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by crispinb 4y ago
It's a very pleasingly bold product given the dull conservatism of the phone/pc scene, but Android wouldn't work for me as a primary OS.
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by crispinb 4y ago
Shimmy, shimmy. I can't be bothered with your incurious chauvinistic prattle and am done with you.
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by crispinb 4y ago
You are making the exact blinkered US-centric assumptions I'm poking fun at. US companies may be duty bound to put increasing owner value above other considerations, but fortunately out here in most of the world, your law does not appl
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by crispinb 4y ago
Non-US companies have to justify all their decisions to their owners, but not to random foreign consumers.
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by crispinb 4y ago
Non-US corporations, of any size, have no duties towards US residents whatsoever. It's entirely their choice whether or not to enter foreign markets. Americans are not default humans, and they do not decide what products other nations&
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by crispinb 4y ago
So very much agree. I just want a pocketable, repairable, physically robust generic phone that does all the basic things at modest cost. The only circumstance under which I'd consider the price tag of a 'premium' phone (notic
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by crispinb 4y ago
Why? Do you suggest the US has intrinsic rights to the goods of other nations?
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by crispinb 4y ago
Good for you. Ugly though the phrase is, 'putting your money where your mouth is' is an at least partially effective lever on reality.
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by crispinb 4y ago
> I expect lifetime updates. Do you? Or do you just say/write/comment that you expect that? Actual expecting would be refusing to buy a phone that didn't provide said updates. Otherwise it's just an HN comment, with n
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by crispinb 4y ago
> justification An odd term in this context. No-one has to 'justify' not selling their stuff to Americans.
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by crispinb 4y ago
I use it (well neovim) exclusively now because I like it. I have in the past used Emacs, IntelliJ, and VSCode. All work, the choice between them doesn't matter a jot, and that choice has never had the slightest influence on my competen
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by crispinb 4y ago
As an untalented developer, I used to make heavy use of debuggers, and knew them well. Currently, as a still untalented developer, I've fallen out of the habit of using them and don't know how to for my current toolchain. Neither
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by crispinb 4y ago
But if you develop the habit of spending just 10 minutes a day on it, you can spread that over 10 million years.
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by crispinb 4y ago
That empty solipsistic chunk of youtube-prattle could literally be made about every internet comment ever made. It recurses, even.
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by crispinb 4y ago
> the problem is not unsolvable Perfectly true, and my comment was the kind of irritated snark about imperfect open source software that I don't like hearing from other people! It just so happened that I had launched Software liter
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by crispinb 4y ago
That very incoherence is probably why it rarely works.
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by crispinb 4y ago
> Humans are animals, and nature has selected us to survive again and again. Huh? H. Sapiens is a recent species, and has in its short career already brought most ecosystems worldwide to near collapse. It is 'successful' in the
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by crispinb 4y ago
I don't know that this is true. Christendom has a longstanding eschatological tradition, but I'm not sure that it's been in any way universal. Cyclical views of long time are pretty common, for example. Humanity hasn't a
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by crispinb 4y ago
Absolutely. I don't understand why people think there is something grand in their neurotic reflexive attachment to the species they just happen to belong to. Supporting the human attack on the ecosphere (now near-terminal) is as crudel
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by crispinb 4y ago
> And people don't complain as much about those two Why do you opt to label plain descriptions of Rust as being difficult as 'complaint'? There's nothing inherently wrong with something being difficult to learn. Au co
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by crispinb 4y ago
Given H. Sapiens' manifest unfitness for the planet-dominating role it has bred and slaughtered itself into, loss of it would be no bad thing. Shame about the other species though.
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by crispinb 4y ago
This is so close to a demonstration of my point that I'm tempted to believe it's satire.
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by crispinb 4y ago
> there are a lot of drive-by rust critics who spout of stuff they've read that plainly haven't really tried using rust themselves; I haven't come across this so much. More the kind of YA male philosophy undergrad types (o
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by crispinb 4y ago
I wish that were true. If you dare mention finding anything hard in Rust circles, you'll get swamped with "no, you're wrong, it's dead easy!" responses (with the obvious implication about anyone who finds it hard).
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by crispinb 4y ago
With waves of climate change disasters sweeping at an increasing rate across the world, and resulting wars being almost inevitable in the next few decades, you are unlikely to have always-on internet for the entirety of your life. My regio
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by crispinb 4y ago
> Rust is not a complicated language at all Yet many find it so, whatever you write. Either they're wrong, or they're too thick for Rust. I certainly find it extremely difficult and complex. The denial/disregard of the exp
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by crispinb 4y ago
> But nobody ever does that. Please don't report your own experience samples as plain universal facts. It is one of the more common means by which falsehoods spread. I have no doubt that's not your intention, and you believe wh
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by crispinb 4y ago
Mainly in my case because I host my own domain mail with a cheap mail host with a webmail that's not as good as gmail. Also better offline support than any webmail (gmail's is spotty and last time I used it, only worked in Chrome)
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by crispinb 4y ago
It's not 'anti-science' to choose not to take the advice of scientific officials. Their science can at best tell you what's most likely to happen, not what values and future preferences to adopt. The middle-class world r
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by crispinb 4y ago
I'm in my 50's so don't quite fit your pattern. But who knows - we are complex beings and no doubt undergo metabolic changes as long as we're alive.

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