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setpatchaddresson The Amish have negotiated a pact with modernity (2018)

https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/buddhist-monks-with-the...

It's more complicated than that. Always.

The monks I've known accept modern science, medicine, etc cheerfully. It's not really relevant to Buddhist spirituality any more than the advent of frozen fish sticks was.

It's fine to LARP 1850 if that's your bag. But people who truly wish to live in the confines of that era will have children who die of cholera. We should all be grateful for the upsides of modern society.

setpatchaddresson Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still rely on an iron lung

Ah, that explains your attitude here. Do tell us more about NPR's liberal bias.

setpatchaddresson Exa: An alternative to Ls

Yes, they really need to call out what makes it different. The front page makes it sound mostly like an alias to ls with specific options + an additional call to `git status`.

setpatchaddresson 50 years ago, The Electric Company used comedy to boost kids' reading skills

Sure, but is it worse than what they'd have otherwise been watching on TV?

Stipulated that in an ideal world, children should watch no television.

But if the alternative is, I don't know, reruns of Leave it to Beaver?

setpatchaddresson Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux

I don’t disagree with your sentiment, but that wasn’t meant as a literal “I am the god Pan” — it was figurative, hyperbole. At least, that’s my recollection from when I read it a couple of decades ago.

setpatchaddresson Google has a secret deal with FB called “Jedi Blue” that they knew was illegal

Specifically, activist GOP states; some of the most corrupt politicians on the planet. I’m sure there’s actionable antitrust against Google, but this particular lawsuit is probably hot air.

setpatchaddresson Trader Joe Wrote a Memoir

I’d love to also read about the post-“Joe” 1979-present period — how Aldi’s has done so well with it without compromising the original principles.

setpatchaddresson Western Maryland asks West Virginia to 'consider adding us' to their state

I could see Congress going along with this in exchange for DC statehood.

But, while we're talking about things that won't ever happen, we should also combine the Dakotas into one state. Lot of government administrative resources wasted for very few people actually living there. And we're paying for four senators, where two is way more than necessary to represent that population.

setpatchaddresson MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

The beachball isn't directly related to CPU speed. It indicates the main thread of the foreground app is busy for more than a few seconds. It may be, for example, blocked waiting for something from the network -- which is one reason it's important for macOS developers to move filesystem and network access to background threads as much as possible.

setpatchaddresson Sinclair TV stations disrupted across the US in apparent ransomware attack

Sinclair is bad, but Facebook and News Corp are much, much worse.

setpatchaddresson Fast rebases with git-move

These tools seem hugely valuable, but “branchless” seems like a misnomer.

setpatchaddresson A threat analysis of sideloading [pdf]

The document is actually worth a read. I don’t think the parent poster is accurately representing Apple’s position.

setpatchaddresson Poll finds more than half of Bay Area residents plan to leave for good

We pay more than enough in state taxes to fund the f’n roads. They should be in better shape than they frequently are.

setpatchaddresson Poll finds more than half of Bay Area residents plan to leave for good

Downtown MV is still pretty nice, and beats the heck out of most of the south bay. Not as charming as it used to be, though. The big used book store moving away was a huge loss.

setpatchaddresson Vast majority think life in SF Bay Area getting worse, want to leave, poll finds

Yes, progressives really have their collective heads up their asses on SALT. AOC and Liz Warren loving a Republican tax scheme designed to punish blue states is something to behold.

setpatchaddresson Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin

I assume by "California politics" you mean taxes? Got news for you about TX property tax, chief.

setpatchaddresson Asahi Linux for M1 Macs: progress report for September 2021

Just curious: if someone was inclined to build a set of good (correct style, well-documented, etc) patches to support those extensions, why would the kernel refuse them?

(Put another way: I'm wondering whether you think the difficulty is technical or political.)

setpatchaddresson Before General Magic there was Paradigm (2018)

My impression was that they were high on their own supply and there was no adult supervision at all, which I think aligns with your impression.

setpatchaddresson Before General Magic there was Paradigm (2018)

I wouldn’t be that pejorative about it — the Magic Cap UI was actually useful — but yes, that’s closer.

setpatchaddresson Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing views” from its CoC

This just seems to be establishing proper boundaries?

I don't know what specifically motivated this PR, but I assume something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning .

setpatchaddresson Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing views” from its CoC

This is a very slanted and misleading title. The title of the commit is "Remove abuse enabling language" and it appears to do just that.

setpatchaddresson Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did (2012)

> it's a well-studied economic fact that monopolists generally sell higher quality products

What does this have to do with Apple, which has neither the completely captive market that AT&T did nor the overwhelming market control that IBM did?

setpatchaddresson Former U.S. officials describe details of the CIA’s proposals to abduct Assange

It’s not just “Establishment Democrats”. He literally acted as a stooge for the Russian government in publishing DNC emails but suppressing damaging information on Republicans.

setpatchaddresson New CA law allows to pull identifying info of gun owners from state registry

Any actual lawyer want to confirm exactly what this law does? I read the text and I’m actually not sure, and one shouldn’t as a rule trust the submitter’s title as a summary on a politically-loaded topic without verification.

In particular, when is this information collected and by whom?

setpatchaddresson AMD’s Lisa Su

What’s the issue with background task management on iOS?

setpatchaddresson John Stossel sues Facebook for allegedly defaming him with fact-check

Formerly famous. He's one of those formerly small-L libertarians like Dennis Miller who took hard right turns after 9/11.

setpatchaddresson John Stossel sues Facebook for allegedly defaming him with fact-check

Democrat bias -> Democratic bias, please

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)

setpatchaddresson A Short History of Objective-C (2017)

Sure. If you want a SmallTalk that you can use to build real apps, ObjC is your best choice.

setpatchaddresson A Short History of Objective-C (2017)

Two red flags:

- the exception philosophy seems wrong-headed to me — you want to build language features that encourage handling of routine runtime issues without the overhead of C++-style exceptions

- the claim that the runtime is faster than Apples’s runtime is very citation-needed

setpatchaddresson Cinepaint: The long forgotten GIMP fork that once powered the cinema industry

ISTR that the early Pixar movie were simply rerendered at higher resolution from the original assets?