I use a x220 because it has a better keyboard. I'm limited to USB2 but honestly I never use them except for my mouse and iOS devices, which are limited to USB2 speeds anyway. But I'm able to hook it up to dual external…
So if we let a bank manage bitcoin, perhaps the bank could issue paper receipts that are backed by said bitcoin, and those pieces of paper could circulate instead of using the blockchain. What I don't understand is if…
A lot of climate change "experts" are paid to generate research that is biased in order to support the agenda of whoever is paying them. Sometimes I'll see research using data that only goes back to perhaps 1970 or the…
I believe the "bottom part" should be interchangeable, like switching to a different CPU architecture, or switching to a different framework. The bottom part is an implementation detail. The API is important since…
Objective-C itself is not verbose, method names can be as long or as short as you like. You can have method names with only colons if you want: - (void):(id)param1 :(id)param2 :(id)param3 Keyword names do not have to be…
It definitely is not a naive question. Printing money is precisely what the government should do. Income tax should be eliminated, it is a relic of the past. The government should fund itself not by selling bonds, which…
I used to run Debian but my packages would always end up in some kind of dependency hell where I couldn't upgrade to newer versions.
I also migrated away from MacOS. I'm currently running Linux (Slackware). I came to the conclusion that Linux works best for me on desktops, but MacOS works better on laptops. I don't use laptops much anymore, I prefer…
I use a x220 because it has a better keyboard. I'm limited to USB2 but honestly I never use them except for my mouse and iOS devices, which are limited to USB2 speeds anyway. But I'm able to hook it up to dual external…
So if we let a bank manage bitcoin, perhaps the bank could issue paper receipts that are backed by said bitcoin, and those pieces of paper could circulate instead of using the blockchain. What I don't understand is if…
A lot of climate change "experts" are paid to generate research that is biased in order to support the agenda of whoever is paying them. Sometimes I'll see research using data that only goes back to perhaps 1970 or the…
I believe the "bottom part" should be interchangeable, like switching to a different CPU architecture, or switching to a different framework. The bottom part is an implementation detail. The API is important since…
Objective-C itself is not verbose, method names can be as long or as short as you like. You can have method names with only colons if you want: - (void):(id)param1 :(id)param2 :(id)param3 Keyword names do not have to be…
It definitely is not a naive question. Printing money is precisely what the government should do. Income tax should be eliminated, it is a relic of the past. The government should fund itself not by selling bonds, which…
I used to run Debian but my packages would always end up in some kind of dependency hell where I couldn't upgrade to newer versions.
I also migrated away from MacOS. I'm currently running Linux (Slackware). I came to the conclusion that Linux works best for me on desktops, but MacOS works better on laptops. I don't use laptops much anymore, I prefer…