lwouis

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by lwouis 5y ago
Independence is a pipe-dream. You always depend on others and physical resources. If you install a solar panel to "become independent from centralized energy systems", you're moving from a dependence to established energy net
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by lwouis 5y ago
I must say as a non expert on the topic, i don't understand the downvotes. I wish people who downvoted would take a moment and explain what they disliked
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by lwouis 5y ago
Every week, I read some new grotesque story about NFC. Every time I'm reminded of the movie Idiocracy. We have 2 billion people in poverty. Climate change threatens our sedentary civilizations. We still have no clue what's going o
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by lwouis 5y ago
I think a lot is transferable. It depends on what your daily job is. Retro-gaming and emulation is low-level. So if your job is low-level like systems, OS, embedded, etc, then it's transferable experience/knowledge.
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by lwouis 5y ago
I made a FOSS alt-tab drop-in for macOS: https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/ I also list alternatives on that page. That may inspire you
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by lwouis 5y ago
Lots of links/tips on windows management on macOS in this thread. For people interested, you can check out my FLOSS app which brings Windows alt-tab to macOS: https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/ I investigated this spac
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by lwouis 5y ago
You clearly don't know what IntelliJ offers. I've been paying a high price for their tools for years now, and will not stop. My colleagues are often on VSCode so i've forced myself to use it and learn it so i could help them
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by lwouis 5y ago
> civilization is becoming better (over time) by every single measurable metric. CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is increasing. Fossil fuel, metals, and other one-off resources being depleted at exponential rate. Biodiversity is coll
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by lwouis 5y ago
For example, angular, react, vue, etc. You can follow these tools as their popularity comes and go, but at the end of the day they exist on top of HTML/CSS/JS. So while these 3 basic blocks are there to stay forever, the tools on
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by lwouis 5y ago
> They were replaced with [FOTM mills] as soon as better alternatives became available (probably during the industrial revolution?). This is not true. The definition of "better" doesn't exist as it's subjective. Windm
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by lwouis 5y ago
> You can’t pay rent with smiles. You do. Make an effort to think of the many cases in life where people do things for each other without money. Parents will host you for free, shelters do it, woofing or being au-pair, etc. Open-source c
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by lwouis 5y ago
Of course it's valid to want your website to serve users of IE6 or iPad1. You may not care for such users but not everyone is like you, living in your country, caring about the things you care about. There are many valid use cases for
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by lwouis 5y ago
The spirit of this, caring for objects that have helped people for a long time so they can be used for years to come, is something I try to develop in regards to software. I try to point out to people who use words like "legacy" a
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by lwouis 5y ago
HTTPS is not a strict improvement over HTTP. Indeed it adds SSL requirements to the client, increases resources needed to access/serve the content, requires to acquire and maintain a certificate, etc. It's a common practice to off
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by lwouis 5y ago
Money as the end-all-be-all is pretty new. I notice it a lot in American culture in particular. People have dedicated their life to all sorts of endeavors in the past, and still do of course. Big religions are a prime source of people doing
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by lwouis 5y ago
macOS APIs have poor documentation overall, but JXA is on another level. It's not even like Carbon APIs which are still necessary to use today, but which documentation was removed from Apple's website. At least here, you can find
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by lwouis 5y ago
I find fewer and fewer new features motivating an upgrade. These days it's integration or fluff like tracking the time you spend on each app. I'm on Catalina and have no incentive to upgrade, but have many incentives not to (e.g.
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by lwouis 5y ago
I don't think there is anything you can do to prevent rich kids from having an easy life. They are not numerous though, but definition. So the concern shouldn't be too large as well. In France where i'm from, and also here in
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by lwouis 5y ago
The demo link sent me to a straight-up scam website...
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by lwouis 5y ago
Personally, I don't want any more growth. Infinite growth is not sustainable. Developed countries are way past what's necessary for a good life. I'd like to advocate for a slow controlled de-growth so we can reach climate agr
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by lwouis 5y ago
I read a lot of anti-diplomas ideology, especially from US culture. Over the years I've realized that the multi-years selection people go through in academia is a decent and most importantly long process to select people. A lot of the
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by lwouis 5y ago
Oh that's where i read that. Thanks! I believe the point i made still stands though
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by lwouis 5y ago
I really appreciate people like you reminding most everyone that new != better. I live in Japan which people usually mock for still using fax machines, or keeping "the old ways" in many aspect of society. There are important posit
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by lwouis 5y ago
"Breaking" is undefinable. I remember reading about some user complaining that a small bugfix broke their work setup because it fixed a bug that used to make the CPU go 100% when the spacebar was held. The user would hold it with
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by lwouis 5y ago
Societies of the past had to deal with this. We still deal with this in wealthy societies actually. When the US west coast is hot and dry, authorities ration water usage. I can imagine governements doing a more serious job and limiting more
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by lwouis 5y ago
You're looking at bacterias on a petri dish. They are exponentially taking over the dish and soon will collapse under their own activity. That's us. An advantage we have over the bacterias is that we can discuss together how we wi
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by lwouis 5y ago
We moved from having a few new clothes a year to having new clothes as often as we want. We have also exponentially grown our population. An Earth with let's say 2 billion people at 2 set of clothes a year has considerably less environ
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by lwouis 5y ago
Any time we increase efficiency, we also increase consumption. 5G increases efficiency, it's true. Now people consume more. It's enables new usages which people will jump on. This happens in History every time we improve efficienc
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by lwouis 5y ago
5G is a new park of machines for the network operators. It's also a new park of machines for the consumers. It's huge because we are so numerous. Imagine you renew a boat fleet. Imagine the impact on the nearby forest. Going from
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by lwouis 5y ago
My proposition is that we have to deal with our scale if we don't want to be the bacterias that took over the petri dish and died because they made their environment toxic for themselves. We have never had to care so far because we wer

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