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by spauldo 1y ago
I suspect you're in the minority there.
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by spauldo 1y ago
Try driving in Texas sometime. Roads are decent, speed limits are high, but the other drivers will make you borderline homicidal.
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by spauldo 1y ago
It has the "feel" of a DOS program. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, just that it feels a bit alien on UNIX. The first UNIX system I learned on had pico, the editor nano was modeled after. I personally found it intuiti
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by spauldo 1y ago
American Emacs-using touch typists use right ALT all the time. ALT-x prompts you for a command, ALT-q in most modes runs fill-paragraph, ALT-f moves the cursor forward by one word, etc.
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by spauldo 1y ago
When you press CTRL and a letter or symbol at the terminal, shift doesn't do anything (unless it's required for the symbol, as in CTRL-@). The code that gets sent is the same either way. Emacs users have to be wary when setting cu
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by spauldo 1y ago
It baffles my mind that a lot of schools don't even offer keyboarding anymore. I took it in high school, and I was fortunate to be born late enough that being male wasn't a barrier (only girls could take it when my parents were in
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by spauldo 1y ago
Ye gods, I had managed to bury that memory! Went from Slackware to Solaris, and then used killall while teaching a UNIX class. Everyone got a laugh and a smoke break, and I got knocked down a peg.
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by spauldo 1y ago
Probably because most of us don't think it's correct at all. TUI apps aren't common anymore, which adds to the confusion as a lot of people didn't grow up with them and don't grasp the difference. A TUI app takes co
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by spauldo 1y ago
Probably better as a MinutePhysics video. It's not a real xkcd What-If if the Earth doesn't get destroyed. I'm really hoping Randall makes some new material soon - I enjoy the videos but I've read all the What-Ifs on hi
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by spauldo 1y ago
The Plank length thing is just going to add confusion here. Quantum stuff is weird. That's where analogies go to die. But generally speaking, the answer is 2. That's assuming there's no forces between the two objects. Spac
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by spauldo 1y ago
The magnet analogy works here, so let's give it a try. Put one magnet on a table and then put one under the table so that it's held up by the magnet above it. Then observe what happens. This will take a while, so maybe go get a
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by spauldo 1y ago
I believe all of the current theories being seriously considered hold that whatever is causing expansion isn't gravity, so yes I do talk as if gravity is distinct from what is driving the expansion of the universe. Regarding being &quo
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by spauldo 1y ago
You apparently didn't try walking around. Give it a shot - you'll find that the matter you are made of isn't pinned to the space it's in. Gravity ensures that structures at the cluster level and below don't expand a
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by spauldo 1y ago
Matter isn't pinned to the space it's in (source: try walking around). As space expands, the other forces which are orders of magnitude stronger than the expansion of space slide matter along so that distances don't change. Y
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by spauldo 1y ago
They're probably busy writing code for a living.
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by spauldo 1y ago
I can't speak for NetBSD's install guide, other than I didn't have trouble with it when I last installed it. Also, floppies are still relevant for the BSDs, since a lot of people use BSDs in retrocomputing. Regarding "le
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by spauldo 1y ago
That's what I've been told. I haven't tried Bing directly because... eww... but I assume the results would be similar to DDG.
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by spauldo 1y ago
If I put them in quotes, yeah.
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by spauldo 1y ago
I suspect you're underestimating how difficult good UI really is. There's a reason UX is a separate career than development - it's a completely different skill set. And I speak as someone who has to do both (industrial HMI de
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by spauldo 1y ago
Regarding point 3, having the entire base system developed as a single project has worked well for the BSDs. They are much more consistent than Linux distros and much better documented (although props to Arch on their how-to style docs, the
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by spauldo 1y ago
It's really strange, while I agree Google's results aren't as good as they used to be, they're still miles ahead of DDG for me. Is it because I still use keyword search like it's the early 2000s? I tried to switch t
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by spauldo 1y ago
No, they don't, actually. You can choose not to subsidize mass transit, and as a result you'll have little to none of it. Which is fine, if you want all that not having mass transit entails, such as more traffic and less mobility
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by spauldo 1y ago
Is it, though? I don't particularly want to make life choices based on what's most economically efficient for airlines, but you do you I guess. And while my being fat is definitely a result of my life choices, that's certain
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by spauldo 1y ago
M-expressions were intended to be easier for humans to read and write. They weren't meant to be structured. They never got implemented because sexps aren't hard to work with and homoiconicity was an unexpected bonus. Calling eval
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by spauldo 1y ago
Not sure how that changes my point.
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by spauldo 1y ago
Narrowing them further can allow even more people to fit, uncomfortably. The fact that you have any space at all is because larger people have to fit somewhere.
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by spauldo 1y ago
It's down to what's idiomatic for the language. I'd argue that the Perl example is idiomatic Perl (just as the Lisp equivalent would be idiomatic Lisp), but that's certainly not idiomatic JavaScript.
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by spauldo 1y ago
Apply the same argument for mass transit. Sometimes the desired outcome (less of the countryside being covered in solar panels, wind farms, or giant pit mines, in this case) isn't most economically efficient. It's up to the people
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by spauldo 1y ago
Ask the airline, they're the ones that choose narrower seats than the manufacturer's recommendations. I assume this was a budget flight or one of the airlines like American Eagle that service smaller airports?
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by spauldo 1y ago
Your time's a bit off - electrification didn't really take off until the early 20th century and nuclear applications outside of weapons until the 1950s and 1960s. My grandmother grew up when cars were scarce, electric wires were s

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