegally?
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by wwtrv 3y ago
> It's called compassion So you're fine if by doing this you encourage another N people to try and do the same and a non insignificant proportion are guaranteed to die while trying?
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by wwtrv 3y ago
> Why not give them a chance? So survival of the fittest? You only get a chance if you're brave enough to risk your life by crossing an ocean on top of a rudder or a non sea-worth dinghy/overcrowded boat? Seems like a very crue
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by wwtrv 3y ago
Why would you accept any unskilled immigrants as long as there are more than plenty higher skilled immigrants who want to enter you country? > this is an incredibly stupid policy. Encouraging people to risk their lives to enter a country
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by wwtrv 3y ago
> the best and brightest people leave the country There are significantly easier way for them to do that already than hitchhiking on a cargo ship's rudder.
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by wwtrv 3y ago
If we're being fair it's not like they were ever in a much better state. The explosion in population was an outcome of improved life conditions (mainly access to food and healthcare).
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by wwtrv 3y ago
> what is wrong with having to learn? Often that just seems like an argument used to justify poor UX. There is nothing wrong with learning but many people have other interests and/or prefer/have to spend their effort on learnin
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by wwtrv 3y ago
> What was good about Twitter before oh.. I never personally liked Twitter. I was just thinking about the company itself rather than their products. > It's just a logo It also objectively sucks. I don't think we just handwav
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by wwtrv 3y ago
> forgive me for thinking that people need to meet the computer halfway Seems like a very defeatist attitude to have..
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by wwtrv 3y ago
> Meta are not trustworthy and it's reasonable to want nothing to do with them. Perhaps but the login thing seems totally tangential to this..
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by wwtrv 3y ago
> shitty social media company How was it more shitty than what it is now or what Musk is trying to turn it into? At least it had a quite decent logo instead of as generic as it get X character. > interesting Also what so 'interes
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by wwtrv 3y ago
Ok... why on earth you would try to turn Twitter into a payment system? And what does it have to do with a this new logo anyway?
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by wwtrv 3y ago
> embarrassingly obvious when someone is "microdosing". Maybe because of the placebo effect. Chances are that if you were actually microdosing but didn't knew about it you wouldn't even notice it.
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by wwtrv 3y ago
Well it is a horribly stupid logo. But I guess that's the point...
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by wwtrv 3y ago
Yes infringing on the inherent freedom of corporations to maximize their profit margins is pretty awful
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by wwtrv 3y ago
> It certainly seems a good fit with ideological software I don't see how could it be more open that ARM longterm since there are no incentives to release high-end core designs for free. I mean I full see the potential for more com
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by wwtrv 3y ago
Maybe? I don't think there are many practical uses cases for it though.. I'l admit I'm not really sure what market segment Hurd is targeting. Presumably the goal is to replace in the GNU stack Linux at some point? If so only
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by wwtrv 3y ago
What? Nazis didn't really have much against Hindus or Arabs (well yet anyway..) in fact tried hard to appeal to them and had quite a bit of success. Also, I don't quite get you? are you calling me a Nazi? Is that a compliment giv
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by wwtrv 3y ago
Nvidia is price gouging because there is no credible competition. That's the entire explanation and there is nothing more to it.
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by wwtrv 3y ago
> Permitting something to exist when you have the power to do otherwise That's an exceptionally broad definition and would sound pretty scary with no context.
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by wwtrv 3y ago
> Permitting something to exist when you have the power to do otherwise That's an excewptionally broad definition and would sound pretty scary with no context.
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by wwtrv 3y ago
Most people are generally more interested in functioning software running on existing hardware. Focusing on that might actually make Hurd actually relevant at some point in the future.
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by wwtrv 3y ago
> Very different situation from Russia/Ukraine. That's a bizarrely absurd attitude. > and invaded Germany first So if Russia now invaded Poland or the Baltic States and France/US/UK 'attacked' Russia in r
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by wwtrv 3y ago
Presumably not a deranged Hindu nationalist? Seems good enough...

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