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by Torwald 3mo ago
Judging from the headline I thought this was a design doc for a OSS clone of WinXP, which would be a cool thing IMHO.
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by Torwald 4mo ago
This is what the Amiga is missing!
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by Torwald 6mo ago
One good example would be PGs essays. They are honest, I suppose, and they are very successful marketing.
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by Torwald 6mo ago
Make it 100%. I consider myself relatively "geeky", but I couldn't explain neither what a VPS or an nginx image is. "Normies" are people who are not sure whether the photos they took today with their phone are &quot
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by Torwald 6mo ago
I got: > Failed sending verification e-mail to XXX@XXmail.XXX, please contact administrator on stonky@stonkys.com
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They'll be bored of the slop soon enough(dandad.org)
3 points by Torwald 7mo ago|0 comments
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What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?(smarthistory.org)
1 points by Torwald 7mo ago|0 comments
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by Torwald 7mo ago
Well, you say this is not a topic for this site, but HN is explicitly about intellectual curiosity and as long as you present your case with enough complexity and new information, any topic should go. It's not the topic, it's the
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by Torwald 7mo ago
The problem is not that the normies don't care, the problem is a society that seems to need that to function well for everybody. The problem is the existence of government. Instead of a state we need a society based on private property
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Three Basic Distributions(anydice.com)
2 points by Torwald 7mo ago|0 comments
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Ed's Stratego Site(edcollins.com)
43 points by Torwald 7mo ago|4 comments
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Commodore Rulez (Video(chiptunes))(youtube.com)
1 points by Torwald 7mo ago|0 comments
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by Torwald 8mo ago
I am definitely "no" on anything if I didn't ask for it. Almost as good as a link to the relevant CXDC comic: https://characterdatabase.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_Offic...
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by Torwald 8mo ago
You know, one thing we could do is to get the costs for energy usage sorted out. Like, people who use a lot data-center electricity, pay accordingly. If AI would cost you what it actually costs, then you would use it more carefully and for
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by Torwald 8mo ago
Good work! I do like that the tools are task centric and that means I don"t have to handle all sorts of things, I just quickly learn the three to four tools that I really need (as a person working in the real world). #pareto Now, priva
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by Torwald 8mo ago
So Canada found out it doesn't have any leverage over China in this so-called trade war, that is going on between North America and China? That is at least the logical conclusion based on the information the linked-to article provides.
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by Torwald 8mo ago
I agree. That thing made all the designs worse. I think the difficulty for AI to learn this, in general, is the missing out of the day-to-day experience living as a human, because that is what shapes our viewing habits. And those are what a
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by Torwald 8mo ago
The Green party and the Social Democrats were the governing coalition that enacted the nuclear exit. Sure, it was completed by the other two big parties after Fukushima, but by that time the exit was already underway in practice.
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by Torwald 8mo ago
You mean the Green party was undermined by Russians? The Green party had the goal of de-nuclearization from the beginning, at that time the Soviet Union was still in existence. When the Green party came to power and negotiated the nuclear e
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by Torwald 1y ago
I think Joels has it right in his assessment of hours vs days: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/03/29/painless-software-... In another piece somewhere he also states, that the engineer working on the thing
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by Torwald 1y ago
This is well done! The UI, the concept… Another thing. Regarding the field "effort" it is measured in days, it should IMO be measured in hours, or even better yet be user configurable.
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by Torwald 1y ago
Depends on context. Learn to read the other person or group, there are cues. Also there is mutuality, back and forth. I also question the validity of the cultural concept of "oversharing" being as always bad. Maybe it's bad b
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by Torwald 1y ago
Elisp, but not really elisp, more the environment of elisp. It's a LISP machine. Hard to explain, it's a different way of computing. Another living instance of this model of computing is a Smalltalk image. Others have written abou
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by Torwald 1y ago
> I want to do my part to convince you to switch to Firefox and show you how I use it. Last time I checked, the tab closed button was still on the right side of the tab. On the macOS version. This is a deal breaker. Therefore FF is usele
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by Torwald 1y ago
That would make it even more valuable.
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by Torwald 1y ago
I think that Jason Fried knew about that.
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by Torwald 1y ago
They did. The GNU project started in 1983.
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by Torwald 1y ago
He doesn't need to in a strict sense, but these rules represent best practices and emerged for good reasons.
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by Torwald 1y ago
Thank you for telling HN, much appreciated! I am concerned re privacy, so, thanks again. There is a rule in journalism to not burn one's sources, did you violate that rule in the OP? (I don't know, I am not a journalist.) We could
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by Torwald 1y ago
reply to parent and grandparent: > Python looks like an ordinary dumb language, but semantically it has a lot in common with Lisp, and has been getting closer to Lisp over time. > They might even let you use Ruby, which is even more L

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