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by eadmund 5y ago
Should I have simply flagged bradleybuda's original comment instead? I did that first, then thought that a substantive comment was better (edit: and unflagged it).
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by eadmund 5y ago
Exactly. Folks should be dressed for the season: it is fundamentally unreasonable to be wearing nothing but a T-shirt in the winter, or to be wearing a sweater in the summer. This means being dressed in such a manner as to be comfortable
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by eadmund 5y ago
Me too! It ain't dead yet … Now, if only there were a good way to sync elfeed and an Android feed reader!
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by eadmund 5y ago
> Now, realistically, even though I like the idea, who is going to use this ? Someone who thinks that OpenStep is a good way to build end-user applications, I imagine. I've never used it myself, but I know that it had an excellent
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by eadmund 5y ago
> Anyone who thinks that our recent dramatic swing toward extreme leniency regarding opioid addiction and opioid-related crime isn't rooted in racism is fooling themselves. It's no coincidence that the white majority in the U.S
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by eadmund 5y ago
Not necessarily: the real-world size matters too. Desktop-sized UI is hard to hit on a touchscreen when shrunk; meanwhile mobile-sized UI wastes space when enlarged on a desktop monitor.
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by eadmund 5y ago
The reason that the State has historically cared about marriage is family formation. That's all. Given that 'marriage' nowadays has nothing to do with family formation, it makes sense for the State to get out of that busines
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by eadmund 5y ago
Ah, but Javascript is a profoundly terrible language to do anything in, while Lisp is a joy to write in. Being a Lisp machine is core to the value of Emacs. Emacs-without-Lisp is just another editor.
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by eadmund 5y ago
> I am out of the loop: what did Mozilla to Firefox on Android? There was a time when one could run many extensions on Firefox on Android. Mozilla restricted it to just a few. I am still sad about losing Stylus.
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by eadmund 5y ago
> 98% of one party's higher chamber The parties don't have chambers; the legislative branch does (and as noted, it is not 98% of the higher chamber which is stymied but rather 49%). Moreover, the U.S. is not a parliamentar
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by eadmund 5y ago
> Even though 49/50 Democrats in the Senate want to pass the bill you describe, since 1/50 opposes it (along with 50/50 Republicans) Yes, when 51% of the votes are opposed to a course of action it is not followed. Are you
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by eadmund 5y ago
> I mean, we're talking about a task scheduler here. Not just that, the certbot tooling as well, which can be arbitrarily flaky. > Is this a Temple OS situation? And so what if it is? Why shouldn't someone be able to run a
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by eadmund 5y ago
> Sorry for breaking it up to you, but this kind of "standards must be respected 11!!!!1&!1" mindset is the actual cult-like behaviour, commonly found in communities such as cat-v.org, and with people clinging to plan 9 lik
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by eadmund 5y ago
One should wear a seat belt, of course. But that's not the question: the question is whether the State should punish those who do not wear seat belts. Given that they risk only their own lives (modulo the vanishingly-small number of
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Science needs fixing, not just funding(nationalreview.com)
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by eadmund 5y ago
> I can't remember the last time I created a website in a professional setting that would work without JS. A website which does not work without JavaScript is by definition unprofessional. That doesn't apply to web applicatio
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by eadmund 5y ago
This is the fundamental problem with technocracy: the technocrats cannot know everything about the current state, and they cannot predict everything about the future state. It is very easy after the fact to critique their decisions ('
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by eadmund 5y ago
Looks like still no general support for extensions on Android.
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by eadmund 5y ago
> Would you care to give us alternatives, for example, to the JIRA bug tracker Paper. An Excel spreadsheet shared on a Windows for Workgroups share drive. Carrier pigeon. Quitting software to become a llama herder. Seriously, though, aft
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by eadmund 5y ago
Enforcing rights takes energy, but respecting them takes none.
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by eadmund 5y ago
> You consider South Korea a success? Compared to North Korea, I sure do!
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by eadmund 5y ago
> And if you accept that, having special syntax for arrays and maps is more convenient and readable than S-exprs. S-expressions are arrays, and maps are really just degenerate unsorted arrays of key-value pairs. Taking a look at https
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by eadmund 5y ago
True, folks are very familiar with JSON, but it does have problems, and the best time to pick the best solution is before one has to deprecate a lesser solution. Computing is built atop a pile of decisions which made sense at the time an
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by eadmund 5y ago
Why not go all the way and use a format capable of expressing code and data? I refer, of course, to S-expressions. They also have the benefit of properly handling numbers. Some might look at the absence of maps as a negative, but I think
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by eadmund 5y ago
I don't believe that the WM would enter into it — as long as folks are using X11 the code should be, I think, the same for any WM or DE. Now, using Wayland it may or may not be possible, depending on which WM/compositor/whate
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by eadmund 5y ago
> When that happens this weird cycle forms where more and more developers are hired to manage the ever changing interfaces used by internal tools which results in more churn. The Node ecosystem leaps to mind. To a much lesser extent, th
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by eadmund 5y ago
You inspired me to the lifespan of Japanese macaques, and it is 27 years; the previous alpha male was 31 years old, which suggests to me that he must have been pretty over the hill. Given that she is smaller than the average male macaque, I
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by eadmund 5y ago
> Just as the OP said, these temperatures are deadly. > > Thursday, September 6, 2007, HOUSTON – The death toll from extreme heat in Houston each summer will increase from about 24 to nearly 32 The actual number of heat deaths in H
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The man who didn’t invent Flamin’ Hot Cheetos(latimes.com)
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by eadmund 5y ago
> I just don't see Common Lisp as dealing with modern computing that well. It looks crufty and tired where Scheme continues to refine and sharpen. I don't think that they are aimed at the same thing. Lisp is stable, reliable a

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