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by lukifer 6y ago
True, that's an option; but there's been nothing in new releases that justifies going through the effort (for my own n=1, anyway). It's not that the new releases are awful; they're just a hassle that fail a cost-benefit
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by lukifer 6y ago
Twice bitten, thrice shy. Every MacOS upgrade for the past 5+ years has been a bag of hurt: regressions in functionality and stability, annoying "features" like Notification Center and Catalina warning nags, various PITAs on fixin
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by lukifer 6y ago
Retroactive will allow you to run iTunes on Catalina or Big Sur: https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive (caveat: I have not personally tested it on Big Sur, but it's been working well for me on Catalina)
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by lukifer 6y ago
I'd be curious to know what portion of their user base for the Pro series are developers. Anecdotally, quite a lot of devs seems to use Macs; but I have no idea what that fraction is, relative to the rest of their market.
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by lukifer 6y ago
I intentionally took a performance hit by moving from a Pro to an Air almost entirely for this reason (although the low power and light weight are pleasant benefits). I'm glad that the new Air still has F-keys with Touch ID; but I&#x27
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by lukifer 6y ago
Curious about the same thing, re: the 7-core GPU vs. the 8-core GPU on the Air. Seems like a pretty arbitrary upgrade (and only a $50 difference).
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by lukifer 6y ago
I had no idea that FileMerge had a CLI (which apparently also supports `opendiff file1 file2`). That's quite helpful, thanks for the tip!
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by lukifer 6y ago
“On Being The Right Size” remains one of the most insightful essays I’ve ever read: http://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy3221/spring10/HaldaneRigh...
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by lukifer 6y ago
It's always been the case that "intent to distribute" is not decided by quantity alone. Merely the presence of something like multiple plastic bags can tip the scales into "intent", even if the quantity of the drug
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by lukifer 6y ago
Love it. I first learned BASIC on a keyboard form-factor Atari 800 XL [0], plugged into an old B&W 12" television. I think this device will be much more approachable, and open the Pi/Linux ecosystem to many more users. [0] ht
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by lukifer 6y ago
I second Approval Voting for similar reasons. In addition to the simplicity, IMO it sidesteps Arrow's Impossibility Theorem [0] by redefining the success condition: rather than trying to accurately capture political preferences, Approv
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by lukifer 6y ago
It's in a similar category as "LAMP stack" or "MEAN stack", but more vague on details: JAM = Javascript + APIs + Markup. APIs tend to perform the role of a CMS (sometimes called "headless CMS"), and Markup
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by lukifer 6y ago
It's kind of amazing that computing in general, and the internet in particular, is as open and free as it is (contrast with the closed end-to-end "appliance" model of gaming consoles, or to some extent iOS). Cory Doctorow has
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by lukifer 6y ago
This isn't a new debate; in the early days of the DMCA, it was used to go after the author of DeCSS [0], despite the fact that legitimate Fair Use cases for the tool exist (personal backups, playback on unsupported devices at the time,
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by lukifer 6y ago
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
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by lukifer 6y ago
This exemplifies the point: our very language has become politicized. Robin Hanson calls the phenomenon "RightTalk" [0]: we care less about outcomes, or even policy positions, than simply cajoling people to use the right keywords.
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by lukifer 6y ago
> Their job won't be to manage the P&L, their job will be to reinvest all the remaining margin into the customer experience. Just listened to this 2013 talk [0] by Thom Hartmann, who made a quite cogent case that a high marginal
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by lukifer 6y ago
Reminds me of the Google Reader saga: it took over from dedicated RSS readers due to convenience and experience, but when it was killed, the RSS ecosystem never fully bounced back.
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by lukifer 6y ago
User choice works the other direction as well: that consumers can choose to knowingly purchase a device that is locked down, for reasons of safety, trust, experience, etc. I happen to broadly favor anti-trust intervention against Apple in t
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by lukifer 6y ago
> The problem is that customers, PMs, and managers often don't communicate clearly either. Exactly. One of my favorite interview challenges is to write an input validation that checks for a valid SSN. The actual code should be prett
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by lukifer 6y ago
> Virtue signaling implies, to me at least, a person that is trying to make himself/herself look better to others. Is there a term for virtue signaling to one's self?
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by lukifer 6y ago
And of course, the infamous fire in a crowded theater argument was first coined as a rationale for punishing pamphleteering against the draft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
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by lukifer 6y ago
> we need the financial industry Do we, though? I don't know whether the answer is distributed blockchains, or the Department of the Treasury creating an API for USD, or both; but the current banking system seems to me like the lega
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by lukifer 6y ago
From Philip Tetlock's Superforecasting [0] to Robin Hanson's Futarchy [1], there's a strong argument that predictions are entirely valueless without "skin in the game", be it in reputation score, or dollars. [0] ht
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by lukifer 6y ago
In addition to "10 Arguments", I strongly recommend Lanier's "Who Owns The Future?" [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Owns_the_Future%3F
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by lukifer 6y ago
I've enjoyed Nora Bateson's appearances on the Future Thinkers and Jim Rutt Show podcasts, very curious about this film. Had to hunt a bit to find a streaming source: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/bateson
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by lukifer 6y ago
I agree with this. One of the things I've always loved about Star Trek isn't just its radical utopian economics, and sentientist egalitarianism, but the specific parable of the Kobiyashi Maru: that it is preferable to knowingly en
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by lukifer 6y ago
I do see references to the Principle of Charity occasionally, and I strongly support it. But to be meta-charitable to an anti-charity stance: doesn't a social norm of charity create an attack vector that can be exploited by dishonest a
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by lukifer 6y ago
Robin Hanson argues [0] that most of politics is not about outcomes; it's about in-group signaling. [0] http://elephantinthebrain.com/
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by lukifer 6y ago
I would say the Long Now Foundation [0] is influenced by Fuller and his ideas, carrying forward the values of planetary systems engineering and long-term thinking. It's a little farther afield (or crackpot depending who you ask), but T

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