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by gh-throw 5y ago
> I'm not talking about different things. There are a lot of side projects on Github to replace various parts of a Linux system, and various parts of systemd. They exist. What else were you talking about? So, we are talking about di
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by gh-throw 5y ago
> These kind of comments are really baffling to me. If they have no interest or investment whatsoever in A, then what are they supposed to do? Can you blame any distribution for not wanting to put in all that extra work to package and ma
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by gh-throw 5y ago
> The really funny part is that people think there is some metaphorical gun to developers heads to use this technology. There is a choice, there always has been. Of course, but when the choices are "support A and B for C" or &q
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by gh-throw 5y ago
Gnome, systemd and its increasingly-tight integration with same, plus its eating everything in sight, wayland conveniently leaving everything up to the DE/WM (but gnome works, so why don’t you just use gnome?). Ubuntu also tried to do
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by gh-throw 5y ago
Red Hat would never participate. Their current (and for like the last decade or more) strategy seems to be to run toward various goals in convoluted and incompatible ways such that they're always "ahead" of everyone else, usi
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by gh-throw 5y ago
Every company's actual status page (and news feed) is on Twitter, no matter what else they say. I don't know where Twitter hosts their real status page. Probably Facebook. Notably, Facebook hasn't updated theirs, though.
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by gh-throw 5y ago
Isolationism's probably not a great idea, sure, and there might be room to argue that protectionism is typically bad policy for the US, but the argument that protectionism is bad for all states in the modern economy, or that it's
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by gh-throw 5y ago
The cheap ones are all petroleum-based, and if you get an unscented one you can really tell. Gross. Cheap scented ones still smell of it, even. Beeswax smells nice, even unscented, but is really expensive (if you're using them more t
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by gh-throw 5y ago
This is similar to what happened with studio-owned movie theaters. The right solution is to outlaw exclusive distribution deals and production-company ownership of streaming platforms (yes, that means Netflix would have to split up).
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by gh-throw 5y ago
Ever read Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar? There’s a certain speech you might find enlightening if you think Trump was trying to cool things off with those tweets.
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by gh-throw 5y ago
This is what open protocols were for, but those stopped being viable when trapping users to spy on them became more valuable than selling good services and software.
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by gh-throw 5y ago
Amazon: author YouTube: Youtuber Twitch (as discussed elsewhere in the thread): eSports tournament competitors
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by gh-throw 5y ago
For three different “jobs”, though.
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by gh-throw 5y ago
You'll find normal room lights obnoxiously bright and wonder what the hell we're thinking if you try exclusively candles or very, very dim handheld lights/lanterns after sundown for a while (think, medium-bright night lights
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by gh-throw 5y ago
I'm expecting the only thing that'll keep me on it in old age is VR chats with the grandkids or whatever. The rest of it's not worth the money, except that it's de facto required for work and (for the kids) school thes
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by gh-throw 5y ago
Please tell me "keeb" isn't "keyboard". Clicks link Yes, it's keyboard, but occurs only in the title. Bad, but could be worse.
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by gh-throw 5y ago
The rest all demonstrably eat battery like it's free on every other platform? IDK, maybe Edge doesn't, but FF and Chrome sure do. [EDIT] Let me put it this way: I see no reason to expect the FF or Chrome engines to perform better
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by gh-throw 5y ago
Not sure about the SAT, and maybe the test has changed since I took it, but the ACT was mostly a knowledge & skills test. Math: did you pay attention through at least high school trig? Reading: how literate are you? English: how well do
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by gh-throw 5y ago
You can change browsers, just not browser engines. This might bother me if any other browser engines seemed to give a damn about battery life, but since they don't, it's justifiable for the reason of preventing people from "m
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by gh-throw 5y ago
Having written for both platforms at the time, I don't know about 2010 but by around 2011 or 2012 it was sure as shit easier to program for than Android. By a long shot. And a breeze to maintain an actively-developed app in the field,
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by gh-throw 5y ago
This is why the pat answer of "capital is rewarded for taking risk, that justifies their pay" doesn't ring true to me. Your downside is... still being rich and never, ever having to work if you don't want to? Hot damn, g
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by gh-throw 5y ago
I think you're considering a broader set of things a "corporation" than I am. Wikipedia: > A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal
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by gh-throw 5y ago
Is Drone useful if you need to build anywhere other than Linux? Yeah Docker can run elsewhere, but it's still Linux. I'd love an excuse to leave Jenkins for self-hosted multi-platform jobs, but nothing else seems to have the flexi
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by gh-throw 5y ago
Repulsion? Where do you get that idea? Corporations wholly creations of the state. They have no meaning or existence absent it. We shouldn't empower our government to grant the privileges of incorporation unless it's in the polity
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by gh-throw 5y ago
Lack of choice in tax regimen is entirely fine for corporations . They're creations of the state. We should bring them to heel, if they're finding ways to avoid what we're trying to get them to do. Don't like it, don&#x
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by gh-throw 5y ago
There exist reasonable arguments against term limits for members of legislative bodies, which arguments hinge on term limits greatly increasing the power of lobbyists, by effectively lowering the average skill and expertise of lawmakers.
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by gh-throw 5y ago
Counterpoint: corporations are creations of the government, and a polity (and its government) ought to do whatever generates the desired outcome they want from these creations, including bringing in more tax revenue, if that's what t
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by gh-throw 5y ago
> I mean, you call it "worst", but I'd call it a blessing, and one we ought to enjoy while it lasts. The moment the powers that be realize that they can capitalize on self-criticism and entirely preempt dissent is the mome
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by gh-throw 5y ago
The sequence at the end is definitely... melancholy, at best, and depressing at worst. At least I think it’s fair to say that’s what they were going for, choosing to put that there. It’s up to the viewer whether that comes through as intend
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by gh-throw 5y ago
One of my kids was reading 500 page novels (not difficuly ones, but, like, later Harry Potter books) before 2nd grade. Another will be lucky to do that by 4th grade (which would still be “early”). The kids track themselves and there’s littl

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