But destruction of Earth is inevitable! Even if we manage not to destroy ourselves in the next hundred thousand years, we still have to deal with some "soft" and "hard limits". First we have comets/asteroids impacts. I…
I... don't even know how to start answering this. "C" is glorified assembly and learning assembly is *fundamental* to understand how computers work. "C" *should* be the first language programmers learn when they get…
After re-reading this whole thread I think I now know *why* we disagree: our level of "pragmatism" (or maybe "time scale") is different :) You favor limiting the spread of misinformation today to prevent major issues…
Thinking that "people are easy to manipulate, thus we must prevent lies from spreading to protect society" is too paternalist and (in my limited experience) does not reflect reality. You are right in that propaganda is…
Saying (as I do) that everyone should be able to express their ideas (no matter how atrocious) publicly without facing administrative punishment does *not* mean that other actions (such as keeping a close eye on them)…
You are literally the first person I find who agrees with me. Hi there! :) Just for the shake of discussion, let me put on the table some other extreme examples people bring up: A) Apology of "something bad" (for…
> Yes, you are accountable for the communications you make, whether via keybord, orally, or any other way. Just for the purpose of debating let me bring up my (very unpopular) point of view. I have always thought that…
I would like to think that there are *dozens* of us! At least, many people in HN and most people in /r/thinkpad seem to agree! :)
> Have you looked at the P series laptops? They come close in number of ports and battery life *but* they still have an excessively big touchpad, don't have a 13 inch version and start at 1.7 kilos (which makes them…
You are completely right. The X61s is a better design (I happen to own one too!), I completely forgot about it as, due to its much slower CPU, I must have put it away somewhere in the attic many years ago :)
I own both the x230 and the x395 (which is, externally, almost the same as the x13) and I can definitely feel a difference when typing on the much more comfortable x230. It's mainly due to two factors: 1) thanks to…
I'm on the same boat as you: my ideal laptop would be an x220/x230 on the outside with a 1440p display and a modern CPU on the inside. I can't understand why Thinkpads are moving away from this absolutely perfect design…
I just downloaded it, and ran `firefox docs/html/index.html`... and everything is in Chinese :P It will require more than I thought to make a non-trivial commit!
Well, there is one drawback I can think of: they are well established terms that have a very specific meaning on an engineering context. I agree that "leader/follower" might be easier to grasp for someone who has never…
But destruction of Earth is inevitable! Even if we manage not to destroy ourselves in the next hundred thousand years, we still have to deal with some "soft" and "hard limits". First we have comets/asteroids impacts. I…
I... don't even know how to start answering this. "C" is glorified assembly and learning assembly is *fundamental* to understand how computers work. "C" *should* be the first language programmers learn when they get…
After re-reading this whole thread I think I now know *why* we disagree: our level of "pragmatism" (or maybe "time scale") is different :) You favor limiting the spread of misinformation today to prevent major issues…
Thinking that "people are easy to manipulate, thus we must prevent lies from spreading to protect society" is too paternalist and (in my limited experience) does not reflect reality. You are right in that propaganda is…
Saying (as I do) that everyone should be able to express their ideas (no matter how atrocious) publicly without facing administrative punishment does *not* mean that other actions (such as keeping a close eye on them)…
You are literally the first person I find who agrees with me. Hi there! :) Just for the shake of discussion, let me put on the table some other extreme examples people bring up: A) Apology of "something bad" (for…
> Yes, you are accountable for the communications you make, whether via keybord, orally, or any other way. Just for the purpose of debating let me bring up my (very unpopular) point of view. I have always thought that…
I would like to think that there are *dozens* of us! At least, many people in HN and most people in /r/thinkpad seem to agree! :)
> Have you looked at the P series laptops? They come close in number of ports and battery life *but* they still have an excessively big touchpad, don't have a 13 inch version and start at 1.7 kilos (which makes them…
You are completely right. The X61s is a better design (I happen to own one too!), I completely forgot about it as, due to its much slower CPU, I must have put it away somewhere in the attic many years ago :)
I own both the x230 and the x395 (which is, externally, almost the same as the x13) and I can definitely feel a difference when typing on the much more comfortable x230. It's mainly due to two factors: 1) thanks to…
I'm on the same boat as you: my ideal laptop would be an x220/x230 on the outside with a 1440p display and a modern CPU on the inside. I can't understand why Thinkpads are moving away from this absolutely perfect design…
I just downloaded it, and ran `firefox docs/html/index.html`... and everything is in Chinese :P It will require more than I thought to make a non-trivial commit!
Well, there is one drawback I can think of: they are well established terms that have a very specific meaning on an engineering context. I agree that "leader/follower" might be easier to grasp for someone who has never…