badpun

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by badpun 12d ago
That's income, not wealth though. Some wealthy people don't have very high incomes.
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by badpun 13d ago
Pirating is basically unlicensed use.
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by badpun 15d ago
> The best outcomes come from distributing power as widely as possible to people who are affected the most, aka worker ownership. Is there any evidence of this claim being true?
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by badpun 15d ago
Most follow the herd, but there are often noticeable exceptions. See e.g. how Toyota refused to jump on the electric vehicle bandwagon and stuck to hybrid engines. Or Mazda, which didn't even do hybrid.
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by badpun 19d ago
> Military technology will produce innovation in wartime but in peacetime it is a backwater. The Internet and GPS were directly invented as a military technology with civilian usage allowed only much later. Integrated circuits's inv
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by badpun 23d ago
Machiabelli was a big Florence patriot and was writing his advice specifically to help a prince better govern Florence and hence increase the chance that Florence will not be annihilated in the constant wars that raged on the Italian Penins
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by badpun 28d ago
Maybe they must be so loud because people wear hearing protection?
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by badpun 28d ago
Lack of support for type-safe containers (need to be hack toghether via macros) and overreliance on macros in general (which are not IDE and debugger friendly) are two aspects of C that are off-putting for majority of people in 2026. That&#
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by badpun 1mo ago
What's the shakedown?
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by badpun 1mo ago
> I thought that was really interesting (and obviously wouldn't work in other countries). I don't know about other countries, but in Poland you're just not required to cut down your lawn at all, unless it's a fire haz
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by badpun 1mo ago
There's plenty of people for whom handling a PC is difficult. E.g. various popups (windows update, antivirus, microsoft nagging about microsoft account, printer nagging, "disk almost full" nagging, OneDrive file sync nagging
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by badpun 1mo ago
That's why I'd limit "meddling" to trying to inform and educate the local population. They don't have access to news (due to state censorship, the people are few propagandistic lies instead), at the very least forei
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by badpun 1mo ago
In 2026 a console is a streamlined PC that can't be used for anything else but games - but the gaming experience is easier and less frustrating.
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by badpun 2mo ago
They could be shared, and work practically non-stop (minus nights, as that would wake people up). That'd bring the per-consumer cost down by a large fraction. The sharing would likely be organized by a commercial third-party, but still
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by badpun 2mo ago
If I were living in brutal dictatorship that has majority support (that’s today Russia) I’d really want foreign powers to „meddle”. But an average Russian likes the current state and hence hates any foreign attempts at influence.
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by badpun 2mo ago
If you overthrow one autocrat and the society is not ready to self-govern, you'll just have another one taking his place. The best you can do is to fund some kind of democratic opposition on the ground and in exile, hoping to grow a po
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by badpun 2mo ago
How many people do think would move into the US within the next couple of years if the country opened its borders to everyone? I think it's somewhere between a hundred million and a billion people. There are billions of people on Earth
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by badpun 2mo ago
The bankrupcy was over foreign debt in foreign currencies, obviously you can't print those. The government borrowed those monies in the first place a decade ago to buy some technologies (patents, licences etc.) from Western companies i
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by badpun 2mo ago
Yes, that's what I did and what I reffered to in my post (I forgot that it gave you C(2) and not just C(1), it's been a couple of months since I worked on this). There are still visual artifacts, they're just smaller. Even Pe
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by badpun 2mo ago
I've implemented 3D perlin noise recently and was surprised that the lighting was always off on the created model around the grid lattice (the model itself was continuous there, just the light was not correct). After a delightful coupl
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by badpun 2mo ago
I’m no longer sure about their quality though. Out of four Logitech mice I bought recently (four different models), two died within a year. At least their warranty repair/replace process was decent.
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by badpun 2mo ago
It's actually pretty hard. The most expected scenario after pumping hundreds of billions into a cleptocracy would be for most of that money to get stolen with little to show for it. Not to build a machine that stopped Russia. What Ukra
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by badpun 2mo ago
Public transport in communist Poland was horrible because it was severely underfunded. Remember that Poland bankrupted in the 1981 (when the West put sanctions on the country after the Jaruzelski's "coup", and sanctions kiled
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by badpun 3mo ago
Poland.
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by badpun 3mo ago
In my country studies are free, which means humanities (like "world literature") are full of young people who had no idea what to do with themselves, so they chose a major in something vaguely interesting and not very demanding, m
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by badpun 3mo ago
Big chain stores have their profit margins at below 5%.
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by badpun 3mo ago
European cities are doing it already.
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by badpun 3mo ago
You don't need a lot of land to do that. Just 0.25 acres is enough to feed a single person. You can do it basically in a city.
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by badpun 3mo ago
Due to population distribution, you're most likely to be born in a poor country. And, in those countries, you're way better off being born in 2026 than in 1970s (to be able to watch when the Internet was starting). Chances are, if
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by badpun 3mo ago
No, not boycotts. The influencial youtubers I think of actually can shape political debate and thus policy - what they say, if it gains enough popularity, sometimes seeps into the political agenda of the ruling party (which is always lookin

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