Timwi

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by Timwi 4y ago
In Windows, pressing Win+1, Win+2, etc. activates the first, second etc. icon on the taskbar.
872.
by Timwi 4y ago
You cannot control physics though. What goes on in your brain is entirely just physics. We have a subjective impression of control, but that too is only the result of physics.
873.
by Timwi 5y ago
The reason I (and I assume other commenters, but I don't presume to speak on their behalf) don't care to dig up sources for you is because it's a waste of time. There are only two possibilities: either you're in denial,
874.
by Timwi 5y ago
> I consume a wide range of media every day and I've never seen a bill that "restricts voting access for people of color". Bills that restrict voting rights in America along racial lines are all over the news, even outside
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by Timwi 5y ago
The reason they won't tell you is because you've already presented yourself as someone who would deny the racist goals of a bill merely because it doesn't explicitly mention race. Differently put: everyone knows what these bi
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by Timwi 5y ago
Don't know about getting fired, but it's not hard to recall stories about people getting shunned by their relatives or expelled from their family for expressing such views.
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by Timwi 5y ago
Try to see it from the other side. The side where “contract liberty” is just a buzzword, and the real situation of real people in real life is horrendous and sickening. No amount of philosophical maneuvering is going to stop us criticizing
878.
by Timwi 5y ago
Outright dictatorships like North Korea are getting rarer. It's more common nowadays for de-facto dictatorships to maintain an appearance of democracy by actually holding elections but either having no viable candidates other than the
879.
by Timwi 5y ago
3blue1brown is the Reducible of math.
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by Timwi 5y ago
Love the idea. But there's a snag. If I search for my town, I get a lot of “likely not available (last seen years ago)”. If I click on “recent”, I get entries from all over the world. It seems to me that being able to filter by both wo
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by Timwi 5y ago
I was confused by the “form over function” comment. The author commended Apple’s “prioritizing form over function” but then criticized the function of competing items, indirectly lauding the function of Apple’s product.
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by Timwi 5y ago
Why are you not worried about the unknown unknowns in literally any other area? Like, using microwave ovens, having TV broadcast signals, or wearing silk? Personally I'm reasonably confident that any significant adverse health effect w
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by Timwi 5y ago
I would, but I think the premise is unrealistic. The term “suffering” itself is pretty vague and undefined. You might be thinking of just removing pain receptors in the brain or something, but there are many more sources of suffering than j
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by Timwi 5y ago
I don't think they were claiming that it increases suffering. But it doesn't decrease it either. We should at least decrease suffering, or ideally, eliminate it. CRISPR does not constitute any progress in that regard. If anything,
885.
by Timwi 5y ago
How do you remove Russia’s permanent veto right if they have the permanent right to veto that?
886.
by Timwi 5y ago
Your information about Germany is incorrect. The legal situation here is the same as what you described for the Czech Republic. You can download anything anywhere. What's illegal is making stuff publicly available, and BitTorrent uploa
887.
by Timwi 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point. BLM protests are legal while storming the Capitol is not. You'd hope the police would go after breaches of the law and not innocent people.
888.
by Timwi 5y ago
I have the same experience, but with even far more basic things than a debugger, such as the Home/End keys on your keyboard, or the search/replace function. Nobody ever bothers to try and see what they do.
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by Timwi 5y ago
What happened to us, as a society, that we cannot imagine eating without first exploiting other people? Maybe we should just let everyone eat and not expect them to first prove themselves worthy of not being left to starve.
890.
by Timwi 5y ago
I agree. I would like to be rewarded in the knowledge that I've made something good or useful for my fellow humans. Hopefully they can take it further and give something back. Expecting me to monetize it, to exploit my fellow humans fo
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by Timwi 5y ago
My heuristic is to not be dogmatic like that. A constructor for a triangle class may reasonably want to take 6 arguments (3 x- and 3 y-coordinates). In other cases, even four arguments might be better as a config object if those 4 are all v
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by Timwi 5y ago
Hm, if I know the dimensions I want, then I find typing in the actual numbers far easier/more comfortable than the pinch gesture, as the latter is inaccurate and kind of uncooperative. I don't find typing on mobile “awful” at all.
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by Timwi 5y ago
You are indeed not the only one.
894.
by Timwi 5y ago
Hate to be the party pooper, but the fact that you could talk about nothing but marketing and money and never spend a single word telling us what the software even does, speaks volumes on where your priorities lie. I am left with the impres
895.
by Timwi 5y ago
I am so glad to have read your comment. You took the words right out of my mouth. I was very confused by the phrase “diversion of the field” as both “diversion” and “field” can have so many diverse and incompatible meanings. The author asks
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by Timwi 5y ago
Correct. I don't treat people as humans out of logic. I do it out of compassion and empathy. I do not have compassion or empathy for ads.
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by Timwi 5y ago
Great work, but I vehemently disagree with the section on animations. Long animations that keep me waiting and prevent me from continuing my next input are a great source of frustration. It is more important for users who use your system of
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by Timwi 5y ago
Vietnamese Wikipedia has plenty of Talk pages with discussion threads.
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by Timwi 5y ago
I've had the same experience with C#. The error messages always state exactly what's wrong and where in the code it's wrong. Many of them (especially compiler _warnings_ intended to point out syntax that is almost certainly a
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by Timwi 5y ago
I will never understand how git became the de facto standard when everyone can see at first glance how terrible it is.

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