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by creamytaco 5y ago
i find this utter hogwash. Nicotine is physically addictive and tolerance builds up. When one that has been smoking moderately to heavily for years quits smoking, one goes through days of physical withdrawal. These "simple tricks"
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by creamytaco 5y ago
Entirely irrelevant, empty deflection, to the points I made.
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by creamytaco 5y ago
Terrible website structure, forces you to click and load new pages for every concept, no download option, no see "all in one page" option. Lots of screen area waste.
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by creamytaco 5y ago
You criticize Electron and then proceed to make pretty much the same mistake by using ... JVM. I don't think this is going to fly as a better alternative to JavaScript. It's just one evil exchanged for another. And I'll be ex
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by creamytaco 5y ago
I have had two close friends quit recently, within a few months of each other. They both blamed management and especially Ivan Krstić.
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by creamytaco 5y ago
This is a proprietary core from a hobbyist/retro mainly Amiga team (nothing to do with Motorola) that has had quite a lot of murkyness associated with it. There have been accusations of this being simply a Coldfire ripoff based on leak
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by creamytaco 5y ago
Or, drink the cheapest, quickest coffee you can make/get for caffeine and tea for taste. No equipment needed, less of your life wasted.
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by creamytaco 5y ago
Emacs is a tool with an enormous set of available functionality that has been continuously developed for 35 years. Moreover, its major strength is its programmable and nearly infinitely-extensible nature. And yet, it does "just work&qu
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by creamytaco 5y ago
2. It makes perfect sense if you actually learn how Emacs works. It provides superficial elements like GTK-look-and-feel (scrollbars, menubars). Most Emacs experts disable all of these anyway, thus nothing of value is lost. On the other han
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by creamytaco 5y ago
I've been using Emacs for more than 20 years, these are all (for the most part) non-issues, brought up by folks who either are new to Emacs or never read the documentation / dived below the surface. 1. Emacs Lisp is great (for the
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by creamytaco 5y ago
Here is some advice I hope you find useful: I wouldn't hire you based on this because all I see is a shit ton of 3rd party libraries stitched together. The exact opposite of what I would like to see in a good engineering candidate. So
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by creamytaco 5y ago
It's on Github and multiple other places.
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by creamytaco 5y ago
One less site to visit every day. Same thing happened with Reddit, which is unusable on mobile web without login.
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by creamytaco 5y ago
Not even close. Have you heard of acquihires? I spent 6 years at Google, and I'd say half the people I worked with over those years were definitely average or a little below in terms of skill and intelligence, certainly one couldn&#x27
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by creamytaco 5y ago
People like Kelly (and there's loads of them) are so insulated from normality that one can't possibly see them as anything but useful idiots to the techonomic powers that be. Their delusional optimism acts as a constant counterwei
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by creamytaco 5y ago
Sounds like wishful thinking to me. In the meantime, we are seeing the climate get worse year after year and we know that this is only the beginning. Moreover, there are non-linear effects at play that we can't even model, all of which
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by creamytaco 5y ago
I find that one can invert pretty much every opinion that Gosling holds on a technical matter and be better off. It boggles the mind that people listen to him.
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by creamytaco 5y ago
"rouge administrators" ?
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by creamytaco 5y ago
They actual elites have enough money to live comfortably for hundreds of years. They don’t have to care about climate change, maybe they even see it as welcome since it will kill billions of people if nothing is done. That’s how detached th
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by creamytaco 5y ago
Those figures are hard to attribute correctly because they don’t account for export manufacturing. Consumption in the USA is fueling Chinese exports and is responsible for a large chunk of their CO2 emissions.
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by creamytaco 5y ago
This is short sighted since political parties are both playing for the same team: they are owned by finance and corporations. These are entities that are absolutely not going to allow the radical changes needed to stay within 2c temperature
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by creamytaco 5y ago
A Lisp runs Lisp code, code that could have been written anywhere from 50 years ago to today. The extent and degree of modifications required before that code runs, illustrates how far away one is from Lisp. All Lisps (incl Scheme, Common
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by creamytaco 5y ago
Lots of folks don't see Clojure as a Lisp.
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by creamytaco 5y ago
Emacs Lisp has macros which are a lot more elegant (not to mention powerful) than Python decorators which comparatively, are nothing more than a kludge.
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by creamytaco 5y ago
And then you get cancer..
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by creamytaco 5y ago
Cyberspace does not exist in isolation, it's a network reflecting to a large extent the sum of its parts. In the early / mid 90s, before the masses moved in, "cyberspace" was for the most part what Barlow imagined it to
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by creamytaco 5y ago
When I first moved to USA from Denmark, back in the late 90s, the chemical, sickly syrupy taste of Coca Cola made me gag and I was very surprised in terms of how different it was from the European version. Then I found out that in Europe, t
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by creamytaco 5y ago
If the current situation wasn't so grim, I would chuckle at the magnitude of delusional thinking it must take to produce a post such as this, when the climate crisis has humanity paralyzed like deer caught in the headlights. We're
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by creamytaco 5y ago
If you think that's bad, you haven't been to the US. Public transport is at least an order of magnitude worse here, with all the issues you mentioned and then some, such as contracting a wide variety of crippling diseases like dru
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by creamytaco 5y ago
Here is another wow moment that follows from the one you mentioned: The universe you experience is different than my own. We use language and shared culture to consensually hallucinate a "shared" universe but no such thing truly e

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