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by mmirate 10y ago
> It also means the battery can't have a funky custom-designed shape that devices with integrated batteries can ... so you're saying that designing for a detachable battery forces a certain finesse when designing the rest of th
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by mmirate 10y ago
Substitute math by programming, and it becomes easy to see the pitfalls of CS's current "portfolio" paradigm.
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by mmirate 10y ago
> don't realize that natural variation is a real thing Google shows me nothing but out-of-context biology-textbook material, so I'll ask: what is the relevance here of "natural variation"?
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by mmirate 10y ago
> attempting to define the quality of your life in reference to fixed external criteria is arguably pathological in itself Isn't this merely inaccurate rather than pathological, since external criteria are almost never fixed ? (cf.
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by mmirate 10y ago
Sidenote, detachable batteries are also useful in that the overall service lifetime of a battery can easily be shorter than that of the rest of the laptop.
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by mmirate 10y ago
> it's either irrational, or very rational but starting from very strong axioms. I'm not sure I understand why the latter is anywhere near as bad as the former, or even bad at all. ... Err, by "very strong" did you me
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by mmirate 10y ago
> automatable using cron and rsync over ssh ... shell script or command line pipe ... Where I come from, that's called "knowing how to use a computer". Or at least it was , until Windows et al arrived. (Interesting how t
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by mmirate 10y ago
And one square-mile at a time. The Southeast alone has acres upon acres of rural settlements (okay, fine, towns ) with low population-density; it would take a significant expedition to spread "opportunity" to a noticeable porti
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by mmirate 10y ago
Exactly. Not to mention, that not everyone is within reach of a critically-minded citizen; after all, population-density outside of urban areas is very low.
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by mmirate 10y ago
> the simplified "us vs them" mentality, the complete disregard for policy nuance and critical thinking Pray tell, to what extent would the median-intelligence US citizen understand the words "nuance" and "crit
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by mmirate 10y ago
... if only because it might instead be a mental disability.[1] [1]: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811912...
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by mmirate 10y ago
> In Go, for example, to parse and return a JSON response from some web API, you first need to create a struct whose fields and field-types exactly match the structure of the response. Right, but why can't these declarations be writ
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by mmirate 10y ago
For starters, I'd consider Windows 10's telemetry systems to be a significant regression in security.
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by mmirate 10y ago
Wrong direction of layering, and thus of limited use imho. Of the two OSes, the weaker link, security-wise, is definitely Windows 10 rather than Linux. Putting Linux programs under a Windows 10 abstraction layer means that any malware, bugs
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by mmirate 13y ago
Disney's copyright lobbying suggests that your bitterness is completely appropriate. Ever wonder why the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 was nicknamed the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act"?