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by racer-v 9y ago
You can't change the past, but you can make the future a better place, so I'll make the decision of whether to apologize based on the future.
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by racer-v 9y ago
Some "old ways" are healthier and some are less healthy. They have to be evaluated individually. Saying across the board, as you are, that pre-industrial lifestyles were universally less healthy in every way, is just as false as s
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by racer-v 9y ago
Fair enough; since GREP_OPTIONS seems only useful for interactive sessions, perhaps non-interactive shells should purge it from the environment (e.g. with BASH_ENV). It would be great if grep could figure out whether its parent process is a
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by racer-v 9y ago
I like your solution further down in the Rust pull request: programs like make could collect output using a pty rather than a pipe or temp file This seems brilliant. The pipe mechanism is too dumb to differentiate between these cases - Un
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by racer-v 9y ago
Does that part of the build system then need to explicitly unset CLICOLOR_FORCE and MAKE_TERMOUT Yes, it should be the responsibility of the build system to control the environment variables set during the build. What would happen if a b
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by racer-v 9y ago
That's why I use exercise as a counter-example to the GP for mocking people who "wish to live in the past" and "live the way many of our ancestors did." Compared with today, the lifestyles of our ancestors had both
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by racer-v 9y ago
Who benefits when you try to force an unwanted apology on someone who doesn't want to be contacted by you? Consider whether you're just trying to assuage your own guilty conscience at the further expense of the victim.
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by racer-v 9y ago
I notice a lot more of what I'd call the "fallacy of progress" - the idea that because humans did more of something in the past, it must be outmoded and not worth doing. Exercise and fresh air are still good for you, even tho
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by racer-v 9y ago
Also, I'm not sure what you mean by the term "natural fallacy". I don't think it's the "naturalistic fallacy" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy - it sounds more like
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by racer-v 9y ago
The mentioned article https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/filtering-stream-water-... - is typical muckraking journalism. The original Slate author is trying to create a scandal out of the idea that outdoor g
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by racer-v 9y ago
You'll probably live a longer, happier life, and do more good for others in the world, if you have compassion for yourself.
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by racer-v 9y ago
One of the first phrases I try to learn when visiting a foreign country is how to apologize for bumping somone, or ask someone to move aside. "Excuse me" in English, "entschuldigen" in German, "jièguāng" in Man
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by racer-v 9y ago
I agree that not every person who can't or won't accept your apology is toxic. My advice is: when a person you don't know well claims to have been offended by you, look for signs that the person just wants a fight. If that&#x
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by racer-v 9y ago
By "toxic" I mean someone who essentially sees social situations as a way to play out their inner sadistic tendencies - for example by passive-aggressively seeking conflicts so they can play the victim, or constantly looking for &
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by racer-v 9y ago
It's also crucial to consider the motivations of the person you're apologizing to. If that person is interested in moving forward and (re)building the relationship, do it. But if the "offended" party is still resentful,
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by racer-v 9y ago
There's one thing that prevents me from using self-checkouts: they have an annoying synthesized voice that says things like "place your items in the bag" or "please insert cash". I'm opposed on principle to voi
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by racer-v 9y ago
Doing what wrong?
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by racer-v 9y ago
If you're convinced that you should be making everyone work instead of subsidizing their existence (which is much cheaper), you need to bring jobs outside of the city. Telling everyone to just live in San Francisco doesn't scale.
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by racer-v 9y ago
Ah right you are, thanks - I remember learning Python and switching to Gentoo about the same time, but as David Hume warned us, it's hard to infer causality from proximity.
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by racer-v 9y ago
I've been hearing about Emacs X Window Manager but haven't given it a shot yet https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm
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by racer-v 9y ago
It's actually not that difficult to maintain context if you use completely different shells (with different-looking prompts) on your own machine vs the fleet. It's like code-switching when you talk to your friends at the bar vs co
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by racer-v 9y ago
Anything that supports pipes and signals, and is easy to install. I've started using Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL) because it's the default implementation used with the Roswell installer. https://github.com/roswell
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by racer-v 9y ago
Gentoo is basically this. I learned Python by writing .ebuilds (their package format is a short Python script that downloads and builds whatever software you're installing).
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by racer-v 9y ago
> I quite seriously believe that a 1000 line shell script only exists out of error. Perhaps the best use case for Oil is to provide a debugging environment where you can figure out what your legacy shell scripts are doing, and rewrite th
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by racer-v 9y ago
I'm addressing comments that the solution has to be housing in San Francisco itself, rather than outside the city, such as: > Only housing near economic opportunity means anything.
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by racer-v 9y ago
You're making it sound like this is some difficult research problem. The answer to homelesness is simple: give them homes. Give them food. Give them money. This is how it works in every industrial society that's solved the problem
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by racer-v 9y ago
My meaning was outside the capitalist system of exchanging services for goods. Many, many people need goods and have no meaningful services to exchange. The idea that we need to cram all of these people in the most dense and expensive cente
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by racer-v 9y ago
The natural tendency of a competitive (capitalist) economy is to exclude a subset of people. The "economy" is the cause of homelessness, not the solution. The solution has to come from outside the economy.
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by racer-v 9y ago
You remind me of someone who thinks he can fix a mouse problem in just one room of the house, without paying attention to the other, connected rooms. "I'm only worried about mice which are currently in the bedroom - thinking abo
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by racer-v 9y ago
It sounds like you haven't really gotten to know many homeless people. If you did, you'd realize that what they typically need is not a job but something more like basic income - food and shelter, which can be more easily provided

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