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The commission is still democratically representative even if indirectly as long as member states are democracies.

If you want all European institutions to be directly elected you essentially want the EU to no longer be a confederation and instead be a federation.

National governments having power in EU affairs is by design because otherwise the EU would never have formed.

alexvoda

3년 전discuss

Indeed, containers and static linking are just hiding the problem.

> each software is installed in it's own folder, and the search path for dynamic linking starts in the binary's folder.

I think the benefit of this is that an app can be fat but doesn't have to. And an app can be made fat afterwards if need be. The app folder is just the starting point for searching. If the library is not there it is probably shared.

Wrappers and a build system that tweaks everything feel like a hack, not a system wide solution.

There is also Gobo Linux. I wonder if they solved this.

alexvoda

3년 전discuss

What is the philosophy behind why it's not done like this Linux? Also, what about Nix?

alexvoda

4년 전discuss

It also has the appeal of being descriptive instead of being prescriptive. (Just like linguists for English vs French). Tropes aren't good or bad, they just are. And with time they become fashionable or unfashionable.

Traditional literally criticism always had a prescriptive feel to me. In the worst cases, it was just elitist hate.

Note that many artifacts considered masterpieces today were disregarded at the time of their making

alexvoda

4년 전discuss

Two more examples:

The context dependent buttons on old feature phones

The red/green/yellow/blue buttons on old TV remotes for Teletext

alexvoda

5년 전discuss

It's a Tetris unikernel

alexvoda

5년 전discuss

I would like to see how your solution handles the case of new countries or countries changing name. Recompile and push an update? If the environment is governmental this can take a very very very long time.

The proper solution, in my opinion, is a lookup table stored in the database. It can be updated, it can be cached, it can be extended.

And for transfer of data, use formats to which you can attach a schema. This way type data is not lost on export. XML did this but everyone hates XML. And everyone hates XSD (the schema format) even more. However, if you use the proper tools with it, it is just wonderful.

alexvoda

5년 전discuss

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