astrodust

Joined 19 years ago

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Member since
Jan 3
Inveterate curmudgeon.
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Comment · 17 days ago
More like a turkey.
Comment · 18 days ago
Comment · 1 month ago
Excluding some countries, listed as "markets excluding the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the UK" but possibly Canada, too?
Comment · 1 month ago
Narrator: It wasn't.
Comment · 1 month ago
Why is it so ridiculous that the state can provide police where and when they're needed, and it's only when you have a sufficiently robust metropolitan area that can afford their own police force that you then have "local" cops?

Or are we all about locally-sourced, artisanal law enforcement now?

Comment · 1 month ago
To be fair, it does fit his new brand.
Comment · 1 month ago
An irrelevant curmudgeon says what?
Comment · 1 month ago
Why not Go, Rust, or C#?
Comment · 1 month ago
With 8MB it'll be snug.
Comment · 1 month ago
The iPhone launch was met with a lot of derision and eye-rolling despite that being the result of a half decade "effort to make themselves distinct from the competition".

Those events are rare, the opportunities to really shake things up are fleeting, as everyone is driving forward with relentless, incremental progress that quickly closes up all but the biggest gaps.

What could they possibly do that wouldn't be slammed as derivative?

Comment · 1 month ago
"At the end of the day, a top tier chef just makes food like everyone else."
Comment · 3 months ago
"2.8TB model, fast shipping!"
Comment · 3 months ago
The irony here that HTTP headers are descended directly from RFC822 email headers.
Comment · 3 months ago
"Open Web" as in "Free Speech", where it doesn't mean what it's supposed to mean.
Comment · 4 months ago
NP factorial sounds like NP-ultra-hard.

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