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by spanhandler 6y ago
So... we're gonna throw out the freedom to play with non-cheating strangers when your friends are all busy, in order that every computing device, instead of just lots and lots of them, can have arbitrary software installed on it? T
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> That doesn't address the issue: those who would can't. Then buy any other general computing product on the market. I'd be more sympathetic to this concern if Android didn't exist. Meanwhile it does, and the users wh
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by spanhandler 6y ago
It's not false though? Games are a thing. In the sense of how systems run and how actors make decisions in it, not in terms of video games. Any change that makes it convenient to run a competing app store will almost certainly change t
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by spanhandler 6y ago
No, this is correct. Hypercorrection for this rule usually comes in the form of saying or writing things like, "would you like to come with Tom and I to the park?" due to not understanding why the rule exists, and just blindly f
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by spanhandler 6y ago
That one's still firmly in the territory of being a good rule to follow if you're trying to communicate clearly, without being distracting, and aren't aiming at some kind of particular, very colloquial register. Perhaps in
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Maybe, maybe not, but by like 5th grade most of them seem to have one regardless. Many younger kids have one. By 7th it's practically all of them (a smartphone, that is, though yeah, often an iPhone) Our school assigns every kid an iPa
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Raises hand . I don't wanna have to worry about stupid computer shit when I'm just trying to use my iPad or iPhone as a tool to accomplish something else. Drawing, playing music, reading, writing, edutainment for the kids, very o
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Homeschool for the very advanced older of our two elementary kids, done by one partner who's also going to be working from home, kind of. Many worries about that, including 1) will that actually work out OK?, and 2) if it does will tha
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by spanhandler 6y ago
"You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then you got to have a job you don't like. Great. This is the way ninety-eight-point-nine per cent of the people work things out,
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by spanhandler 6y ago
To me that meaning checks out, but is a bit archaic. It’s how you might see it used in an older translation of the Bible, or a 19th century translation of the Greek tragedians, or maybe Tolkien, or something like that. Modern, and especiall
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I took it in the spirit of questioning one’s questions, and thought it was rather good. Russellian, even. Judging from the general reaction in here this may just mean I’m a dim bulb with a bad sense of humor.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
I dunno, I’m actually about halfway to being convinced that if we can figure out what causes breakfast we’ll necessarily have solved the problem of consciousness, too.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Yeah, like, pretend you're looking at a message in a FreeBSD base system's documentation or something. They're just saying "don't write new shit that relies on macOS system PHP, because it's going away"—it
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by spanhandler 6y ago
What’s with the people in the twitter thread taking this as an insult to PHP itself, or a sign that PHP will no longer run on macOS? It’s clearly neither.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Mine are mostly state-related. The DB and files from a live site are so tied up in basic config & functionality that if you only have the source code repo you may as well have nothing.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Yeah but if you use bare tools then it’s hard to change them and the interface may differ project to project. If you let the JS developers pick your universal build tool then they’ll want to change it annually because now the old one they l
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by spanhandler 6y ago
That and multiple remotes. Not even necessarily all having the same branches.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Yeah I thought we might end up having to temporarily stick some ply across it or something when we moved in, but it's never been an issue. Our kids are psycho daredevils who don't listen for shit, so I have to assume it's jus
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by spanhandler 6y ago
It's like an 8-inch-square hole. Big enough for a shirt or pants or a towel to slide down, maybe with a nudge from a foot. By the time a kid can open the closet door to get to the hole, they'd have a hard time fitting through it.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
There seems to have been something that happened between the 80s and 90s and today that caused any team doing something non-trivial to go from like 3-8 people to more like 100. Like, you look at a description of exactly what the project was
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Huh. I was hoping this would be about everything except building the product.
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Our built-in-the-late-90s house has one of those in the hall closet upstairs. No door on it, just a hole. There’s some flashing and a “chute” that’s just a piece of sheet metal angled at 45 degrees to keep stuff from free-falling the whole
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Ok, but for one thing I only put that in there to provide the perspective from which I was hating on the article, and for another I agree that that’s typical and my point is that I don’t think we’re dealing with a Carter or a Reagan or ev
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Eh, sure, but those who are uncommonly inept, corrupt, and ineffective and also not very recent tend to end up down at the bottom, crossing political boundaries. Unless we have a run of exceptionally awful Presidents then I think when enoug
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Individualism, taken to anything like an extreme and as policy, can't even form something resembling a modern economy. It is, generously, an open question whether one can even do that without a state (less generously, it's not in
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> The problem with articles like this is that the people who already agree with the author will think the article is insightful and focus on the parts that are obviously correct Raises hand I agree with your point here, more or less, i
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by spanhandler 6y ago
> In an ironically cult like absolutism, you dismiss the moral discussion that transpired within Western philosophical traditions that debate this very topic - of Judeo-Christianity, of consequentialism. There's a lot of this in onl
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by spanhandler 6y ago
This kind of column's a venerable cliché in left-leaning political writing in the US. Very good instances of it are still valuable, but this isn't really one of those and doesn't add much that anyone who pays attention to pol
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Even if he did that wouldn't necessarily mean we were a failed state. Again, it's got a specific meaning. The writer's an anthropologist so probably understands that just from exposure to the poli-sci department and/or
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by spanhandler 6y ago
Mmmmm.... call it a C-. Some paragraphs are train-wrecks. There's about 1/3 of an only-semi-interesting but not-actually-bad article in here if you cut it down, maybe.

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