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by tharne 6y ago
I've been running linux on the desktop for 3 years now and have never had an update break anything. If you stick to the more stable debian derivatives and forgo some of the bleeding edge features in a rolling distro like Arch (btw I do
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by tharne 6y ago
Exactly. They want a phone that, to the extent possible, is not a surveillance device vacuuming up all their data and sending it to apple and google. Obviously the phone companies and ISPs can still vacuum up data even with a linux phone, b
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by tharne 6y ago
That's exactly it. There are too many MBA's who have never had a proper job, but will authoritatively tell others how to run a business they know nothing about. An MBA, to the the extent the degree should exist at all, should be s
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by tharne 6y ago
What most academics and others like them tend to miss about the American suburbs, is that most Americans like their suburbs. The American suburbs are the Toyota Camry of housing. Kind of boring and somewhat ugly, but affordable, functional,
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by tharne 6y ago
That was exactly Nabokov's point in writing Lolita.
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by tharne 6y ago
I've noticed this too. The recommendations I'm now getting from my audible account are full of newly-published titles promoting wokism and other morally and intellectually bankrupt junk rather than the classic titles I typically g
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by tharne 6y ago
I disagree. Living in a free and open society means defending everyone's right to have a voice, and that means defending the free speech rights of those we despise.
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by tharne 6y ago
This is very true. People forget that enterprises, especially large ones, will take it on the chin in a lot of other areas in exchange for long-term stability. I think this is one of the reasons MS Teams has been so successful, even when th
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by tharne 6y ago
The startup speed of DOOM Emacs is outstanding, as others have noted. Additionally, I've found adding my own customizations is much easier in Doom than Spacemacs. While the Spacemacs "layers" approach is nice for setup, it ca
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by tharne 6y ago
These posts are getting tiresome. There's way too much focus on FAANGs and SV in general. Most of us work in hum-drum industries for companies no one's heard of, in towns no one's heard of, and have reasonable hours, good eno
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by tharne 6y ago
These conversations already happen, they just tend to be more subtle. "So and so has made tremendous progress over the last several months, and I think with a little more support and guidance they could really excel...".
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by tharne 6y ago
You're making the assumption that all wrongs can be corrected or made right, and that's often not true. We want to believe that everything can be magically fixed if we just come up with a clever enough solution. But many things do
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by tharne 6y ago
I've seen this plenty of times. I even heard one manager at a happy hour say, "Thank god I finally hired an ABC and an XYZ, I can finally start recruiting based on talent again". This may be an extreme example, but still. Unf
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by tharne 6y ago
Excel has proved itself shockingly resilient. We all make fun of it, but man, with smaller data sets it gets the job done. A lot of people would be horrified to see how many business critical processes depend on a bunch of hacked together e
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by tharne 6y ago
This 100%. A lot of people working with code are folks who code as a means to an end rather than as a craft unto itself, and these folks are important because they often have expertise in a domain other than software engineering. Python hit
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by tharne 6y ago
I remember being in school decades ago and our very left-wing English teacher telling us about the Catholic Church's index of banned books, which included things like Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. At the same time, you also had
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by tharne 6y ago
True, but a rather depressing thought, nonetheless. Let's take out loans so we can go to school so we can get a good job so we can pay strangers to raise our children.
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by tharne 6y ago
Glad to see more interest in privacy focused search, but why not just not contribute to something like duckduckgo that's already doing good work in that space?
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by tharne 6y ago
I don't think that's necessary true. When it comes to success in a given field, what's (sadly) most important most of the time is how aligned your views are with others in that field, not how aligned your view are with realit
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by tharne 6y ago
> At the moment left-wing positions on contentious issues are less in conflict with available facts That really depends on the issue in question. Climate change? Yes, the left is living in reality more so than the right. How gender relat
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by tharne 6y ago
I very much doubt this. I think the main difference is that the companies and experts who decide on our behalf what is, and is not, fake news tend to be more sympathetic to the left wing than to the right wing. There aren't a lot of co
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by tharne 6y ago
Fair enough. I wasn't posting that as a criticism. I'm a big fan of suckless tools, dwm, st, and surf in particular (I may be the only person who likes surf), and I truly hope vis succeeds and is around for the long term. I'm
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by tharne 6y ago
I think that's the biggest challenge for a project like this. If it's going to break backward compatibility, it's hard to attract new users even if it's clearly an improvement over vim. Ironically, that was the whole iss
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by tharne 6y ago
I've tried out vis and it's very nice editor. I'd love to see something like vim-slime developed for it so it could be used for repl-based development. I may even get off my lazy a-- one day and try to implement it myself.
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by tharne 6y ago
To be fair, most of those "primadona devs", as you call them, would much prefer to write well-designed programs cleanly coded, but are given completely unreasonable timeframes and staffing then told to create an MVP then turn it o
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by tharne 6y ago
Yup. That's exactly why enterprise software almost universally sucks. This could really be applied to any good or service where the purchaser is not the end user. For example, in the U.S. dealing with your health insurance company is a
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by tharne 6y ago
You're using a rank of 27th out of almost 200 countries to make the claim that America is a third world country? We're in the top tranche in terms of socio-economic mobility and you're trying to spin that as loss? Sure we cou
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by tharne 6y ago
I've often wondered about this myself. I always see "diversity is a moral good" and "diversity is good for business" bundled together. What happens if we were to hypothetically discover unequivocally that more homog
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by tharne 6y ago
> There is currently very little they can't produce for themselves You forgot food
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by tharne 6y ago
Good point, I do suppose that's a growing issue everywhere, not just in the Ivy League.

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