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by crispinb 4y ago
> it's a bandaid solution to your governments poor planning and infrastructure rollout .. Well yes, but a needed bandaid. That's what happens when governments vacate their role - individuals are left to manage on their own (an
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by crispinb 4y ago
Internet without connected power is pretty common around here. Internet is obviously needed for those who work from home. And it's increasingly required for the needs of everyday life (government services moving online, bank branches c
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by crispinb 4y ago
Criticising an actual comment is very precisely the opposite of ad hominem.
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by crispinb 4y ago
I started to write a reply, but realised it's futile arguing with someone with such low ethical standards. So I've blocked you.
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by crispinb 4y ago
> I'm not offended You probably should be. If not personally, then for offences against standards of decency. Cowardly accusations hiding behind 'feels' shouldn't be acceptable public discourse.
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by crispinb 4y ago
> It really feels like This is a really nasty locution, enabling an unscrupulous user to make an accusation without being pinned down to facts, because it's all a matter of their feels. Either you have evidence that someone was brib
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by crispinb 4y ago
As a long-time (but often part-time) Linux user and critic, I find Fedora to be in a pretty sweet spot right now. The last couple of years is the first time since the Snow Leopard MacOS era that I've been pleasantly content with my des
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by crispinb 4y ago
No, your point is pretty clear, and manifestly false to anyone with any understanding either of history or of what The Guardian (an organisation, not an individual) is trying to do.
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by crispinb 4y ago
With your characteristic ignorance of .. anything at all related to the case, you neglect to notice England has no such statute. You're presumably thinking of the USA. The Guardian is not American. Your mushy notion of 'Western Cu
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by crispinb 4y ago
Not sharing your values is not ipso facto "missing the point". Whether or not something is a strong principle of some historically mushy and faux-reified "western morality" is of only pop-anthropological value and of no
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by crispinb 4y ago
IDK - given organisations can have longer lifespans than individual humans, it's not unreasonable for them to apologise for things they actually did. Also, 200 years seeming like a long time to you is not 'true', it's ju
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by crispinb 4y ago
My point isn't for perfection, but that we simply don't deal with many global problems at all, ever . They're not left 'till they're urgent - they are ignored until they overwhelm. This is a universal, physical, bi
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by crispinb 4y ago
Well it's too big a discussion to litigate here, but I don't agree that market forces + self interest have in fact been successful. Most significant problems have merely been postponed, precisely because we just don't have th
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by crispinb 4y ago
> Why do people still think ... Because people haven't come to terms with the fact that humans are not Children of God nor disembodied Cartesian rational calculators, but actually a loquacious and smartish hominid, designed by selec
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by crispinb 4y ago
Much as it can be irritating for a hype/hate-intolerant person (I am one too), you cannot possibly contend it's irrelevant here, so you'll just have to put up with it.
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by crispinb 4y ago
I'm not a routine VS Code user but agree it's good. Those guys know what they're doing. A slightly different case from a standalone terminal really.
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by crispinb 4y ago
I’d be interested in this too. Seems a bit daunting to move from an existing neovim setup. Lazy.nvim does look good so it’s a little tempting. Any hints to smooth the way?
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by crispinb 4y ago
I'd give up arguing with people about it! I agree web tech is going to stay on the desktop, so I'm happy to let them whinge at the moon while I continue to use sofware on Linux I otherwise would have no access to. And it's on
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by crispinb 4y ago
On Linux there are more good terminals than anyone could possibly need. I've tried a bunch - alacritty, kitty, foot, wezterm amongst others - and they all do more than I will ever need, and all do it well. I can't objectively choo
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by crispinb 4y ago
> Probably the only feature those don't come with that I'd like is quake-style dropdown I think that should be a window-manager feature anyway. Not sure about other platforms, but at least on desktop linux there are options to
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by crispinb 4y ago
Without Electron (or electronalikes), very few of the (extremely useful to me) mainstream commercial apps would be available for the Linux desktop. Before Electron, indeed, they weren't. That said, although I haven't tried Tabby
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by crispinb 4y ago
> can we please stop shitting on .. [disfavoured tech of the month/year/decade] cf. "can be please stop hyping .. [favoured tech of the month/year/decade]" Talk about pissing into the wind.
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by crispinb 4y ago
I'd like a stock of cheap notebooks, but at least in my country it's not always easy to find them with plain paper. Lined paper is only useful for children learning to write from my pov. Online catalogues here don't always ev
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by crispinb 4y ago
> I don't think you should. It takes time, and effort. There is a hump. I have dedicated a large amount of the last ten years trying to help fix that problem. It is very real. As a somewhat grumpy Rust learner, I appreciate you bein
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by crispinb 4y ago
> back breaking outdoor labor that has a high likelihood of causing musculoskeletal healthcare problems by one’s 50s, Are you sure about this, I mean non-anecdotally? Much might depend on the type/repetitiveness of the labour, etc,e
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by crispinb 4y ago
> tell me that Rust is nice to write it feels like gaslighting There's a weird ideology or cultural attitude prevalent in Rust circles which does, indeed, involve endless gaslighting of anyone having difficulties with the language (
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by crispinb 4y ago
I don't think that's right. Everythign in the EU is moving much faster now the UK is out. Losing the 2nd/3rd (depending on year & measurement approach) largest EU economy seems like an obvious loss. But with money comes p
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by crispinb 4y ago
> I wonder how much time is collectively 'wasted' due to kanji/Chinese characters. There's probably research on this in Chinese educational literature. Pinyin, though now used primarily for computer input and foreign
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by crispinb 4y ago
It's also one of the compensations for so many of us native English speakers being disadvantaged by monolingualism.

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