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by vehemenz 2y ago
Honestly, it's a milquetoast take. The only advantages of the Switch at this point are Nintendo exclusives and better support. There are some rough edges with the Steam Deck, but it's a bit odd to frame the Switch as "ready f
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by vehemenz 2y ago
If you’re using the Dock in the first place, which you really shouldn’t because it’s a waste of screen space, and Exposé, Spotlight, and a decent Cmd+Tab replacement makes for a more better app/window management paradigm.
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by vehemenz 2y ago
You seem to be arguing that the intelligence community should take independent actors more seriously than organized extremist groups. I'd recommend developing your position a bit more before trying sarcasm. I'd also avoid rhetoric
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by vehemenz 2y ago
For someone concerned with the lack of intellectual seriousness of the New Atheist movement, you seem especially committed to ontological realism. Is there some compelling argument I've missed? That aside, "atheism" can obvio
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by vehemenz 2y ago
Maybe I'm more optimistic. Is it our animal nature? Or is it that science is hard, and most people don't have enough formal education in the relevant subjects to know they're out of their depth, let alone to understand these
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by vehemenz 2y ago
I hate to use the old cliche, but absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. There are much older neolithic sites, organized settlements, and evidence of cultural networks that predate Sumerian writing (by a lot). Tally sticks as p
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by vehemenz 2y ago
The Cucuteni–Trypillia megasites in Ukraine appear to predate the Mesopotamian ones by a few centuries, though they didn't have writing (apparently).
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by vehemenz 2y ago
It seems like it doesn't take much to terminate thought for you. If you want to suggest that moderation and censorship are the same—two concepts with obviously differing senses in English—take a stab at making the argument instead of j
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by vehemenz 2y ago
If you'll recall, many of the same people who voted for Trump despised him for his character flaws when he was a Democrat, pre-2015 and pre-birtherism, which again suggests there are more than enough apolitical reasons not to like him.
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by vehemenz 2y ago
This is basically right, but if there's a takeaway from Twitter/X's decline it's that users will only tolerate so much and that platform inertia has its limits.
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by vehemenz 2y ago
It was in the beginning, but it's gotten better as more people have joined. Of course, some people just claim "echo chamber" when there's not enough political extremism, which seems like a false equivalence.
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by vehemenz 2y ago
Censorship and moderation aren't the same thing. Cmon folks, this comes up once a month on HN.
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by vehemenz 2y ago
Agreed, though if the price were $100 cheaper there could be an argument for it.
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by vehemenz 2y ago
Sugar yes, but cooking oils and shorteners are used in every food culture in the world. Probably not the issue if you think about it for more than 10 seconds. I don't think the appointment of a medical quack is going to be good for any
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by vehemenz 2y ago
If you like this kind of music—and even the late 90s/early 00s aesthetic—check out Zorrovian's YouTube channel for some nice playlists. https://www.youtube.com/@zorrovian
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by vehemenz 2y ago
This argument would more compelling for BSD variants. That aside, I've noticed that certain kinds of users spend a lot of time thinking about their operating system. Personally, it's the opposite of what I'd like to do when I
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by vehemenz 2y ago
If I understand the argument, we're collapsing the world order over the price of a burrito?
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by vehemenz 2y ago
We Americans are thinking the same thing. The reality is that America is in the midst of a dramatic cultural decline—especially in rural America, which has become more frivolous, callous, and undignified, even if they're no more unedu
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by vehemenz 2y ago
Good idea for people that use the Dock. I can't speak for every single power user, but the first thing I do with a new Mac is hide it to get my vertical pixels back.
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by vehemenz 2y ago
If it's updated, then I couldn't tell. Everything seemed like 50s/60s in it to me.
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by vehemenz 2y ago
Agreed. Unfortunately the ergonomics and the touch surface of the Magic Mouse make it unusable for most people. The charging port issue is a red herring because it doesn't really affect anything but gets lots of attention.
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by vehemenz 2y ago
Ultrawides are intriguing, but I'm not sure it's more flexible than a multi-display setup. Not to mention we've had 2160 pixel height displays for well over 10 years now.
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by vehemenz 2y ago
I have a 5yo daughter, and I appreciate that *What Do People Do All Day?* have female characters in homemaker roles, which is still common in most of the world. Many of her other books have female protagonists doing everything else. Part of
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by vehemenz 2y ago
You've convinced me, but it really shows the limitations for 16:9 when these are our options. Two largish 28" 4:3 monitors would be a nice middle ground.
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by vehemenz 2y ago
Surely we are beyond concern with bezels, chins, and other frivolous mobile phone aesthetics at this point.
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by vehemenz 2y ago
I tend to agree but more because the market has settled on it. One thing about screen size is that it's easier to achieve an effective screen size with a smaller screen (by moving it slightly forward) than it is to do the reverse. So a
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by vehemenz 2y ago
Considering most people put the Magic Mouse in the shelf and never use it, I don't think fixing the charge port is high on anyone's list.
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by vehemenz 2y ago
Why? It’s a salient distinction when talking about mass-adoption of technology. Social dynamics change dramatically when the ratio of neckbeards to normies is upset. I don’t like these terms either, but “neckbeards and normies” has a nice a
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by vehemenz 2y ago
Mac apps have never bern restricted to the App Store, so I’m not sure the idea of “sideloading” makes sense to apply there. I still know what you mean though.
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Possibly, but I don't think it's comparable because VR/AR headsets—whatever this category is—still has an unknown future. Smart watches had demonstrated use cases and a market before Apple released the Apple Watch. The Vision

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