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by laumars 5y ago
> That sounds arrogant and condescending. In order for that to be true you would have to presume that any given behavior was objectively better, and therefore the anyone who prefers different behavior only does so because they are comfor
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by laumars 5y ago
I know I said wouldn’t reply (and frankly this meta debate is every bit as worthless as I predicted it would be) but I feel I should point out that you haven’t traced the thread back up to the OP when conducting your analysis. You need to h
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by laumars 5y ago
> No. When someone relates their negative experience with an OS you happen to use, that is not a personal attack What personal attacks are these? All I’ve seen thus far are adults having a mature conversation. > or invitation to expou
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by laumars 5y ago
> There is a difference between just liking the way things behave because you're comfortable with it and preferring the way it behaves because it is better. indeed there is. However the vast majority of people fall into the former c
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by laumars 5y ago
> Here we go...down the same rabbit hole that these Linux vs whatever else conversations always go down. At risk of sounding like a school child: you literally started it. My point was initially just to say that other people get on fine
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by laumars 5y ago
I am calm. What in my post suggested otherwise?
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> Good for you that you had this experience but this is the standard talking point I have been hearing for 15 years. Which is entirely anecdotal. I’ve done a considerable amount of research on this topic over the last 20 years and for th
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by laumars 5y ago
Quartz looked nothing like Compiz. Comparing the two and saying Quartz was better massively misses the point of what Compiz was and what the OP discussed. If you want to argue that most of Compiz effects were overused and tacky then that’s
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by laumars 5y ago
I switched to Linux full time before Compiz took off and did so for exactly the reasons you cited the other platforms were superior: Linux was more stable, easier to reason with (as it was doing less magic behind the scenes), components wor
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by laumars 5y ago
> Also the composited desktop Aero shipped in Windows Vista in late 2006, the same year as the initial release of Compiz. Opposite end of the year though since Compiz was released at the start of 2006. Compiz had seen significant develop
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by laumars 5y ago
You’ve admitted yourself that the article is highly opinionated and full of hyperbole so I don’t really see why you’re confused by my statement. But I’ll answer your question nonetheless. Any article stating something should be “banned” can
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by laumars 5y ago
I did read the article and frankly it’s little better than the HN title. It’s heavily biased, fails to offer a convincing argument to anyone other than those who already believed the title, and even explicitly says margins should be banned.
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by laumars 5y ago
It also wasn’t just the tick over to the year 2000. It was various dates and times around the year 2000 (leap years et al). But the Jan 01 2000 problem was the biggest and most high profile.
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by laumars 5y ago
Good point. I honest don’t know / can’t remember.
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by laumars 5y ago
There used to be a U.K. TV show (CBBC) based on this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27ll_Never_Work%3F
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by laumars 5y ago
> the whole desktop ecosystem are a complicated interdependent tangle of software put together by disparate teams for their own reasons. That’s literally the case with every popular operating system though. Even macs, with Apples histori
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by laumars 5y ago
String comparison works as long as you order your date time by significance and zero pad all values, which they were doing with their date stamp anyway. Plus if they weren’t then even numerical comparisons would fail eg 1012021 (Oct/1&
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by laumars 5y ago
The problem here is you’re not really substantiating what, in your opinion, makes Linux and BSD terrible desktops. > They seem primarily to be UNIX workstations meant for UNIX developers to do a little web browsing on the side and not mu
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by laumars 5y ago
They definitely have desktop usage in mind. They have desktop screenshots on their site, include desktop wallpapers and even have a section describing laptop comparability https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/user/Dra
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by laumars 5y ago
> The original message wasn't missing a point about complex rules harming small players. It was just stating that ANY shit done to IP laws is done on the pretence of helping the small players, but instead benefitting the big ones. T
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by laumars 5y ago
There was a fork of BeOS floating about which was based on BeOS source: Zeta. Unfortunately the company behind it (originally YellowTab, later Magnussoft) couldn’t prove they had any rights to the code.
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by laumars 5y ago
Have you tried DragonflyBSD? It’s built by an ex-AmigaOS developer and has some pretty innovative ideas.
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Happy New Year HN
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by laumars 5y ago
Already discussed that point: those have been remastered for CD and thus sound different to the original recorded versions. If you’re a purist like the GP then you wouldn’t listen to the CD versions. Of course, in practice most people are n
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by laumars 5y ago
No. Powershell is a whole new CLI user land as well as a shell. If you want something that’s compatible with POSIX but still has smart pipelines and native support for JSON then you’re better off with Elvish or Murex as shells.
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by laumars 5y ago
If you’re looking at file system in the purist possible sense, you’d be right. But equally a lot of other meta data is stored beyond the inode that file systems “understand”. And there is already precedence of file systems having code to in
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by laumars 5y ago
It would be trivial to code but any such wrapper would add overhead to file system operations. FUSE is a fantastic set of APIs (I’ve used it personally) and performs remarkably well considering it is constantly swapping memory between kerne
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by laumars 5y ago
Thats not a bad suggest per se but it would only work for Linux and thus you still have other POSIX systems that wouldn’t follow suit. So the advice here of not parsing ls is still prudent.
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by laumars 5y ago
> That's why the rules must be simple. That was literally the point I made which you disagreed with!
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Obviously shit earphones are going to sound shit. That’s true whether they’re bass heavy or not. So its a sentiment that is not contradictory to my point. My point is having earphones and headphones that can offer a deep and rich low end w

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