dandellion
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- dandellion parentMaybe that's the way it is in the US, because the country is run by corporations. But in the rest of the world we don't operate like that.
- He should be careful, a third reading and he might start to enjoy it.
- Can't you just put your phone in a shielded bag, and take it out if you need to use it?
- > there's no single desktop metaphor
I use both Linux (home) and Mac (work) and I don't see one in Mac either. Also over time Linux has been getting more consistent, and Mac less.
- Around 2018 I used a Mac at work and a Dell XPS at home and I had zero issues with the trackpad on the Dell. It was a bit smaller than the Mac's, but I actually preferred that because it was so large I'd sometimes move the mouse accidentally. Back then I thought PCs had finally caught up with Mac trackpads, but was extremely disappointed when the next XPS had one of those trackpads that is just integrated with the laptop cover (it's like a touchscreen instead of a pad inside a cut-off, if that makes sense). My guess is they changed for the aesthetics, but it was so bad that I returned it. I haven't used a good trackpad on a Linux PC since that Dell.
- I think it's too early to make that call, considering pax romana lasted 200 years and we're not even a 100 into us hegemony.
- Well see how it goes, but announcing the game without showing anything doesn't look like a good start to me.
- The world police was never really there to stop tyrants, the evidence is that they'd conveniently look the other way whenever they benefitted from it, and they would even put tyrants in place when it suited them. They did stop some tyrants, for sure, but only when it was convenient.
- Wow, the truth is stranger than fiction.
- Makes IBM look really bad. Do they also force people to bow when the CEO of IBM enters the room, and address them as sir or your highness?
- In my last two phones I had to replace the battery 2 and 4 years in. One because it swelled, the other because it couldn't hold charge. Both cases I got a few extra years of usage from the phone. I'm in the EU, and I support this sort of regulation.
- They're fourth now. Video games are first, then books, streaming, then cinema, and music after that. If I'm not mistaken.
- One I can think of is that setting up your own company is a pain in the ass, and working as a contractor almost never worth it. I'm in Spain, but I think it applies to many Euro countries, which actually is another one, the exact laws and paperwork are entirely different for each country, though that's not something people actually reject, it's just the nature of having many countries with many different languages.
- I don't see the need for a note in this case because what was there wasn't wrong, there's plenty of evidence that supports it. It's just that the tone they used that was inadequate and very rude for no reason, so they edited it to be more polite, it doesn't seem a correction or retraction.
- > It’s difficult to pinpoint when exactly the decline started.
October 5, 2011?
- He has my admiration, I wouldn't have been able to write an article like this and resist the urge to end it mid
- Even if you consider a car a general purpose technology, Tesla displacing GM is a car displacing a car, so it's not really an example of what you're saying, is it?
- Bullying is not convincing.
- That sounds like the same thing, with extra steps.
- Well, as a foreign English speaker I have to thank you for calling me over-educated in grammar above and beyond fluency in a language that is not my own. But aside from that I can tell you that those sentences are either written by AI, and in the minuscule possibility that they weren't, the author must have been intentionally writing to sound like AI for the sake of being post-ironic. The second I saw the first sentence I knew it was AI and came straight to the comments to look for the thread of someone complaining so I could pile on.
PS: For what it's worth, I still think the article was moderately interesting, even if lazily and poorly written by delegating the task to an AI.
- Even if Stallman had only given given us Emacs and we ignored everything else he has ever done, he'd still have given us more and brought more people involved in free software than this new crop of MBA/communications degree CEOs that has taken over ever will.
- Same, I've using GNOME for a long time and haven't switched yet out of laziness and being busy with other things, but the next time I have to upgrade my laptop I'm giving KDE a spin, I'm tired of GNOME replacing useful features with... nothing.
They deprecate something and replace it with an app that looks sleek because it has no buttons, and it has no buttons because it has none of the features that I use. And this has happened with the file browser, the image browser, the pdf browser, the text editor... I've lost count. GNOME is seriously worse to use now than it was 15 years ago. At this point I'm not sure what they have left to butcher, but every new version they seem to surprise me with something new they found to mess with.
- I suspect the average computer user is significantly smarter than the average phone user. The reason is that I've never seen a really dumb person using a computer, but I've seen plenty using phones. That might (or might not) be related to why the phone ecosystem evolved the way it did and computers didn't end up like that.
- I we're doing bad analogies my mom's open source duck recipe has been around for hundreds of years.
- They take people for idiots. This can work a few times, but even someone who isn't the brightest will eventually put two and two together when they get screwed again and again and again.
- No, it's a profit-seeking measure.
- Wow, the new one is disgusting.
- Inconsistent performance and frequent lies are a crucial part of the role, really? I've only met a couple of people like that on my career. Interviews go both ways: if I can't establish that the team I'll be working with is composed and managed by honest and competent people, I don't accept their offer. Sometimes it has meant missing out on the highest compensation, but at least I don't deal with lies and inconsistent performance.
- All the comments of AI writing code and making PRs remind me a lot of all the promises about self driving cars. That was more than 10 years ago and today I still don't know anybody that has a car that drives itself. Will AI write useful PRs one day? Probably. Will it do that before I retire or die of old age? Considering I have been using agents for about a year or so, and seen little to no improvement in that time, I'm afraid the current version of AI probably has already peaked and we'll only see marginal improvement due to diminishing returns.
- Unless it also cures cancer a more likely outcome is that people who get the treatment will just stay young until they get cancer and die. Also, as I understand it cancer also slows down in old age, so staying younger could mean faster cancers possibly negating some of the gains from the decreased aging.