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by adamc 2y ago
Yeah, me either. My eyes really resist it. And after trying it a few times it messes up my focus for a bit.
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by adamc 2y ago
People are mostly the same. It's just the cultural context that shifts, and mostly that changes slowly, even when tech changes rapidly.
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by adamc 2y ago
This is the best non-fiction book I have ever read. It's great simply as a piece of writing -- and the story it tells is an interesting one. I liked it enough that after I listened to it on Audible I went out and bought a hardback vers
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by adamc 2y ago
Eh, for me those all weakened the book.
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by adamc 2y ago
Boy, I don't agree with that last. It's a pretty interesting book, but the writing is pedestrian and there are far too many asides and stories that detract from the main points. By way of contrast, I read it because it was recomme
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by adamc 2y ago
Yes! Also Richard Russo's "Straight Man", which might be my favorite of all these novels about campus life.
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by adamc 2y ago
I first encountered his novel "Small World" in graduate school, and immediately became a fan. (It was on the reading list for one of my girlfriend's courses.) Along with other novels like "Lucky Jim" and "Strai
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by adamc 2y ago
No, but the post implies a belief that many people will confuse the two. And it might be right.
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by adamc 2y ago
The ethical standards of advertising are obviously very, very low.
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by adamc 2y ago
That seems more like a programmer expectations issue than something fundamental. Essentially, you have "do (call some function that returns a chunk of state) while (predicate that evaluates the state) ..." Hard to express without
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by adamc 2y ago
Knowing that you are in a war for your existence -- which is how a lot of people viewed WWII -- does tend to refocus your objectives. I wish we would approach climate change this way.
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by adamc 2y ago
I get "secure connection failed".
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by adamc 2y ago
Actual title says "for the First Time in My Career". Edited title is kind of weird.
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by adamc 2y ago
I really liked this: "as a general rule, large established codebases produce 90% of the value." People see the ugliness -- because solving real problems, especially if business practices are involved, is often very messy -- but th
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by adamc 2y ago
I would expect it to work badly whenever a person could easily cross a boundary. In larger cities -- say, New York -- it would suffer similar, but fewer, problems simply because the average effort of getting outside the city would be higher
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by adamc 2y ago
Not to mention the costs of treating them.
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by adamc 2y ago
I don't agree. There were a bunch of university protests over Gaza (slapped down for stupid reasons by university administrators under pressure from government), and, really, they just made noise, but they got a lot of people to notice
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by adamc 2y ago
No, I'm not required to logon, and I didn't, but they absolutely do prompt for it and otherwise making ignoring their services less convenient. I put up with it for years, but I hated it.
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by adamc 2y ago
Another option, if you can stand the bureaucracy: Go work for a university. Or possibly some level of government.
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by adamc 2y ago
Did he change the immigration rules? If not, how was he supposed to "keep the system as it was"?
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by adamc 2y ago
Snow Crash was another take on this whole slide to <is there even a bottom?>.
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by adamc 2y ago
Asking as a non-Canadian: What do you think he could have done that would fix these issues? If there is a clear path, why is it not politically attractive?
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by adamc 2y ago
Not a Canadian, but no, a protest protests and gives voice to the disagreement. Blocking other people's rights is not just a protest and is likely to trigger action to protect others. That's how it goes everywhere that has right
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by adamc 2y ago
No, I just don't agree. At work, that's a decision the corporate overlords make. At home, I will continue to prefer games + WSL over Apple's offering... despite having started in computing, back in the 1980s, on a Mac, and ha
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by adamc 2y ago
You might see a need, but it isn't going to happen, especially in small and medium sized businesses. Wine and Proton work for many things, but far from everything. Plenty of games don't work well on the Steam Deck. Ergo, Windows i
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by adamc 2y ago
Google's notoriously terrible customer service strikes again!
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by adamc 2y ago
No, this is garbage. I have plenty of real accounts I need to log into already, I don't need another one that is there just so the vendor can track me and try to enmesh me in their ecology.
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by adamc 2y ago
There are a very large number of steam games that were written for Windows. There are similarly large numbers of commercial products with value for particular companies. Could they be emulated? Sure. Maybe not 100% (see Linux), but mostly y
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by adamc 2y ago
Because it's true. When you ship a product and people look at it and go "meh", the product launch failed. There is literally no value in launching products people don't find value in.
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by adamc 2y ago
That used to be the standard apology for Microsoft products, where Mac OS app developers "sweated the pixels", i.e., delivered products that were pretty much on target at launch.

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