adamc

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by adamc 3y ago
It took a few weeks, but it wasn't that hard to switch, and I'd used emacs for going on 20 years. That's not to say there aren't things it did better than VSCode -- it's a given that any switch between tools will ha
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by adamc 3y ago
Yeah, this. And sure, with enough effort, I could "scratch my own itch" and fix whatever bothers me, but it is often not a trivial effort, and afterwards... it's still emacs, and whatever my fix was, I have to remember how it
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by adamc 3y ago
I like open source, but a lot of other considerations are higher on my list of priorities.
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by adamc 3y ago
My experiences cover roughly the same period (early 2000s through August 2023), and then I switched to VSCode. I switched partly because I was sick of the kludge-y nature of Emacs -- yes, it could do anything, but there was a lot of tinkeri
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by adamc 3y ago
I have a hypothesis about that, based on prior battles with depression. A characteristic of many people who struggle with depression is revisiting things over and over in your mind, looking for what is often a non-existent solution. This is
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by adamc 3y ago
Not offhand.
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by adamc 3y ago
Yeah, but this pre-dates that gridlock. Not disagreeing. Actually, the Republican party these days is capable of gridlocking itself. I've never seen such a high level of dysfunction -- enough so that I suspect we are living in some tra
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by adamc 3y ago
I didn't know that. I have to say, this is a crazy system. Why not just have a single payer rather than saddle people with debts that they cannot (and will not) pay off? It's got to cause a lot of stress.
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by adamc 3y ago
Former anthropologist (through to PhD, anyhow) here. I think there is benefit in having simpler theories, because they are easier to test. There are so many limitations in getting adequate data to test historical theories anyway... I am alw
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by adamc 3y ago
I agree with your response, but I also think it's an unsustainable model, which is why it's a "mind cancer". Growth makes things easier but nothing grows indefinitely, and that mind-set has done a lot to create climate
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by adamc 3y ago
That's the mind-cancer speaking.
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by adamc 3y ago
I'm not religious, but I don't see a lot of evidence of other forces filling that space. In part, it takes a lot of commitment (and resources) to do it well. Religious communities have been motivated, but I don't see other gr
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by adamc 3y ago
The point wasn't that such people didn't exist, the point was what fraction of the human population has some awareness of that way of thinking? I buy the OP's argument that widespread exposure to software and automation has v
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by adamc 3y ago
Doesn't seem to have a Debian install.
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by adamc 3y ago
They serve up a ton of ads, which is also gradually driving people from Facebook. But if reddit served as many ads, it would be completely unusable. Ads make the signal to noise ratio degrade. That works for spending a few minutes on FB, sk
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by adamc 3y ago
The obvious place is discord, but discord sucks in lots of other ways. Great for voice chat, but not great as a reddit replacement.
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by adamc 3y ago
Reddit has become steadily less useful to me; the UI is awful. The endless pressure to use their app is irritating. So I dunno that I buy this adulation of Steve.
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by adamc 3y ago
While I kind of agree, I think it's an extension of thinking that started at the dawn of the industrial age, where people had to contend with the rather limited options for how the technology could work, and build systems around it. Th
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by adamc 3y ago
This is a great explanation of how a computation can be embodied in a physical object.
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by adamc 3y ago
I think the OP was being ironic.
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by adamc 3y ago
I remember this. It pushed the team I was on to adopt CVS (this is before SVN).
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by adamc 3y ago
Maybe I've known more parents of kids with gaming PCs than you have.
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by adamc 3y ago
I predict you are wrong and there will be returns. It's not really a question of stupidity, but of what options are available to them.
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by adamc 3y ago
While I appreciate their point of view, from a consumer pov this would definitely be a failure of their software, since an implicit requirement is that it has to run on the customer machines. People aren't going to throw away their CPU
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by adamc 3y ago
^This. It isn't easy to say, in the short-term, what the costs of cutting those jobs is. You might be underinvesting in future products, or in satisfying current customers. None of that will be immediately reflected.
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by adamc 3y ago
The Little Schemer is one of my favorite books. Really delightful.
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by adamc 3y ago
It makes sense as things are right now. It's anchored by a bunch of court decisions that arguably subvert the public interest. Do I think Shareholder value should be all that drives corporations? No. But I don't think corporatio
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by adamc 3y ago
Right. Amazon profits, at least in the near-term, from the enshittification of Amazon. Results are obvious: it's a shitty experience.
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by adamc 3y ago
I don't see that there is enough value there to motivate the investment. For games, to the extent that VR works for them... sure, I could see that use case. But for, say, business meetings? Uh, no. Or to hang out with friends? Sure, ma
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by adamc 3y ago
There is definitely both luck and uncertainty with regard to R&D. If you don't look, you won't find it, but looking is not a guarantee. In the case of AR/VR, I think there are two issues that make payoffs uncertain: 1) th

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