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by brimble 4y ago
> Higher YoY inflation announced -> Companies raise prices on everything -> employees demand an inflation raise -> Higher YoY inflation announced -> ... Yes. This is exactly the cycle that approaches a limit (all else being e
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by brimble 4y ago
They really, really don't. IMO even most college graduates can't read or write worth a damn. Possibly they can think, but it's hard to tell.
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by brimble 4y ago
I had a similar experience, and this was way into the era of "OMG college is unaffordable". College can still be affordable. The specific college you want , the one that other people have heard of outside an eight-county radi
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by brimble 4y ago
I used it for a long time but switched back to regular Terminal for the lower latency, because I realized I couldn't even name an iTerm2 feature I used that Terminal didn't have. I'd just been using it because it was so widel
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by brimble 4y ago
> Does that imply that Linux is not stable? The desktop environment is not, no. Various applications one is likely to run on it are not, compared to some closed-source alternatives, including those provided on macOS. Heavy Linux on the D
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by brimble 4y ago
They do that and fix their GUI stack (nope, Wayland ain't doing it) and we might finally actually be a decade out from The Year of the Linux Desktop.
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by brimble 4y ago
I've found kids complain about crappy old-fashioned options for games/movies/et c., until that's all they have available. After a day or two those "bad" options become totally fine and they're excited abou
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by brimble 4y ago
I think people who aren't sufficiently tuned into computer geek and/or Web and/or font nerd culture are aware that they're supposed to think Comic Sans is bad, and instead they like it. I see it used all the time, in man
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by brimble 4y ago
This is only true if a 7% increase in wages causes at least a 7% increase in inflation, which it doesn't. The effect you're describing doesn't shoot up forever, but approaches a limit.
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by brimble 4y ago
Yeah—when you're shipping weapons for free to one side in a war, plus providing a ton of intel to them from military assets you're operating expressly because of the war , also for free, you're a legitimate target, especia
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by brimble 4y ago
Yet theming with exactly two options (light/dark) is quite popular. It was a UX problem, not a problem with the core concept. Now , decades in to The Web, it's also a chicken/egg problem, because almost no sites are designed
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by brimble 4y ago
That's because it's buried (and has been increasingly so over the decades), it'll mess up some sites and won't do anything on a bunch of others because no-one accounts for user-defined colors/margins/fonts anym
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by brimble 4y ago
No, you're basically right. To the extent that containers solve a problem, it's mostly a problem with package management, and with UI for process isolation/permissions/hardening.
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by brimble 4y ago
This could have ended up as a few simplified settings, as presented to most users... as we have with light and dark modes. Colorblind themes (for multiple kinds of colorblindness, say), high-readability themes for people who need the large-
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by brimble 4y ago
One of the worst things to happen to web usability was the shift away from the user deciding how pages look. In an ideal world the Web ecosystem would have grown up such that nearly all pages respect user configured font and color choices.
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by brimble 4y ago
Ah, software "engineering"—the fastest path to professional-tier wages coupled with blue-collar or service industry social standing.
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by brimble 4y ago
> I wonder why you consider it a net-negative? No perceived benefit, and now there's chatter in my head. It's not exactly counterproductive, but I don't see how it's helpful. > In my own experience, having become m
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by brimble 4y ago
As long as from the programmer's perspective it's opt-in rather than opt-out—that is, "await" by default. That was a huge mistake for Node and will seemingly haunt it forever.
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by brimble 4y ago
I didn't have one until I was 10 or so and tried to have one, just on a lark. At some point it became permanent. IMO it's net-negative but not enough so to be a big deal.
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by brimble 4y ago
Yeah, that's not obscure in American English, because it's one of a handful of Australian words that've made it into phrases we'll say when we're trying to mimic Australian English, i.e. "throw another shrimp o
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by brimble 4y ago
Is it somehow cheaper when it's a subscription, and when the set of things you might start streaming isn't "this single thing I just paid for" but "anything in your catalog"? Because they don't just give a
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by brimble 4y ago
Haha, that's fair. I still think spending more than an hour or two on the news per week has rapidly diminishing returns, in terms of societal benefit, and most of that should be local news or very focused, deep coverage, for maximu
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by brimble 4y ago
Yes, of course, but that's still much cheaper than physical disk distribution.
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by brimble 4y ago
How much time do you need to do that, though? Is keeping up with all the minutia, checking in on how Ukraine's doing every single day (even multiple times), really helping anyone? I do keep up with the news, and especially internat
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by brimble 4y ago
Huh—I never saw Netflix' British content as accommodating UK culture, but as accommodating American Anglophilia. Same reason they have a ton of Japanese content. Maybe it's both, I suppose.
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by brimble 4y ago
Try selling a Blu Ray. Now try selling a movie you bought on iTunes.
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by brimble 4y ago
I would do a whole lot more digital rentals if the prices weren't so damn high. How is it that it can be significantly cheaper to rent the physical disk than to stream the movie once? How can I watch 20 hours of stuff on HBO in 4k fo
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by brimble 4y ago
Sure, needing to deal with the question at all is a result of a certain set of cosmological and metaphysical assumptions—but it happens to be a problem that a ton of Western philosophers dealt with, over the years, because they were start
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by brimble 4y ago
Yeah, my first thought was "holy shit, maybe finally an actual justification for regular bloodletting as a health practice!"
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by brimble 4y ago
For me, it's that I want a significant portion of a piracy set-up for things that I can't get at all (4k actual original Star Wars trilogy, certain shows with the original soundtrack rather than a worse replacement, some obscure

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