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by zozbot123 8y ago
It was not an attempt to deceive, it was a way of visibly trolling back people who were dumb enough to libel the Reddit CEO on his own website, in extremely offensive ways. And he owned up to it very quickly after it happened.
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by zozbot123 8y ago
> Can you imagine the reaction if a user's post on HN were edited by YC? If the user's post was about the Pizzagate conspiracy theory and included baseless, highly offensive libel of the YC folks? Yeah, I don't think many
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by zozbot123 8y ago
AIUI the plan is to merge the patchset itself into mainline to ease the maintenance burden, but to keep the changes that don't actually make sense for mainstream server use under a special config/#define flag, PREEMPT_RT_FULL or
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by zozbot123 8y ago
> That is, we give you $15k per year, but start taxing you the very first dollar you earn rather than only taxing income about , say, $20k. Yup; even in formal models of "utility-maximizing non-linear taxation", it's actua
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by zozbot123 8y ago
That's not what's surprising: if anyone was "paid not to work" in this experiment, it was the control group who stayed on traditional unemployment benefits - and yet they found jobs just as much as the UBI group did!
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by zozbot123 8y ago
The experimental outcome is actually indirect evidence against the view that traditional unemployment insurance makes people a lot less likely to get a job, at least in this specific experimental population. This is interesting news
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by zozbot123 8y ago
The only difference the article mentions is that the experimental subjects were chosen among people getting unemployment benefits. What this suggests is that if you're on unemployment to begin with, differential incentives do not hav
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by zozbot123 8y ago
Right click is not required on Windows/Linux, except perhaps in highly specialized software - for the most common use, there's a dedicated [MENU] key and it has been there since Windows 95 introduced it, together with the super&#x
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by zozbot123 8y ago
The "move pointer while button is pressed" behavior has been there forever, even on Win/Linux. Two-finger right clicking requires multitouch support which is not universal, however.
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by zozbot123 8y ago
> The modern state co-evolved with capitalism, and as a result, it's institutions are generally what capitalism needs to survive and prosper. This is either tautological or empirically wrong, depending on what exactly is meant by &q
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by zozbot123 8y ago
AIUI, this should only come up in rare cases, mostly involving RC cycles. The "should" proviso is there because the operation of "forgetting" that a value has to be dropped (thus de-facto leaking it) is in fact allowe
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by zozbot123 8y ago
> Not something where each computer is a special snowflake with a developer fragmented experience about which libraries are even available on the system AIUI, these days you can just develop for Flatpack (if you're making a propriet
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by zozbot123 8y ago
Look, I don't even like frameworks. A framework adds incredible amounts of complexity if you're trying to develop for the system, and acts as a single-point-of-failure from a social POV. (That's the issue many people have
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by zozbot123 8y ago
Vulkan is actually intended as a stack for compute, not just graphics. That's probably our best chance for a cross-platform approach to GPU compute that can work roughly equally well on NV, AMD and the upcoming Intel GPU hardware.
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by zozbot123 8y ago
Look, I get what you mean. People should just clarify that they mean "Socialism with Danish characteristics", and all this ambiguity would disappear!
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by zozbot123 8y ago
> So under socialism when people work, they work always and only for themselves or as part of a cooperative that they are an equal owner of. The thing is that all new businesses start that way already. People, including workers, sell
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by zozbot123 8y ago
It's weird to me to see a narrow "pricing approach" towards antitrust being attributed to the Chicago School. I thought the Chicago perspective on antitrust was that it should potentially be applied to markets that aren'
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by zozbot123 8y ago
> The idea was, pivot into making software for "Internet appliances". You know, the computer next to your stove, or that multi-purpose device in your gym which... oh right, yeah, no, those aren't a thing Well, they weren&#
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by zozbot123 8y ago
> This approach is prone to priority-inversion Priority inversion is one of the main things that are addressed by the PREEMPT_RT patchset - without a fix to the priority inversion problem, you don't really have a RT system. Aside f
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by zozbot123 8y ago
> simply adding a kernel patch won’t fix all of the software That's tautologically true, but something like the RT preemption kernel patch is still a basic requirement for a truly responsive system. Once that's merged, you then
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by zozbot123 8y ago
> But they have already lost their performance edge by 1990. Sure, but they had a robust community of gaming and software developers on their side. Hence why they should have pivoted to the lower-power niche of the market - that's
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by zozbot123 8y ago
I don't think so. The factor that really killed C= beyond any hope of recovery was Motorola abandoning development of the 68k line of processors in favor of the PowerPC initiative, a few years later. And a LOT of stuff died as a resul
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by zozbot123 8y ago
Lots of modern desktop PCs have case LED's that could easily find use as system activity indicators if the Linux kernel (or userspace HAL) supported them. Unfortunately support seems to be really patchy.
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by zozbot123 8y ago
True, but is there any point to Haiku now that the Linux PREEMPT_RT patchset is just around the corner and will probably give us soft-realtime capabilities on a par with the old 16-bit computer OS's (Amiga, Atari ST, etc.) and with BeO
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by zozbot123 8y ago
How are the other kids "getting shafted"? They're still getting more funding thanks to the property tax revenue being spread around. Do you think they should be envious of the kids in Palo Alto who are benefitting from the ex
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by zozbot123 8y ago
Most "woke" advocacy hardly favors "realizing the full potential of [our] population". Back here in the real world, the "woke" folks are the ones pushing for deeply flawed educational approaches like "who
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by zozbot123 8y ago
You're actually describing what Rust is doing, more than anything. Swift has a lot more in common with Objective-C than C++, even though it does move away from the most challenging parts of Objective-C itself.
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by zozbot123 8y ago
Many people in the Rust community use some sort of ECS in cases where something like a GC is needed. The whole point of ECS is that they work a lot like an ordinary GC runtime or an in-memory database, the underlying representation ensures
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by zozbot123 8y ago
> Dynamic linking isn't a problem. Rust does not have a stable ABI at present, so practical use of dynamic linking would require falling back to some baseline ABI/FFI for everything that crosses shared-object boundaries (such a
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by zozbot123 8y ago
Rust can use its own bovine superpowers here https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/borrow/enum.Cow.html to enable developers to write code that's invariant over whether it's dealing with a fresh copy of somethin

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