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by spauldo 1y ago
vi was born on UNIX early enough that every UNIX wound up with it. Emacs was born on mainframes and made its way to UNIX much later, after vi had already become the standard.
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There's also the fact that most people don't want to hear new music. You go to the bar and there's a band, it's not the original or two they slip into the set that gets people listening - it's the covers of songs pe
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I ran it a bit back in the day. Wound up on FVWM since it supports MWM's features in addition to tons of other functionality. These days I use KDE 'cause I'm lazy and it has decent customization options. It won't quite d
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by spauldo 1y ago
Windows is the epitome of bad window management. It's actually gotten worse as they've removed functionality over the years and broken other functionality. "Oh, you've got a modal window open? Now you can't even mov
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by spauldo 1y ago
Or you can not be a jerk and just refer to people the way they want you to refer to them. I ask people to use the shortened version of my first name and no one seems to have a problem with that.
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Relative social status is built-in to some languages, such as Japanese. I suspect it fuels a lot of their social constructs, like the whole senpai/kohai thing.
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Your family doesn't? That's weird.
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I wouldn't consider a "moderness" comparison between CL and Scheme to be useful. They're too different in intent and capabilities. CL has a more-or-less frozen standard, in the sense that it's unlikely to have an u
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by spauldo 1y ago
Did they fear a national army? Legitimately curious here. They certainly couldn't afford one, but military-lead coups weren't the problem then that they are today (or were during the Roman empire). Sure, they chose to put a civili
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I was arguing against the "really fringe" part. I agree it's not a DE. But I suppose it could go either way - ratpoison itself didn't have a very large user base, but it spawned a decent one if you count its successors.
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Afterstep and Windowmaker were also just window managers (you can kinda argue Windowmaker with the whole GNUSTEP thing, but that never really took off). I believe ratpoison is the granddaddy of today's tiling desktops, which have a dec
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by spauldo 1y ago
I suspect this was a minor issue. Sure, Linux users are generally more open to using free software, but in cases where there is no free alternative you still didn't see many companies targeting Linux. Most of the software used in my fi
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I jumped off the GNOME train early because of their philosophy of appealing to the average user by removing options power users want. The UI guidelines Sun donated to them were all about removing customization and "unnecessary" op
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by spauldo 1y ago
Why not ask someone who actually likes you? I'm not the only smoker who enjoys it.
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There is a place for cheap, untracked components. A hobbyist being able to pick up a bag of op amps for a couple bucks is great, even if sometimes they're not actually the part number they say they are. It's just the risk you take
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by spauldo 1y ago
That's quite some projection you have going on there. I quite enjoy smoking, for your information. It's inconvenient at times, but so is everything I enjoy. The "all smokers secretly want to quit" routine is another tale
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Arthur was fictional as far as we can tell, so he was only responsible for the deaths of imaginary kings. Edit: duh, just saw the smiley. Carry on!
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I say that hotel managers won't be in danger of health risks from brief exposure to cigarette smoke. I provided reasons why. Thus, I am not wishing their deaths. You ask me to smoke more, hoping it will hasten my death. Insert "we
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by spauldo 1y ago
I agree there are plenty of people who feel that way. I just question if healthcare providers will go along with it. Cases like this one where it's medically necessary are one thing, but "hey, Martha wants to be parent #3" is
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by spauldo 1y ago
You assume I'm a smoker based on the fact I point out the mindless paranoia people believe, and casually wish me to die. Is that the kind of person you want to be?
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by spauldo 1y ago
Active electronics is one are you need to be the most careful. Pop that cheap relay open and look at the components - ten to one, they'll be completely potted in opaque material that hides the fact it's using an underrated thyrist
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But not because they walked past someone smoking a cigarette.
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Yeah, six decades later.
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Cleaning staff are weekly in every hotel I've spent more than one night in for the last several years. It's "eco friendly," they say. I'm sure getting to fire most of the cleaning staff has nothing to do with it...
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by spauldo 1y ago
I'm staying at a Candlewood in southern California and they've got motion sensing light switches for everything. They mostly go to plugs, though, and whoever stayed in the room before me unplugged all the lights. I left 'em t
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by spauldo 1y ago
Perhaps no one asked them to make a little birdhouse in their soul.
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Yeah really, I mean look at how the global population died out in the 1960s because someone walked past them with a lit cigarette. You realize there's a difference between cigarette smoke and mustard gas, right? Standing at the door of
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Debit is a pain for them to deal with, because the hold they put on the card is a lot more than people expect. Customers complain when all of a sudden they have no money in their accounts. I avoided getting credit cards for years, but you r
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by spauldo 1y ago
Eugenics gets a bad rap for good reason. But like everything in life, it's not black-and-white. It's one of those scary words people are afraid of because some assholes used it for evil. But avoiding having children because you do
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I'm not sure there's any point to it. I know a couple poly families and my own situation isn't far off. The kids have a similar relationship with their parents as two-parent kids do. What DNA they happen to have doesn't

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