samiv

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by samiv 1mo ago
What a sad analogy. IKEA furniture is mostly cheap particle board crap and it's a shame that we as a humanity have cheapened our lives to the point where IKEA is some kind of standard (and the only thing) most people can afford. Back i
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by samiv 1mo ago
Summary "In accordance to our customer feedback we decreased the package size and increased the price. " The business would like nothing better than you to buy nothing but hot air.
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by samiv 1mo ago
When you have a surplus of poor people that might insinuate insurgency it's always possible (and cheap) to hire one half to kill the other half. Problem solved.
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by samiv 1mo ago
Same in Finland. The ruling party (represents the rich and the business owners) gave tax cuts for rich (high income earners and and those who have capital gains). Next they're planning to cut the business tax 4.5 percentage point. Erod
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by samiv 1mo ago
Not disagreeing with you but the "resource allocation" which I presume to hint at the fallacy that capitalism is somehow great or optiomal at allocating resources is not really true. Just look at any big company such as meta and s
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by samiv 1mo ago
When you take away the cost people will treat the result worthless. For example if you hiking in the mountains, reaching the summit and enjoying the views are valuable experiences to you because it had an associated coast, i.e the physical
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by samiv 1mo ago
"It's not clear how civilisation functions if humans become effectively useless and the only thing of value is one's ownership of wealth producing assets." You can get a hint of this by looking at the developing countrie
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by samiv 2mo ago
While the idea is itself not without merit the problem is when people design these data oriented systems without abstractions and in fact it's often difficult to find good abstractions around the data the problem comes when the system,
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by samiv 2mo ago
I find the cookie banner always ironically wrongly labeled. Everyone claims to "respect your privacy" while actually disrespecting the privacy. If they did actually respect the privacy they would not use non functional tracking co
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by samiv 2mo ago
OpenGL is not obsolete and is totally fine for many use cases. Vulkan is way too complicated and cumbersome for many. Even if OpenGL doesn't get new features what exists now will continue to work for decades.
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by samiv 2mo ago
I'm afraid to trust technology coming from companies operating under the jurisdiction of a rogue aggressive nation that is continuously attacking other nations both (so called) ally and foe using economic and military actions.
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by samiv 2mo ago
3 miles is less than 5km. Perfectly fine by bicycle. Oh wait.. I guess you have too much freedom and no infrastructure other than highways so you gotta drive and burn all the fuel, time and money.
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by samiv 2mo ago
The western countries deindustrialized themselves though. That's just capitalism chasing ever increasing profits and moving production to where it's cheaper, i.e.from west to China. In fact this was cherished because it increased
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by samiv 3mo ago
Yep. I'm not an economist but my social democratic common sense would tell me to look at the bottom 10% income bracket and see how they're doing. Incidentally these people are the best economic citizens because if you give them mo
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by samiv 3mo ago
There's no paradox here. Distribution of wealth matters. Rich got richer and everyone else didn't. Simple as that.
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by samiv 3mo ago
It doesn't play golf at the club with the C level.
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by samiv 3mo ago
This and plenty of other problems that plague the society now and over the past centuries could be solved by eliminating the distinction and gap between "rich" and "poor".
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by samiv 3mo ago
You can call JS in which you can manipulate the DOM. Of course architecturally (also regarding your file access) it's better to use the wasm for logic as much as possible where the web (HTML/JS) provides the UI and IO, data flows
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by samiv 3mo ago
Why would they need to be any more worried about those now than before? The same holes exists and have existed for some time already. If he was not worried about them before why be worried about them now? And if you're worried about se
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by samiv 3mo ago
Yeah and it took about 150 years until industrial revolution started to actually benefit the common people and the workers started to have their working conditions improved. What it took was social democracy and unions and other social move
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by samiv 3mo ago
User entering wrong input is a logical condition and typically handling a logical condition (point being it's not an error from the software's operational point of view) using tools that allow easier logic flow (i.e. error codes)
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by samiv 3mo ago
Why can't people just leave? What compels them to write these lengthy self grandiosing posts "zomg I'm leaving company X".
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by samiv 3mo ago
Gstreamer is a multimedia framework where the user creates media DAGs by placing video/audio/multimedia elements such as demuxers, decoders etc in a pipeline. The framework then takes care of running the media pipeline and handles
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by samiv 3mo ago
Either you were a head above the rest of the team and had the intellect to produce high quality value adding work, or then you were the "move fast break things" type of guy producing a lot of extra liability and work for others.
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by samiv 3mo ago
Sorry but how exactly does the sandboxing help? You download and run an app that you expect to be useful and that you need. The app needs permission to access your data. If you want to use the application what choice do you have except to g
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by samiv 3mo ago
so let's call it what it is then? Corrupt individuals instead of "financial gravity"
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by samiv 3mo ago
Was it "financial gravity" that made the decision at VW to install emission cheat devices? Was it "financial gravity" that made the decision at Google to cheat at the ad exchange? Was it "financial gravity" tha
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by samiv 3mo ago
Yes I don't disagree that sometimes a specific container or a data structure is great for the problem. Problem is that most of the game code and related code (so tooling,editor, auxiliary engine code) does need a typical STL type funct
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by samiv 3mo ago
You're right that C++ has a lot of features. But like mentioned elsewhere most projects define their own conventions and the subset of features that they use. Also the nice thing about having a large set of features is that C,++ allows
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by samiv 3mo ago
If you don't use the STL you end up re-implementing it yourself. Usually poorly.

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