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No idea not a physicist I was merely providing a translation of the GP into plain English.

But (a) screen still exists right?, (b) byobu, (c) tmux allows one to remap the keys however one likes.

When any theory has to add more and more complexity to explain the data it tends to be an indication that there is something wrong with the theory and that another theory may be more supported.

Occam's razor.

You put a lot of faith in sandboxes... They aren't magic.

Except when you over-localize. It really annoys me when I am away for the weekend and my calender thinks all my appointments are an hour later/earlier than they actually are.

Bitcoin mining uses lots of integer manipulation. AMD cards are faster for integer operations. Hence bitcoin miners used to use AMD cards.

It is relatively easy to have multiple users sessions open at the same time. Whether this is a good idea with X windows GUIs is another matter.

And people just end up running everything as Admin the first time something needs any of this.

> Every piece of software should run within a sandbox

I sort of agree with this but I think more in terms of projects/activities (e.g. casual media consumption, banking, working on different projects) rather than applications. To do different activities I need different combinations of tools but often the tools overlap. For example I want to sandbox the browser I use for watching cat videos on youtube from the browser I use for banking from the various browsers I use for work. So that some drive by on a casual browsing site can't attack my banking. But I don't want two browsers installed I want the same program in the same version with some common and some different config - but I don't want to manage the common config in 5 different places.

The multi-user model allows for some attempt at this if one sets up multiple user accounts for the different activities. It certainly isn't sufficient but I'm not sure that sandboxing each application will actually get us there either.

In the UK basic level the English language exam sat by all 16 year olds did used to do this to some limited extent (you were given an advert and had to analyse it in terms of how it tried to persuade you etc).

Just to clarify my post was saying that the relation between union and and management is the problem - not the existence of the union. I ascribe this as much (if not more) to management than to the union.

The UK has two problems:

1. We need lots of skilled people.

2. We have lots of people lacking skills.

Importing talent solves problem (1) (and grows the economy and is generally and genuinely a good thing). But problem (2) remains. Why not try to solve both at once?

> I have a pet theory based on the car industry that the really toxic thing is British labour relations

I don't think that many people will disagree with you on this theory.

Depends upon age. Anyone in the UK under 30-35 grew up using MSN messenger so even the least technical of non-technical people are happy using something that as far as they can see is basically the same as MSN.

just do a show HN on this.

It does if you think at grid level rather than building level.

The point is that for sewers there was no choice so we just swallowed the cost and got on with it. For power there was so we went for the cheaper less reliable option.

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Yeah I thought that would be posted. Steven Pinker's theories only work if you do things like imagine that we live in a world without slavery...

This is actually an important point. Quite a few times I've written something that started as a list comprehension, changed it to a lambda later in the sprint and finally to a loop when the requirements became more detailed. - The real world is unfortunately full of business requirements that think that they are special flowers.

Because I'm not closing it. I'm closing the tab. Opening chrome takes a few seconds to open which is annoying when I want to quickly google something without loosing focus.

> We live in the most peaceful time in human history.

Any actual evidence for this? Or do you just mean the most peaceful for Western countries time in human history?

The humans brains processing power for visual and spatial stuff is amazing. We may get there for computers one day - but we are not even close yet.

The exception being the European arrest warrant. Assange was going to be extradited from the UK to Sweden for something that is not a crime in the UK. (Failure to use a condom is considered extremely rude but is not a crime in the UK.)

> my young daughter doesn't get any unaccompanied internet access

Problem solved. Parents need to parent their children. They always have and they always will. Whatever surveillance state you install.

The bigger problem is that some parents don't have time or energy to do this - and that is part of a far wider socio-economic issue.

> Or blame the modernity of beef producers when mad-cow disease broke out?

The absolutely (and rightly) did blame modern beef production methods for this. It is one of the reasons that EU beef is better quality than US beef today.

It is not strange at all. Some languages have a whole way of speaking only used by children.

Not really applicable given I was using a journeys as a metaphor.

Yeah but don't make that the target. Make having time to read and enjoy it the target.

His point is that reading is about the journey not the destination. Better to read less books but savour and enjoy them (or if non-fiction is your thing take the time to learn the materials properly) then finish them to say you finished them.