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by trelane 3y ago
> In the nineties I joined a men's group retreat where we circled up and listened to each other's struggles, gave lots of support, and lots of hugs. Then we did some consciousness raising around circumcision and it's barba
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by trelane 3y ago
True, though I think the parent was discussing the dearth of male teachers , not students. E.g. https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/02/the-ex...
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by trelane 3y ago
> You don't "go to the doctor from time to time", unless you're in some dysfunctional medical system where doctors can make more money by doing unnecessary work. On the contrary, you should go for regular checkups.
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Pop Pop Boat(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by trelane 3y ago|0 comments
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by trelane 3y ago
> switched to the web version of outlook I don't understand what you believe this gained you.
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by trelane 3y ago
> Apple could have just as easily continued to ship a GCC version with OpenMP disabled. Sure, and one of their users could have distributed a version that put it back in.
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by trelane 3y ago
> Apple chose vendor lock-in with Grand Central Dispatch I will note here that this vendor lock-in is one of the (if not the) main reasons Apple et al. moved away from the GPLed GCC. The ability to lock in users is the central differ
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by trelane 3y ago
It's the first line from the tweet. I was looking for something to summarize it, since there was no title, and that seemed appropriate. There is a huge discussion beyond that, some of which is interesting.
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“All other options and bullshit aside, this is why I hate Apple.”(twitter.com)
40 points by trelane 3y ago|17 comments
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by trelane 3y ago
Or you can use Gentoo.
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by trelane 3y ago
Does HP Omen ship with Linux, and does HP support it?
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by trelane 3y ago
1. May be coming: https://twitter.com/jeremy_soller/status/1662551130768044032 Jeremy's post seems to going pretty strongly at that.
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by trelane 3y ago
Interesting. My experience has been the opposite. > They took the exact same model/design (from CLIO) of machine in the same release year and changed the interface for the LCD screen mid-stream, so a newly ordered screen for machine
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by trelane 3y ago
It's had competitors forever. The lockin is from UI, file formats, compatibility generally (e.g. functions), scripting / existing infra around it, and its utter dominance in the market ("nobody got fired for buying Microsoft&
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by trelane 3y ago
Depends on whether it's common or not. If a smaller competitor has bugs, the default is something else, and folks will go yo the default and look askance at the ones sticking with the odd duck software. Source: Linux user since the 90s
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by trelane 3y ago
> Where are the docker/redis/next.js/linux kernel/qt/roller-coaster tycoon creators? Unless they're very fortunate, they're wishing they could do the groundbreaking stuff that's in their bones, whi
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by trelane 3y ago
In what ways would a person paying for AI companionship be a danger to you?
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by trelane 3y ago
Citation? The 13.1 change notes [1] indicate Solaris 11.3 has been dropped, because it has some things in it that make supporting it and 11.4 hard. [2] I don't see anything about sparc generally, let alone sparc-solaris specifically[1]
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by trelane 3y ago
Especially when there's Go, Rust, etc. these days. There is so much legacy with C++ the language that it's pretty easy do do stuff subtly wrong if you're not rigidly careful and adhering to a style guide that forces you to on
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by trelane 3y ago
Too bad Chromium is open source instead of Free Software. Seems like it's spawning a number of incompatible and sometimes user-hostile forks.
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by trelane 3y ago
Interesting find. They explicitly call out Chromium, and enhancing it (rather than their own proprietary forked SDK?) so hopefully they contribute back.
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by trelane 3y ago
Where's the source code?
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by trelane 3y ago
Counterpoint: I've had a fantastic experience with System76 for a decade now. I think the difference is that, like Apple, System76's existence depends on Linux (for Apple, OSX). In contrast, Dell is basically a Windows laptop vend
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by trelane 3y ago
We already have proprietary forks of LLVM. That's the whole reason Apple etc. started it instead of continuing with GCC. It's unclear to me what negatives a new, independent, Free implementation brings. On the other hand, the posi
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by trelane 4y ago
If it were written for Linux first, it would even be available for Windows simultaneously.
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by trelane 4y ago
Yep. But the first thing to do when you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging
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by trelane 4y ago
> What's wrong with PulseAudio? What's wrong is that a lot of audio hardware is Windows hardware, i.e. subtly broken.
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by trelane 4y ago
Except for compatibility (which will always be questionable with proprietary formats), I don't think most folks actually need Word or Excel. Most folks aren't delving into VBA and such, they just need a bunch of interlinked cell
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by trelane 4y ago
The best part is that it makes third party firmware much harder, but at the same time their own firmware is proprietary abandonware in very short order.
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by trelane 4y ago
Then don't?

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