sexyman48
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- sexyman48 parentIf I could get you access to a spacecraft a million miles away, would you stay there and never come back?
- You're overcomplicating this. If RMS and his lackeys were so hellbent on ridding prop OS's from the world, they could move marginally closer to that goal by simply deleting w32* ns* and android* from GNU Emacs. That they instead collectively spend several man-months per year stressing about their upkeep means they care more about expanding their userbase than any bullshit notion of "freedom."
- Sapiens is a bait-and-switch. It starts out great promising at least a hypothetical account of early man, then begs off saying 30,000 years is too long ago, and burns 300 pages on essentially wokeism.
Bryson's book is great, but it's wide-ranging pop sci, not specifically about early man.
- You say a lot of dumb ____ (but to be fair, I said a lot more when I was your age), but your disdain for transient is on the money. I'm a satisfied magit user, but transient is a blatant UX error and a confounded implementation. Some guy spends his 20% time hawking an entire suite around transient. No one cares.
- Yes, a thousand times yes. In stackoverflow, both questioner and answerer spends a few paragraphs on their life story before getting to the point. AI will not only happily listen to your life story, it will almost certainly link some part of its answer to it, thus validating your existence.