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by zeveb 5y ago
These aren't really egg whites, since they don't come from … eggs. They could be called 'chicken-free egg white substitutes,' though.
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by zeveb 5y ago
> the system language is awkward (no namespaces, dynamic scoping by default, ...) RMS's dislike of Common Lisp really caused a colossal amount of damage. Imagine an Emacs written in Common Lisp instead of Emacs Lisp, with decades a
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by zeveb 5y ago
The best place for the control key is determined by two things: finger strength and relative frequency of use. The control key is typically used far more often than alt/meta, super or (for those lucky enough to have one) hyper; as s
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by zeveb 5y ago
Whose fault is that? The one who disables the JavaScript not actually needed to submit a POST request, or the one who implements a web service which requires client code execution to receive a POST request (or worse, who uses GET for POST)?
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by zeveb 5y ago
> Very few people still code with the legacies of the 1970s: ML, Pascal, Scheme, Smalltalk. Arguably, the software world would be better off if more people did code with those 1970s languages, than with the ones we are stuck with now.
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by zeveb 5y ago
> I can almost guarantee this is due to licensing issues with the camera firmware. I think that a good pro-market regulation would be to require that all hardware be sold with the firmware required to operate it under some sort of open s
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by zeveb 6y ago
> I honestly didn't think anyone browsed the web without javascript enabled. I know a bunch of folks have replied, but I'm another one. I remember back before JavaScript; I remember when Flash was the bane of those who cared
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by zeveb 6y ago
The answer to 'Windows or macOS' is, of course, 'neither.' Linux offers all the power — and more — of macOS's Unix core (plus system utilities which have been updated this decade), and runs on the same commodity PCs
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by zeveb 6y ago
> Every company I've worked at for the last 10 years has developed exclusively on macOS. Counter-anecdote: I have had a Linux computer on my desktop for over the last twenty years, have used Linux primarily for maybe the last eleven
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by zeveb 6y ago
In my experience the up-and-coming generation are far, far better at branding than my own generation ever was. Talking to my younger colleagues I generally get a deep feeling that they know what they are talking about, are thoughtful and
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by zeveb 6y ago
Where, as texasbigdata notes, 'wealthy' would include almost anyone reading this forum, and almost anyone who has enough money saved to retire.
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by zeveb 6y ago
Issue there is that the House and Senate would just represent the people, and no-one would represent the states. That seems contrary to point of a government whose title is the United States. Agreed on adding more representatives.
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by zeveb 6y ago
I think it would be interesting to have three Houses: Senate, with individual senators appointed by the state legislatures; Representatives, with individuals elected by popular vote; and Citizens, selected by sortition. Legislation could
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by zeveb 6y ago
Why is that a problem? I would rather have a doge from a good family, who has been exposed to international trade and great power politics from birth, than one who was sweeping out the stables three days ago. The non-elite are not inherent
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by zeveb 6y ago
The earth being round is not universally held, either, but it is true. The military is patriotic , yes, as are its members (it is difficult to imagine how they could be effective were they not), but the military tries very, very hard to
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by zeveb 6y ago
> Search, which hinges on the ability to scan and index your files, is a canonical example. Of course, search can all run locally on one's own devices. I believe that there are also privacy-preserving search techniques which can ru
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by zeveb 6y ago
I think that problem is with macOS & Windows, not with rsync. There is no real reason why either cannot bundle it; they just choose not to.
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by zeveb 6y ago
I think that you (and others!) must have misread: I did not write that malicious software would turn on the hardware — I wrote that it 'could turn off the LED when the camera and microphone are running.' What I mean is that a user
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by zeveb 6y ago
> The Dell privacy driver sent out on Tuesday for the Linux kernel is about manipulating the relevant LEDs and tracking the status of the hardware-based controls where as the actual toggling of the audio/video support is handled by
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by zeveb 6y ago
> The whole time, Boomers are stoking the coals on this fire, explaining this is “earned equity.” If you want your own, you need to work as hard as they did. Standing by as each irrational player enters the market is exhausting work. Boo
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by zeveb 6y ago
> Imagine world where there is no Wayland, how is it better? I fail to understand who forces you. You answered your own question. It starts with distros defaulting to Wayland, despite it completely missing features I currently rely on i
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by zeveb 6y ago
It's not fear, it's resentment: the old ways worked, and often worked quite well, and everyone has mostly settled on reasonable ways to work around where the old ways were broken; the new ways quite simply don't work in way
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by zeveb 6y ago
> The difference is that I write new functions on a daily basis, while I almost never need new control flow constructs. I wonder if perhaps you only think you rarely need new control flow constructs because you are using languages with
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by zeveb 6y ago
> Yes, it's great that you can write your own control flow constructs. So what? A sane language already includes those constructs, and they're known and understood by all users of the language without having to first read the d
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by zeveb 6y ago
A large difference is that Lua source is not in the form of Lua tables — and that makes all the difference! Having full access to your complete language at read, compile and run times is what makes Lisp Lisp, and that can only sanely be
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by zeveb 6y ago
> uBO, Privacy Badger, and DecentralEyes are all the extensions I need. I want Stylus. > Sure, it might take one additional tap to open a new tab, but I'm fine with that. Why? Why regress? What possible use did it serve?
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by zeveb 6y ago
> Linux on Windows might work really well … and be the superior experience in total for lots of people. No, it will not and — without massive changes at Microsoft and in Windows — will never be. Source: have a Windows box, am repeatedly
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'My team will be able to program circles around everyone else' (2002)(lemonodor.com)
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by zeveb 6y ago
> Sometimes I have to reply to those company and especially in a Mail client setup it becomes difficult to reply from <company-name>@mydomain.tld This was very easy with Unix mail clients twenty years ago — what is wrong with Mail
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by zeveb 6y ago
I would be really interested to see this model applied to software. I am unaware of any firm that has done it this way so far — which is odd, because it really does seem tailor-made to suit our sort of work, no? Or maybe I am missing somet

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