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by trelane 2y ago
I wonder if this is part of what System76 does with their computers
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by trelane 2y ago
I was replying specifically to > There’s a big difference between a real strawberry and a vat of chemicals called strawberries. > The market is filled with products labeled "strawberry" that are not really strawberries What
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by trelane 2y ago
I think we mostly agree but somehow you seem to still be missing my point. A different tack, then. What do you mean by "vat of chemicals called a strawberry?"
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by trelane 2y ago
Strawberry flavored candy is easily distinguishable from a real strawberry.
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by trelane 2y ago
> But surely you’d agree that “vat of chemicals” is not the only metric by which to evaluate a substance So you're positing a spiritual or etherial nature for strawberries? Such that pure materialism is inadequate to address? > ,
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by trelane 2y ago
My point was that strawberries are a vat of chemicals.
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by trelane 2y ago
Kind of weird that they only seem to acknowledge changes by humans in the last few centuries. This despite the fact that the Hawaiian islands have been deliberately shaped by people for well over a millennium prior to Europeans ever setting
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by trelane 2y ago
Seems akin to the Ship of Theseus. Is an entirely artificial--but indistinguishable down to the atomic level--strawberry not a strawberry?
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by trelane 2y ago
Ah, a perennial favorite. Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16360479 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23494243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37026780 https:/
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Use GNU Emacs the Plain Text Computing Environment [Book, 2024](www2.lib.uchicago.edu)
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by trelane 2y ago
What source?
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by trelane 2y ago
https://support.codeweavers.com/en_US/2-getting-started/2-in... Seems easy to me
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by trelane 2y ago
There's also flatpak and friends
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by trelane 2y ago
I'm not sure what they are taking about. And they might not know what they're taking about. All Linuxes I'm familiar with run Mesa, which gives you OpenGL and Vulkan.
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by trelane 2y ago
If you're not buying a laptop with Linux preinstalled and supported by the hardware vendor, you're going to have a hard time. You might get lucky, but it sounds like you've not been lucky.
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by trelane 2y ago
The concept of containers for Windows applications running in WINE is called "bottles." https://support.codeweavers.com/en_US/2-getting-started/2-in... I believe it started with Cedega, but I could be wr
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by trelane 2y ago
Depends. Proton and CrossOver are dead easy, especially for the supported apps.
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by trelane 2y ago
This is an amazing collection. Thanks for it. It's is exactly what I was needing for this slide deck on I'm writing how to improve our code.
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by trelane 2y ago
Sure, bug happen. They (usually) happen reliably, and tests can help prevent/detect them. It is impossible to test for human errors in advance, though.
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by trelane 2y ago
"should be" is fine, right until Microsoft's lawyers show up at your door and you get to hire representation to defend yourself.
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by trelane 2y ago
> In hindsight of course we should have written the docs in a way that would prevent this exact situation I would say the bigger failure is relying on a human typing things into a terminal rather than automating the tasks or changing the
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by trelane 2y ago
https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/windows-11-h... If you mean for firefox specifically, that's Google. But, since it's firefox instead of Edge, you've already left the defaults far beh
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by trelane 2y ago
Bing is already the default, if you use Windows.
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by trelane 2y ago
Too late: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Web_browsers_based_on... Of course, it's never actually too late to add another fork.
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by trelane 2y ago
I didn't believe "ugly crying" is about negativity. Rather, the "ugly" bit is about the abandonment with which one cries. One is so invested in the emotions (whatever those may be--it's not even a continuum of
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by trelane 2y ago
I would say Gravity Falls much more so than Phineas and Ferb. The latter doesn't have much of a series-long story arc, whereas the former very much does have one. Craig of the Creek was also pretty good, though I don't thin
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by trelane 2y ago
I've used it in go a lot. If you want to kludge it, you can still put a block around the if. But it's not nearly as nice
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by trelane 2y ago
HN discussions (#1 is rather lacklustre) Part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41913156 Part 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42435282
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by trelane 2y ago
Ah, you're right (finally tried it out). But it 100% works in a loop (usually for loop)
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by trelane 2y ago
I learned it from a textbook. I think it was an earlier printing of https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/design-44bsd/

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