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magicalbeans··on Ask HN: Is it a good time to switch to Ubuntu 18.04 desktop?
50/50 splits don't work well in practice. Splits right in the middle of the eyes. And assumes all tiles have the same importance and deserve equal screen space. Whereas with large central monitor the positioning and split ratios are very important. 50/50 rarely works well. 60/40, 70/30, are more sensible
magicalbeans··on Friedrich Nietzsche: The truth is terrible
Given a person A and person B, while both have a very small subset of the 'univeral truth' one of them is closer to it than the other approximation. And better yet the combined sample sets are likely to be even closer.
magicalbeans··on Friedrich Nietzsche: The truth is terrible
Calling sensory experiences subjective subtly implies that they carry zero bits of useful information and that everything is up to interpretation. That is profoundly defeatist. Whereas I maintain that there is a universal truth, and that individual sensory experiences are mere samples. The more samples from as many sensory devices and vantage points the closer your approximation to the universal truth it is.
magicalbeans··on .NET JIT and CLR – Joined at the Hip
Is WPF dead? And what's it been replaced with?
magicalbeans··on .NET JIT and CLR – Joined at the Hip
Which tooling (as far as IDEs go) and for which langs don't fall on it's arse on big projects?
magicalbeans··on .NET JIT and CLR – Joined at the Hip
Jetbrains Rider = win/macos/linux

Quite competitive with msvs, if not better

magicalbeans··on Friedrich Nietzsche: The truth is terrible
There are no universal truths? Math is quite universal. For all intents and purposes empiristic measurements have margin of error small enough to be more than just a subjective experience. In fact you are experiencing a universal truth right now through a small and a distorted glass. Saying that there's no universal truth anywhere is just full on defeatist poo-poo.
magicalbeans··on Friedrich Nietzsche: The truth is terrible
What is the so called excellence and why is it so important?
magicalbeans··on Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard
Touchbar should never have happened in the first place, not now, not ever. It such an obviously bad idea.
magicalbeans··on Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
Without extensions all web browsers are quite equally unusable. Long gone are the days of Opera presto when browsers shipped fully featured.
magicalbeans··on Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
Breaking "old" add-ons with no working replacement and no way to implement quite a few of them killed FF for me. What those idiots at Mozilla don't get is that without the add-ons their stock browser is no better than any other.
magicalbeans··on Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try
Firefox broke off backwards compatibility with massive amount of extensions - without them stock FF is quite shite and unusable. Not only that, some of the features of the old extensions are impossible to implement in the new extension engine.
magicalbeans··on Make. It. Simple. Linux Desktop Usability
Global menus assume a single monitor setup. And as such are unsuitable.
magicalbeans··on Make. It. Simple. Linux Desktop Usability
About buttons are there to find the exact version of the software you are using - and who is behind it. It is useful.

Sometimes to contact the devs.

magicalbeans··on Long-term health risks after having adenoids or tonsils removed in childhood
Which heavy metals did you test for? And what do you think was the source?
magicalbeans··on Long-term health risks after having adenoids or tonsils removed in childhood
What was the issue in the end? And how did you solve it?