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Comment · 3 years ago
It doesn't really matter at all, frankly. The workplace is not a democracy, it's a dictatorship. Whether you view the workers as nuanced complex moral human beings or just cogs doesn't change the impact the companies have on the world.
Comment · 3 years ago
Who wants to rent? I imagine most would opt to own instead. Rent is certainly far higher than a mortgage would be, which makes little sense if you're trying to encourage ownership (as often is the story about the american dream)
Comment · 3 years ago
Why ban by ideology? Just do it by behavior of the route/node.
Comment · 3 years ago
> Each Tesla is connected to an account and therefore a person.

Why do people put up with this? Seems absolutely insane to connect a car's functionality to the internet, aside maybe from remote start. Where are the legislators? Where are the regulatory bodies?

Comment · 3 years ago
> providing the kernel interface through stable syscalls is actually the super power of Linux

I thought that it was drivers? Linux isn't particularly unique for having a stable abi (and the utility of such a decision is highly questionable). The driver support however is extraordinary and undeniable.

Comment · 3 years ago
> Once again the EFF is proving that they'll stand behind their principles and defend freedom even for those they disagree with. They are one of the few remaining organizations that I feel I can support without reservation.

I find this attitude very odd. Surely some disagreements indicate a violation of their principles. What would the principles be worth otherwise? Surely this is the paradox of tolerance in a different package. Why not instead model communication as a bilateral contract?

Comment · 3 years ago
I meant "alignment" there not "aliasing" but the point is the same.
Comment · 3 years ago
I agree that gaming on mac is fairly grim, but I've been quite happy playing games on my 13" M1 macbook (air i think?). This excludes most AAA games, but I've certainly enjoyed Victoria 3 (and other paradox games). They don't seem to run much slower than on intel (which, granted, is typically worse than through wine or windows). Baldurs Gate 3 should be on it soon, I think. The mac market itself should shift pretty rapidly.

Edit: factorio and oxygen not included have both been pretty solid, too. I think factorio is even native.

Comment · 3 years ago
Is this the equivalent of directly asking the os for more pages, or does it work via some other heap-like mechanism that simply isn't garbage collected?
Comment · 3 years ago
"Artificially high" by a factor of maybe 3. We need to look at how to get to a factor of 100 or 1000.

Oil is much, much more valuable in the long term as a material commodity, not a fuel commodity. This can be realized if we bring down the price of power, which is happening, albeit in only part of the globe.

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