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by crispinb 6y ago
We seem to live in an age where comprehensively refuted ideas readily gain adherents (not that I have an Age of Reason in mind to be particularly nostalgic about). There can be a fine line between useful refutation and promotion. A hard one
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by crispinb 6y ago
... roughly equivalent to people who can use words like 'hypergrowth' with a straight face.
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by crispinb 6y ago
Well I've read enough over the years (Philip Tetlock springs to mind) to rarely be any more confident of my own predictions in the political sphere than anyone else's. Only time will tell! As for the spirit of friendship, and just
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by crispinb 6y ago
I'm in two minds about this. On the one hand, Cory is probably mostly right on the specifics. On the other, Andreeson's article was so vapid and ignorant it's barely worth addressing. We only talk about it because the guy&#x2
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by crispinb 6y ago
As others have said, it's normally on sale for less. Back when I was using Windows, I found it much less troublesome than the alternatives coupled with WSL, and it's well documented and comes with decent support. It was well worth
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by crispinb 6y ago
I understand your sense of grievance, and often share it at an emotional level. But what makes you think it would ever have been different? Any creature which evolved the behavioural flexibility to outrun curbs on its pullulation would even
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by crispinb 6y ago
> Have I missed anything out? The extreme differences in competencies between nations in dealing with the crisis, with the US near the bottom of the pack. Which brings up the possibility that the US's decline, apparent to much of th
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by crispinb 6y ago
It's in the major league of deaths/million pop (along with the UK, US). I have to say, as someone usually loathes my generally scientifically-blinkered federal government (Aus), it's relaxing and pleasant to be able to thin
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by crispinb 6y ago
It's a longer discussion than I have time for now, but in short: it creates ethically worse people (unnaturally selfish) without them being any more 'rational' (just as subject to biases as ever). And it creates worse societi
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by crispinb 6y ago
That's fair enough, but I think the conflation of self-interest with rationality is so ubiquitous (and like most official ideologies, dangerously mistaken) that it's worth challenging when it arises. Or at least to the extent perm
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by crispinb 6y ago
There's nothing inherently 'rational' about self-interest (which is entirely orthogonal to the justification or lack thereof for the latter). It has literally never occurred to me to consider whether party policies are good f
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by crispinb 6y ago
Guidance here seems to fall into 2 camps - either (1) start vanilla or (2) with one of the currently favoured packagings (Doom, Spacemacs etc). I'd say it depends on what your aim is: (1) would be the way to go if you primarily want to
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by crispinb 6y ago
> I wonder what you mean by that I'm not entirely sure. If I had a recipe I'd probably be a leader somewhere rather than an anonymous sometime programmer in deepest Northern NSW! One of the few things I'm pretty certain of
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by crispinb 6y ago
One of the few things we can be certain of with complex systems is that effects are not consequences of single causes. The US's political tribalism is clearly a negative for the nation, but is a consequence of history, not the signal f
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by crispinb 6y ago
> Why is this getting downvoted? You might as well ask why dogs bark or puzzle with furrowed brow over the croaking of frogs.
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by crispinb 6y ago
Arguable but irrelevant. I'm arguing against your absurd universal and inhuman suggestion (nay, command!) to keep politics out of the discussion. On the particular topic at hand I think I'm somewhat in agreement with your conclusi
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by crispinb 6y ago
I made no such comparison.
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by crispinb 6y ago
Not compartmentalising is trickier than you imply, as the whole corporate-capitalist system of power (which supplies nearly all of your and my goods) depends at its root on current exploitation and drawing down on its investment in future d
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by crispinb 6y ago
Exactly my experience. I've dipped into 4Clojure (thanks for the suggestion), and also Exercism as the mentoring is handy. I really enjoy the way you can reach solutions that are pithy without being obscure or artificially terse. It do
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by crispinb 6y ago
A late addition because of something that came up today. I've had a laptop problem for a few days - screen blanking was failing. Immediately on blanking, the screen would reawaken, generally rearranging my open windows. On Windows I wo
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by crispinb 6y ago
I've been learning it for a couple of weeks. It is humbling as an experienced dev to find something quite straightforward (parens-whining aside, Clojure is a small & simple language), yet not have a clue how to approach problem-sol
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by crispinb 6y ago
I'm in a similar position - to the extent of largely giving up work. I may differ in that I'm not really determined to rediscover programming. I have many interests, don't need or want much cash and am quite happy to cobble t
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by crispinb 6y ago
There are a few minor things I prefer about Windows here & there, but power management is the biggest single thing, agreed. In truth I don't like any current OS - when you add up all the pros and cons, Linux has the best overall ba
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by crispinb 6y ago
Thanks. Could prove useful.
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by crispinb 6y ago
Seeing this thread prompted me to sign up - I've been procrastinating over ditching gmail and consolidating on one IMAP provider for ages. I shelved my one main doubt (I don't think much of Roundcube) and started the process today
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by crispinb 6y ago
I literally never rebooted my Windows 10 laptop other than for rare updates or driver installs that required it. OTOH I have to reboot Ubuntu from time to time (once every week or two) because I can't solve a problem (eg. the suspend g
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by crispinb 6y ago
Well so do I (also mainly an Ubuntu user these days), but that can be orthogonal to time spent. I prefer it to Windows, which I used f/t for nearly a year after ditching macOS. I prefer the single file system (as opposed to the wsl&#x2
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by crispinb 7y ago
I set up a account and was considering it for an intended email consolidation. But Roundcube is hopeless - keyboard shortcuts are a 'planned' feature. That makes Roundcube a pre-alpha product in my view.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Thanks. I suppose I should take another look at mutt. When I have in the past it's seemed a bit overwhelming with features & config. Does that command remove dupes in a single folder or a hierarchy?
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by crispinb 7y ago
Can anyone recommend tools for removing email duplicates? I have a mess of archived email from different sources I intend one day to consolidate onto a decent IMAP provider. Over the years I've done all kinds of forwarding from one acc

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