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by SiVal 10y ago
I agree with the idea that using a client device as a window into a cloud machine with an arbitrary level of resources on demand is something we will and should move toward. I strongly disagree with any suggestion that there is no point cur
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by SiVal 10y ago
Although I tend to agree with you, Walter, most of the time, and I don't disagree here, I'm a little puzzled at why you're making this distinction. When discussing the evolution of humans, it was already a past event before a
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by SiVal 10y ago
I think Google should do it. If you have thousands of CS PhDs on staff looking for something to do and Apple-scale financial power, you ought to be able to design a Linux system (hardware and software) optimized for producers, not consumers
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by SiVal 10y ago
This whole apologist / sympathizing attitude needs to be changed I don't know, as an atheist myself I think the attitude of smug arrogance embodied in terms like "benighted creationist" is the real problem, not that ev
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by SiVal 10y ago
We won't solve the device incompatibility, but it seems we (as individual users) could solve the cable problem by always paying more to buy USB-C cables the were made to handle ALL of the allowed protocols (incl. power) up to the limit
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by SiVal 10y ago
Since there will be many occasions where power is being passed in on more than one of the USB-C connectors, the new Macs are designed to take power from the ONE charger that offers the highest power (capped at some limit) and reject power f
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by SiVal 10y ago
Well, it looks as though they are striking while the iron is hot. There is enough disappointment by people wanting a serious unixy workstation who have been using the Mac for that purpose that if MS puts serious effort into their Windows Su
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by SiVal 10y ago
No, this isn't that hard. You could design two lines of products and satisfy almost everyone: MacBook and MacBook Pro. The MacBook line would be optimized for mobility, for pros and college students who need a real computer (not an iTo
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by SiVal 10y ago
Bash on Windows isn't at all the same as Windows on Linux. I do appreciate that they are trying to do as much as they think they can without throwing away the thing that they believe is the most valuable corporate asset they have: the
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by SiVal 10y ago
On your blog, you wrote: As far as I’m concerned, Apple is completely out of touch with my segment (call it UNIX-centric pros, if you will), so I’m going to seriously rethink my options over the next couple of weeks. I would guess that ju
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Berkeley Protesters Built a Human Wall to Violently Stop White Students(reason.com)
37 points by SiVal 10y ago|10 comments
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by SiVal 10y ago
I rarely notice any fingerprints on my beautiful, high-resolution iPhone screen. And I much prefer using a REAL computer with a REAL file system and REAL USB connectors for loading arbitrary data and organizing it into an arbitrary director
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by SiVal 10y ago
My ancestor's neighbor attended then (one of about 20 or so students in the Harvard class of 1655 of whom about 2/3rds droppped out in protest over a 4th year being added to the formerly 3-yr bachelor's degree) and ran up a p
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by SiVal 10y ago
This is an area where I think the usual proper math approach of abstract patterns and theorems and proofs is all wrong for the general public (the ones in a general public school). They should teach it from the perspective of what problems
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by SiVal 10y ago
Should SHA-1 be phased out of git, too? I understand that it's more of an issue for certs, but it's still a bit of an issue for anything that uses SHA-1. I'm just asking, not advocating, because the answer will depend on both
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by SiVal 10y ago
I want the appearance of the bracket matching to be specifiable as a preference, so I can make it as visible as I want to make it and not have to just live with what someone decides is best for me and hardcodes.
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by SiVal 10y ago
But not key/mouse combinations, unfortunately. I'd like to remap the insert-additional-cursor action to cmd-click on a Mac instead of alt-click (I think it's cmd-click in both Sublime and Atom, but not VSCode), but they left
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by SiVal 10y ago
I had to learn to program with pencil and paper, but I had occasional access to a computer, so I have to ask for more info. How long until your friend gets out? Will he have zero access to a computer while inside? Will he have someone on th
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by SiVal 10y ago
Here's a little bit for you. Most people prefer the semantics of `let` to `var` for variable declarations in JavaScript. It's how JavaScript should have been designed from the start. It has been officially standard for a year or t
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by SiVal 10y ago
and I wasted time not eating enough to start with If you wouldn't mind, I'd be interested in more explanation of this comment, because it's possible that I'm in the same situation you were in when you were "wastin
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by SiVal 10y ago
I want one with a 4K video chip, high-enough quality optics to match the 4K sensor, and a connector capable of streaming the 4K video to the TV. It would be nice if it were modular, so you could get one sensor unit and two bases: a 10-20x f
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by SiVal 10y ago
And I might add, Smart men believe in luck, believe luck is probabilistic, and believe their actions can significantly alter the probabilities, even if they can't guarantee an outcome.
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by SiVal 10y ago
Sorry, but I disagree. While, yes, I've found that Google searches often led me to answers on SO, I've also lost count of the number of times Google has decided that a question on a StackOverflow page was the MOST RELEVANT to the
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by SiVal 10y ago
That crosses namespace boundaries and risks hitting embedded parts of names, which means that you can't simply replace all as a general practice. You can inspect each one before replacing and be your own type checker or just go ahead a
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by SiVal 10y ago
I wholeheartedly agree that it doesn't sound like much, but sometimes all I'm doing is applying general, human intelligence to the very vague question of, Is there anything in here that I'm not aware of but should be? That&#x
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by SiVal 10y ago
Is that correct? WASM has no DOM access? (I'm asking, not advocating anything.) How does code that runs in a browser do UI I/O without DOM access? Is the intent that you go on writing all of your I/O and DOM-manipulating cod
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by SiVal 10y ago
I'm an atheist, and scouts made a wonderful contribution to my life. I put my atheist kids into it, and they had a great time, too. It's a wonderful organization and great troops are the norm, not "rogue". I don't k
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by SiVal 10y ago
I loved that story in the book, because it was so much like my own experience with simple dreaming. We often hear about the brilliant creativity of our dreaming minds and the deep answers that await us if we'll pay attention to our dre
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by SiVal 10y ago
I'm with you on this. I need reading glasses for paper books but not for ebooks. Large-print paper editions are rarely available for the books I want to read, but every ebook is large-print and exactly the degree of largeness I want. W
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by SiVal 10y ago
El Capitan runs on the same machines as the previous several OS X versions, supporting machines back to 2007. The next one, MacOS Sierra, drops support for many of those machines. This suggests that El Cap is the final cleanup of an underly

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