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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
Not only. I had a look at a coworker’s Framework 13 and was shocked at the poor build quality. The keyboard flex in particular was terrible. That’s not a cheap laptop.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
Is HP ok these days? I've been avoiding them because of the atrocious build quality I've experienced in the past. That particular laptop also seems very heavy.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
If only you could buy the hardware. There are very few laptops or similar with the chip. Even the Z13 is difficult to find and (at least in Europe) only with 32 GB of RAM.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
Doesn’t work in South Africa, India or Singapore. When you meet up with from people from enough places, there really aren’t many options.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
If you need to split a bill across people from many different countries, there aren’t other options.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
The converging is happening in practice. I’m using a keyboard running RMK for firmware, written in Rust.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
Sure, but no desktop motherboard is cheap nowadays. And laptops all get one or more USB-C ports.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
It’s very common in Go to just pass the error on since there’s no way to handle it in that layer. Rust forces you to think about errors exactly as much, but in the common case of passing it on it’s more ergonomic.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
Some of the audio stack is probably still from Skype.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
And polemic is an entirely legitimate form of political action. Would you rather starve or never lie about those that would starve you?
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
All three have very similar syntax when compared even to something like Python or Ruby, let alone ML or Haskell. Seems like a spurious complaint.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
Exactly, this competes with a second hand PS5.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
Some motherboard have a rear USB-C, but no internal front panel header. Desktop is so far behind on ports.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
CarPlay is useful for safe navigation. The real problem is supposed safety features that aren’t, like lane keep assist or automatic braking. Both are unpredictable in varied environments.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
There’s RMK, which is a small improvement. It’s more that it doesn’t matter after you set it up. I have a relatively normal keyboard except with more shift-like keys.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
What’s slightly annoying is that the ergonomic space is almost all mechanical. I have zero interest in that aspect, I just wanted switches most like my MacBook.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
If you’re looking at custom design, there’s plenty of everything. The column stagger is quite good though, especially to make up for the little finger being shorter. Fewer buttons is a less obvious improvement, but it does help to reduce ha
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
I’m not entirely sure. It definitely don’t have its own protocol like Thunderbolt and can’t possibly be secured.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
Especially with this bleak described future. Why would I want to be one of the few simulated? I’d rather stay dead. If you think this may be the future, surely the only rational response is to do everything in your power to prevent it.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
It’s a PCIe tunnelling protocol, sort of. The other simpler one is Oculink. Most of the time you could do the same thing with USB <4 without slowdown.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
If there was a general election today, who exactly could we vote for? Trade union organising with the threat of nationwide industrial action would work regardless of which flavour of Tory is in power, though.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
They all absolutely do. All capitalist parties are heavily funded by industry of some sort.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
It’s merely a perspective you’re not used to seeing. It doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
I don’t think that has anything to do with VMs, the same happens with C++ runtime libraries. The difference is Go really focused on continuity and compatibility, while .NET didn’t.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
Easier deployment helped, but nowadays it’s common to put a single Go executable in a container anyway. .net core doesn’t have much if any disadvantage there. Go was made by Google flawed, but with clarity of purpose and consistently usable
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
Compared to it being in the hands of the US, who couped my country and bombed my neighbours? Definitely.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
Struggling over cultural changes is a real phenomenon and sometimes even worth engaging in. But ultimately, ideas are secondary to matter. Most people on this planet work for the profits of a very small group. If they weren’t divided, they
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
It seems entirely reasonable to pay dues for a benefit you receive. I don’t see why that’s such a big deal. You still don’t need to be involved in organising. It’s entirely ok for the majority of workers to democratically decide that they s
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
Even in the US, you are not forced to join a union. You might have a union negotiate minimum pay and conditions on your behalf, but that doesn’t stop you from negotiation beyond that individually.
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by dontlaugh 11mo ago
Then don’t join. Actively trying to stop others from joining is not the same thing. And fwiw, I’ve been in two unions that were nothing like you described. I got better conditions and in one case pay because of union organising.

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