BAReF00t

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by BAReF00t 7y ago
You vastly underestimate the size and diversity of India. Their middle class is bigger than that of the USA or I think even that of the entire EU. The can have a low rate on pretty much every statistic, while still having a higher total amo
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
The question is: What will they do after, when Trump is gone, and his policiey on Chinese imports anf foreign workers are gone with him? I hope they hurry. Now’s the time!
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
Keep telling yourself that… Here in Europe, we actually use mostly trains. Trucking is for the smaller deliveries, like some five bathtubs from Sweden to Germany. And we use trains for humans too. The reason your trains are so long is bec
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
Why do we need bookmarks when we have softlinks. They are the same concept, and an OS that makes a distinction, is a faulty OS, IMHO. Ditto for tabs. The task bar already serves that. It't the task bar's flaw if it isn't hier
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
Aka something that should never be that way in the first place.
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
Well, if we found it, it would already be contained unless accessed by definition. Also, magnetic fields could definitely contain it, as is already done. We can already make anti-matter, as it't essentially the process of making matter
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
TL;DR: He didn't! He wrote a UI for a browser engine (Webkit, of couuurse). Using a UI toolkit (Qt). In a scripting language. Which is more putting wallpaper on the walls than constructing the building or even painting the walls.
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
Ashamed of it and ridiculed? I would have tought of it a fascinating and fashionable! Especially with white hair. Man, I want that when I am old! And yeah, their ancestors might have been incestous. But that isn’t the childrens’ fault, now
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
So he’s blue-skinned. Or are you implying he exists or existed for real independent of people’s psychotic heads?
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
The moon's dust contains huge amounts of helium-3. Which apparently is an amazing power source. Also, why fission? We do have working fusion reactors. They are called hydrogen bombs. (The outer part, at least.) As long as you can keep
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
Who said anything about uranium? There are elements with far more favorable decay paths. Short decay + using that decay too = pretty much a clean nuclear reactor.
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
I’m disappointed. I expected a project-Orion-type interstellar solution. Not a measly ”twice as fast as conventional“ water kettle. Also, no word about what they will acually use. Because classic uranium is a quite limited resource actually
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
I highly doubt this is more than lip service. Thesr organizations are run by certified psychopaths, who don’t care about being good, but only about looking good. So they can keep doing what they do. Which is maximizing profit. I’ll acce
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
You’ll need $2 million, just for the mask. And if you want to fab yourself, the machines cost in the range from $10 to $50 million. For one machine. And you will need many. As the article states, you will not make those at home any time soo
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
What do you think happens to electronics that are sent back during warranty due to being defective? They are mostly "refurbished" (=repaired and cleaned), and then sold again. If possible, even as new. Or, of course, sent back fix
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
It’s not just about faults. But about customizability and upgrades! I like to choose how much RAM and storage and which ports I want with how many generic, vector, FPGA and neural cores, thank you very much. And I like to change them later,
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
Gloodbye customizability and modularity, from a user standpoint. I guess Apple will hire them pretty soon.
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
What do you mean ”outside“? How can you tell there actually is an outside? (And if you can never tell, why would it matter?)
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
Dear journalist... it’s called forgiveness. Look it up. The problem with permanent records is, that it forces you to never change. Meaning you deliberately keep a murderer a murderer. Even in cases where their life completely changed since
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
No, I must cometely disagree there. We certainly love improving stuff. But more than half the point of programming is, that you only have to come up with and do it once. We just copy the code, and add our improvement. And open source deve
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
That is true. They are quite a different beast than HTML5 though. Not much left to code yourself there. It’s the difference between using Canvas, and writing Canvas.
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
Yes it does. Example: My new language "Crysislang". It has only one one-bit instruction. That, when compiled, results in a whole Crysis game. A whole 3D shooter! Written in only one bit! Ain’t I amazing? ;)) I think you get my poi
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
That’s the thing with your brain: Everything is kinda like that! All the time. Most of your brain literally cannot distinguish between fantasy, dream, stories, and actual experiences. And the parts that do, will never be able to tell if it’
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
What socks? :D Try heart beat, breathing, blood flowing through you, your intestines working, air going through hairs and across your snin, saliva being squeezed out of your mouth's glands, your teeth and tongue touching everything in
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
In lab animals! Not necessarily applicable 1:1 in humans.
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
Browsers are a case of monolithism (and the inner-platform effect, of course). In actuality, they are multiple different kinds of programs, welded together for no sensible reason. * A http fetching daemon. * A "runner" to open URL
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
Looking at the CO2 pollution charts ... It's clear that India is the next China: The country that we order cheap manufactured goods from, so our own CO2 numbers keep looking good and we don't have to concern ourselves with worker
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
I used to block ads on ShoutCast, 15 years ago. StreamRipper cut the streams by ID3 tag change and accompanying silence. My script just played the ripped MP3s, and ignored the ones with an ad-like ID3 title or that were too short to be a so
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by BAReF00t 7y ago
Only 1664 bytes? I guess if you shove all the heavy lifting out to extensive libraries, you can do that. I, for one, prefer kkrieger. 98kB, but a full Doom-3-level 3D shooter. All without putting an OS... inside an OS.