Because the software industry doesn't pay anymore for constraints or doing things "the hard way". Everything is high-level language and by tomorrow. The day after it doesn't exist anymore anyway. I'd wish to get a…
If the US would truly try to raze Iran, they would do so at immense cost, both financially and reputationally. I have to wonder what your definition of "winning" is.
> In this situation I just don’t understand what people expect Russia to do?? To stay within its borders. And that counts for the others on this planet, too.
Perhaps darker than the initial mild optimism of the early internet.
It would hurt, for a while. Then people would wake up and slowly better solutions would appear. Not unlike post-Trump NATO. But the US would have lost its leader position and a large market. I think the EU needs a kick…
That's not how democracy works. You have responsibility and accountability. These people can and do real harm.
But do these intermediary commits run? I wouldn't mind making smaller commits, but usually wait until the changes result in a bunch of code that compiles and does what it should. It sounds as if you do checkpoints that…
PGP had the right idea, but the system is too hard for the average person. With "system" I refer to building a web (or multiple!) of trust, based on parameters that you decide upon.
It is a slippery slope. I'm just hoping that a more surgical drone strike against a weapons factory will create less victims than the blunt force of a ballistic missile aimed "in the general direction of". In a way,…
The moral question is if you've unknowingly contributed to war, death and destruction, or if you are actually helping drones to accurately find real targets – which hopefully are not innocent civilians but legitimate…
I guess one can only optimise the system for the majority following the beaten path. Some folks just have to find a way both through the world and through their own head.
I'd say there's at least a third reason: intellectual (or rather technical) curiosity of photography itself. Often, when I take a picture, it is just to see how a particular shot turns out, much less so for any…
I've been telling less computer literate folks not to install random stuff since the nineties, and I can't understand how many devs are doing just that these days. I used to work in security auditing, and it makes me…
I've been playing guitar since I was a little kid. I wonder how learning "two-handed" skills such as playing music impacts how "handy" or "polydextrous" one is. There are left-handed guitar players that play…
The alternative is/was of course to be stuck in a small space for several days with smokers showing withdrawal symptoms. Not sure I'd want to experience that in something like a submarine...
I've never owned anything from Apple, but this model has me interested in having something that can run commercial software (I'm a long-time Linux user). But I really think 8GB is going to be a major limit for running a…
Sometimes you've got to protect people against themselves...
It used to be so local (regional) brands had sizes adapted to their demographics. There used to be a thing like Italian, French, German, Scandinavian, etc sizing. I guess for global brands like Patagonia it's going to…
One could argue it was not given away for free, but with a silent expectation of reciprocity. Using open-source is a gentleman's agreement to be respectful towards the project, a good citizen, not to abuse and…
This is a flash from an almost forgotten past. I'm happy people are still using and even improving Enlightenment. I used to run Enlightenment in the late nineties and early 2000s, first by itself, then with Gnome bar.…
Oodi is more an experiment in creating a social, communal meeting space than a library. I think there's a terrible need for such social spaces in modern society with very few places where you can meet people and where…
Cranked tube amps melting down was also part of that magic. A feat not appreciated anymore in this day and age on most stages.
A lot of us don't turn out to be professional musicians, writers or athletes. In between family and work, you start to realize how much these people put in to be at the top of their game. Time and effort you can't…
I think it's pretty frustrating if the songs/pieces you actually want to play are demanding or even at the virtuoso level. If you really want to play a David Gilmour guitar solo or sing some Led Zeppelin, it better not…
I feel trying to codify human behaviour into simple rules is pretty tough. Playfully rough intercourse might be the best ever, or turn out quite horrible at the wrong time; the only difference being subtle difference in…
Because the software industry doesn't pay anymore for constraints or doing things "the hard way". Everything is high-level language and by tomorrow. The day after it doesn't exist anymore anyway. I'd wish to get a…
If the US would truly try to raze Iran, they would do so at immense cost, both financially and reputationally. I have to wonder what your definition of "winning" is.
> In this situation I just don’t understand what people expect Russia to do?? To stay within its borders. And that counts for the others on this planet, too.
Perhaps darker than the initial mild optimism of the early internet.
It would hurt, for a while. Then people would wake up and slowly better solutions would appear. Not unlike post-Trump NATO. But the US would have lost its leader position and a large market. I think the EU needs a kick…
That's not how democracy works. You have responsibility and accountability. These people can and do real harm.
But do these intermediary commits run? I wouldn't mind making smaller commits, but usually wait until the changes result in a bunch of code that compiles and does what it should. It sounds as if you do checkpoints that…
PGP had the right idea, but the system is too hard for the average person. With "system" I refer to building a web (or multiple!) of trust, based on parameters that you decide upon.
It is a slippery slope. I'm just hoping that a more surgical drone strike against a weapons factory will create less victims than the blunt force of a ballistic missile aimed "in the general direction of". In a way,…
The moral question is if you've unknowingly contributed to war, death and destruction, or if you are actually helping drones to accurately find real targets – which hopefully are not innocent civilians but legitimate…
I guess one can only optimise the system for the majority following the beaten path. Some folks just have to find a way both through the world and through their own head.
I'd say there's at least a third reason: intellectual (or rather technical) curiosity of photography itself. Often, when I take a picture, it is just to see how a particular shot turns out, much less so for any…
I've been telling less computer literate folks not to install random stuff since the nineties, and I can't understand how many devs are doing just that these days. I used to work in security auditing, and it makes me…
I've been playing guitar since I was a little kid. I wonder how learning "two-handed" skills such as playing music impacts how "handy" or "polydextrous" one is. There are left-handed guitar players that play…
The alternative is/was of course to be stuck in a small space for several days with smokers showing withdrawal symptoms. Not sure I'd want to experience that in something like a submarine...
I've never owned anything from Apple, but this model has me interested in having something that can run commercial software (I'm a long-time Linux user). But I really think 8GB is going to be a major limit for running a…
Sometimes you've got to protect people against themselves...
It used to be so local (regional) brands had sizes adapted to their demographics. There used to be a thing like Italian, French, German, Scandinavian, etc sizing. I guess for global brands like Patagonia it's going to…
One could argue it was not given away for free, but with a silent expectation of reciprocity. Using open-source is a gentleman's agreement to be respectful towards the project, a good citizen, not to abuse and…
This is a flash from an almost forgotten past. I'm happy people are still using and even improving Enlightenment. I used to run Enlightenment in the late nineties and early 2000s, first by itself, then with Gnome bar.…
Oodi is more an experiment in creating a social, communal meeting space than a library. I think there's a terrible need for such social spaces in modern society with very few places where you can meet people and where…
Cranked tube amps melting down was also part of that magic. A feat not appreciated anymore in this day and age on most stages.
A lot of us don't turn out to be professional musicians, writers or athletes. In between family and work, you start to realize how much these people put in to be at the top of their game. Time and effort you can't…
I think it's pretty frustrating if the songs/pieces you actually want to play are demanding or even at the virtuoso level. If you really want to play a David Gilmour guitar solo or sing some Led Zeppelin, it better not…
I feel trying to codify human behaviour into simple rules is pretty tough. Playfully rough intercourse might be the best ever, or turn out quite horrible at the wrong time; the only difference being subtle difference in…