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by asark 7y ago
Making it OO on a system with so little memory available to apps was an especially weird basic decision, I thought. There were cases where memory use was unavoidably bloated for no good reason, and meanwhile there wasn't enough space t
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by asark 7y ago
> What's the difference between a class and a function with local state? Practically nothing, especially since it is stored in objects and the code uses a lookup table to figure out which ones are part of your function's &quo
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by asark 7y ago
The built-in screen sharing for MacOS (just called "Screen Sharing" and distinct from the "Remote Desktop Connection" program) is pretty good. I think it's just VNC though, so if you've not found that acceptabl
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by asark 7y ago
These two aren't homophones, but (in American English, anyway) "weary" does sound like "weird" rather than like "wear", while "wary" sounds like "wear" but not like "war", so
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by asark 7y ago
FWIW Garner classifies this error as "stage 1" (rejected) in a recent edition, so we're still safe for a while, at least in professional writing. However, I do see this mistake more often than I see either word used correctly
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by asark 7y ago
Everyone else's software/hardware is just that bad, so Apple can fuck around for years and switching's still a tough sell. That's why I'm still around, anyway. This WWDC looks like a move in the right direction
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by asark 7y ago
Probably worried too many apps would assume you have a mouse, so touch support would suffer from mixed-paradigm induced jank. See: the Surface. I wish they'd enable them only for remote desktop apps, though. Then I could sell my Macb
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by asark 7y ago
IIRC phone-mode apps that allow it can run on an iPad in a framed mode so they don't look too weird. I get why they don't do that with the calculator because it'd be "poor UX" but "what do you mean I spent $120
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by asark 7y ago
I think video games went from "fun for a while, but eventually you wanna stop and go ride bikes" to "wait, what do you mean it's Monday morning?" at or a little after the 16-bit console era. There were always people
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by asark 7y ago
Probably the latter, especially for an emperor. People who Had Money and who Got Shit Done before modern times seem not to have spent a ton of time on their kids compared to (relative) poors, then and now, even if they did like them. See al
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by asark 7y ago
I came to the Stoics before it was HN-cool via Salinger (b. 1919) so it's been in US (sort of) pop culture longer than that. Ditto Buddhism. He published in prime (earlyish) Boomer years.
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by asark 7y ago
Seneca called out fear of losing one's wealth as a particular affliction of the rich, and prescribed a day, every so often, of living as a beggar to remind oneself that life goes on even in those circumstances.
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by asark 7y ago
And everything was influenced by and influencing platonism at that time, so some of the connection may be via that.
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by asark 7y ago
I did a pretty deep survey of the various translations (there are a lot ) and landed on Maxwell Staniforth's as the best balance between readability and faithfulness to the original language. It's a fairly straight translation re
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by asark 7y ago
Physics runs out of "why"s somewhere around the question-asking ability of a clever 5-year-old, and becomes "here's the math to describe what happens" the rest of the way. Electric charge and all the other forces (A
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by asark 7y ago
Same, but with Apple-branded cables. I fear I'm going to damage them every time I take one out. They're near-permanent once connected. [EDIT] all Apple-branded because when I've needed one locally stores around here still don
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by asark 7y ago
Is this a generational thing, or an industry-you're-in blindness thing? Or both? We had an economy, and even advertising (so, so much of it) before spyvertising was such a huge thing. It was fine. The sky did not fall. For some reason
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by asark 7y ago
"Businesses rely on being shitty so we can't outlaw being shitty or they might have to find a way to operate without being shitty, or else stop operating" isn't really convincing me.
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by asark 7y ago
I cook a fair bit and all I really need to get by is two gas burners and maybe a toaster oven. In a pinch one burner'd go a long way, with a couple extra gadgets to help (rice cooker, say). I'd lose out on a lot of baking, which
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by asark 7y ago
We should ban collecting tons if info about people, for all companies, period. We won't, because banks and CC companies are very into doing that and the politicians love them, but we should.
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by asark 7y ago
Yup. Anti-signal-signals are a thing. "I don't want or need to care how hard it is for you to understand me, so I'm not going to give any thought or effort to making it easier for you" is certainly a kind of signal.
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by asark 7y ago
Writing well doesn't mean you're smart, it just means you've put some effort into writing well. It's an exercise in empathy and consideration for one's readers, and crafting tolerable sentences with reasonably-norma
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by asark 7y ago
Standard suburban detached-house above-grade bedroom count in the US since at least the 80s is 3br in normal neighborhoods, sometimes 4 in the more expensive ones. If for some reason you want a 2br house you're probably gonna have to l
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by asark 7y ago
Or go the "insert DeCSS here" route that some used back when that was a thing. "If you happen to have somehow acquired a WideVine lib, having hash [some string], stick it here if you want to watch Netflix."
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by asark 7y ago
Few of the important things on the Web are spyvertising-supported, or wouldn't promptly be replaced by something community-driven and free if they went away or became paid-only (stackoverflow, for instance). It's mostly junk. [EDI
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by asark 7y ago
It's more like taking a whiz when commercials come on TV, but automated and you don't have to get up. Automatic whiz-taker. That's what they should call add blockers.
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by asark 7y ago
Yeah, I have a general sympathy for this, but that part specifically gives me a real "I didn't think the face-eating leopards I voted for would eat my face!" vibe. Maybe that woman was upset because she could tell we were i
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by asark 7y ago
> I always took Lord of the Flies as an allegory to adult society rather than a book about children. It certainly is, the book even beats you over the head with it when (spoiler warning I guess?) the warship shows up to rescue them at th
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by asark 7y ago
Hooks are the biggest WTF for me in React-land, which is saying something. Classes and inheritance can lead to bad situations sometimes if you use them wrong, so we'll write our own method & property lookup table with a joke UI, th
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by asark 7y ago
> That's essentially limiting the liberal arts to only the rich and the delusional. Fulfilling careers that pay even a semi-decent wage for folks in those majors already kinda are limited to the (relatively, at least) rich. See Gr

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