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(a) it's August 2021 now. Lots of water under the bridge since then.

(b) that strikes me as a somewhat misleading reading of that data, which shows no _decrease_ of vaccine hesitancy from the previous month in PhDs while hesitancy for other educational buckets declined to some degree.

(c) what makes you think PhDs as a group are less likely to be lazy and ignorant than other groups? Do you have statistics on that?

Yes, if you're actually a libertarian -- like Rand Paul claims to be -- that is in fact fine. People can vote with their feet.

edit: typo

This is an oversimplification. Unix trains people to think in terms of requiring deep directory hierarchies because the Unix implementation cannot exist without them (I'd argue some of this is due to historical cruft becoming enshrined over the decades). The OS X Finder never managed to bridge the gap between the elegance of the old Finder and the raw utility of the NeXT browser interface.

Something else, anecdotally: NeXT people never used the workspace to actually do anything. They always went to the command line to copy/move files and do other file management things. My takeaway was that the workspace was mainly a proof of concept.

Unrealistic. My non-tech family and friends don’t care about this, and I can’t make them care. They don’t understand why it’s a problem; they agree with the motive and don’t understand that it’s not actually a solvable problem. It’s not totally dissimilar to the crypto backdoor problem. Normies think it’s great for only the feds to break encryption. Doesn’t work that way, but you can’t explain why to someone who doesn’t want to know.

The only progress for things like this comes at the political level, through pressure on politicians or corporations. That’s where you should be spending effort if this sort of thing matters to you.

A few Linux nerds buying some fantasy spook-free glibertarian phone will not make a dent in the problem.

The 68k Macs are < 60MHz and the early PowerPCs were not a lot faster. Your 2014 laptop will run circles around them doing just about anything.

But they can’t even get a feed with ads to people. I should have been able to get the NBC “live” Olympics feeds on Peacock or one of the other NBC apps at the broadcast times. Nope. Not even with ads. No dice. Cord-cutters are SOL (if you don’t want to put up an antenna or don’t have local NBC reception).

This is how you handle the Olympics if you want the ratings to nosedive.

Also https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/science/california-new-co...

> TextMate, in turn, was heavily inspired by BBEdit.

This assertion is surprising. They're not all alike in any way that any two Mac-native text editors wouldn't be. Sublime is markedly different only because it dispenses with Mac-native UI conventions (which IHMO makes it unpleasant to use on macOS).

> BBEdit at the time was, as its name suggests, fairly bare-bones. It had auto-indent and syntax highlighting and very sophisticated grep capabilities, but not much else in terms of programming support. For a long time, it was THE code editor for mac users who wanted a graphical interface but not an IDE. TextMate rose to popularity by mostly mimicking BBEdit, but offering additional programming features like snippets and shell-script based plugins and more sophisticated syntax highlighting (enabling e.g. correctly highlighting CSS and JS embedded in an HTML file).

This seems not quite accurate.

My recollection is that BBEdit was just another Mac plaintext editor app -- solid, but stodgy -- until the Web arrived, and someone built a suite of HTML editing commands for it. That's when it took off. It was the plaintext editor everyone used for HTML until TextMate came along.

I think the parent is referring to the code they ship as part of their own products, which for most companies is definitely not GPL3 if they can avoid it.

Excellent -- so your large C codebase is free of security bugs, something no software vendor has managed to accomplish. Ritchie and Thompson themselves didn't manage that feat.

Tell us how you do it, please, so the world may learn.

That seems like an ahistorical objection.

$199 was a very reasonable price for a powerful dev tool in 1988. A lot of software at the time cost much, much more. Look up historical prices for just about any contemporaneous commercial software.

You can still argue they would have done better in the long run by marketing themselves as "Turbo Smalltalk" at $69.99. But that's a different argument than "wow that's way overpriced," which simply wasn't the case.

What happened with Apple and iOS?

No, Apple TV doesn't require any other Apple devices. It will prompt you for an iCloud account during setup, but you can create a free one or just not have one.

Times have changed a lot. Your advice might have applied as late as the mid 1990’s, but not much past the turn of the century.

In hindsight, boomers had a really easy time of it, even some we rightly revere for their contributions. Work hard, or be brilliant, or some combination of the two. That’s not enough today. Ken Thompson told the story somewhere of being literally chased down the east coast after graduation by Bell Labs recruiters. That would never happen now.

This sort of thing is absolutely not new since the “Jobs era.”

Early Mac OS X had exactly these criticisms leveled at it, for years.

Also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushed_metal_(interface)

"War on Drugs" refers specifically to the series of laws and actions and attitudes that began with the Nixon administration, the publicly stated intent of which was to combat illegal drug use. The actual intent was to demonize the perceived political enemies of the Nixon administration. Despite that, this is still the core of America's drug policy today.

> I think we can all agree that illicit drugs can cause damage to societies

Can we? So what's the root cause of illicit drug use? We have one major suspect with correlation but not causation established:

https://www.addictionhope.com/blog/child-abuse-substance-abu...

> Research shows almost two-thirds of all patients in treatment for substance abuse report physical, sexual or emotional abuse during childhood.

“The sheer weight of the many reports over the years certainly implicates child abuse as a possible factor in drug abuse for many people,” said Dr. Cora Lee Wetherington, NIDA’s Women’s Health Coordinator.

“But we lack hard data that clearly establish and describe the role of child ‘abuse in the subsequent development of drug abuse. Is child abuse indeed a cause of drug abuse, or is child abuse a marker for other unidentified factors?”

you might google Fentanyl

I dunno what most people think about the benefits of Smalltalk, but I do know that people think Ruby and Objective-C are part of the Smalltalk lineage because they use the Smalltalk object model and have similar dynamic properties.

What's really sad is that the entire reason Sony bought the media companies was to prevent them from interfering with new Sony hardware innovations. The record companies resisted the audio CD and the studios resisted Betamax. Sony seems to have forgotten this after Akio Morita stopped running things.

You seem to have an incredibly optimistic view of the both the medical profession and human attention span.

Compared to the equivalent standard code to implement that UI?

Could be the reason the eventual product ended up with a more complex implementation?

You really need to stop watching Fox News. It is poisoning your brain. No one other than Twitter grifters thinks the way you seem to think they do.

- A Bond of color is probably an inevitability.

- Bond is usually incredibly incompetent and succeeds in spite of himself through sheer luck.

> Tried to setup auto pay and it would break. This happened a few times, so I left it broken figuring someone would call and we could sort it out then.

Never do this in the US. You need to proactively call them to resolve the situation. The standard thing for nonpayment -- which maybe Frontier didn't have working, but you're taking a real risk -- is for these to go to a collections agency, and it will go on your credit record, which affects your future ability to get credit for large loans of various kinds.

Yup. It was abandoned almost exactly like MacPaint was. Real shame.

I'm not voting on it either way, so I can't say, but I personally find it off topic. TFA is a technical article; there are plenty of articles that discuss right-to-repair etc.

Edited to add: the author doesn't seem to themselves be heartbroken. This level of detail suggests enthusiasm.

I don't think Google committed to that. Other companies have.

I've never used it, but Oberon running on bare hardware might qualify if one is OK with Modula instead of Lisp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_%28operating_system%29#...

It didn’t scale to large projects, though.

plists absolutely cannot contain arbitrary Objective-C objects. They support a subset of Foundation container and value types and are not extensible to contain other types.