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by crispinb 7y ago
Fair enough - I'm a bit out of touch with current OS X. Windows has some pluses but lots of downsides too. Same for Linux. They're all an unhappy compromise from my perspective. I've reached a stage of frustration with the d
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by crispinb 7y ago
As a sometime mac diehard (iOS & Mac developer, ObjC enthusiast), I find it a little hard to imagine how anyone could continue paying through the nose for Apple's dreadful hardware at this point. A reasonable platform conservatism
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by crispinb 7y ago
I haven't been to the US since 2010, but at least at that point it felt like going backwards in time with respect to banking, mobile networks & any dealings I had with government agencies.
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by crispinb 7y ago
> since we have many fewer banks Australia has fewer still, with the big 5 almost entirely dominant, yet we have instant bank transfers through Osko, have had almost universal contactless in store payments for years, etc. I suspect it&#x
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by crispinb 7y ago
Yes of course. Wasn't there also some policy change at some point regarding what's available in the store by default? I had a vague memory of that but could be wrong. Anyway, the upshot is that at least based on my experience (lim
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by crispinb 7y ago
I don't know at what point Fedora loosened up re the FOSS strictures, but the version I installed (30) did have non-free apps/codecs available by default, including for mp3s.
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by crispinb 7y ago
For one thing it was the only distro I tried that gave me battery life comparable to Windows without me having to mess about with powertop etc. And everything very up-to-date. Impressed.
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by crispinb 7y ago
You're probably best off asking around on relevant forums about what works best on your particular machine. Of the mainstream distros, I found Fedora was by far the best OOB for my current laptop (XPS 15 9570), but I don't get the
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by crispinb 7y ago
The crazed Queensland government has probably already quietly asked 45 to nuke the raft.
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by crispinb 7y ago
> most of the time the rest of the world doesn't care Much of the time, HN readers however will. There's the odd software developer hanging about here, some of whom are interested in programming languages, or so I believe.
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by crispinb 7y ago
And WSL2 takes it a stage further, running linux-native docker on a linux kernel (albeit wsl2 is itself running in a specialised Hyper-V machine). I haven't used Docker with WSL2 yet, but in other uses I've found WSL2 extremely fa
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by crispinb 7y ago
It appears so. At which point Microsoft will presumably graciously permit its Windows 10 customers to uninstall Edge, and make Chrome-Edge mandatory.
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by crispinb 7y ago
I can't speak to the parent's motivations, but having had a glance at this, it's clearly an entirely absurd suggestion. Section 1.4 outlines its intended audience. It (rightly) doesn't include programmers wanting to &#x
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by crispinb 7y ago
> Ironically, that emotional gap / need is probably a symptom of the societal conditions that created the need to constantly consume. Nothing ironic about it - it's the plan, it's how capitalism has always been intended to
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by crispinb 7y ago
NixOS looks quite fascinating. I'm on Windows for the time being, but will give NixOS a go some time. For any other WSL users here, it's worth keeping an eye on this issue: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs&#x2
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by crispinb 7y ago
I've never been a vi expert, but I've gone for long enough periods using vi keybindings to have been fluent with them. I think there is some kind of emotional/flow/mastery element - it just feels good to acquire these ki
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by crispinb 7y ago
Any proposed approach to large-scale change that essentially says 'billions of people should just do x', regardless of the nature of x, is dead before it starts. That's not how change works. Contra the simpler-minded pop vari
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by crispinb 7y ago
A species which by dint of evolutionary happenstance has skirted limits on reproduction and consumption goes ahead to strip its habitat. Big surprise (said no ecologist ever). A pity in this case its habitat is a whole planet, but that&#x2
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by crispinb 7y ago
Well I'm not primarily a web developer, but I've worked alongside many. This neither describes any of them, nor would it be tolerated (or even possible to pull off) in any workpace I've seen. Self-puffery is admittedly endemi
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by crispinb 7y ago
Working as I do on a decently fast machine I have to say performance differences between the two don't concern me much. Both are fine in practice. On privacy & many other grounds I'd far rather use Firefox even if there were a
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by crispinb 7y ago
Writers: stop being so damned bossy. The imperative title has had its run in the fussy etiquette pieces that so often pass as 'opinion' in newspapers. It wasn't any good there, and doesn't merit wider adoption.
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by crispinb 7y ago
It's not really an irony. It's just one more positive feedback mechanism. Humans (contra religious stories) are ecosystem participants.
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by crispinb 7y ago
> Do you think any of the tech companies would treat their blue collar workers any better? And?
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by crispinb 7y ago
I remember mentioning in a thread here a while back that I so enjoyed flicking through your/Carols' book online that I wished I was learning Rust, though I was unlikely for practical reasons to do so. Well now I am, and that expos
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by crispinb 7y ago
Haven't we had enough opinions on Electron, for and against, to last several average lifetimes?
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by crispinb 7y ago
Wow. Such manichaeanism. Highlighting the extremes of inequality reached in just a few societies (notably the US, Brazil, etc) at some periods (notably the 1920s and now) is synonymous with 'hating everything', 'perpetual gui
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by crispinb 7y ago
That's cute. I lived in Scotland for a while and regrettably didn't discover this. It's a tad more tasteful than my local 'big' thing: https://www.discoverballina.com.au/visit/big-prawn
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by crispinb 7y ago
This is a peculiar comment. Why would you think readers are seeking a balanced 'view of the industry' here? HN is much less bland than that. The guidelines have a view on what's relevant content here: If you had to reduce it
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by crispinb 7y ago
Whereas your response pretty much boils down to "don't worry about physical reality, just lap up the self-promoting feels of the megaconsuming 1%"
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by crispinb 7y ago
Your position, sometimes labelled Scientism, is Faith.

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