littlecosmic

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by littlecosmic 2y ago
I reckon the peaceful existence of macOS is a counterpoint to this argument.
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by littlecosmic 2y ago
Trade sanctions rarely achieve their stated aim, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t the law.
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by littlecosmic 2y ago
All of these perplexed comments about how it could happen make me feel like I live a cursed life. Customer maybe can’t understand/accept the real cost to do a good job. Matching this, management probably prioritises hitting deadlines o
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by littlecosmic 2y ago
Apple locks down the platform which means others can’t contribute, but then isn’t capable enough to fill all the roles it takes to make a professional platform.
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by littlecosmic 2y ago
Being in a position to make sacrifices for retirement can also be a privilege.
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by littlecosmic 3y ago
In theory government can do almost anything so it’s hard for this statement to be wrong…
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by littlecosmic 3y ago
I find if I am running frequently, the alternative source of feel-good chemicals makes bad food less attractive. I find this a little surprising as I would have thought I would crave bad food more. The only time I have been a normal weight
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by littlecosmic 3y ago
Neither this nor the original is available in Australia from Valve. They make it hard to be a fan.
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by littlecosmic 3y ago
People aren’t just motivated by profit, but those urges are marginalised by the current system.
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by littlecosmic 4y ago
I think thats it is two separate groups piping up with two different opinions on remote work.
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by littlecosmic 4y ago
I feel like that when I finish the week's grocery shopping
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by littlecosmic 4y ago
This was a few year ago now, but I was caught out by Adobe because they only enabled the 'cancel' button a few weeks before the subscription was about to renew. I contacted support and they said all I could do was wait until the c
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by littlecosmic 4y ago
We don’t have to eat those specific things… we grow a lot of edible items that is fed to them too and farmers make planting decisions based on knowing they will sell it for animal fodder.
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by littlecosmic 4y ago
People often want/need to live near their friends and family, which makes them irrational from the market's point of view. Treating location as fungible gives them cheaper housing, but isolation.
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by littlecosmic 5y ago
As you say, Alice is not in desperate need of pizza, so she’ll just wait for a deal that gives her the most. The power to say no to deals is the true advantage of greater wealth.
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by littlecosmic 5y ago
It's possible that the earning 'on average' is hiding a lot. Now it will be earning 'at least' instead.
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by littlecosmic 5y ago
I think people's general dissatisfaction with bloated sites and slow internet will make them try Chrome when Google, a company they mostly trust, tells them its better. Then Chrome will prompt them to become the default and for a lot p
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by littlecosmic 5y ago
If you are doing it everyday, I agree, but only living for others is a recipe for burnout.
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by littlecosmic 5y ago
if we were kangaroos, rabbits, or deer, we would do a population cull on ourselves 'for our own good' (not that I think we should).
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by littlecosmic 5y ago
I think that if you are truely an optimist, you believe you are a realist. If being an optimist is a mask you put on for strategic reasons, you are not an optimist.
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by littlecosmic 5y ago
With htmx the size and complexity of web client should be radically reduced compared to a heavy JS client app consuming the JSON API. I reckon this could free one up to make an API that was specialised for native clients and possibly even t
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by littlecosmic 5y ago
When I was at uni I took Steve Yegge's Effective Emacs post to heart ( https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs ), now my most used tweak is: "^w" = (deleteWordBackward:);
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by littlecosmic 5y ago
Thanks for the heads up. My most used feature is a simple remapping of 'backwards delete word', which still seems to work.
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by littlecosmic 5y ago
For sure. The whole thing feels like a happy accident that fell out of how NextStep was built.
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by littlecosmic 5y ago
It's easy to forget that this little beast is all pervasive and can be customised so much. Every time I set up a new Mac, I feel happy it is here, but scared that one day it will just stop working. The perils of closed source, I guess.
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Customizing the Cocoa Text System (2006)(hcs.harvard.edu)
103 points by littlecosmic 5y ago|26 comments
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by littlecosmic 5y ago
I clicked through the link and I think that the commenter felt that there was enough information to identify someone, not that they had identified someone.
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by littlecosmic 6y ago
Maybe it is better, but what part of what he said is not true, do you think?
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by littlecosmic 6y ago
or is the soy oil a way to make more money off of animal feed?
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by littlecosmic 6y ago
Humans are superior to animals in many ways, but many animals feel pain as readily as humans and have instincts that are frustrated when we use them. Ie, they suffer because of what we do to them. It seems silly to get stuck on a point abou

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