qawwads

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by qawwads 3y ago
I like Win31 UI. Sure MDI was an error and hot corners would be very useful but I like how unclutered it looks and the absence of a taskbar and other always-there elements is positive. I dislike the idea of a taskbar. It takes screen real e
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by qawwads 3y ago
A few words toward the end for the ellusive ai menace, but zero word for the real, already existing, open source fonts. Nowaday I'll consider IBM Plex, Mozilla Fira or even Google Roboto before Monotype Anything.
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by qawwads 3y ago
Let me rephrase it so the meaning of what you just said impregnate my mind: you were denier money because their records showed you badly needed it. Sound to me the credit agencies aren't the only evil.
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by qawwads 3y ago
A non profit is "trust us, we know what's best", while a cooperative is legally controlled by it's member on the basis of one member, one vote, and profits, if any, are distributed between members. I wonder how different
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by qawwads 3y ago
leading cause of death in some African countries
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An Open Letter to Hobbyists (1976)(archive.nytimes.com)
37 points by qawwads 3y ago|18 comments
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by qawwads 3y ago
Jambo mouzugu. Mambo vipi!
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by qawwads 3y ago
This is called "The great man theory": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory For another perspective, an iPhone looks a lot like a Newton with phone capabilities. Maybe without Jobs returning to Appl
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by qawwads 3y ago
Everytime the subject come around, someone repeat this like it's a fact but nobody care to explain. Is criminalisation really the only hammer the gov has? What are the goods of saving people against their wishes? Are these goods higher
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by qawwads 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Mohamed_clock_incident
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by qawwads 3y ago
Don't build this. Don't bring it to school. Don't show it to anyone. This is the kind of thing that get you expelled, jailed, or shot.
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by qawwads 3y ago
An industrial revolution is not a single event but a journey. Somebody innovates, then somebody else get the innovation better, then yet somebody else innovates again using what previous people did, etc. Romans could have had their IR from
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by qawwads 3y ago
> illegal Seriously, stop using that word for things that aren't actually illegal.
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by qawwads 3y ago
Until a country decides to use its own dns root. Then another. Then another.
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The Promise of Zoomable User Interfaces (2011) [pdf](citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
4 points by qawwads 3y ago|0 comments
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by qawwads 3y ago
People don't have a clear concept of what life is and often don't separate life and sentience. Remember the movie Short Circuit: some military robot gains AGI then the machine and the people around it start claiming it's aliv
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by qawwads 3y ago
Isn't this project ten years dead?
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by qawwads 3y ago
If she was a dog, we would put it down and it would be a better outcome for the dog. Because she's human she'll suffer for as long as the doctors can keep her alive.
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by qawwads 3y ago
>limited to suspects involved in terrorism, organized crime and other illegal activities punishable by five or more years in prison. Considering how high the bar is to consider someone a suspect, anyone could become a target.
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by qawwads 3y ago
Those lines weren't meant to help beginners but as a way to order statements in the absence of an editor.
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by qawwads 3y ago
>Imagine discussing the politics of the penal system and someone butts in, "imprisoning people is bad by definition"... Ok man And that someone would be right and that's why it should be avoided as much as possible. Becaus
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by qawwads 3y ago
I'd expect that information to come first from arXiv or Nature. Or even maybe The Daily Mirror. Why would a governments be involved?
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by qawwads 3y ago
There are privacy issues with transmitting your print jobs to your nearby underground shopping mall.
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by qawwads 3y ago
The same kind of people who say gpl isn't free enough.
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by qawwads 3y ago
Repercussions should not be what keeps you from murdering someone anyway. It shows you're still on stage 1 on Lawrence Kohlberg's scale of moral development [0]. I don't think your argument is valid for most people. 0: https
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by qawwads 3y ago
I think what you want is a gendarmerie. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendarmerie
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by qawwads 3y ago
I found this: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/899
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by qawwads 3y ago
Or maybe that elusive zooming interface Jeff Raskin described in his book.
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by qawwads 3y ago
>We've come so far Well... We're still using overlapping windows we shuffle around like it's 1984. I guess we now have tab widgets and hot corners. Are there any alternatives to windows (the rectangles on the screen, not t
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by qawwads 3y ago
I don't understand the link with the flag. Can you explain?

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