crispinb

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by crispinb 8y ago
No, but I've had a pretty close view of their undersides.
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by crispinb 8y ago
> our civilization is mature enough to abandon the concept of having to work to be able to live Or at least make the concept universal. It's been alive and well for the ruling classes for centuries.
903.
by crispinb 8y ago
Because you're a parochial American?
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by crispinb 8y ago
Yet BAU (with the odd extra business opportunity thrown in) will reign nonetheless. Anyone still believe Homo sapiens to be an appropriate name for our species?
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by crispinb 8y ago
Most people won't hear of it of course. Of those who do, many will dismiss it as green/left/socialist propaganda. Of the small remainder who become scared, most will feed themselves the standard superstitious pap that some tr
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Humanity has wiped out 60% of animals since 1970, major report finds(theguardian.com)
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by crispinb 8y ago
For anyone who still clings to the weird, blinkered, narcissistic technofix superstition: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/30/humanity... Climate breakdown is not a problem worth tackling
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by crispinb 8y ago
This is just symptom-chasing. Growth ideology in general, and capitalism in particular, are incompatible with the continued existence of a living planet. The problem space of replacing complex living systems with crude technological ones wi
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by crispinb 8y ago
> Humans are the ultimate adapters. Well yes, nearly ('extreme' perhaps: 'ultimate' sounds a bit magical), but that's the problem . Darwinian evolution has created a creature than can avoid most sources of popul
910.
by crispinb 8y ago
The collapse of the dynamically stable climate on which agricultural civilisation is founded is vanishingly unlikely to be prevented at this stage - no-one has ever even outlined, let alone detailed, even one remotely plausible political ro
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by crispinb 8y ago
Never heard of Mailinabox, and I don't want to buy or subscribe to Office (AFAIK the only way to get Outlook). I've tried the others you mention, as well as a bunch of alternatives. Windows software in general is much poorer than
912.
by crispinb 8y ago
I've just gone the other way. Having recently moved from macOS to Windows, I couldn't find a single mail client that I am willing to use daily. I'm now forwarding my hosted IMAP to a gmail account, simply in order to use the
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by crispinb 8y ago
Not in my experience. If a woman does interpret a compliment as an approach, they are very unlikely to act as if that gives them carte blanche to behave proprietorially towards the complimenting party from that point on. It's hard to i
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by crispinb 8y ago
> Maybe I'm just doing it wrong. No, you're just falling foul of a dynamic that preexists you. Women giving men compliments is, for the most part, interpreted as a come-on. It's not fair, and it hinders the frank communica
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by crispinb 8y ago
I'm using it full-time, albeit not for anything esoteric - mostly for zsh & bash, all my commandline stuff, node/npm etc. For these purposes it's pretty much equivalent to doing the same on macOS (though if you're us
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by crispinb 8y ago
Mirrors my experience. I'm a bit surprised that after years of the cygwin experience, Microsoft hasn't come up with a more elegant solution to incompatible filepaths issues. Having said that, it's good WSL works as well as it
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by crispinb 8y ago
Was my preferred option, but I had too many niggling difficulties (driver problems, hdpi not working on essential apps, etc). Most (not all) are fixable with research, but I don't have time right now. TBH if I did I'd rather spend
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by crispinb 8y ago
The compulsory fakebar forced me to get my first Windows machine for many years. I do in all honesty find Windows fairly nasty compared to macOS, but having a whole row of useful keys replaced with an effete Englishman's private whimsy
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by crispinb 8y ago
>It may or may not reflect on the original developer. Maybe they were learning a new framework. Maybe they were rushed. Maybe it was originally intended as a prototype but ended up in production. Maybe the requirements have grown or chan
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by crispinb 8y ago
> Is there no way to win? There isn't. Once evolutionary processes churn out a species capable of pullulating, at the cost of other species, essentially without limit, the die is cast. The notion that 'we' can 'decide
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by crispinb 8y ago
Good grief.
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by crispinb 8y ago
People live so much of their life in virtual worlds of media & thought that they confuse them with reality. So people will decide that they dislike Mormons (because everyone knows theism is dumb and antiscientific) or Muslims (because t
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by crispinb 8y ago
> How about not stressing about it now? Well that's what I'm doing by using Windows. I don't like it, but it doesn't consume any of my time - even after not having used Windows for many years, I was productive on my n
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by crispinb 8y ago
> But the old cliche that getting hardware to work on GNU/Linux is not true these days That's only true if you make a point of buying hardware you already know there's linux drivers for. I work with a few headless linux bo
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by crispinb 8y ago
> The biggest appeal of Apple is their wonderful hardware. To you. To others (like me) the biggest appeal was the only even vaguely usable & consistent OS, supported by nice hardware. Now they have replaced the nice hardware with th
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by crispinb 8y ago
Why you should stop parroting the trite off-the-shelf "Why you should .." title cliche.
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by crispinb 8y ago
I'd be curious to know why you want to "get into" jazz. The world is brim-full of music, so you don't need to listen to something you find 'the same and empty'. Anyway, that aside, I'll make 2 suggestions:
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by crispinb 8y ago
(I'm not claiming that Windows is as undemanding as OS X by the way. The impedance mismatch between WSL environments and the rest of the system, and Windows' relative instability, make it more time consuming to set up and maintain
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by crispinb 8y ago
Thanks, hadn't come across him. Great player if a bit chilly/controlled from that one example - but then again detractors have said that of Bill Evans. And solo videoing isn't the most natural milieu for music.
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by crispinb 8y ago
> And you have the choice to buy spectacular developer focused hardware like XPS or ThinkPad laptops. I'm using an XPS 15. A recent purchase - I'm an OS X user by choice, but Apple currently makes no laptop hardware I'm in

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