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by handrous 5y ago
I have dozens of GUI programs—commercial and open-source—and even more command line programs and I'm like 99% sure the only one I installed in any way other than `brew install [name]` was homebrew itself. Oh, wait, not quite true: Ap
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by handrous 5y ago
I think it's more likely Google's new Fuchsia OS will displace Linux for most desktop use (and maybe more than just that) than that Linux will get its shit together and ship a GUI layer good and cohesive enough to compete. And I
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by handrous 5y ago
Windows tools often vendor in SSH implementations, which can get super annoying if you're trying to just shell out to one and find you're in some other tool's version that they added to the path... which further encourages bu
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by handrous 5y ago
It is true (and I'm not even snarking) that this might be a desirable option on Windows, mostly due to the other options being fairly weak in a variety of ways. I don't know enough about 3rd-party terminal emulators on there to
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by handrous 5y ago
Correct, shipping the equivalent of an entire full-featured GUI OS just to provide a terminal emulator is crazy.
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by handrous 5y ago
Obviously, but it does on one of the three platforms they list as supported. Also I wrote more words after the part.
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by handrous 5y ago
Looks... slow. Terminal.app comes pre-installed and has excellent input latency and general responsiveness. Linux and the BSDs have several decent-performing terminal emulators available. This looks like it's "modern" mostly
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by handrous 5y ago
Most people barely even experience seasonality now that nearly everything's available in the grocery store year-round (thanks to international shipping) and we have excellent central heating and cooling in our houses and offices. Plus
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by handrous 5y ago
Google started to go to shit around '08 or '09, allowing their results to be taken over by ad-spammers and a handful of top sites. At the same time, that's about when they adjusted search to make it extremely hard to narrow
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by handrous 5y ago
Indeed. That rapidly accelerated the shift from the Web, for most people, being a physical place you went (a desk with a computer on it, in a specific spot) to being everywhere at all times. You had to choose to go use it before, and make a
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by handrous 5y ago
Judging just from the headline, I assumed the article would mainly be about Cloudflare's entry into that market. The whole point of their strategy has been to position themselves as the foremost middle-men of the Web and then start e
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by handrous 5y ago
It's a need born of our tooling. The only way to stay sane is to operate extremely simple services, or to put every service in its own container (or VM) that can be torn down and re-created automatically. The result is a need for one
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by handrous 5y ago
> Fantasy football is actually interesting in that it happens “off hours”. I entirely associate fantasy football with working hours. Ditto a variety of other kinds of sports betting. Like, I know people do these at home, too, but there&#
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by handrous 5y ago
"Elder millennial" checking in. I'd not have any Internet service at home, including on cell phones, if not for a few things that require it—even if I didn't work from home, my spouse's job (teacher) requires home I
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by handrous 5y ago
> on this path to black mirror dystopia A bunch of episodes of Black Mirror aren't really even about the future. They're criticism of things right now (or, rather, when the episodes were made).
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by handrous 5y ago
Oof, sorry, didn't know I was linking one of those sites.
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by handrous 5y ago
Color and shape (outline, at least) differentiation making it easy to identify icons in one's peripheral vision is a really nice property for icons, and BeOS is pretty good on those fronts. The main sin of the "photoreal" i
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by handrous 5y ago
Really? That's a development I wasn't aware of. I'd also assumed that was the easy answer to "it's an actual emergency and we need to move this SUV". They really lock the car from shifting into neutral without
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by handrous 5y ago
> 2. This is false. Public "outdoor" alcohol consumption is generally acceptable and if put on the ballot would win in most places. It's legal where I live, in Austin TX. https://www.wideopeneats.com/states
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by handrous 5y ago
> For sure, nobody needs to worry about reading any of the books other than the original. Hell, I've only read the novella, and don't really see how it'd be improved by being extended into a full novel. Even a short one.
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by handrous 5y ago
One thing that drives me nuts, when I give in and produce a list of stuff I'd kinda sorta like for the various relatives requesting such and, inevitably, most of it's just books, is that no one will buy them used. I tell them to
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by handrous 5y ago
We ought to stop mixing up what are effectively mass-communication broadcast media with personal social networks. They ruin one another. But of course that would harm profits.
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by handrous 5y ago
You've forgotten about the effect of investment. Work on a team doing contract early-stage development for funded (that's important) startups and greenfield "experimental" projects for larger corporations and you can wor
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by handrous 5y ago
> allows
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by handrous 5y ago
> The experiment isn't entirely meaningful, because it is culturally dependent -- not just the star-ness, but the expectations of the performance. You don't have to go back very far in time to watch actors who were highly prais
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by handrous 5y ago
That's a private system on top of a universal public one, no? It's not an option as in "instead of private insurance, you can do this, but you can also forego this and use only private insurance". You have access to pu
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by handrous 5y ago
I think the impressive thing is doing it day after day. I can do lots of things, including programming, for 12+ hours. The trouble is, after a day or two of that, I desperately don't want to do whatever-it-is for several days or we
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by handrous 5y ago
Fighting fire with fire. By the actor in the weaker position. Maybe it's the Scots Borderer in me, but it warms my heart.
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by handrous 5y ago
> What kind of lifestyle there’s that allows the consumption of full day long content? Kids. Adults without kids.
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by handrous 5y ago
There's a weird and persistent-over-years blindness by a really high percentage of HN posters to how amazing iPads and even iPhones are as tools for creative work of practically every kind that isn't programming or extremely m

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