realgeniushere | 3 years ago | on: Mac OS 9
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realgeniushere | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: A nice C string API
Makes me think less of antirez that he doesn’t acknowledge that this is the same design as Microsoft’s BSTRs, which predate sds by many many years.
realgeniushere | 3 years ago | on: Twitter is no longer enforcing the Covid-19 misleading information policy
Maybe this is more productive: What point were you trying to make with your spam comment? And how isn’t it addressed by twitter abiding by viewpoint neutrality but not content neutrality?
realgeniushere | 3 years ago | on: Google admits to violating federal law and plans to keep doing it
Uh, if the class action damages cap is 500k then it’s only worth 500k to Google…
realgeniushere | 3 years ago | on: Twitter is no longer enforcing the Covid-19 misleading information policy
What a low effort and low thought reply. No one said it is. I’m saying there’s a principled way to have free speech and still take down spam.
realgeniushere | 3 years ago | on: Twitter is no longer enforcing the Covid-19 misleading information policy
In the government context, this problem is very aptly dealt with by distinguishing “content neutrality” from “viewpoint neutrality”. That’s why the government can punish spam emailers without violating the first amendment.
realgeniushere | 3 years ago | on: Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation
This is a false sense of understanding that many Linux users develop. You basically built a puzzle by putting together the pieces that fit together. And you have the illusion that you learned something about the picture drawn on the pieces.
You don’t really understand anything more except how to configure a system with a poorly designed configuration system. Installing a difficult-to-use Linux distribution teaches you nothing about operating systems, compilers, linkers & loaders, shared libraries, or anything else about the foundations of modern computing.
realgeniushere | 3 years ago | on: Why Isn’t the Whole World Rich?
If you put your hand in the fire, no one has punished you with a burn.
realgeniushere | 3 years ago | on: UK faces worst downturn of any advanced economy, OECD says
And considering PPP, the US still smokes all the major European powers. What is your point?
realgeniushere | 3 years ago | on: Why Isn’t the Whole World Rich?
That is how many people see the world. Mankind is collectively some kind of God that is responsible for your individual plight.
realgeniushere | 3 years ago | on: “Invalid Username or Password”: a useless security measure (2014)
You could have bothered to read the article before posting the most obvious, dismissive thing.
realgeniushere | 3 years ago | on: Why Isn’t the Whole World Rich?
So I agree it has to do with bad governance. But you deflect all blame away from the people in those poorly governed country, instead blaming wealthy people in other countries. I’ll say though, the worst thing the West has done to the third world is insist on democracy. Peasants don’t know what they need government to do, and the political classes in those countries don’t have the maturity to steer them.
realgeniushere | 3 years ago | on: Why Isn’t the Whole World Rich?
What are you talking about? Everyone is eating bigger pieces of pie these days. A lot of the things we take for granted weren’t even available to wealthy people one or two hundred years ago. Electricity, running water, sewage, pharmaceuticals, vaccines, effective surgery, motorized transport, sturdy housing. Not to mention the increasingly universal availability of education. Sure, some people still live in squalor, but it’s a rapidly shrinking percent of the world.
realgeniushere | 3 years ago | on: Is SBF Going to Prison?
That has to do with questions of what exactly the law prohibits. A lot of white collar law deals with the very murky line between sharp, but legal, business practices and prohibited conduct. Those kinds of issues don’t usually rear their heads in other kinds of cases, which instead tend to be contested on adequacy of evidence and criminal procedure (Miranda warnings, illegal search and seizure, etc.) grounds.
realgeniushere | 3 years ago | on: UK faces worst downturn of any advanced economy, OECD says
That’s only because of political entrenchment. If Europe loosened their labor laws and made other reforms to bring them in line with American business law, they would probably catch up to American GDP per capita pretty quickly. As it stands, US GDP per capita is 40% higher then even Germany. Do you think the Germans aren’t capable of producing at the same level as the US?
realgeniushere | 3 years ago | on: UK faces worst downturn of any advanced economy, OECD says
That’s a deceptive analysis because catch-up growth is easier. That’s why the Asian Tigers could grow at breakneck speeds, right until they caught up to Western development levels and stagnated just like everyone else.
realgeniushere | 3 years ago | on: Is SBF Going to Prison?
Go do your own research if you don’t believe me. I’m not your research assistant.
realgeniushere | 3 years ago | on: Is SBF Going to Prison?
Do you think conservative judges aren’t receptive to fraud cases? Republican appointees regularly give the longest sentences to white collar criminals. Your comment is clearly written about someone who actually knows nothing about law except what the political media prints. And no one has deregulated or legalized outright fraud, which is what happened here.
realgeniushere | 3 years ago | on: Is SBF Going to Prison?
What? Everyone who could investigate and prosecute SBF right now and for the last two years is a Democrat.
realgeniushere | 3 years ago | on: Donald Trump is unbanned from Twitter
You know until 2016/2017 we let people post just about anything they wanted on all of the major platforms. Maybe not racial slurs and direct threats, but everything else was good. It was like that for a very long time and mostly everyone was fine with it. All that changed is that liberals didn’t like the political results—far right ideas becoming more popular and organized.
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>Believe it or not, full screen apps are a Windows thing.
Nope. It’s just that maximizing—single action to expand a window the whole screen minus the OS docks/taskbars—is present in every widely used OS except for Mac OS.
>they haven’t let go of the idea that all apps need to use the whole screen at all times
Not sure where you’re getting “at all times” from. Windows and Linux desktops all easily support having windows take up less than the whole screen. In fact, it’s easier than in Mac OS because of window snapping to sides and corners. It’s only that Mac OS makes it very clumsy to get the effect that maximizing has on every other OS.