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Falsehoods considered harmful.
This absence of evidence is proof of a need for genuine study.
Dubious about the value of these conceits, it may be imperfect, though autobiographies are not popular.
No one sees the modern world somehow???
"Google recommends using Chrome" ... on Chromium Edge.
Uh. The Browser Wars are over. No one at the IETF will dispute Google's dominance. Google has won. I understand the lockdown has been a while, but can someone check over at Google HQ? See if anyone is minding the systems? It all seems awfully automated...
Edit: failed to provide context, most people should be left out of writing public interfaces for non-hard real time systems.
Astronauts and physicists are separate categories of human. Obviously those who thrive on danger and those who thrive on puzzles are different. Though, it could be risky to present such an upfront contradiction to someone with an established worldview.
In theory there is no real impediment to largely indistinguishable cloud gaming platforms using edge datacenters. Of course, Microsoft's ecosystem has resulted in depence on battlestations over tablets and laptops for gamers.
Programmers depend on non-system libraries largely these days.
So then, why did Stannis fail? He was too worried appearing powerful, preferring either Seaworth or Missandei to speak for him?
A Song of Ice and Fire is based upon simple observations about politics, yet I doubt ever increasing centralization or technology will lead to control over belief. I think the future will be powered by disagreements.
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sassy_quat on Thursday September 29, 2022 @05:33PM
from the ask-hn dept.
What would you do if the US was no longer allowed to import electronics?It isn't very hypothetical, the United States imposed upon Iraq horrifying sanctions, to the point where pencils were prevented for export at the risk of usage for nuculer purposes. If the United States became any less popular on the world stage, it is certain Taiwan could embargo the US, making the Myanmar floods...
(: guestimates are good enough, everything pales in comparison to the freezer, turn that off and the power bill goes down
You're integrating AI and data management? Sounds promising for your case. For one, it's highly improbable that we're not moving towards some type of tool which would manage a person's data -- be it a spreadsheet, or just an email. And since your partner is using a spreadsheet-like tool to compose a long-form piece, it only sounds more likely.
Probably socialized medicine nations are not progressive enough to attempt this.
Fortunately water in non-compressible and has surface tension, the only real issue seems to be water vapor.
I don't understand how modern hard drives are not helium proof. Apparently, everything is a permeable solid.
I think the preceding comment was operating on the presumption of linear returns from medical research. Since higher medical costs in the US goes directly towards medical companies, and indirectly to medical research after taxes and dividends and stockbuybacks...
Of course the biggest issue of all time is that germs are evolving to survive our antibacterial soap, we may need to develop a large variety of antibiotics.
No need more merchants, everything shall be a non-counterfeitable Amazon Basics product. Other merchants will have to compete on price while everyone can trust Amazon quality.
If I recall correctly, BeOS won an antitrust lawsuit that wasn't able to cover their development expenses.
Fortunately the Department of Justice didn't intervene.
I don't think evasion is illegal, it isn't the same as draft dodging.
Superficially, you seem misinformed. Matter of factly, a great problem would be that you're requesting advice on tax evasion on a public forum.
Alternatively in a scarcity system with anxiety over one's own future, absolute authority becomes more desirable, not less. The only law that could be removed to prevent this would be the law of nature, since the only greater driving force than one's legacy is to promote the future of one's own children (the least mentioned failing of socialist societies).
The existence of a warlord tendency isn't totally abolished with capitalism, it is only mitigated by pressures to conform which is problematic for modern society versus Victorian or 50s society because various brands or artists wish precisely to stand out.
There is no way for anything to ultimately be a benefit to society without any understanding that one is part of a greater whole, which will be an interesting argument to present to anyone involved in designing curriculums.
I suppose Robert Moses is the wrong man to bring up, though maybe my argument is flawed and should be totally ignored. I take it that you're taking that approach. Given the direction this argument is heading, perhaps urban planning could be simplified, pedestrian only neighborhoods with nearby parking garages provide a great incentive for people to shop at local small businesses instead of supermarkets being a one stop shop with everything from fresh starbucks to factory made bread. The French subsidize their local businesses and from what I hear, their communities are better for it. Naturally so many factors go into urban planning, and how to live in a dense community is something that will always be considered to be unexamined.
Your argument could be better, depending how significant the alleged issue was, the whistleblower will be blacklisted from all but menial work.
It takes the same time for an armored division to travel from coast to coast as it would for a legion to march across the Roman Empire, at least a week.
Inertia isn't the problem, failure to take responsibility is. Although it does seem like inertia, a cornucopia of policies that can't be coped with, such as wastage that everyone turns a blind eye to, gradually increasing deficits of supply versus demand (for the Soviets it was grain (somehow Russia is now a grain exporter), for the Americans it is potholes).
Numbers are worthless, most Romans were illiterate, and they didn't have Arabic numbers. Bafflingly illiterate workers and automated machines are economically equivalent, otherwise there wouldn't be such a difference between high school dropouts and graduates in work productivity.
"The cause"? A failure to tolerate ambition, even when society converts into a fishbowl where everyone is neighbors. Unless ego is abolished and the most horrifying of social engineering programs could be enacted, the problems of late empire are simple: men like Robert Moses, condemned by equally corrupt later generations, are no longer permitted to ensure things run smoothly.
Seems like a trivial service to make. Reddit has RSS, Twitter has webhooks, there are so many ways to monitor.
Hopefully if the service is worth reading, your customers will go and politely inform you. It is nice to have your work acknowledged.
Retake political science please.
The advent of the agricultural revolution, the telegraph, and the teletype each resulted in massive increases in "tribal size". To the point that after the teletype, it was a bipolar cold war.
So I don't think you have any qualifications to say a single word in this matter.
Man, with tech evangelists like you, Brave is going receive an anti-trust case for making a killer app.
Did Microsoft psyop Python into promoting the shipping of terrible web apps through Universal Windows Platform?
Still waiting for Windows Platform to become Universal.
I did a simple lookup on Wikipedia's Transistor Count entry, and it looks like...
well.
That crap is so much smaller than modern L3 caches and dark silicon.
If failure really was a foundation for success, we reimplement all these technologies we software emulate now and where the patent has expired so we could implement them in hardware, including the firmware by hardbaking it as an ASIC (certainly ASIC memory is more dense than flash and obviously more so than SRAM).
For example, putting a pre-Y2K pentium on a chip with soundblaster, using diodes for power, and using wireless communication. It'd make the RISC-V ESP32 look wimpy.
The state of modern technology is shameful.
Beyond how that is contradictory, are you saying that the vendor is providing a non-mainline version of Linux that can't be updated because the driver API will be broken upon update?
Or am I misunderstanding you?
Feels more polished? I absolutely do not understand that, some of the more social media friendly Pi projects involve building cluster file systems with them. Seems very nitty gritty to me.
What's deviating from stock GNU/Linux? Adding a third party repo?