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by crispinb 7y ago
> Postmodern philosophy should explain simply It's not always possible when precisely what is being attempted is to sketch ideas inexpressible with simple denotational language and concepts. What late Heidegger & much of Derrida
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by crispinb 7y ago
> I spent a month trying to figure out why .. That phenomenon is what keeps me from using Linux as my main laptop OS. I have done, for long stretches (and probably will again), but I'm always driven to either OS X or Windows by a wa
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by crispinb 7y ago
> why bother with Windows at this point? Wouldn't it be easier to just use Linux? Well I get the linux dev tools, which is all I really want from linux, in wsl. Windows works well on my machine, and I find it less trouble than linux
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by crispinb 7y ago
I'd say the tradeoffs are different rather than it never being a 'good option'. For me, paying for & using IntelliJ idea for most of my serious work has in practice been an excellent option for many years. It suits me &am
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by crispinb 7y ago
There is no 'modern' note taking app remotely as capable as Org-Mode. That said, there's a tradeoff to be made as to use Org-Mode effectively is a project in itself (check out a couple of youtube videos on it). In my experien
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by crispinb 7y ago
I've always taken it for granted that the voting system is essentially meaningless, especially for comments, so don't generally use it (I'll downvote egregiously rude or idiotic comments, but that's it).
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by crispinb 7y ago
IntlliJ has a depth of code understanding unmatched by any other environment I've tried. Perhaps someone quite expert with emacs could improve on it, but at a great cost in time. VS Code doesn't come close in these terms - editing
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by crispinb 7y ago
> Is there such an IDE? IntelliJ Idea isn't exactly it, but it has many of the features you want (most comprehensively/maturely for Java, but to greater or lesser extents for Python, Go, Rust, Typescript, etc). I find using it
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by crispinb 7y ago
It's so long since I've written any code without syntax colouring, I don't even know if it can be turned off in my main GUI tools (IntelliJ & VS Code). When I've occasionally seen code in notepad or an unconfigured
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by crispinb 7y ago
A couple of sentences of mature advice would replace the whole of DoNotPay's business. More tech not always betta.
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by crispinb 7y ago
I'm by no means an outstandingly organised person (ask my ex-partner), yet I find it pitifully easy to pop a date in my calendar reminding me to cancel a trial, and then do it. Is there really money to be made building services to auto
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by crispinb 7y ago
Dropping iOS work was what freed me to replace my last MB pro with a non-Apple machine (a necessity for me the moment they introduced the fake keyboard).
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by crispinb 7y ago
> I'm not sure there's a huge distinction between "how we structure and pay for our healthcare systems" and "western medicine." Given that different 'western' nations structure and pay for their
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it has it's limitations - especially when it comes to complicated systems. I agree - the science of complexity is in its infancy (as I mentioned in the parent). But your conclusion doesn't remotely follow. That there are conditi
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by crispinb 7y ago
It's really more like wishing a consultancy would employ a competent project manager. The thing about systems is that they're designed (even if only by refusing to design and calling it 'market driven'). Some work better
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by crispinb 7y ago
Out of those the only "fast" one is VSCode, which is actually written in JS Typescript I think? Anyway, much as Microsoft has done an amazing job with VS Code, it really doesn't have quite the snappy feel in all circumsta
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by crispinb 7y ago
I do like performant apps, but I've never understood the emphasis on startup time for most of them. There's the odd utility (eg. screenshotting) where an instant start is desirable. But the main things I use (terminal, editor&#x2F
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by crispinb 7y ago
Sure - agree with all of this. That's more to do with institutions than 'western medicine' as a science. Most science disciplines are similarly imperfectly implemented when they hit the real worlds of politics, inertia, profi
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by crispinb 7y ago
"People" might do that, but science certainly doesn't. Theoretical plausibility guides research, which is reasonable (there's no point in amassing prior knowledge if you don't use it). But empirical evidence is the
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by crispinb 7y ago
> their mechanics/drugs/techniques can be as effective as western versions This may be true of some indigenous medicines, discovered by trial-and-error and careful observation over multiple generations. These are disappearing
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by crispinb 7y ago
I have to say I've never suffered from it. The only people I ever envy are those who don't have to work, and by the nature of that fact, I don't work with them.
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by crispinb 7y ago
'Western' medicine though as opposed to what? Nostalgic prescientific systems such as Chinese, ayurvedic, etc don't do anything at all. So yes, scientific medicine definitely has huge lacunae. Given the relative slowness of p
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by crispinb 7y ago
Medium is a catastrophe, obviously, but where it does have stuff you want or need to read, just install one of the many cookie-deleting browser extensions. I'm a simpleton so just manually hit a 'delete cookies from this site&#x27
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by crispinb 7y ago
I don't believe the intent of the AMP team is to strongarm developers into using their framework, or to funnel all traffic through Google. I trust that they are well-intentioned people .. Why on earth would you assume this, so obvio
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by crispinb 7y ago
It does fits pretty well with much tech/YC/SV ideology though: hypertrophy for its own sake.
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It also makes some horrific assumptions about 'success', borrowed unthinkingly from one narrow strand of contemporary hyper-consumerist crap culture. I certainly wouldn't call Kroc nor Sanders 'successful'.
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by crispinb 7y ago
I won't disagree that it's unacceptable. But in practice you can prevent the automatic reboots happening while you're working with the 'Change Active Hours' feature (just search on that term in settings). Again, not
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by crispinb 7y ago
Crossing OS boundaries like this just to do development is kind of silly in a way, and still has some frictions. But for the most part it does work really well. The VS Code wsl remote extension is the first thing to tempt me away from Intel
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by crispinb 7y ago
I ran Fedora on my Dell XPS 15 f/t for about 6 months, and found battery life to be similar to that on Windows. I think I remember reading on Phoronix that Fedora's power management defaults are better for battery life than most d
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by crispinb 7y ago
I was thinking of just using the Fastmail web app. I found it (like gmail) better than any current desktop email client I've tried.

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