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by goto_self 7y ago
This is absurd. Something can work in some cases for some people and yet not in all cases. It's not a matter of always working or never working. There's a line of thought I keep seeing in this thread: a purpose of imprisonment i
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by goto_self 7y ago
The main flaw in your argument is that not all repercussions are legal. Would I try heroin if there were no negative consequences? I'd certainly be less averse.
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by goto_self 7y ago
> Some people claim to be visual thinkers, but there are blind people who are still perfectly able to think. Likewise with deafness. Clearly neither of these can be the only basis for thought. I don't dispute your conclusions, but I
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by goto_self 7y ago
Language is just the mind's way of bragging about how many thoughts it has.
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by goto_self 7y ago
Or in other words, quoting James Mickens: > My point is that security people need to get their priorities straight. The "threat model" section of a security paper resembles the script for a telenovela that was written by a para
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by goto_self 7y ago
The high-bandwidth, low-effort interactions you're talking about might only work with quick, two-way exchanges, as in a spoken conversation. In that regard, I definitely have a weird English variant among friends. I enjoy the broken
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by goto_self 7y ago
There's a common argument that the purpose of language is communication, that mistakes don't matter if the desired information is communicated, and that prescriptive rules for punctuation and grammar are merely pedantry. However,
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by goto_self 7y ago
Yeah, knowing fewer facts and understanding where those facts come from and how they fit together is better than just memorizing lots of trivia.
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by goto_self 7y ago
But having separate private and personal accounts on your phone is very different from application resource namespacing. They're essentially orthogonal concerns. In the case you're making, a user (a real actual human user) has di
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by goto_self 7y ago
And the advent of containerization is becoming standard practice now, precisely because it makes more sense for certain situations, where the user abstraction has proven less useful and more cumbersome. That was the point of this subthrea
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by goto_self 7y ago
Yes. Line marks are amazing.
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by goto_self 7y ago
I have counterpoints on both ends here. It's not always possible for a "goto definition" function to work in dynamic languages. If you're in a large file, it's quite easy to jump around with line marks (a la vim), s