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by crispinb 7y ago
I haven't found it as bad as that, but agree it's a poorer desktop environment in lots of mostly small ways than macOS. I don't know how you work out it doesn't have a unix shell though. It does, in the estimation of man
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by crispinb 7y ago
I'm not being an advocate here (I don't like, but do use, Windows), but WSL2 is actual Linux running in a lightweight VM. It's not even a VM running on Windows, but sits alongside Windows on the hypervisor (as far as I unders
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by crispinb 7y ago
> The best OS is the one you enjoy and are most productive on. What if like me you dislike them all? Actually I'm not kidding - I find the desktop OS in 2019 pretty miserable. I'm using Windows right now, but not because I like
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by crispinb 7y ago
I hadn't come across Popula before, but a glance at it doesn't lead me to think the proverbial grandma is its assumed audience. FWIW, I much prefer paper books for many reasons (aesthetics, tactility, lack of temptations towards d
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by crispinb 7y ago
Looks good (thanks), but my days of running servers for anything are long gone. My tolerance for anything sysadmin-related has reached very close to zero.
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by crispinb 7y ago
I'm kind of in the same situation, except that I've abandoned desktop mail clients since moving away from OS X. Mail.app had its problems, and seemed to be getting worse, but it's the only local mail client I've been abl
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by crispinb 7y ago
I think that's right. It's kind of sad. After decades of explosive tech growth, we're left with there being no really good modern desktop OS, and no cross-platform GUI that approaches the potential of the medium. It's a
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by crispinb 7y ago
This is endemic to the tech world. So much of it is invested in a reflexive forward momentum that is inimical to at least some of the products it facilitates. This is very much true for example of many pretty slow-moving small-scale line of
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by crispinb 7y ago
The whole article is based on a paper vs ebook dichotomy, whereas the relevant distinction is between DRM-bound (some ebooks) and DRM-free (some ebooks & all paper) books. What a waste of words. Oh well, at least they're not on pap
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The rise of Big Sperm: does the tech world have the answer to our semen crisis?(theguardian.com)
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by crispinb 7y ago
The only way to know that you have previously had 'good intuitions' about the future would be if you recorded them (memory doesn't cut it) and then compared them with a subsequent events. Then you'd have to find a way of
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by crispinb 7y ago
Arguably yes - it's too early to tell as it's such a young species. It's just as likely it will prove to be short (if ecologically consequential) branch of the evolutionary tree that will prove unviable and come to a dead end
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by crispinb 7y ago
> It seems that what defines humanity has to be a bit refined Since the discovery of Darwinian evolution, we've understood humanity to be just one more outflow of natural processes (albeit one having its day in the sun). The search
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by crispinb 7y ago
Well said. Though given the evidence of this column (and the fact that such a lamentably trite piece was so prominently published) someone might want to have a crack at 'Education Is for the Gods'. If education connotes at least a
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by crispinb 7y ago
30-32C & humid is common in the summer months here. It truly wouldn't occur to me to use AC (even if I had it) in those modest conditions!
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by crispinb 7y ago
Subjective temp is relative to habituated climate though. Where I live (subtropics) people complain that it's 'cold' if temps drop below 20C. I imagine 32C might feel damned pretty hot to an Alaskan.
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by crispinb 7y ago
I quite enjoyed Robert Wright's interview with Lee McIntyre about his new book The Scientific Attitude ( https://meaningoflife.tv/videos/41931 ). It has much to say about this particular contemporary strand of of an
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by crispinb 7y ago
I doubt very much anyone would consider it informed consent. I doubt 1 in 100 users understand the implications of email image urls or ip geolocation.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Honesty? This is tech. This is business. You're speaking a foreign language to both.
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by crispinb 7y ago
> I'm not sure why having neurons enters into the equation at all when deciding whether something is conscious. Because neuroscience is bigger business than philosophy.
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by crispinb 7y ago
I chuckled at the notion that attributing consciousness to plants is 'anthropomorphizing'.
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by crispinb 7y ago
> History has shown that buffet-style pricing (Netflix, Spotify, et al) is much more appetizing Maybe, but I don't think anyone could make the claim that a micropayments hypothesis has been tested (market or tech) with anything like
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by crispinb 7y ago
> Witness Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime stories ... That is a ludicrous and ignorant caricature. Dreamtime stories encode vast amounts of information about locations, topography, history, local survival resources, and more. Read a bit
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by crispinb 7y ago
You are confusing culture and physical environment. People don't only spontaneously 'learn' about how to get around a space they happen to be dumped into. They are inculcated into a culture . There is a depth of accumulated
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by crispinb 7y ago
> their ecosystem just works the best in the eBook space I just want ebooks. I don't want an 'ecosystem in the eBook space'. If I had a similar paper book ecosystem 'in the paper book space' I'd have some gi
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by crispinb 7y ago
Possible problems sometimes cited re CSIRO aren't so much to do with bias, as political pressure from above - similarly to the way the Aus Treasury has been corrupted by the present federal gov. A recent example from the media IIRC was
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by crispinb 7y ago
Also depends on the type of infrastructure available. I lived in the city until about 5 years ago and cycled everywhere. Out in the bush where I am now, with only narrow windy unshouldered roads (& many stoned drivers), I'd be dead
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by crispinb 7y ago
Thanks for that link. Fascinating. I had no idea of that linguistic aspect. My comments were just based on having spent some time in Cape York (in the bush & on the water) a few years ago.
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by crispinb 7y ago
I guess I don't really see it as a silver lining. Anyway on the substance of the CSIRO issue you're right. The impression I get from the one person I half-know there, and what I read, is that it's in big trouble under a gover
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by crispinb 7y ago
I agree with your questioning, but find it a bit odd to do so in response to this particular paper if you're really not suggesting some sort of political bias. CSIRO is not 'emphasizing' this paper - it's just one of man

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