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by handrous 5y ago
OK, so they can be handy, in the hands of a government-in-exile looking to replace a foreign-imposed kleptocracy with a restoration of their own religious authoritarian state. That's granting that we can call enough of what they'v
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by handrous 5y ago
All proprietary ones, but yes, of course. I don't know what you think I'm trying to avoid telling you—I've worked on a lot of codebases in a lot of languages for a lot of different platforms over ~20 years, and repeated expos
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by handrous 5y ago
Um. > examples of private firearms preserving liberty and democratic government.
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by handrous 5y ago
More damningly for the "guns preserve liberty" position, I'm pretty sure that, if anything, private arms had more of a role in resisting and suppressing the US civil rights movement, than in aiding it (and yes, I'm aware
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by handrous 5y ago
I did cover that—it's irrelevant, because Rails in particular is much worse, at similar levels of neglect or incompetence, than lots of other frameworks+languages. It's a joy to build with from scratch, and it's fine as lon
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by handrous 5y ago
Negative examples don't work too well, since I can point at, say, the US at many points and say "doesn't look like a great example of liberty"—meanwhile, progress toward such doesn't seem to have had much to do wi
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by handrous 5y ago
Life before enlightenment: Chop wood, carry water. Life after enlightenment: Chop wood, carry water.
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by handrous 5y ago
I'm on the look-out for examples of private firearms preserving liberty and democratic government. Have any? Post-WWI strongly preferred. (serious question)
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by handrous 5y ago
Of course most codebases are shit, but it matters a lot more when a Rails codebase is shit than in many other languages/frameworks. The reasons are mainly: 1) The amount of "magic" available and how much it's used—in low
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by handrous 5y ago
Agreed. I've done a lot of Rails over the years, and concluded that, except in the hands of a stable and incredibly disciplined, talented, and knowledgable-about-Rails team, it borders on being write-only. Ruby's fun to write bu
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by handrous 5y ago
I was angry at him for taking such an excellent start to a novel, and then spending... what, 300, 400 more pages, just wasting it. I think the part where the anger really took over, as my main feeling toward and about the novel, was a sce
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by handrous 5y ago
> Why should I read these decades, centuries, millennia old books as a beginner [1]? In no other field are beginners asked to read old primary texts. I think there are a few reasons: 1) I can't explain why, but, unlike physics or ma
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by handrous 5y ago
> To add to what you said, I suspect that Docker containers are much easier to configure than OS packages because they are all to some extent Twelve Factor compliant, which means that configuration and operations are simplified. Yeah, I
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by handrous 5y ago
- Docker's built-in service management works plenty well enough for a lazy home setup, which saves you having to care about how your server's distro manages services. - Using docker means I can easily specify the version I want to
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by handrous 5y ago
> Server-driven UI is new Uh, no, not at all.
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by handrous 5y ago
Hahaha. Worked at a startup that made something damn similar around 2010 (XML documents describing apps, which our core code drew as native UI). The docs for Hyperview are downright nostalgic. :-)
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by handrous 5y ago
> Joke's on me. That paper has never actually helped me get a job. sigh Knowing that, in an interview, I won't be asked why I don't have a degree, has been at least 90% of the value of mine.
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by handrous 5y ago
I keep hearing & reading enough good things about that one that I'll likely check it out eventually. I kinda swore him off after The Diamond Age gave me the novel but unpleasant experience of being actually angry with an author
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by handrous 5y ago
Huh—I'd have said Cryptonomicon 's the only one of his I've read that didn't turn into a directionless mess halfway through, and/or have a bad ending. Also read The Diamond Age , Snow Crash , and Anathem .
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by handrous 5y ago
> You really prefer to manage finances on your phone? The phone apps for my banks and credit cards are better than their sites. I'd want my reminders on there, anyway. If a "hey pay this bill" reminder comes in, I can take
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by handrous 5y ago
Ha! Didn't occur to me to search the archaic name on Wikipedia, but in hindsight, of course that works.
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by handrous 5y ago
What ended up being the cause of that mysterious spectral line?
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by handrous 5y ago
Closest I've come to having to manually set up anything with a simple `brew install docker` making sure my shell sets the env vars correctly. It automatically sets up the VM, and has since I started using it years ago. (but, it's
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by handrous 5y ago
iOS/iPadOS is the only graphical OS I've used without constant bullshit performance issues affecting the UI (stuttering, pauses, unresponsiveness to input) and with notably low input latency, aside from BeOS and QNX (back when t
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by handrous 5y ago
I just use whatever `brew install docker` gives me. They don't call that Docker Desktop, right? I thought that was some kind of GUI thing of theirs—I do all my dockering from the command line, which looks the same across Mac and Linu
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by handrous 5y ago
- Photography and video (capture and editing—is a desktop nice for that? Sure, but the desktop can't also be your camera) - Art (sketching/"painting"/et c) - Music (tuner, recording, accompaniment, sheet-music d
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by handrous 5y ago
> In addition to the obvious time zone constraints, I think payroll taxes and such are a major regulatory boundary that you need to cross in addition to having "all your shit together" as one of the top comments puts it. This c
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by handrous 5y ago
From what I've seen, the smart ones with good business sense are the ones who make real money in the trades, and they're mostly doing sales, supervision, training, and maybe personally handling some limited amount of the trickie
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by handrous 5y ago
I've used Docker for years and never touched Desktop. What's indispensable about it?
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by handrous 5y ago
> Phones and tablets are passive consumption and quick communication devices only, the exact opposite of what we should be encouraging in many ways. They are really far from being "passive consumption and quick communication devic

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