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by crispinb 7y ago
Discontent amongst world populations is growing, with wildfire riots increasingly breaking out. The root cause of this discontent is the gross inequality encouraged by (amongst other forces) contrepreneur culture. The near-term world is not
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Remember http://fuckingblocksyntax.com/ ?
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> In Rust you either know what the symbols mean, or you do not understand the code. This is just part of knowing a programming language. Readability to people who don't know a programming language might be considered an interestin
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It's particularly infuriating because it was such a poorly-motivated change. Customers supposedly found the interaction with Google Drive confusing, so rather than improve ergonomics, they cretinously remove a lynchpin feature altogeth
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Do you know Rust though? "wonderful to .. read" doesn't connote being readable to people who don't program in Rust. Some famously 'readable' languages (Go, Python) can be scanned by the non-fluent, but this is
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I found it good value until they removed local syncing of Google Photos from their Gdrive client. That was where most of my data was. Making it only accessible via a web form download was a huge product downgrade that I don't think a m
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Quite - one of the most misunderstood book titles in history! "She'll be right" makes for some attractively (if superficially) easygoing characters, but it's a useless stance to take towards national governance. Unfortun
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> I'm curious what cli tool you find is better on linux? It's not so much individual tools being better, but rather the whole unix shell ecosystem is still very much the dev default that everything command-related 'just wo
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Yet when offered opportunities for change, Aussies nearly always reject it. We have a skittish & ignorant population which is extremely easy to scare with lies. The old truism that populations get the representation they deserve seems p
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> have you given pop_os a try for the hdpi/multimonitor issue? A rule I made for myself when shifting to Linux is 'no distro hopping'. I want to spend as much of my computer time programming, and as little faux-sysadmining
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> Use Windows versions of things, not things compiled under Cygwin or MinGW This seems like an oddly outdated notion in the WSL era. Having used Windows 10 f/t in 2018, I'd say 'use Linux versions of commandline dev tools,
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> Are you sure you really want to discuss politics at work It would really depend on the individual Trump supporter whether I would want to discuss politics with them or not. However I don't think whether I 'want' the disc
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Completely agree. Besides which it's a hopelessly medieval master-slave attitude to employment - the notion that they're not paying for time, expertise or work, but rather taking temporary ownership of subjects. I would have nothi
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> Scott Adams' use of the word does not seem inappropriate or juvenile to me. Well then we differ. Given your (by my lights) Jesuitical approach to glossing a common English usage, I don't think we have anywhere further to go h
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"losers". FFS. Does anyone other than primary school kids and US Presidents think about their fellow humans in this way?
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I dismissed this initially out of a felt need to max out the use of my hardware. But actually it does solve some problems. I prefer native resolution + 200% scaling when using laptop (also a 15") on its own. But given the laptop screen
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> Why do we still allow fracking? Because our political systems are catastrophically corrupt.
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> On GNOME, everything just works This is far from true. Gnome shell itself is mostly OK (if buggy), but only a minority of real apps work properly. The standard Gnome apps (Nautilus, Gnome Shell etc) are fine, but that's where the
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Gnome does, but a WM that works isn't much use without apps that do likewise. Linux desktop software support for hdpi is an absurd mess. Some apps can switch resolution when you move them between screens. Others can't. When you co
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Wayland sort-of handles this. That is to say you can set scaling per-screen without xrandr hacks (with Gnome anyway, not sure about xfce). But there's such a variation in support from apps, it's still a mess).
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Try using Linux on a laptop with an hdpi internal monitor, and a regular old external. It's a guaranteed way to generate a daily urge to throttle yourself. (Using Gnome in my case rather than XFCE, but it's still an unparalleled s
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I tried it back in May this year - I was looking for alternatives having just moved f/t onto Linux given 1Password doesn't have a proper Linux app. Though Bitwarden seemed fundamentally sound, I was pretty unimpressed by the clien
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It's not entirely sensible, but it is understandable. I don't think most programmers are truly aware of how much they know, and how deeply automatic their recognition of programming constructs has become.
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> I think there is work on "readability", just in another context: Its called typography and orthography. I think that's a very different case. Maybe some analogies might be drawn between some of that work and some of the
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There's nothing unreadable (and certainly nothing obscure conceptually) about 'Box<>'. It's just unfamiliar if you don't know Rust. But we'll get nowhere fast confusing readability with familiarity. I
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Google Photos was a great product before Google Drive removed local photo sync. It's still fine for people with an online-first/only workflow (Chromebook users?), but is a sad shadow of its former self for 'traditional'
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They're entirely welcome to what's left at that point as far as I'm concerned.
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There's a good chance that the next collapse will be more comprehensive than previous ones though. In particular, it's very easy to imagine nukes getting thrown around as nations compete for rapidly diminishing topsoil & fresh
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This is unfortunate but entirely true. I'm a software developer and though absolutely not a Linux expert of any kind, nevertheless very far from being a computer novice. But this is kind of my experience with Linux. I keep logs of conf
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Only delusional ideologists even entertain the notion that the primary reason Linux hasn't caught on widely as a desktop OS is lack of preinstallation or marketing (or pick your corporate crime du jour). Desktop Linux has many uses (it

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