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by cfiggers 7mo ago
> 2. To an individual consumer perhaps, but schools need to buy hundreds at a time and the second-hand market isn't really great for that. This is basically Apple taking a bite at the Chromebook market. Interested to see what review
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by cfiggers 7mo ago
"That's not true" is too strong a statement on your part. The statistic you cite does not necessarily contradict what the parent comment is saying. "Up 29% since February 2020" is an absolute change since a specific
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by cfiggers 7mo ago
It's entertaining to me to imagine future historians arguing with one another, writing dissertations, publishing virtual reality eyeBooks, explaining to one another all about the ancient etymological connection between "claws&quot
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by cfiggers 8mo ago
Definitely second this sentiment. Rust just... Looks wrong. And for that reason alone I've never tried to get into it. I understand exactly how shallow that makes me sound, and I'm not about to try and defend myself.
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by cfiggers 8mo ago
I am an S-exp enjoyer, and more for practical reasons than aesthetic ones—I really like the editor tooling that's possible with S-expressions. So I will absolutely choose a Lisp or a lisp if given the option, even at some level of in
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by cfiggers 8mo ago
This is an awesome project. Props to y'all for just making something you want to exist! I have a Tizen-based Samsung watch (Gear Sport, 2017). It's served me faithfully but I'm starting to notice the battery degrading. I&#x27
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by cfiggers 8mo ago
> They are aggressively manipulating social media with astroturfed accounts, in particular this site and Reddit.
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by cfiggers 8mo ago
I don't think so. But even if so, that didn't stop me from learning some new things and enjoying the read that got me there.
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by cfiggers 8mo ago
Yes, and doing that sort of thing is what the author is advocating for. But when it's not done deliberately you don't get it for free.
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by cfiggers 8mo ago
I really enjoyed this article—I meant to just read the first few paragraphs and skim the rest. I ended up reading every word. The core thesis sticks with me: existing tooling that helps programmers think about and enforce correctness (linte
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by cfiggers 8mo ago
That's very succinctly put. Well said.
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by cfiggers 8mo ago
I'm sure you're saying that fully tongue-in-cheek and not genuinely proposing a coordinated anti-environmentalist false-flag conspiracy. But it is funny to me that, under the interpretation you're (facetiously!) suggesting, i
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by cfiggers 8mo ago
I don't disagree at all in principle with what you're saying. And, some people think that over-regulation on the insecticide use of DDT (which, to be perfectly fair is a nasty chemical and pretty much confirmed carcinogen, also wa
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by cfiggers 8mo ago
We're literally talking about the capacity of vibes-based regulations to turn out doing more harm than good. "We need to reduce single use plastics" + "Banning plastic drinking straws reduces single use plastics" =&
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by cfiggers 8mo ago
Frankly, that's a question of values, not of process. I'm not championing any particular set of values here (except, perhaps, that I'm implying the values of doing impartial science and of inclusive, rational public discourse
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by cfiggers 8mo ago
I'm not rushing anywhere or arguing for or against anything at all in concrete detail. I'm trying to refuse the "all or nothing" fallacy that, yes, some people are arguing, and no, is not a straw man (you can see sin
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by cfiggers 8mo ago
Are you aware of scientific evidence that supports mandating paper drinking straws?
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by cfiggers 8mo ago
I have proven it to my own satisfaction. It's a pretty trivial proof. I'm sure you could derive your own, if you tried. How's this: if, at some point, it seems to me that your agreement would benefit me or advance something I
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by cfiggers 8mo ago
You've never heard a politician say, "When I'm Mayor/Governor/President, we're going to make [x] [stop/start] doing [y]"?
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by cfiggers 8mo ago
In my opinion it is obvious and should be uncontroversial that some environmental regulations work and are great and should if anything be reinforced, while other environmental regulations do more harm than good and need to be reigned i
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by cfiggers 8mo ago
I'm an enthusiastic enjoyer of the Janet programming language.[0] Sometimes people ask questions about how to do something in the Janet Zulip instance, and I like to help if I know the answer. But I'm most likely to see those mess
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by cfiggers 8mo ago
I actually have like, four different ones... :^))) I'm a bit of a keyboard fiend. The main one I use with my Android tablet specifically is a no-name brand, knock-off "magic keyboard"-style folio case that I got on AliExpress
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by cfiggers 8mo ago
Termux is the first app I install on every Android device I get my hands on. It's astonishingly capable. I have a Bluetooth keyboard case for my Android tablet. All the time, I use Termux to ssh into my Linux machine over my home net
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by cfiggers 8mo ago
Another analogy that kinda fits in with what you're saying is the post-processing on smartphone "photos." At what point does the processing become so strong that it's less a photograph and more a work of computational im
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by cfiggers 9mo ago
There was a time when ethicists were optimistic about all the different, competing moral voices in the world steadily converging on a synthesis of all of them that satisfied most or all of the principles people proposed. The thought was, we
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by cfiggers 9mo ago
> 1. Do people necessarily need to agree on the justification for a standard to agree on the standard itself? Does everyone agree on the reasoning / justification for every single point of every NIST standard? Think about this using
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by cfiggers 9mo ago
Another pretty common application is to color unused bindings with a slightly faded-out color. So for e.g. with the TypeScript LSP, up at the top of the file you can instantly tell what imports are redundant because they're colored dif
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by cfiggers 9mo ago
I believe in God, specifically the God who reveals himself in the Christian Bible. I believe that the most fundamental reason that shooting a baby in the head is wrong is because God created and loves that baby, so to harm it is to violate
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by cfiggers 9mo ago
That's not a standard, that's a case study. I believe it's wrong, but I bet I believe that for a different reason than you do.
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by cfiggers 9mo ago
Yeah, I used to have an issue where it would repeatedly request accessibility permissions even though they were already granted. But I haven't seen that one in months and haven't noticed any other glitches or bugs whatsoever. I li

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