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by throw10920 5y ago
> Getting Lisp to run as fast as C takes major effort when at all possible. The Computer Language Benchmarks Game shows Lisp Code as generally being between 2x and 10x slower than C++[1]. As fast as C? No. Way faster than Python, and mor
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by throw10920 5y ago
(you might want to read up on the use-mention distinction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio... )
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by throw10920 5y ago
It is the news media's fault. They have complete control over what they decide to publish (or not), and how. The media chooses to post misleading information for clicks/money. "But someone will pay for it" is never
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by throw10920 5y ago
> No part of the left-right political spectrum can be said to be the good guys or the bad guys in respect of free expression, especially in the United States. Maybe across all time, yes. But parties change. Right now there's a cle
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by throw10920 5y ago
This seems like a false dichotomy - Libreoffice/Openoffice and Abiword don't have any of these anti-features (except for telemetry, which is useful (when sent to a trusted party)).
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by throw10920 5y ago
I know that owning dedicated hardware is appealing, but - why not solve the problem on a software level? Install Linux and then disable/remove the TCP/IP stack (and associated tools) as much as is practical, and use a USB drive to
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by throw10920 5y ago
Not as a writer, but as a programmer, I can't attest that it's not just a lack of internet - it's a lack of distractions . When I was a kid without internet or a computer, I continually got distracted from my schoolwork by
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by throw10920 5y ago
I use emacs as well, and regularly get distracted tweaking it. Maybe the temptation to tweak isn't present for you - but is for a lot of other people. I think it's a personality trait.
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by throw10920 5y ago
> I'd be doomed with a modern laptop Can you not install Linux, or enable airplane mode or mute notifications on Windows? > or a smartphone You wouldn't want to write long-form on a soft-keyboard with a tiny screen anyway -
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by throw10920 5y ago
> We have had repeated instances throughout history of groups of people practicing common ownership We also have repeated instances throughout history of groups claiming to try to implement common ownership, and instead killing millions
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by throw10920 5y ago
> Equal opportunity not equal outcomes is a huge red herring when talking about equality. No, it's an extremely relevant debate because a certain political faction has been trying to redefine "equality" from its original
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by throw10920 5y ago
Exactly - someone could be running a (the?) third-party Signal client, or they could be intercepting the Google push notifications that Signal sends using one of those Play Services compatibility layers, or they could do one of the low-tech
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by throw10920 5y ago
Practically, how is this better than my current local music library & player? "INEQUITIES have been exacerbated." - yikes, no thanks.
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by throw10920 5y ago
Postscript: it would be really nice if Firefox allowed a "click-to-play, but for images" addon - but it seems like that's not possible, given that zero addons exist that implement it.
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by throw10920 5y ago
I'm not the GP, and I don't necessarily have a solution for you, but I'm curious about your workflow. My 19-tab Firefox (with Gmail open) is consuming 1.2 GB, and my fully-loaded Spacemacs is ~250 MB. What's your memory
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by throw10920 5y ago
If you still haven't found a use for them: they make for good low-power, always-on, headless networked servers for processing-light tasks. Other commentators mentioned pihole/DNS, WireGuard, and music streaming, but you can also u
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by throw10920 5y ago
Would "bring[ing] the tech industry innovation to hearing aids through natural progression of headphones technology" mean that hearing aids would now need to be coupled to a smart device? If so, then hard-of-hearing people who wor
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by throw10920 5y ago
"Hundreds of thousands" according to an organization (the CDC) that has strong incentives to inflate the numbers, sourced from a disparate collection of doctors and hospitals that also have incentives to inflate the numbers, usi