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Capitalism + welfare does not equal socialism.

> Netflix (the provider of digital movies and TV shows with a subscription)

Netflix started 20 years ago by mailing rented movies to people, a business they still engage in with millions of customers. https://dvd.netflix.com

I have one too. The drawing/writing is pretty great, though once it's transferred back to a PC, the resolution seems kind of poor. Not too bad, but I'd like it to be smoother.

The only other major issue is software stability especially when reading. I've had it hardlock while reading something, then have to wait for the battery to drain because it won't respond to any input, then once I have it back up it forgot where I left off so I lost progress. So for the time being it sits, though once a software update or 2 come out I'll try again.

youtube-dl this and tell me if you see an ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMpZ0TGjbWE

I just tried and I saw one

> Even as a moderately experienced Emacs user I found the defaults overwhelming.

I agree. There is a lot of "magic" going on, and it doesn't help that Spacemacs is a lot slower and less stable than my less-intensive personal customization.

Of course, that's the problem with any significant starter kit. As a new user, now you don't just have to learn emacs, you have to learn emacs + whatever heavy modifications they've done to emacs.

> people aren't going to fiddle too much with the small device on their wrist when they can pull a phone out of their pocket

Definitely. The jump from dumbphone to smartphone was pretty huge. I can do a lot more on the go now than I could before. The jump from smartphone to smartphone + smartwatch is smaller, and possibly just lateral rather than forward. It doesn't enable many more things than just a smartphone, but it offers you a slightly more convenient way of doing some things, at the cost of another device to charge and keep track of.

> One could argue that the national forests and parks can be a new home for these animals if we stop messing with them.

I should certainly hope not. It would be a very poor decision to introduce a bunch of invasive species into wilderness that we preserve.

That's a cool idea. Do you have your file posted anywhere? If not I may cook something up on my own, I'm curious to try it out.

I have a lot of friends from high school who seem to fit that description

Fantasque has been a favorite of mine for a long time. It's playful, but not a novelty font, and very readable in my opinion.

It is an unfortunate name. I don't know why, given how inclusive the Rust community usually is and how eager they were to remove master/slave terminology, that they would choose to announce this effort under the banner of Nazi war tactics.

I sort of agree. On the one hand, an approximate answer is fine for this use-case (especially when you can look down 2 inches and see the full context in the Wikipedia result without looking through) but perhaps it would be worthwhile on answers like that to say "Approximately" at the front just to be clear.

I took a look at your blog from another post of yours (fascinating stuff, based on what I can tell from Google Translate, at least). Any chance you were secretly penalized because of some of the more risqué content on your site?

Well I feel cheated, as an introvert that never stayed in touch with anyone from college and who went into a wildly divergent field from my major. I didn't experience either of the major benefits you're touting; the education was everything. I still think it was worth it, but I absolutely think it could have been done better and cheaper online.

We just had an election where millions of people had a huge impact on the Republican party by rejecting the candidate selected by the establishment (Jeb) and overwhelmingly preferring the candidate the establishment fought tooth and nail to torpedo.

On the other hand you have the party who rigged their primaries to ensure that their neoconservative warhawk could be elected. Which one do you think you could have an impact on?

> BTW, is it offensive to use the word Jew? If so, how should I have called them?

This is one of those things where the delivery matters more than the word. It's fine in this context but could be used in an offensive way.

> Kind of a sharp contrast to the ThinkPad overnight shipping, same-day repair, overnight return shipping experience.

And an even sharper contrast to the ThinkPad onsite service ;)

(of course, as you can probably tell by my username I'm not a big fan of Lenovo after Superfish etc. So I'll just sit here and wish that Apple would start offering a similar service)

And along the same lines, in Italian a sandwich is a panino. In English we call a specific type of sandwich a panini (or, "a sandwiches").

This is a great resource that helped me for learning Dijkstra's algorithm and A* when I was learning about graphs in general, not just for game programming.

Agreed. That said, I'd gladly read a book based on that premise.

Do you have a local butcher? Whole Foods has nice meat, but I've always gotten better from a butcher shop (though I generally only go there when, as you said, the meat is the feature of the meal).

> Email sucks in a lot of ways

I guess the real question is "How feasible is it to remove or change the things that suck about email while keeping and possibly enhancing the good parts?" And I suppose the answer is that it's technically possible, but would be expensive, painful, and require a lot of cooperation.

More like:

And mathematicians's work is derivative of pharmaceutical companies that produce amphetamines

And pharmaceutical companies that produce amphetamines are derivative of chemists' work

And chemists' work is derivative of physicists' work, which gives us a nice loop

> Open, highly discoverable

I made a post under eggy's comment that kind of touched on this, but I don't think Smalltalk (Pharo, at least) is particularly discoverable. It seems like a highly bureaucratic language when it comes to making new classes or adding methods to an existing class, and in many cases I poked around and never really found what I was supposed to do. From what I've seen, Smalltalk is highly inspectable, but no more discoverable than any other language.

> I really like the Smalltalk environments, but I have never done anything but play around in them

Every now and then (usually when I see a post on HN about Smalltalk or Pharo in particular) I download a Pharo image and try to get started but never get particularly far. Part of the issue is that the Smalltalk image is huge and it's not obvious how to do anything nontrivial, and another part of the issue is that when I go and seek some kind of introduction so I can learn my way around I find nearly nothing.

The Pharo project has a book that's supposed to be a good introduction, but it seems to skip a lot of info and has outdated screenshots and instructions so sometimes I can't find out what I'm supposed to click on. So I give up until the next time I try.

It's a shame because everything I read about Smalltalk is so appealing, but the actual onboarding experience is too rough for me to actually go through.

He is responding to someone who claimed that 38k in the 1980s was too poor to raise a family on period, it's a tangent but you're complaining to the wrong person imo

> 'You don't want a chip card, they are more hassle'

I got exactly that line fairly recently. To be fair, it probably is much more of a hassle from what I've heard, so they're not wrong, exactly. It seems like the chip+pin rollout has been bungled pretty terribly.

I have a new answer for the Fermi paradox. Any sufficiently advanced civilization will develop an extreme "leave no trace" view for ecological reasons.

They refill coal mines, plant trees where there were once cities, and silence radio emissions so that everything appears to be in its "natural" state.

Interesting, I'll check it out! Thanks for the tip

I enjoy clojure a lot, I've had some difficulty getting started with cljs though. It seems like all the guides on getting set up with tooling are out of date. I'd particularly like to use it with node for scripting tasks, since the Clojure startup time makes it impractical to use for anything that isn't a long-running task.

What have you used to get up and running?