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I am unlikely to notice what goes on here for months on end.

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this is a dense comment (there's a lot here to unpack). it sounds like you're saying:

once it became clear that conquest with an explicit intended return of large numbers of enslaved people would allow caesar to pay debts and fund further expansion, the pyramid was capped and required exponential expansion to perpetuate its economic aims. and this was the beginning of the end. a model which required autocratic steering to operate.

it would be helpful to know why this was developed!

running data science tasks on constrained systems may be an unfamiliar goal for many on hn, but i can imagine reasons for doing so.

perhaps you can share real world use cases and talk about the target environments for this tooling.

delta time 2 months ago

i don't think time moves faster as we age, i think our perceived duration of early life grows because we keep thinking about it.

for example, i have spent 35 years thinking about the events which took place at age 8, but i have only spent 8 years thinking about the events of age 35.

Flameshot 6 months ago

i've been using flameshot with wayland the last six months, simply because i didn't know i couldn't

an icon for "save" will suffice to help me find the portion of the menu with "save as", "save a copy", and "export". when all four have the same icon, or slight variations, i'm back to reading each one to discern the difference.

sometimes we make silly errors for years or decades and no one spots them. if you've been saying you hate java bloat/frameworks/whatever and meaning you hate javascript bloat/frameworks/whatever, people would probably agree with both. no one would be the wiser.

WriterdeckOS 9 months ago

It's not abundantly clear that merely booting this operating system FORMATS YOUR DISK. Yes, there's a grub menu, but it has something like a 2 second timeout before it destroys all your data.

they're suggesting that "open source" has won (attention, mind share, funding, whatever) while "free software" as defined by richard stallman has not