astorgard

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by astorgard 5y ago
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
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by astorgard 5y ago
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
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by astorgard 5y ago
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 *no
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by astorgard 5y ago
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 a very powe
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by astorgard 5y ago
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) should not be taken. I
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by astorgard 5y ago
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 example, "ap
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by astorgard 5y ago
> 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 anyone should be ab
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by astorgard 6y ago
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! :)
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by astorgard 6y ago
> 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 less than ideal
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by astorgard 6y ago
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 :)
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by astorgard 6y 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 having a very small
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by astorgard 6y ago
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 in
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by astorgard 6y ago
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!
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by astorgard 6y ago
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 encoun