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by hello_computer 1y ago
It is the same struggle you can find in any language with private/public props. The stream he wants to read from is actually just a buffer that has been wrapped as a stream, and he’s having a hard time directly accessing the buffer th
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by hello_computer 1y ago
organs, children, private investigations, professional harassment campaigns, & assassinations
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by hello_computer 1y ago
He’s giving object oriented design the medal for cache locality’s victory.
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by hello_computer 1y ago
This thread is a microcosm of Babel.
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by hello_computer 1y ago
Opting to enable low-level parallelism for user code in an imperative, dynamically typed scripting language seems like regression. It’s less bad for LISP because of the pure-functional nature. It’s less bad for BEAM languages & Clojur
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by hello_computer 1y ago
doesn’t do anything on my iphone
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by hello_computer 1y ago
Where is our Phinehas when we need him?
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by hello_computer 1y ago
> threatened by and worried No, disgusted by the hubris and the stupidity. " De-programmed " is, in actuality, programming for a different agenda. Shouldn't be programming or de-programming anybody. If one group is de-
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by hello_computer 1y ago
> the 1000Xers kinda ruined things for the rest of us Robert Barton (of Burroughs 5000 fame) once referred to these people as “ high priests of a low cult .”
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by hello_computer 1y ago
“ Everybody does it ” does not alter the fact that a very small very wealthy very connected group of people exert far more influence over policy than the general public. Per The Hill : “ Take, for example, the most frequently purchased ite
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by hello_computer 1y ago
a chatbot that can barely go a paragraph without hitting an ideological tripwire—like gemini’s “greek philosophers”. for people who grew up in the before times, it’s just a nuisance, but for the kids, this is dark and insidious. so go ah
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by hello_computer 1y ago
Could care less about shareholders and compensation. They poison the world--physically and spiritually. It is crime on the largest scale, and all our little professors here chomp at the bit for a piece of the action. Zuck or Elon or Jami
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by hello_computer 1y ago
Same execs on the boards of a dozen different companies in the same space--all went to the same schools, attend the same fundraisers, live in the same cities in the same neighborhoods, getting the same advice from the same management consul
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by hello_computer 1y ago
Hackernews MSNBC types like concentrating power when it suits them. They never think ahead--that they're making little Christmas presents for the "bad guys" when that power changes hands.
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by hello_computer 1y ago
> degree of overt coordination that exists in the world It's called a paycheck. The execs make a call, and thousands of petty technicians are set into motion. If any of them are reckless enough to voice a reservation, no one is ir
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by hello_computer 1y ago
cost-benefit. the time/electricity/battery/frustration cost of windows defender dwarfs its utility. i’d be better off with some east euro hackerman’s crypto miner running in the background than WSC. at least hackerman know
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by hello_computer 1y ago
exactly! red hat is a huge “contributor” to the “linux ecosystem”, but those contributions are mostly regressions. as the article states, gnome circa 2010 was stable and complete. gnome today is one breakage after the next—even if your v
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by hello_computer 1y ago
They can pry my vt220-based editor from my cold dead hands.
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by hello_computer 1y ago
good. we have too much shit. too much noise. i grew up without most of it, and life was fine. inb4 trump ballwasher: i’d applaud regardless of party or personality.
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by hello_computer 1y ago
i think it’s more than irony. why would the government—irrespective of party—give him billions in refundable credits for over a decade? remember paypal was also an in-q-tel investment? “boring company” to connect DUMBs. starlink for th
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by hello_computer 1y ago
There is a strong correlation (noting my word choice here before the incorrectors accuse me of confusing it with causation) between general anesthesia and onset of dementia. I’m not going to dig it up, but it is easy enough to find on pu
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by hello_computer 1y ago
The primary improvement to human life expectancy was not medicine, but public sanitation. Prior to that, death was bi-modal, with peaks at infancy and old age. When people (and doctors) started washing their hands, the infant peak was fla
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by hello_computer 1y ago
> based on the same bad ideas which brought down the previous one I don’t think that’s fair. Not that Wikipedia is without bias, but that their ivory tower biases are worlds apart from the lying brutal animalistic Hollywood signals herd
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by hello_computer 1y ago
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfons_Weber_(Mediziner,_1915)
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by hello_computer 1y ago
EU has almost 450M people. USA had the thing on lockdown for decades with < 340M people. Japan made a hell of a showing in the 80s with < 124M. Europe has the human capital. It is foolish not to use it. There are other considerati
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by hello_computer 1y ago
China built-up actual companies in a strategic order. Do what they did, rather than throw peanuts at a grab-bag of foss shitware. They are showing you the recipe for free.
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by hello_computer 1y ago
If Donald Trump is the sole motivation for this, they are hopelessly stupid. They need to be in control of their own infrastructure regardless of who runs the USA.
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by hello_computer 1y ago
If you are talking about the MNT reform, that is utterly fatuous. Same with f-droid. These are toys for IT fanboys--nothing that will significantly dislodge Europeans from the US tech teat. Europe needs iOS & Google-tier replacements
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by hello_computer 1y ago
Money down the toilet. Job #1 is to make a google replacement. Job #2, a domestic phone manufacturer (with its own plaftorm / appstore). These are the two primary portals to "The Internet". Without meaningful replacements
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by hello_computer 1y ago
foreign adversary my ass. our sons of bitches don't like competition from their sons of bitches. add facebook and youtube and twitter and twitch and... to the list, and i'll get on board.

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