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by h3st 9y ago
> Oslo tried to ban cars, but there has been a huge backlash, without the right sort of support some of the most vulnerable (i.e. people with physical disabilities) just cannot live successfully in cities. The backlash is pretty dishones
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by h3st 9y ago
Which means more wilderness & biodiversity, or more farmland, depending on the area. In Oslo you can ride the subway to the edge of the forest & hiking trails. Some people want to replace the hiking trails with suburbs and detached
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by h3st 10y ago
Packets can arrive out of order, yeah. TCP includes ordering information, so lost packets can be retransmitted and in the end everything'll be in proper order. As for UDP, I'd tell ya a UDP joke, but get it you might not.
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by h3st 11y ago
> Rust does not really have an RTS per se. libstd is just a standard library. And if you don't want to use the standard library, you just say #![no_std] https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/using-rust-with
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by h3st 11y ago
The assembly / bandwidth / cpu / etc argument really shines for limited platforms. E.g. if you're on metered internet, loading ads costs you money. If you're on a small device, playing ads costs you power, meaning y
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by h3st 12y ago
Linus is Finnish, not American. And I suspect he's aware of what it means, given the quote "I name all my projects after me: First Linux, now git."
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by h3st 12y ago
Not since GHC 7.0: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.4.2/html/users_guide/code-...
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by h3st 13y ago
If few dependencies are your thing, you could try rox? http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/ROX-Filer My package manager tells me it depends on sh, libsm and gtk2. That's not much.
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by h3st 13y ago
> Maybe the people who could remember 7 items felt they worked hard so they deserved to be rewarded with a chocolate cake. That would be what depleted willpower feels like, assuming you like chocolate cake and prefer it over the other op
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by h3st 13y ago
There are some people who just don't seem to enjoy food, and who go for repetitive and bland meals. It's sort of like people who don't enjoy music, or books, or films, or ... you get the idea. Generally they're perceived as a little odd. Ev
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by h3st 14y ago
> In the future, you will be able to go online, fill out a questionnaire, and for a small monthly fee receive one of several pre-programmed diet and exercise programs, complete with local gyms that are part of the program and can help y
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by h3st 19y ago
That was three years ago. Everybody knows that since then Firefox and IE has closed shop and that the only browsers on the market are Opera and something that runs in Emacs. Well, ok, not really. But it's been three years and FF doesn't hav
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by h3st 19y ago
Dude. Buy a dell with ubuntu, or one of those wal-mart computers wit gOS. Or call up a computer dude to fix your computer for you. Or order correctly-burned ubuntu cds.
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by h3st 19y ago
The Ego and its Own, by Max Stirner. The Open Society and its Enemies, by Karl Popper. The Illuminatus! trilogy. Robin Hobb books (with special mention of the farseer trilogy), Neal Stephenson, Alan Moore, Terry Pratchett.