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Comment · 20 days ago
You answered your own question in parenthesis. US banks are an outlier and the US is not the entire world
Comment · 24 days ago
> In the case of Furnace Brook, the water companies were not to blame.

TFA

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Unidentified Aerial Fenomenom
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Comment · 3 months ago
Sure, but it's pretty clear that the topic of this English language article is the English language Wikipedia
Comment · 4 months ago
Unless you need it for a high security environment that's limited to civilian procurement, why? I'm struggling to see a use case beyond that
Comment · 4 months ago
> how do you feel about the entire thing?

I feel about as strongly as I do about the font that Google use

I will never understand this visceral reaction that emojis provoke in some people

Comment · 4 months ago
And, as usual, "risk/threat to democracy" is used to mean "support for parties I don't like"

It wasn't long ago that the Twitter shoe was on the other foot, and many of those complaining now were quite happy to endorse the right of private companies to promote/suppress speech at will (with no hint of irony regarding their alleged ideological views on private companies)

Comment · 6 months ago
And how would they distribute that compiler-installer as a portable binary?
Comment · 6 months ago
> Interesting provocative article, I bet it will be praised on some Microsoft sponsored conference.

"Win32 is the only stable Linux desktop API" has been a common observation in the Linux community for years. I'm not sure why you're acting like it's a Microsoft-sponsored smear

Microsoft may have indeed won first place via dirty anticompetitive tricks, but Linux/*nix would need a similarly stable API first in order to have won at all. And obviously plenty of companies and initiatives have tried (from Red Hat to Valve), and yet progress has still been glacial

Also nobody's saying it's a particularly good API, but it is stable. As "Worse is better" famously observed, the technical elegance of a standard has barely any effect on its adoption, versus more boring social and commercial factors

Comment · 6 months ago
This headline is a good example of why title case should be considered harmful. It took me several times to parse correctly, since I initially read "Application" and/or "Notes" as proper nouns

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