> Wayland was designed exclusively i3 style compositors I'm a dyed-in-the-wool i3 (now sway) user. I don't even use floating windows. Wayland has still been an awful experience, broke a bunch of workflows for me
In 2008, I remember playing starcraft over LAN with my roommate. It played better on Wine/Ubuntu than it did on his Vista machine (and unrelatedly but hilariously, in the middle of the game his computer gave him a…
> No first responder can prevent a crime from happening, all responders arrive after crime has occurred I've never understood this claim. Are you unaware of the concept of deterrence, or do you reject that it exists?
It was deprecated in 2015 iirc
Ah appreciated, that is indeed exactly what I was asking about! Now I'm left wondering why enforcement was supposedly so hard. Seems like shooting fish in a barrel, especially given that some very large websites were in…
I may be missing something, but I don't see how this clearly precludes that behavior. Which descriptor do you think is unambiguously violated by making it easier to provide consent than withhold it? To my eyes, both…
It's not like NPM pre-Microsoft was a paragon of professional management or engineering...
I was surprised to hear GP's story about the Midwest, but not surprised to hear an anecdote of West Coasters being kinder to strangers than elsewhere. Any one of those stories is worse than anything I've experienced in…
SFGate reports that he lives in Mill Valley, though they may be wrong https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/mill-valley-man-kille...
> These things happened at SoMa, which is objectively known to be a "nicer" neighborhood. What? After the Tenderloin, SoMA is absolutely the worst neighborhood for interactions with crazy people. What on Earth gave you…
First-order, yes: Redistributive policies don't have the sum of the country's wealth as their primary optimization objective. Arguably, their goal is closer (but not quite) to the sum of national utility, which follows…
> Burning Man has been pretty much taken over by SV tech dweebs Burning Man has been intertwined with tech culture for like...30 years?
> Having an open pro-information stance is all well and good, but when it is obvious that the people sending you information are doing so according to their own timetable, you have to take a higher stance. This is where…
Sure, I don't think either this[1] commenter or Ken Thompson were trying to say that the product category shouldn't exist. A computer is vastly overpowered for what the average user is capable of or interested in…
I may be missing context here, but you're referring to the fact that they leaked the Russian-state-hacked DNC emails, right? Could you elaborate on why you think it's "selective" to have leaked those? Otherwise, it…
Hospitals and the medical system in general are always the last to get a memo about health. I wouldn't touch a good chunk of hospital meals with a ten-foot pole even when I'm in perfect health; the fact that any…
Hell, Twitter's reliability has been atrocious for a long time.
This definition easily encompasses the people who post their kids' lives for no monetary gain,which is the vast majority of social media users. A lot of the people in their 20s who share every detail of their life on…
Right, sure. I was less arguing with you than highlighting the intellectual bankruptcy of this movement.
Sure, but at that point you're just saying that a neutral descriptive term is more commonly-applicable to one gender. Is the word "sobbing" or the word "weeping" derogatory? Visibly-emotional crying is also associated…
An additional one I noticed with my female cousins was that a lot of fun was sucked out of high school girls' social expression/reconnaissance. On the recon side, gossiping is a fun bonding activity, but scrolling…
The example of Chrome on Windows given above seems to belie this claim. The "nebulous chance to use a better product" you refer to was apparently enough to trickle down to the non-tinkerers. Who's to say the same…
My rough model was always simply that all the Western powers practiced African slavery in that period, in the regions in which it was useful (hot, humid, agricultural ones). The same dynamics that led America to have…
You're misunderstanding the purpose of the policy. It's not to help out car purchasers, but to shift consumption towards EVs. As somebody who cares a lot about the damage that ICEs do, locally and globally, it's…
The subsidy's goal is not to make the recipient's life better, but to shift consumption decisions from ICEs to EVs. The theory is that ICE/EV cost comparison is skewed by the substantial extra negative externalities of…
> Wayland was designed exclusively i3 style compositors I'm a dyed-in-the-wool i3 (now sway) user. I don't even use floating windows. Wayland has still been an awful experience, broke a bunch of workflows for me
In 2008, I remember playing starcraft over LAN with my roommate. It played better on Wine/Ubuntu than it did on his Vista machine (and unrelatedly but hilariously, in the middle of the game his computer gave him a…
> No first responder can prevent a crime from happening, all responders arrive after crime has occurred I've never understood this claim. Are you unaware of the concept of deterrence, or do you reject that it exists?
It was deprecated in 2015 iirc
Ah appreciated, that is indeed exactly what I was asking about! Now I'm left wondering why enforcement was supposedly so hard. Seems like shooting fish in a barrel, especially given that some very large websites were in…
I may be missing something, but I don't see how this clearly precludes that behavior. Which descriptor do you think is unambiguously violated by making it easier to provide consent than withhold it? To my eyes, both…
It's not like NPM pre-Microsoft was a paragon of professional management or engineering...
I was surprised to hear GP's story about the Midwest, but not surprised to hear an anecdote of West Coasters being kinder to strangers than elsewhere. Any one of those stories is worse than anything I've experienced in…
SFGate reports that he lives in Mill Valley, though they may be wrong https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/mill-valley-man-kille...
> These things happened at SoMa, which is objectively known to be a "nicer" neighborhood. What? After the Tenderloin, SoMA is absolutely the worst neighborhood for interactions with crazy people. What on Earth gave you…
First-order, yes: Redistributive policies don't have the sum of the country's wealth as their primary optimization objective. Arguably, their goal is closer (but not quite) to the sum of national utility, which follows…
> Burning Man has been pretty much taken over by SV tech dweebs Burning Man has been intertwined with tech culture for like...30 years?
> Having an open pro-information stance is all well and good, but when it is obvious that the people sending you information are doing so according to their own timetable, you have to take a higher stance. This is where…
Sure, I don't think either this[1] commenter or Ken Thompson were trying to say that the product category shouldn't exist. A computer is vastly overpowered for what the average user is capable of or interested in…
I may be missing context here, but you're referring to the fact that they leaked the Russian-state-hacked DNC emails, right? Could you elaborate on why you think it's "selective" to have leaked those? Otherwise, it…
Hospitals and the medical system in general are always the last to get a memo about health. I wouldn't touch a good chunk of hospital meals with a ten-foot pole even when I'm in perfect health; the fact that any…
Hell, Twitter's reliability has been atrocious for a long time.
This definition easily encompasses the people who post their kids' lives for no monetary gain,which is the vast majority of social media users. A lot of the people in their 20s who share every detail of their life on…
Right, sure. I was less arguing with you than highlighting the intellectual bankruptcy of this movement.
Sure, but at that point you're just saying that a neutral descriptive term is more commonly-applicable to one gender. Is the word "sobbing" or the word "weeping" derogatory? Visibly-emotional crying is also associated…
An additional one I noticed with my female cousins was that a lot of fun was sucked out of high school girls' social expression/reconnaissance. On the recon side, gossiping is a fun bonding activity, but scrolling…
The example of Chrome on Windows given above seems to belie this claim. The "nebulous chance to use a better product" you refer to was apparently enough to trickle down to the non-tinkerers. Who's to say the same…
My rough model was always simply that all the Western powers practiced African slavery in that period, in the regions in which it was useful (hot, humid, agricultural ones). The same dynamics that led America to have…
You're misunderstanding the purpose of the policy. It's not to help out car purchasers, but to shift consumption towards EVs. As somebody who cares a lot about the damage that ICEs do, locally and globally, it's…
The subsidy's goal is not to make the recipient's life better, but to shift consumption decisions from ICEs to EVs. The theory is that ICE/EV cost comparison is skewed by the substantial extra negative externalities of…