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by mwfunk 7y ago
I enjoyed the article but this quote jumped out at me: "What took thirty years to build isn't going to be replaced in a day." This was in regard to replacing X11 with Wayland. It's funny because it would be closer to the
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by mwfunk 7y ago
I could almost tolerate it, might even enjoy it sometimes, but eating there is just excruciating to me. For some reason they all seem to be optimized for loudness. Buca di Beppo really wants you to feel like you’re always surrounded by huge
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Junk food is absolutely a form of debauchery, or at least can be a guilty pleasure.
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Might have been thinking of Tux Racer, which was 2000. Tux Racer was more like a snowboarding game than a kart racer though. Still well into the GUI age though. 2000 was a really weird time for Linux, in hindsight. KDE vs GNOME was getting
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Also Pittsburgh gets an honorable mention- they have "yinz" instead of y'all or youse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinz
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Yes, exactly. That's the sarcasm.
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by mwfunk 7y ago
How so? I hadn't heard about this.
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by mwfunk 7y ago
Those are good examples actually. Basically, if someone really latches on to a "just be yourself and don't think about it" philosophy, they're cutting off their only source of feedback that could help them grow and matur
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by mwfunk 7y ago
She was being sarcastic. She wasn't saying that nothing else matters, she was saying that nothing else matters if it fails at being a functional keyboard.
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by mwfunk 8y ago
I agree with you, and am in the same boat with most of my friends. I have friends that would normally be shopping around for a new car, but who are deciding to hold off a couple years because they've decided that their next car will be
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by mwfunk 8y ago
If someone uses hyperbole, scare words, and sweeping generalizations about complicated issues, rational people often assume that (a) that person is trying to bullshit them, or (b) someone else has successfully bullshitted (bullshat?) that p
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by mwfunk 8y ago
I don't doubt it in the short term, but I fear these are the sorts of articles that give people one more reason to want to stick their employees in open offices. The usual excuses presented to employees are handwavey things like "
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by mwfunk 8y ago
In fact, what most people would consider "a bad education" in some cases might even be the parents' reason for putting their kids in such a school to begin with. Like, they'd really rather homeschool them for religious o
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by mwfunk 8y ago
I've lived in the Rust Belt, the southeast, and California for big chunks of my life and you're right on about regionalisms. For language or social norms in general, all that matters is how something's taken, not what was mea
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by mwfunk 8y ago
I agree with you in principle, but what you are describing is a safe space in which all viewpoints can be voiced without judgement, and in which everyone has to politely sugarcoat major disagreements instead of "telling it like it is&q
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by mwfunk 8y ago
I think there are 3 wars that overlap but not fully. (1) Pragmatic debates about the usefulness of copyleft vs. BSD/X11/MIT/etc. in various situations (and for various goals), (2) a (tribal, and mostly imaginary?) "busin
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by mwfunk 8y ago
Part of it is that there's very casual, conversational usages of Big O vs. much more formal usages when trying to actually quantify performance. Conversational Big O tends to include a lot of spherical cows ( https://en.wikip
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by mwfunk 8y ago
Oh sweet summer child. How dare they try to figure out what the market will bear.
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by mwfunk 8y ago
This is almost certainly true, but they might make more money if (for example) one carrier's half-assed spam mitigation technology is shown to work better than a competing carrier's quarter-assed spam mitigation technology. From t
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by mwfunk 8y ago
Where have you seen a sign like that? Like what country, and what part of that country? If it's in America, I wouldn't interpret those sorts of signs as evidence of a religious attachment to science, but rather a reaction against
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by mwfunk 8y ago
I didn't downvote you, but it comes across like you were trying to nitpick someone by pointing out a detail that isn't relevant to what they were saying.
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by mwfunk 8y ago
When I was a teenager I read "The Story of Philosophy" by Will Durant. I hadn't had much exposure to philosophy before, but it sparked my interest in philosophy at a relatively young age. It covers the most widely known Weste
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by mwfunk 8y ago
Maybe I'm wrong, but my understanding is that proper zippering is simply waiting until the lane ends to merge. You align the right side of your car with the curb and let it weave you into the lane at its own pace. It doesn't neces
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by mwfunk 8y ago
I'm not normally one to complain about downvotes but I literally cannot imagine how any of what I wrote was remotely controversial. Like I'm trying to look at it with different interpretations and perspectives and I'm just no
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by mwfunk 8y ago
Lane straddling doesn't prevent people merging via the zipper rule. Rather, it prevents people already on the road from moving over to the merging lane, shooting ahead of a bunch of people, then merging again (slowing down everyone els
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by mwfunk 8y ago
I wish I could say that people believed in science. Priests (literal ones, not metaphorical ones like your strawmen) seem to have more influence over public policy in much of the world though, including America, and more often than not to t
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by mwfunk 8y ago
It is in the context of X servers, which is the context of the article.
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by mwfunk 8y ago
Every feature has a cost. Not just cost to develop, but cost to maintain. Every feature has a benefit- how useful is it, for how many users? If the cost outweighs the benefit, then it shouldn’t be allowed, for the sake of keeping the code m
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by mwfunk 8y ago
I would blame the staff themselves for that attitude, not the lack of people sitting around and typing and eavesdropping on each other.
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by mwfunk 8y ago
That makes sense. Having a meeting is disruptive to everyone else but working on documents does not. It's like an open office, the last thing you want to do is make noise and disturb people trying to get work done (ironically).

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