skriticos2

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by skriticos2 2y ago
When I think about the two models, I have Linux as the dictator type and XML as committee designed. Both are functional enough, but the while so few data points are hardly conclusive, I think it's generally indicative. I'm not a p
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by skriticos2 2y ago
Why is it a binary value? What about masochists, or people who lost a bet and want to be stabbed just a little? Or strangled?
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by skriticos2 2y ago
Yea, legitimate with illegitimate is a weird kind of calculation, as the risk with illegitimate market is to end up in jail, and few people want to calculate the monetary value of lost time due to incareration and all the fallout that comes
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by skriticos2 2y ago
Yep. The US did drop around 160,800 tons of conventional bombs on Japan during WWII, thought that's still relatively tame compared to the 623,000 tons they drop on Germany. Though the two nukes more than made up for it, I guess. Bomb f
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by skriticos2 2y ago
Guess it depends on the software. I have seen enough business critical software that was built 15 years ago with the developer having long left the scene and nobody having any idea on how it works internally (much less skill to actually cha
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by skriticos2 2y ago
Oh, the analogy does work. Every construction needs to be adjusted at times. Sure, not as often as software, but new regulations and the passing of time is eating at the substance. After a couple of decades most buildings tend to need major
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by skriticos2 2y ago
Yea. Many places in Europe have historical city scape protection. Buildings that have been built centuries ago are being rebuilt internally all the time to fit new purposes and regulations. Not to mention extreme cases like the Kowloon wall
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by skriticos2 2y ago
As a GNOME user, I kinda understand what they want to achieve, but they are seriously short on resources, so there is really little substance to all the rosy aspirations. They are also very oppinionated, which then turns away a lot of liber
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by skriticos2 2y ago
Sadly, doing the work is usually just half of the effort if you want to be independent. Maintaining business contacts is the other half. You seem to have been doing quite some coding in the past on part time jobs. Do you have a database abo
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by skriticos2 2y ago
I found that ChatGPT needs to be rained in with the prompts, and then it does a very impressive job. E.g. you can create a function prototype (with input and output expectations) and in the body tell the logic you are thinking about in meta
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by skriticos2 2y ago
There is a reason that Esperanto or one of it's siblings is not the language of global understanding and we are discussing in English. The world at large generally does not care about these kinds of fancy. It's half a miracle that
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by skriticos2 2y ago
Seeing Anya (the girl pointing at pictures), I'd guess the author is partial to Japanese culture. As their writing system does not have a concept of upper/lower case, he might just have determined that they are superfluous. Or he
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by skriticos2 2y ago
Well, the main reason why Wayland even exists is, that the X11 maintainers got fed up with a design from a time when graphics cards were not even a thing yet and decades of patchwork. They wanted to move on to something that has way less te
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by skriticos2 3y ago
Yea, that's basic culture here. The bins are also sized according, and using the recycle bins is cheaper. There is still unsorted/compound waste, but plastics + metals go into the yellow/recycle bin automatically. Same for pa
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by skriticos2 3y ago
I'd be very skeptical that AI would worsen the situation with music. For example, many pop music titles in last decades incorporate the same millennial whoop over and over and over again. I seriously stopped following pop music a long
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by skriticos2 3y ago
Being part of the security industry, I'm certainly not impartial, but your view seems to be a bit naive and you seem to be generally angry at the world. Thing is, when computers permeated society in the 90's, everything looked so
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by skriticos2 3y ago
I'm still not sure what you suggest. Do you want to police the world of software, only allowing stuff to be released that has obvious use and limited negative effects? That won't really fly in a liberal society.. people will tinke
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by skriticos2 3y ago
Security through obscurity does not work. As soon as deepfakes have proliferated on TikTok for stupid stuff, they'd inevitably be used for this kind of exploits by any adversary that is motivated enough to do a directed operation on a
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by skriticos2 3y ago
JS also had the major advantage of being sandboxed by design, so they could work from there. Most of the technical legacy centered around syntax backwards compatibility, but it's all isolated - so much easier to optimize. Python with i
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by skriticos2 3y ago
Hah, so true. If you give up on your ICE now in one of the western democracies, it will be sold as a used car in your country first and continue being driven around by someone poorer, then eventually be shipped to Asia and be driven around
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by skriticos2 3y ago
Yea, same here back in the day. Stage 1 installations for Gentoo really made me interact with the kernel and software in a different way. It did not just work, but while solving the issues, I learned a lot on how things worked internally. I
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by skriticos2 3y ago
Yea, at this point he probably pissed of the judge enough to enjoy his wait behind bars.
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by skriticos2 3y ago
Judicial process is a very methodical thing. Lot's of paper needs to be filled with words and filed properly. Judge needs to review and condense all that and put it together into a judgement that is well reasoned (well, there are layer
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by skriticos2 3y ago
This is just the conviction. Sentencing is sometime end of March next year. But considering that he was found guilty on all accounts and after the mess he was making during the trial, his sentence will most likely be no good news for him. H
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by skriticos2 4y ago
PS: in the case of Musk and Twitter, which I believe started this discussion.. It's Musk, so you can throw out the book. He just takes the stock value and then tweaks it so that the offer contains 420 because obviously that's his
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by skriticos2 4y ago
Well, the market does follow a set of rules (buy-sell pressure), but it's not necessarily reflective of actual value of a stock. More a heard consensus (which is why we get bubbles). The other side is also not necessarily irrational, b
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by skriticos2 5y ago
So what benefit would the right to repair bring? Even if all the schematics were published, parts be more standardized and built in a way that things are easier to maintain, would it really make a difference? People want the shiny new PS5 n
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by skriticos2 6y ago
I imagine people in home office situations would like to use this not only for the background, but them-self. I mean, if you are in doors all day, you might not be perfectly groomed for the day - so faking that would probably appeal to many
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by skriticos2 6y ago
Agree. Compared to renewables - nuclear is a big risk (financial and operational). Also nuclear needs a lot of water, which is getting to be a serious problem. Compared to coal/gas/biomass they look great though in our current ter
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by skriticos2 6y ago
Qt(Widgets) certainly is good if you know how to use it, you just need someone to tell you what parts to ignore when starting out. Here I put on the "teen who interacts first time with the concept of programming" glasses because o

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