medstrom

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by medstrom 4y ago
The title also mentions IDEs. Haven't things termed "IDEs" always been heavier than Emacs, even back then?
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by medstrom 4y ago
Please DON'T use the threads. As of 2018 it has many data races ( https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/05/31/ ), and resultant bugs will be a nightmare to track down. The Emacs community has always got
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by medstrom 4y ago
25 years maybe...
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by medstrom 4y ago
That's a great explanation, you have quite the way with words! I'd add that it isn't only about preferences. Obviously if it works equally well either way, you save time and energy by just adapting yourself to your tools and
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by medstrom 4y ago
For those still on 28, `crux-rename-file-and-buffer` does the same thing ( https://github.com/bbatsov/crux ). I've been using it for half a decade at this point.
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by medstrom 4y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvotes, most of what you say makes sense. Although I'm not following that "it matters who chooses your rulers". To be very naive, as long as the set of voters includes me, my wishes will
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by medstrom 4y ago
Right! That makes sense.
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by medstrom 4y ago
The signature works fine over HTTP/FTP because it needs to be combined with a public key you already have (e.g. a distro package manager will already have the public key for all the packages), or a public key you will go get from a dif
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by medstrom 4y ago
This sort of thing is not as much an issue as you'd think, because at least in Linux world, most automated downloads will compare the SHA256 sum with a reference sum retrieved from a HTTPS site (there you go!), if not the GPG signature
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by medstrom 4y ago
It sounds like you're content letting anecdotes stand in for data. I'm not. See, a policy can have the intended effect on society as a whole even if there are plenty of anecdotes about situations where it doesn't. So the exi
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by medstrom 4y ago
I buy that smaller democracies could work better in many ways, provided they enjoy a stable peace with their neighbors. If a nation of 10M people lets a decision be made by the EU, that means the electorate for that decision goes from 10M p
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by medstrom 4y ago
An interesting discussion to be sure. But can't "net good" be a satisfactory judge for the Sacklers' crisis?
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by medstrom 4y ago
Why don't you like it? Do you perceive rights being lost, or...?
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by medstrom 4y ago
I believe it occurs, but how did you come to believe it occurs for "most"?
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by medstrom 4y ago
The problem in this approach is that even people who think they judge only on merits rarely do. If it was that easy, our laws would all be this sort of thing. It's easy to trust people to counter biases they know they have. Quotas e
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by medstrom 4y ago
Still messing with the intent, so you'd still need the company lawyers to stay on top of this arrangement and double-check regularly that your bases are covered and you can't be slammed in some way. Oh and you'd need to be s
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by medstrom 4y ago
Aye, the network is also superb at work... I don't have stats but it won't surprise me if the typical user is on 4G/3G and half of those people will always browse to your site at just the time when they're in an area of
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by medstrom 4y ago
You must know this claim of yours can trigger a huge discussion. If you want to discuss it in good faith, you must write more, not toss in a one-sentence slogan like a grenade and hope it gets people to spend a ton of effort in response.
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by medstrom 4y ago
This is one law, not a whole policy. The law has only to do with corporate boards and doesn't imply all is OK with the rest.
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by medstrom 4y ago
Problem is you presumably care about the company's success, so you don't want to take such risks messing with the intent of the law.
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by medstrom 4y ago
Cutting power is wonderful UX. It's immediate and non-negotiable. After reading the rest of this thread, I dread the inevitable smart power strips that sense the approaching toe/finger and react before it arrives...
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by medstrom 4y ago
That can be desirable if the filesystem path to Photos includes a directory named something like "storage". Of course it should still prioritize apps that actually have "stor" in the name, but maybe you didn't have
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by medstrom 4y ago
Sorting by frequency/recency looks like the culprit. You often type 'for' and select forums.overclockers.co.uk, so the engine takes that into account and prioritizes that candidate, but you haven't done the same when ty
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by medstrom 4y ago
It may have been 2-4 seconds for your dev machine at work but 15-20 for a typical user.
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by medstrom 4y ago
Yes, my trick is to avoid the global search and go for a specific search, e.g. on the iPhone I go to the apps library and only then swipe down to get the search. That search is for apps only, so it's instant & responsive.
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by medstrom 4y ago
It's more the other way around. The Romans called the isles Britannia Major and Britannia Minor (now Great Britain and Ireland). Some time after Rome fell, Britons started to settle in another region they called Armorica, so it change
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by medstrom 4y ago
Yes, that would make the movement suspect. But if you'd read MacAskill or other sources, you'd know the original motivation was pretty much the opposite. The were aghast that lots of people currently donate to charities that ens
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by medstrom 4y ago
Thank you for engaging with me. I have two questions. 1. "No one has any idea how to create X now" does not lead to "Imminent creation of X is very unlikely to be true". Right? 2. You can always assign probabilities.
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by medstrom 4y ago
What would it make sensible to start researching the proliferation of black hole bombs, for you?
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by medstrom 4y ago
Nick Bostrom wouldn't have missed that, he's a very precise philosopher (I'm reading his book Anthropic Bias, and damn I'm glad I didn't have to tease out that mess by myself). This quote comes from a particular tho

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