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by talentedcoin 3y ago
Pathetic that this ragebait has ended up on HN. I am Canadian. There is no sweeping authoritarianism here.
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by talentedcoin 3y ago
“Benefits” of macOS? What are they — the pointless yearly updates? The OCD changes to chrome year after year? The declining stability?
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by talentedcoin 3y ago
Yeah, but the Pope was right!!!
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by talentedcoin 3y ago
Using Python 2 in 2023 for a new project is a crime
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by talentedcoin 3y ago
Correct
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by talentedcoin 3y ago
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” — Jeremiah 1:5
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by talentedcoin 3y ago
Sorry, what? You absolutely can disable animations in the GNOME control panel.
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by talentedcoin 3y ago
There is no evidence that any of those are emergent properties. It’s no more or less logical than asserting they were placed there by a creator.
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by talentedcoin 4y ago
I love comments like these. Pure macOS Stockholm Syndrome. “Sometimes some things are a pain but it’s pointless to groan about it.” I mean you do you, but don’t blame other people for finding some of these issues more than they can stand.
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by talentedcoin 4y ago
I didn’t say talent doesn’t exist. I’m questioning your asinine, evidence-free assertion that business acumen is a genetically heritable trait.
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by talentedcoin 4y ago
Sorry, but I don’t think you know anything about “genetic background” if you think it correlates with making money.
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by talentedcoin 4y ago
Why is notion the tool all the cool kids seems to like for this stuff? (Serious question)
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by talentedcoin 4y ago
My point is that this quasi-legal argument about how “humans learn so why can’t machines learn” is a non sequitur. This is a case where quantity has a quality all its own. Copyright law was not invented with anything like this situation in
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by talentedcoin 4y ago
> Copyright exists to encourage the creation of more art and to progress science. AI is clearly a helpful step in that direction. Humans learn from others' works. Should we make that illegal too? I find it astonishing that people co
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by talentedcoin 4y ago
Sure, but I mean, often you can’t solve the “systemic problem” so the next best thing is to at least try to work on yourself. Necessary but not sufficient I guess. But cruel?
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by talentedcoin 4y ago
Strong disagree. It is possible to disagree without being disagreeable, and I personally find it frustrating when people excuse their behaviour in the manner you are doing. Yes work sucks, but being unpleasant, cynical and snarky just makes
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by talentedcoin 4y ago
you mean, Emacs running on Ubuntu? boo
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by talentedcoin 4y ago
Yes, and an increase in the amortization period decreases the amount that can be written off for a project in any given year, which all else being equal means the company pays more tax.
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by talentedcoin 4y ago
I find characterizing amortization schedules for high-capital-investment industries as “subsidies” very frustrating. This situation doesn’t arise because the govt is handing out freebies, but because capex on oil and gas projects is very fr
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by talentedcoin 4y ago
This is idiotic. Gitlab will shell out for MacBooks but not for a copy of Windows Pro?
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by talentedcoin 4y ago
Idk. Lose 32 bit support forever, get a dog cow? No wonder the Mac platform is such a dumpster fire.
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by talentedcoin 4y ago
Sorry to hear about your situation. You can't turn the wheel back and you can't undo your mistake. The best you can do is to learn from it going forward and not to make the same mistake again.
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by talentedcoin 4y ago
Sounds like this person isn't hanging out with the right people.
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by talentedcoin 4y ago
What a ridiculous comment. Which is the "statement", the MacBook or a Linux laptop??? If you want to run Linux, why pay the Apple tax (not to mention all the aggravation), unless you really want the form factor or the hardware?
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by talentedcoin 4y ago
For what it's worth, I have been using cheap-o refurbished HP Elitebooks (the 830) off of eBay running Fedora and they are great. I have been running my old one for years and years and the new one for about a year or so. Battery life e
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by talentedcoin 4y ago
> But isn't this awfully close to saying: Blockchains/Cryptocurrencies are useful exactly for money laundering and sanction busting? Yup. > And ... saying that publicly _and_ supporting the implementation tends to go very ba
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by talentedcoin 4y ago
This is like saying you don't need a car to get downtown. It's true, of course, but it's not interesting.
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by talentedcoin 4y ago
I am pretty anti-crypto generally but I feel compelled to reply to your maximalist position that there is "no practical value whatsoever, current or potential" to blockchains. The one use case I have seen for blockchain that is re
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by talentedcoin 5y ago
But it _is_ OK to suck at something as long as you enjoy it. What does "suck" even mean in this context? A composer might still "suck" if they compared themselves to Johann Sebastian Bach, but is that the most important
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by talentedcoin 5y ago
That’s a fair point. The way I see it is: 1) This is pretty severe by Canadian standards (we don’t have the same kind of protest culture the US does), but more importantly, 2) If nobody was driving their trucks up to Parliament Hill (and if

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