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by crispinb 7y ago
It is for me. I've just tried it. As so often unfortunately the package is sufficiently out of date to make installation of the author's prebuilt binary ( https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/binary.html ) worthwhil
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by crispinb 7y ago
I'd add: - being permitted to choose your own hardware. And even (heaven forfend) repair it.
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The requirements seem a bit thin. They also echo the cliche that the main end-user problem with Linux is installation. I think this hasn't been the case for many years - in the simplest case (no dual boot, a well-supported machine), in
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by crispinb 7y ago
To the author: perhaps you're an authoritarian manager, or a manque thereof. I don't know. But I'm pretty sure you're not the boss of the internet. So please drop the petulant imperative title.
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It's one of the more interesting if unsexy engineering problems I guess. You mention small boats - composting toilets are making inroads there too. I happen to live in the bush with a composter. As I'm also on rainwater, which was
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by crispinb 7y ago
True, everything is an improvement on the current English-derived norm. Grey water systems would help, but are expensive, particularly to retrofit.
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That could work if everyone reduced fibre intake ;) (I completely see the steampunkish appeal btw)
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Good grief. Using expensively treated water to flush waste away is crude Victorian technology as it is - adding fusspot electronic detailing hardly improves it. Composting toilets at urban scale - now that would be tech worthy of the 21st c
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If your boss is thick enough for vague adolescent impressions to be a significant criterion, your job is at risk.
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I've only had it when demanded by managers, who generally associate "work" with yakking in person because it's often the only thing they know how to do. I've never been requested by another dev to switch the cam on
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by crispinb 7y ago
This is a little narrower - but I'd be interested in suggestions for open source software useful for local online communities. People in my area use Facebook. Except that many (like me) just won't sign up for a FB account, and eve
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'Tip of the iceberg': is our destruction of nature responsible for Covid-19?(theguardian.com)
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this is what the users generally want It is not the case that people entirely autonomously 'want' things. Humans have culture, which amongst other things, inculcates desires. Further, it manifestly doesn't follow that anyon
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by crispinb 7y ago
Yes - that's what I mean. Virus gets onto hands via touching objects & surfaces, and from there to face. Also (to be fair) if you want to increase your chances of getting accurate info you probably need to go to more credentialled
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by crispinb 7y ago
I don't have stats or references, but I heard on a pretty reputable podcast a couple of days ago that physical contact appears to be the biggest single vector for SARS-CoV-2. Hence the huge emphasis on hand washing.
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I don't know about the question. Here's another: how do populations become motivated to exert pressure for change? One way is to have an enemy. That's been seemingly lacking with the fight to protect our ecosystems thus far
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by crispinb 7y ago
Nice. Seems like a satisfying approach. The ethical dimension has been a struggle for me. For reasons not relevant here projects I have worked on have tended to be either trivial or for companies whose ethics are actively dubious (business
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by crispinb 7y ago
Bear in mind if you're a programmer that touted learning resources that don't include symbol keys are of limited use. There are many speedy human-language typists who have to peer at the keyboard every time they encounter a tilde
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by crispinb 7y ago
Empirically, that's plainly false. Corruption declines, on any level, when the right policies & incentives are in place.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Nonsense. There is hardly a local government in Australia not hopelessly corrupted by local real estate interests. In many nations local corruption is endemic right down to every neighbourhood police station. Size isn't the question: m
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by crispinb 7y ago
There are so many overloaded reasons to scale back the disastrous global 'economy' (not least of which is that we either do it at a time of our choosing, or ecosystem collapses will eventually do it for us), that the pandemic is a
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by crispinb 7y ago
I'm sure no-one's reading this far back, but for the record I would edit or delete the above if I still could. It was a pretty silly statement for a number of reasons. I never had much cause in the past to read or think much about
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by crispinb 7y ago
Sure, but there's a risk of self-fulfilling prophecy if we're on too much of a hair trigger. In this case it wasn't as if the comment was either unrelated to the submission, or particularly inflammatory. A matter of judgemen
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by crispinb 7y ago
No, I was focusing (or fixating if you prefer the derogatory) on the specific claim that fearlessness inevitably dissolves roadblocks. That's all. I have no opinion whatsoever on (nor interest in) general routes to 'success&#x27
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If one prominent evolutionary theory of reason's likely functional role (ie. it developed for justification & persuasion, not primarily decision making) is correct, then your judgement of 20thC philosophy's significance could
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by crispinb 7y ago
I'm not sure what 'stands' means in this context. It may or may not be a true statement (I don't care because I'm radically uninterested in the dubious concept of 'success'), but in any case it's no
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by crispinb 7y ago
I was responding to They assume they can get past whatever roadblocks they have, and they're always correct. I believe this specific assertion to be false, and was not saying anything generic about fearlessness as a route to &#x27
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by crispinb 7y ago
Even if it's a response to that politician's own statement specifically commenting on questions of character? I really can't agree - distinguishing between 'political flamebait' and 'reflexively tugging the for
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by crispinb 7y ago
Given that the 45 quote came directly from the article in question, this strikes me as a tad unreasonable in this case. At the very least, the 45 reference could quite reasonably lead to interrogation of the article author's superficia
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by crispinb 7y ago
and they're always correct Survivorship bias. For every fearless, boots'n'all person I know in a variety of fields (not just dev) who's "succeeded", I know many more whose headlong attempts crashed and burned

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