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by aussiesnack 4y ago
> would it really be too expensive to invest some time to learn it? I guess it depends on who you are. I find the complexity of Rust, and the community's cultural acceptance of said complexity, oozes out into every library to make e
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
> have their posts go viral into the feeds of tens of millions of (unwilling) users, it doesn't replace what makes Twitter valuable. Excluding or severely limiting virality is the essential criterion for any Twitter replacement. Tha
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
It's so manifestly false, the only charitable assumption is that they're making an offbeat point. Perhaps it could be defended by simply defining 'everything' as 'all propositional knowledge'. Or maybe you coul
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
I've returned to writing by hand increasingly over the last couple of years, after a couple of decades of rarely holding a pen. To start with, my handwriting was barely legible, and my hand painful after a couple of sentences. Now I wr
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
vim-fugitive is ergonomically great for routine stages and commits. DiffView is good but there's no point denying GUI diff viewers are better than text ones, so I use one (meld or sublime-merge), which does mean launching a separate to
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
For unrelated reasons I've gone back to neovim. But I used this in vscode for about a year. It works well. I found it got stuck once a day or so and I had to restart vscode. That might have improved by now. Having your keybinding-relat
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
I think you have a client/server timezone mismatch. When I add a due date, it's momentarily correct, then goes back a day (eg. from tomorrow -> today). I'm in AEDT (currently GMT+11) What's the best way to report issu
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Looks promising. The task/calendar linkage is a good reflection of how I like to organise my day. Any plans to extend the Github integration to Issues in addition to PRs?
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
I've only been up to that part of the world once. Seems like an enviable place to have grown up.
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
GUIs aren't inherently incompatible with composable data. Sharing in iOS and Android is an extremely rudimentary version of such. Then there was OLE in Windows (mentioned in another comment here) and Apple's OpenDoc (controversial
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
An awful lot of this seems spot on to me. The final point (from Wirth) seems the weakest - we do build many systems whose multiple layers no one person cam fully understand outside of the domain of computing. I don't see a great reaso
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Thanks for the film ref. Like most Australians, my knowledge of indigenous folk is patchy at best - a few books and local interactions here and there. I have actually helped hunt/collect & eat goanna (not bad) and turtle eggs (yuck
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
"If you want to know how Australian Aboriginal peoples lived .." is a bit daft (I know you're quoting so I'm not attributing that daftness to you). Australia is a continent with a wide range of ecologies and climatic zon
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Coming from the UK, I had never even driven an auto until I moved to Australia. It's more of a mix here, though most people can still drive manuals. Having been out of the UK for over a decade, I imagine things have changed back there
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Quite. Also drawing heavily on the general population's limitless capacity for misunderstanding probability.
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
I read Tetlock's Expert Political Judgement many years ago, and though I can't guarantee my memory of it, I think one upshot of some pretty detailed empirical work was that no-one's any good at predicting political and econ
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Most slave-labouring humans aren't much more than pigs in the fable's sense.
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Good point on cycling. I think it honed my intuition about gear changes too. I even had a Raleigh Chopper for a while. It sported an actual gear stick centred on the frame. I thought it the coolest thing anyone had ever sat on.
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
I wonder if there's a kind of collective background general knowledge that has dissipated as auto has become more common? What prompts this is just that no-one I knew had any great difficulty with clutch & gears when I learned to d
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Seems like a nicely balanced perspective. I don't drive much, but when I do, I much prefer 'manual' (translation of 'stick' to non-US English), and take pleasure in smooth heel-and-toe changes. I'm mostly a mot
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
In truth I'm not really looking for a solution. I was snarking really. I was a consistent user (and paid for Google One) until they removed the Google Photos integration, which killed much of the point of it for me. Thanks for the sugg
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
I (and Google's comment, and the quoted link) am referring to deskop Linux, as is perfectly obvious.
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
> I feel like Google Photos is a pretty incredible product. It was until they removed the Google Drive integration.
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
> 2012 - Google Drive The Linux version is lagging a tad: https://abevoelker.github.io/how-long-since-google-said-a-go...
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
> They epitomize evil What a very sheltered life you must have lived.
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
I'm another f/t Fedora user. I've been using Linux on dozens of laptops for over 2 decades. Not once in my experience has Linux got the same battery life as Windows on the same machine, regardless of tweaks. I did have about
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
> we live in 2022 with high broadband and powerful browsers/CPU That's a bit smug. I live in one of the richest nations in the world, and still much of the country has only slow connections available. Even those have often bec
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
It can be pretty tiresome and there are some topics I just never bother reading because they are inevitably full of humanbot autoresponses. Anything to do with note or mail apps, for example, will be just packed with readers taking their ow
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
Well I hope you got over it! I never did, in truth.
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by aussiesnack 4y ago
There have been plenty of viable commons over human history. Peacebuilding is in large part the process of building institutions to manage them. The failure to put in the work to build such institutions, or to maintain them once created, is

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