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by adamc 2y ago
For the moment, anyway. Looks pretty toxic to me, but who knows.
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by adamc 2y ago
Installing pandoc is basically a one-time cost that is amortized over its uses, so... why worry about it? Relying on the compiler to catch every mistake is a pretty limited strategy.
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by adamc 2y ago
Just looked via google, and while no one really knows , common estimates of the number of web developers seem higher than that, on the order of 27 million. Your point may still be valid, but... is 3-5% really that high? (No dog in this, I&
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by adamc 2y ago
Even though they didn't say, that was my assumption. Why would they bother, otherwise? And that's not wrong.
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by adamc 2y ago
EM Forster lived a long life and seems to have found some happiness. Joseph Heller wrote one of the best American novels of the 20th century, and while he had medical issues later in life, I don't think he suffered from hard living. Al
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by adamc 2y ago
Yeah, same thought. Their attractiveness for laundering money may be diminishing.
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by adamc 2y ago
Right, so you build a business out around forcing people to buy something they don't need (updates). That seems... fragile. It will work for products I need and have no good alternatives for, but. Then again, when apps require subscrip
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by adamc 2y ago
Tom DeMarco wrote a book about this some years ago, called... "Slack".
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by adamc 2y ago
I think he's mostly right. I think it's driven by some of the same panic that pushes so much of the AI boom: companies trying to find the "next big thing" in software. A real possibility is that we are near the end of th
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by adamc 2y ago
I've had carpel tunnel surgery. It still isn't a problem to solve for most people. They don't type that much, and there are other solutions. The fact that some people have issues with it is not going to lead to a clamor for a
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by adamc 2y ago
If Trump doesn't win, maybe. God knows what will happen if he does.
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by adamc 2y ago
Yawn. No newspaper is immune to reporters making stuff up.
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by adamc 2y ago
Everything ever written reflects biases. That isn't the interesting part.
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by adamc 2y ago
I don't want to read a newspaper where the owner is suppressing -- well, anything -- because of concerns for how it might affect his fortune. I want the owner walled off.
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by adamc 2y ago
NYT has it: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/10/25/world/israel-lebanon...
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by adamc 2y ago
This is a story that is going to lead to political passions. Don't want such stories? Just kill them. What kind of useful conversation do you think it will raise that will not ignite passions? Sometimes your guidelines are stupid.
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by adamc 2y ago
Mostly I agree. Billionaires chose long ago to prioritize wealth.
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by adamc 2y ago
Good reason not to subscribe to the WP.
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by adamc 2y ago
But git had Linus and Linux on board. What is going to give Nix that credibility?
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by adamc 2y ago
The rulings overturned will be sound, by your own rubric. And that has not, historically, been "the whole point of winning presidencies".
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by adamc 2y ago
Statistics on how many Americans lock into stances on who they will vote for, relatively early in the election. The "middle" is thought to be maybe 10% if that.
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by adamc 2y ago
Statistically, current voting patterns do not -- AT ALL -- support that contention.
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by adamc 2y ago
Right, but once you fight a war over it, the SCOTUS is forced to make choices to legitimize the actions of the remaining USA, and state's rights were... de-valued.
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by adamc 2y ago
It wasn't even slavery that caused the war, but secession. (I am not arguing that slavery didn't cause secession -- it did -- but that wasn't what created support in the north for fighting a war over it.)
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by adamc 2y ago
Great! And after we pack the court full of liberals, I'm sure you'll be on-board with every ruling.
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by adamc 2y ago
That is such a distorted fantasy I don't really know what to say.
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by adamc 2y ago
Proportional representation will lead to a different kind of gridlock and unstable coalitions. Not sure I want to replicate that.
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by adamc 2y ago
I think of cleverness as a measure of how quickly or effectively you can solve a new-to-you problem. Which I think is utterly different from wisdom, which is mostly about reflecting and drawing inferences from experiences.
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The Beggar Barons (2022)(zedshaw.com)
30 points by adamc 2y ago|14 comments
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by adamc 2y ago
I think this makes sense, because, in general, wisdom requires gathering experience and reflecting on it (well in advance of any questions). Reading is an activity that promotes that.

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