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871.
by Latty 10y ago
I mean, all of them beyond the day-to-day? I plan my life expecting to live to an average age, as I assume most of us do. I save for retirement, I make investments that will pay off at times useful to me. If I knew I had a serious condition
872.
by Latty 10y ago
I only use Windows 10 for gaming, so fortunately I don't really need to worry. Useful for those who use Windows all the time, though.
873.
by Latty 10y ago
That was my point - running KDE, this is extremely uncommon, running Windows, it's practically every application.
874.
by Latty 10y ago
Sure, but 99% of my Windows software isn't UWP. It's all good and well to say it's there, but that doesn't make the experience good for the user. Contrast to KDE and OS X where it just works for 99% of software. I mean,
875.
by Latty 10y ago
I mean, you say that, but on KDE, for example, every application except one on my system works with DPI scaling (the odd one out is Unity3D) - that's because at the QT level DPI scaling is built-in, so the toolkit supports it and the a
876.
by Latty 10y ago
My experience (currently running two 27" panels at 3840x2160 and one 27" panel at 2560x1440 in KDE for most stuff, Windows for gaming, and previously had one of the first edition retina MBPs with external non-retina displays): OS
877.
by Latty 10y ago
You think that regulation is the relevant barrier to entry to being an ISP? Not the cost of running lines or anti-competitive practices by rivals? Please, this just means no protection for an environment where, right now, we have no competi
878.
by Latty 10y ago
"We shouldn't blame the Republican's for repealing this protection pointlessly, because the Democrats will put it back when they get in power." Seriously? Free pass to do bad stuff because "it won't last".
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by Latty 10y ago
I don't get your point, even if no one does do it, why repeal the protection? It's effort and time wasted just to create a potential for something bad to happen. Even if you think this will never be abused, I don't see how it
880.
by Latty 10y ago
Sure, but there is cost to maintaining X. If Wayland is smaller and can achieve the same thing more effectively (more secure, faster, better features for contained applications, etc...), then that is preferable. Yes, there is a cost to you,
881.
by Latty 10y ago
From what I gather (and I'm no expert) the value of Wayland is that it is a model that matches what we are actually doing with our systems now. X is a giant system that we abuse a tiny portion of to use in a way no one planned for it t
882.
by Latty 10y ago
Another way to do 'practical space travel' without 'theoretical space travel' is with tools. Just because you can't develop it with your language doesn't mean you can't use a tool someone else developed, o
883.
by Latty 10y ago
> I've begun mentally treating "Natural" as the equivalent of someone saying "trust me". Well, I did... until you seemed to preemptively think I had a reason not to. I'm not sure what your point was there -
884.
by Latty 10y ago
I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt and say this article is designed to be from the point of view of the user and to imply that you simply shouldn't get carried away with new systems, because they don't provide inhera
885.
by Latty 10y ago
That's a bit of a self-fulfiling prophecy there. You didn't use it and got angry when they integrated SMS into the hangouts application, and so when lots of people reacted that way, they decided to take it out. I'm not saying
886.
by Latty 10y ago
The word "Natural" is a huge red flag for me. It's consistently only used by marketers to try and imply that there is something good about a product, without actually having anything good to say. If your product is healthy, y
887.
by Latty 10y ago
So from this and your comments I take it you took it to mean they can know intent, when it's clear they can't. They can however investigate and get a pretty good idea. Software is limited to mostly instant decisions by automated p
888.
by Latty 10y ago
Yeah, I found that I was doing this myself. I think it's because I was always posing myself the what-ifs of "well, you could just be accidentally sending something that would trigger it...", but the law can deal with intent w
889.
by Latty 10y ago
Because so many of us learn imperative programming first, then find functional a big shift, I think we forget that everyone learns maths, which has no mutable state in the traditional maths classroom written style, and so functional actuall
890.
by Latty 10y ago
Plenty of art is educational, and therefore has a practical purpose. In fact, I'd argue a lot of art is functional. Your line is wrong.
891.
by Latty 10y ago
We must protect children from having their lives ruined! We shall do that by ruining their lives!
892.
by Latty 10y ago
Of course, Python is a little better than most languages for things like 'comments' - as a lot of them aren't really comments but docstrings, which are actually a part of the class, not a true comment, and so presumably can b
893.
by Latty 10y ago
Sometimes the "so much more" is the issue with Scala, but yeah, Scala is a great way to make you say "man, I wish I had _" in every other language you use.
894.
by Latty 10y ago
How hard? Extremely. It turns out that people work around keywords extremely quickly, creating new euphemisms, acronyms and mispellings to avoid it. Eventually (or already) they will use such common terms that you get such a high false posi
895.
by Latty 10y ago
Community moderation just won't work with Facebook - the whole point of FB is that it's gated communities. Your options are to only moderate the public areas (which may catch some, but not the vast majority of the content they are
896.
by Latty 10y ago
As mentioned earlier, this seems like Facebook were asking for links to the offending content, got sent the actual content itself, and were then bound by law to report it. It also seems unlikely there is an overlap between the things they r
897.
by Latty 10y ago
And are then probably bound by law to report it. This seems like a cheap swing from the BBC when all Facebook are doing is following the letter of the law, which I can't blame anyone for doing when it's this kind of law - people a
898.
by Latty 10y ago
Sure, but that isn't the reason people are Formula 1 drivers or why they watch it, it's just a reason so much money can go into the sport. I was more talking about how I don't think that (shifting rules as strategies develop)
899.
by Latty 10y ago
I'd argue this isn't unique to esports - Formula One has a similar thing happening - the teams develop new technology to make cars get round the track faster, and then the organisation decides if they fit within the rules. The rul
900.
by Latty 10y ago
The definition of isIterable here is a bit fun. In most real world cases, you end up needing to specify it down a bit: isinstance(el, collections.Iterable) and not isinstance(el, str) Is the most common one. The first clause to chec

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