devthrowawy

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by devthrowawy 6y ago
Like I said, I just don't really care and it's not going to affect my life. I'm all for improving technology and efficiency and believe that it will never truly be a life threatening issue and it's foolish to sit around
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
Yea I just don't care about any of that and I don't think that's wrong.
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
I've been on here for 10 years. When did hacker news loose all resemblance to hacker culture? And i'm not a truther (thanks for making me use a word like that btw), maybe a rationalist is a better word. Let's all wake up an b
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
And when exactly will it become an actual problem in the sense that it actually affects anyone's life? 1000 years? 10000 years? Like global warming is going to suddenly show its teeth on some random day and we'll all be sorry. You
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
It's not 'harder' to take mass off earth than it is to bring mass back. Assuming you want to bring the mass back 'gently' and not have it collide with earth like a comet. Think like pulling a rock out of a hole vs l
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
Mattermost seems pretty to-the-point. Really not getting what's so hard about chat with some basic formatting.
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
No I think my advice is don't code on your break because coding is boring, repetitive and the culture is shit and it took me too long to realize this.
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
It may be an age/experience thing. I spent many years coding in my free time, worked on all parts of the stack from boot loaders to single page applications. The magic is kind of gone for me now and I prefer to try to expand my physics
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
Build a compiler or small emulator if you want to get better not more web CRUD. But really don't code on your break, i'd say buy some shrooms and walk around the woods.
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
Is that a quote from Hitler? I honestly can't tell.
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
This is assuming that the torturers are dumb (not true in the case of nation states) and that the information is not verifiable. This is not always the case. And the argument is that torture can and does work not that it always works. In th
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
Bring his kids in. He'll talk. Downvotes for unpleasant reality.
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
Interesting anecdote. Sounds like he didn't want to talk politics but you kept pushing, trying to take some moral high ground. Voting isn't an exam, it's actually pretty simple even for swing voters. Believe it or not, there
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
Yea and isn't HN always going on about how education != intelligence? It's great branding too, hook your cart up to the liberal party and suddenly you're smart, refined, enlightened, morally superior. No questions asked. SW&#
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
It's not the users the cause corruption it's who builds and desires to take control of the system. If billions of people are using something it becomes corrupt because of the immense value of billions of users attention. Looks at
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
I honestly do think you missed it and it's been laid out by my two comments. This isn't a personal goal of mine it's just how I see the economics of it. People that want their grandma/gf to use linux as a desktop - that
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
I'm not meaning to be elites in the sense that i'm trying to look down on certain linux users. But if someone is going to use linux or not use it at all based just on how it looks then they don't need linux and can use a regu
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
Well you can have that, those are the repositories mostly, which you have access to when building your linux. So you have a mature source of code, but what makes a distro 'mature' isn't really of any value in the embedded sp
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
This is incredibly naive. FOSS ultimately is business (if the code has any real value) and that's why there are licenses, to keep industry in 'check'. If RMS shared your optimism there would be no FOSS. Business are not peopl
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
Why do you want to attract uninterested users who's interested are primarily superficial and not aligned with the core values and spirit of linux/foss? This is how you breed corruption.
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. They should willingly be making less money?
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
Seeing as the holocaust was an enormous industrial operation i'm going to image there are many details about it that can be debated. But now that conversation cannot be had because fb will always take the side of the more abhorrent fac
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
Just get some popcorn and watch fb bleed itself dry before it realizes that trying to create a 'safe space' is completely counter productive.
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
No one is saying that this is un-constitutional, because the gov would need to be involved for that to be the case. But it is still censorship.
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
As if any of those things are actually scary. I'm more scared of not becoming north Korea.
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
How, in any way, is censorship in the spirit of free speech. I get that fb is private and can do what they want. But you are saying that removing speech that you disagree with is 'in the spirit' of free speech. That couldn't
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
No one is going to say 'I just went to the Tesla store'.
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
Sure, just not for murders. They can work outside.
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
Honestly it would be dumb not to. ReactOS is basically a toy, why take what they're doing so seriously?
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by devthrowawy 6y ago
The key, IMO, is to write software in the engineering industry not the tech industry. Plenty of interesting problems, large breadth and depth of knowledge across many disciplines, real business models, real product, really helping drive tec

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