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sydbarrett74
·5 months ago·discuss
Kudos, evbogue. Thank you for the hard work you've done to keep this alive.
sydbarrett74
·5 months ago·discuss
To paraphrase Willie Sutton’s probably apocryphal answer to the question of why he robbed banks, ‘Because that’s where the money is.’
sydbarrett74
·6 months ago·discuss
That's an eminently reasonable and logical policy. Thanks for the context.
sydbarrett74
·6 months ago·discuss
Anything made by humans can be unmade by humans. Security is a perpetual arms race.
sydbarrett74
·7 months ago·discuss
Pipelining, mostly.
sydbarrett74
·8 months ago·discuss
Because you’d be denying cast and crew of their royalties?

If people pirated on a mass scale, the losses would add up. Whatever you may think about streaming platforms, don’t punish the people just trying to make a living.
sydbarrett74
·8 months ago·discuss
It’s both greed and laziness.
sydbarrett74
·8 months ago·discuss
Why innovate when you can be a perpetual rentier?
sydbarrett74
·9 months ago·discuss
That will probably happen eventually, but right now RISC-V only has the hp for embedded or peripheral uses. It will continue to nip at ARM’s heels for the next 5-10 years.
sydbarrett74
·9 months ago·discuss
Exactly. The best writers all have one thing in common: they’re voracious readers.
sydbarrett74
·9 months ago·discuss
Hence the ‘or else’ qualifier.
sydbarrett74
·9 months ago·discuss
Maybe Copilot will get wrapped into a Sky.NET meta-platform.
sydbarrett74
·10 months ago·discuss
AI provides cover to lay people off, or else commit constructive dismissal.
sydbarrett74
·10 months ago·discuss
ACA is largely based on Heritage Foundation policy papers. Project 2010, if you will.
sydbarrett74
·11 months ago·discuss
Second- and third-hand smoke mimic contagion.
sydbarrett74
·2 years ago·discuss
As in most spheres, the ruthless pursuit of 'efficiency' in social interactions has led to a less resilient society.
sydbarrett74
·3 years ago·discuss
The Intuit management are doing exactly what they seek to do. The company is nothing more than a pure rent-seeker. Yay, rentier capitalism!
sydbarrett74
·3 years ago·discuss
Let's just acknowledge an open secret: the main reason one company acquires another is to eliminate competition. Full stop.
sydbarrett74
·4 years ago·discuss
sydbarrett74
·4 years ago·discuss