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by Technically 6y ago
> It is caused by people developing mental health issues that make retaining employment extremely difficult. Sadly, there are many other reasons, too. I met a family of immigrants. I learned through their eight-year old son his parents l
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by Technically 6y ago
> Plan 9-based technologies are a part of most, if not all, operating systems today (even Windows!). 9p is indeed a great technology—I would have also thrown in utf-8—but most of plan9's ideas remain quite fringe. I would pay a ton
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by Technically 6y ago
I know that Russ Cox & Rob Pike both still use plan9.
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by Technically 6y ago
I don't know why the term is so valuable. Musk went so far as to buy the title for Tesla.
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by Technically 6y ago
What are you comparing us to? We don't have a control group for intelligent species.
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by Technically 6y ago
Yes, I meant this more about my appreciation of the clock rather than my ignorance of semiconductors and rockets, which I can assure you is massive.
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by Technically 6y ago
People talk about rockets and computers, but to me atomic clocks are the pinnacle of human achievement. So many other technologies are built off of accurate time measurement, and it's a very clever mechanism (at least the one in Boulde
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by Technically 6y ago
violating their terms of service, presumably. However, it's a private site & they don't need to justify their giving service or not.
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by Technically 6y ago
If expressing a conditional costs you more than 1/64 of your storage I'd say the storage is pretty useless for storing code.
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by Technically 6y ago
What language does not have a form of a conditional expression?
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by Technically 6y ago
All to sell ads.
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by Technically 6y ago
Corporate media allows both the incentive of manipulating people to increase views and the prospective of buying good press.
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by Technically 6y ago
> If it was as easy to download, install, and run native apps, we would be having the same exact conversations in regards to security and portability. Mobile platforms have invested in restricting apps by ability. There's no such wa
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by Technically 6y ago
Is there any point of running windows outside of intel processors? I'm aware they have an ARM offering but it's not clear what the "killer apps" of the OS/arch pair are. I'd think linux/BSD drivers would b
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by Technically 6y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15138703
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by Technically 6y ago
A RISC ISA would render a lot of tricks useless as they depend on memory-to-memory copies.
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by Technically 6y ago
I find it insane that people want to use apps built off this creaky technology.
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by Technically 6y ago
What do you mean by "unnecessarily"? How are you quantifying the risk and what is the certainty where it becomes worth addressing across 7+ billion people? You haven't demonstrated that this is "hysteria" and your o
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by Technically 6y ago
It's still cool and good pr to not give money to Facebook.
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by Technically 6y ago
This forum is such a great technical resource, thank you.
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by Technically 6y ago
Courts don't do much good here either. Realistically, the US does not have a way to hold powerful entities to account for every day americans.
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by Technically 6y ago
> One of the key interest of C compared to more recent languages is that everything is explicit. With a finger you can follow the code as it runs and know exactly what is going on and when exactly. I don't agree! There's a lot
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by Technically 6y ago
Well, it certainly says something to profit off it.
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by Technically 6y ago
How does it put pressure on Google? Where's the leverage?
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by Technically 6y ago
Lightweight is good, but how does thickness impact you? I haven't had an issue fitting a laptop into a bag in over 20 years.
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by Technically 6y ago
I don't see how any activity here helps an alternative to cash for payments. I'm not even fussed about anonymity here: visa/mastercard seem to provide a nationalizable service at an extremely poor quality and cost. We really
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by Technically 6y ago
Does this allow for semantic, non-text diffing? This would allow for code formats without syntax errors (i.e. storing the valid AST in binary as separate, likely structured in binary, from the editor representation). Diffs would then be tru
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by Technically 6y ago
How do you figure? Making the native graphics api available to popular toolsets seems pretty straightforward OS work.
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by Technically 6y ago
> A topic of conversation doesn't have to be toxic to cause reasonable people to avoid engaging with it. Sure, until people realize that politics have the capacity to impact their lives negatively, and then all of a sudden the ratio
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by Technically 6y ago
There's nothing polite about a brush-off. It indicates a lack of respect.

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