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by crispinb 7y ago
Because there are no good options. The best most people can achieve is the least-worst collection of trade-offs for their particular situation.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Oh dear. Because my fairly comprehensive skepticism on metaphysical claims applies as much to hubristic scientistic materialism as any other, I tend to be a defender of religious believers possibly holding their views rationally. But they d
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by crispinb 7y ago
> There is an overabundant proof that the Catholic Church's teachings are true. Most people clearly don't accept this. Which leads us to: > The only reason people do not believe is because they do not want to What's you
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by crispinb 7y ago
> a humble trust that Jesus came into this world to suffer and die for our sake 'humble trust' is a genuinely useful attitude to have towards reality, but impossible to achieve towards a description of the world one does not be
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by crispinb 7y ago
I don't find this even slightly surprising. I did a further degree (not tech) just a few years back at my local uni which put me more in touch with regular, non-techy young folk than I'd had for years. I was assured by everyone (d
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by crispinb 7y ago
Well you can also just read the paper yourself in 10 minutes and see that it's not up to much. It still wouldn't be up to much even if all the authors were the squeakiest of clean Nobel Prize winners.
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by crispinb 7y ago
> The screenshot tool is just flat out not present when running under Wayland due to the above issue. That's odd - it's present (and functioning) in my Firefox (69.0.1) running on Gnome-on-wayland Firefox is generally quite cr
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by crispinb 7y ago
> You can remove it. I don't use and don't see it on Win10. Not the parent - but a question on this. I was using Win10 as my main OS 'till quite recently. I always had the task bar on autohide, but was frequently annoyed b
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by crispinb 7y ago
There's nothing in the 'Conflict of Interest' section to suggest that. Getting a cohort of experienced meditators together is not the easiest so perhaps they're just using what (who) they have. I know nothing about BMV b
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by crispinb 7y ago
Some of what you write is true. Some is false or absurd. > WSL 2 is not stable and it is only available for the Windows Insider program True but so what? It works perfectly well for many purposes right now (I know this from experience).
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by crispinb 7y ago
> bogus nonsensical ones that say you need to light candles and get into some funky position and whatnot. It usually helps when investigating something you're a novice in to at least attempt to clear your mind of preconceptions. Do
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by crispinb 7y ago
> I don’t know whether the meditators used in this study were training under Buddhist methods or something else "Methods"
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by crispinb 7y ago
The title is, to put it mildly, overblown. It's a comparative study of two small meditating & non-meditating populations, with no attempt to investigate causality. As usual with studies of this type, there's a disclaimer to th
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by crispinb 7y ago
PAAS (Pity As A Service) is a very amenable business model. I think I'd find it a natural fit if I could be arsed to actually build something.
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by crispinb 7y ago
It wasn't my comment. Your seemingly automatic replies barely reading what you're responding to is another classic hallmark of the ideologue.
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by crispinb 7y ago
> Those claims are very hard to take seriously Which is exactly the problem with talking to linux ideologues. If you differ from them they always claim bad faith. Always.
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by crispinb 7y ago
That was my first thought too, but I do wonder about one aspect here. Doesn't Windows' relatively slow file i/o result largely from the architecture of the kernel-mode I/O subsystem? That's the impression I got from
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by crispinb 7y ago
> Problems I'm having are display scaling and multi monitor support for different display resolutions Endemic, I'm afraid (though before long someone's bound to chime in to inform us that these problems don't exist, y
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by crispinb 7y ago
> Out of the box, Windows is orders of magnitude easier to use for non-technical users. It's actually orders of magnitude easier for technical users who don't also happen to be Linux experts. I'm using Linux f/t right
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by crispinb 7y ago
NPR does for the most part strike me as boring and anonymous. It's a very pale shadow of the UK's BBC Radio 4 or Australia's RN (its nominal equivalents). Fair point on This American Life though.
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by crispinb 7y ago
The decline of Shifty Jelly (Pocket Casts going offshore to a boring anonymous US outfit, then Pocket Weather being dumped) is one of the sadder little stories on the Aus tech scene. I'm not blaming them for moving on -- nothing stays
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by crispinb 7y ago
> 90% of mobile apps are actually CRUD apps that can be easily done as mobile Web SPAs There I agree with you. I'm a fan. But it has zip to do with this thread.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Arrant nonsense. It was a specific plan, budgeted for, with people in government and industry I knew at the time working on it. Even bloody Malcolm Turnbull was bullish about it (he was on the board of a company I worked for in Brisbane) u
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by crispinb 7y ago
Yes, let's do that please. The tone wasn't right for HN.
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by crispinb 7y ago
I don't need an antenna - I get a good enough signal with my modem stashed in the rafters. I'm about 12km from a 4g tower, but it's up on a decent hill which is nearly line of sight. I did have to go through a few modems to f
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by crispinb 7y ago
Fair point.
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by crispinb 7y ago
It was a bit of snark not to be taken too seriously, though with regard to the trogs' fear of technology, it has more than a grain of truth ;)
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by crispinb 7y ago
I instantly put a permanent block on any site that does this, and never visit it again. So that's Mozilla done for me.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Yes of course you're right. In a way that's the big problem with the NBN - a 'national infrastructure' project that is a complete lottery regarding what you get is not worth the name. 40 odd km from me there are estates
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by crispinb 7y ago
I know there are some decent individual examples (indeed I mentioned some myself). I'm just unconvinced that the once-anticipated shift from native apps to PWAs is happening. They are expanding into some niches, but mobile app developm

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