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by na85 4y ago
>Bitcoin is the killer app for Blockchain If the killer app of the Blockchain is Bitcoin, what does it say about the underlaying technology that the "killer app" is useful only as an extremely volatile speculation vehicle, and
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>why would anyone think you could do that? They don't realize/they lack intuition about the nonlinearity of going from rectangular to polar coordinates. Things like this aren't necessarily immediately obvious, depending on
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by na85 4y ago
Agree with this. I would never give a "religious game" a second thought. Automatic pass, irrespective of the mechanics.
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I don't find gawker's new design to be particularly pleasant, subjectively speaking, but I do find it quite refreshing . The 201X's world wide web was extremely dull, corporate, and homogenous; I won't be sad to leave i
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by na85 4y ago
Sounds like FreeBSD has a process problem if such a patch got merged.
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>There is an element of chance in chess. Whether an opponent plays an opening you have recently studied and how many mistakes your opponent makes is out of your control. That's really not what's meant by chance. Chess is no mor
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by na85 4y ago
>If not, why in god's name would you have 16GB RAM as a selling point? With 16 GB you can run two whole Electron apps!
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I'm surprised nobody has suggested contacting the FBI or other INTERPOL member force. That's what I would do.
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>Kotlin has been the official language of Android for a relatively short period of time, true, but it's entirely interoperable with all Java code, and improves maintainability _significantly_. Has the JavaScript culture of rewriting
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by na85 4y ago
God fucking damn it. This one is particularly galling because fair email is actually far superior to k9. I'm so sick of these giant faceless corporations.
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He's a chump and only "believes" in that stuff insofar as it lets him perpetuate his savior complex.
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He didn't, he just pretends he did. Same as how he LARPs as an engineer for SpaceX.
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Presumably they're not often found in junk yards.
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>Do software solutions can work? Realistically speaking it's your personal discipline and work ethic that's going to make it or break it, whether or not you have a hardware or software solution. But I think the answer to this i
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by na85 4y ago
May I suggest WriteRoom? https://github.com/joostkremers/writeroom-mode
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>Any guesses to their "patent-pending" technology? I'd wager it's the airfoil and/or the blade construction.
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>Why does it have to be so siloed? What if I want documents with a slight bit of inactivity? You aren't allowed to have that, because it's not profitable for the web developer crowd's bosses. So your "slight bit of i
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by na85 4y ago
That quote about the Australian politician who didn't understand that Australian law can't trump the natural laws of mathematics comes to mind.
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>How could anyone call another "brain damaged" and then demand to them not to be offended? Like, seriously. If you're going to insult someone, live up to it and prepare for a backlash instead of trying to get away with &qu
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>you wouldn’t be complaining about eMacs lacking the defaults you’re used to in whatever brain damaged editor you are more adroit with You're not actually understanding what I've written, if this is your takeaway.
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I actually use emacs as my primary editor and like it a lot. The difference is I'm not a zealot.
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By your own statement in another comment you "think it's perfect". It would seem you and I have very little common ground.
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>Is there a context from which Emacs' defaults are bad, other than "Windows did it differently!" ? There are dozens of low hanging fruit. Off the top of my head: - dispensing with the absurd references to Alt as Meta that
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>The time it takes to look up potential configs, figure out how to make changes, play around and see if that’s what they want from their editor, and in general figure out what’s possible doesn’t really happen in a “modest amount” of time
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by na85 4y ago
>Emacs is not so much an editor as it is a tool well-suited for writing custom editors. I hate this meme and wish it would die. Emacs is a perfectly suitable editor that happens to have really bad defaults because the developers are most
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I've always had the sense that this is a very vocal minority of emacs users, and that there's a heavy overlap with the people who, say, spend time "ricing" their i3 configs. I spent a few tens of minutes setting up LSP f
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by na85 4y ago
The "punk" in cyberpunk comes from the misanthropic nature of so many characters in the seminal works, just like in Neuromancer, and embodied in the trite phrase "high tech; low life"
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>the perfectionist inside of me >Maybe it's just me, but it genuinely disgusts me to see Calibri because it's not crispt and has some of the worst curvatures I've seen on a font. >crispt As a perfectionist who admits
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>Yeah, bundling everything into iTunes worked really well for Apple, didn't it? :D I'm not really an "Apple Guy" so it's not clear to me what you are referring to.
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> Wouldn't it make more sense for the scanning feature to be its own app, so that users can find it, know what it is, and not activate it accidentally? It's been a few years since I had that phone so the details are a bit fuzzy

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