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by psd1 3y ago
Thought: hate for a product is at least partially a factor of who buys it - or, more precisely, how often you see dickheads with it. Self-infatuated people are attracted to premium brands, and entitled people and premium brands are both mor
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by psd1 3y ago
Chocolatey does. Maybe AppGet, but that's been retired, so ymmv
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by psd1 3y ago
> a fundamentally-theological apartheid state was installed and then supported with brutal force This is also a handwave. Minor quibble over "theological" - I think "tribal" would fit better. Humans are a funny animal
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by psd1 3y ago
No mention of completions. How does HN provide tab-completion for CLI commands?
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by psd1 3y ago
The problem with firing bastards is the asymmetry. The disgruntled ex can bullshit on social media but the director can't do the same. The reasons for the firing are, in any civilised nation, privileged information, and it's undig
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by psd1 3y ago
I think what you mean is that it has only taken you this long to find out that windows has package managers. Winget is 3 years old. It rips off AppGet, which was quite a bit older. Chocolatey is a decade old. Scoop is about 4. But a package
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by psd1 3y ago
I have used it for 3-4 years. It has occasionally broken and been a complete fucking pain to fix. However, when it works, it's extremely nice. I definitely prefer the ui over any other package manager on any other OS that I've tri
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by psd1 3y ago
Or... when you have to go back 1300 years to shed light on a complex issue, naive people should consider that they might not fully grasp the basis of the conflict
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by psd1 3y ago
Ah! I now see why you think he is bad at politics. I'm sorry to shatter your illusions. In a better system, it would be. But this is UK politics. If you don't win outright, you lose. Therefore, for most of us, we don't vote _
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by psd1 3y ago
Nominally represents. We do not have PR or direct democracy. Typically, the government gets about a third of the national vote.
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by psd1 3y ago
No, you misunderstand the situation. The electoral system for Westminster makes a handful of constituencies, all in England, the kingmakers, giving the national government a hubris that is not matched by their actual levels of support on th
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by psd1 3y ago
My first objection is that any intolerant minority then becomes the arbiter of shame. By nature an intolerant minority is the last category of groups that should have that power. Second is the question of where you draw the line. Mason Gree
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by psd1 3y ago
Disagree. My criticism of him - my ardour has cooled very much - is that he's as much of a political weasel as all the rest. I think his calculus was bang-on to avoid taking a Brexit position. He probably captures the anti-Brexit vote
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by psd1 3y ago
I despise authoritarianism and agree with your concern about our ever-increasing surveillance state. However, down is not the only direction. The nation has been far more authoritarian in the past; we will be more liberal again in the futur
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by psd1 3y ago
Just the watching is indeed a problem. It makes me feel violated. Whether or not I have something to hide, or might get a knock on the door, is a completely separate point.
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by psd1 3y ago
Right, but it's also creepy and intimidating. Many things are legal but odious. The question isn't whether the government broke the law, it's how heinous their behaviour is.
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by psd1 3y ago
Spanish politics is based on coalition; when a government is voted out, it generally retains a significant presence in the next government. The UK looks like it's about to send the tories to the shadow realm, so they have zero incentiv
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by psd1 3y ago
The set of polemics that include the word "woke" and the set of opinions that I learn anything at all from has zero overlap. None. It's a strong signifier of a value-driven rant and a slightly weaker signifier of Dunning-Krug
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by psd1 3y ago
I'm early in my emacs journey, but used VSCode for years. The Github extension is absolutely amazing for pull requests, since you have all your LSP and regex code navigation goodness. I only used it for a small percentage of reviews, b
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by psd1 3y ago
Yeah, turning that on and setting the exceptions is on my to-do list...
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by psd1 3y ago
Colour e-ink is available for retail purchase, and the colour reproduction is passable. The refresh time is big fractions of a minute, but that's OK for static displays. Obviously that misses the entire point of this parasiteware, whic
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by psd1 3y ago
Parasitism. Evolve into an ecological niche where your prey has no defence against you, and suck nutrients from the prey, up to a maximal level where you don't quote kill it outright. We treat parasite infections with toxic chemicals.
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by psd1 3y ago
Yes, and... Glass doors may perform worse than opaque alternatives when closed, but their time open is shorter.
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by psd1 3y ago
> Some products are smaller than the others, making them harder to spot I fear that even this is not an actualisable benefit. Size is probably the easiest visual differentiator to perceive. You can differentiate between eyedrops and sham
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by psd1 3y ago
"vandalism" implies destruction of something of value. I propose the phrase "guerrilla maintenance".
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by psd1 3y ago
It doesn't lack utility. It has large negative utility.
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by psd1 3y ago
"We noticed that some consumers were simply opening the doors without waiting for the benefit of the information, so version 2 features interlocks!"
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by psd1 3y ago
It grieves me that some twats made a pile of money from this. I mean, there's a kind of honesty in making your money as a meth dealer. This product is like co-opting healthcare budget for shitting in a water fountain.
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by psd1 3y ago
I don't clear cookies because session cookies are useful. If cookies are never session cookies, then I can treat all cookies as useless.
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by psd1 3y ago
Agreed, with only one slight quibble: content can be good even when the purpose is sales.

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