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Please be serious, that straw-man is clearly not my point. (I thought you said it was 90# of CRT)

There’s definitely a balance between the newest of the newest bleeding edge hardware that we could only have dreamed of five years ago, and still functional hardware from five years ago.

Just like engineering is a balance between technical optimization and cost.

Seems like your mindset is one that chooses optimization at any cost, which is pitiable.

I bought an M3 when it was brand new but I also have a Dell XPS laptop that’s running an Intel 8th GEN processor. Both have their uses, and the existence of the M3 does not make the Dell worthless or unacceptable.

You simply dismissed or forgot the learning you did to use Visual Studio Code.

Regardless of how much learning you did you still had to learn how to use it.

Just trying to short-circuit that logic and show you that it cuts both ways and that we should be willing to learn new tools.

I don’t know what to say to that other than I pity that mindset.

Come on, buddy, at this point, nobody could take you seriously.

You are attributing to the software and OS a difference that exists because of hardware.

You can’t seriously sit here and say Linux battery life on x86 doesn’t reach your par when you’re comparing it to a completely different computing architecture.

You’re comparing apples to oranges and complaining the oranges are more sour than the apples.

Run Asahi Linux and tell me how it goes.

KDE Connect

I’m not sure what your point is?

You were ahead of the curve on displays and behind the curve on phones and I guess congrats on the 2e start, I had an early Mac.

What does this have to do with the price of CPU cycles in clamshell PCs?

You abstained until ARM because you could see the future and you knew that the specs you demanded we’re gonna be available eventually?

Yeah, but that’s Mac, not Linux on Laptops of the era designed for Windows

*GASP* OH NO THEY MIGHT LEARN A SKILL!!!!

Snark aside, I really really don’t understand the aversion, even within the tech community, to learning new skills especially as it pertains to Linux.

Would having new knowledge be such a burden? Why is it something to avoid? Why is it not a good thing if normal people learn more about computing?

Do we want a population of iPad baby Linux users? Normal people can use it now, don’t gate keep.

We have people going “I don’t have to read, I could just have the AI do it for me” and pretty soon they’re not gonna be able to think. People don’t want to think or learn because we have such a cultural aversion to being a nerd. Nerd is not a bad thing.

Given that this is your stance and demands for laptop hardware I have to assume that you have never once participated in the laptop market prior to the M1 releasing?

That’s the only way your unrealistic expectations make sense.

Of course, people have been parroting that about Linux on laptops for over a decade. I never understood it, since I’ve never had any significant issues with Linux on my laptops.

If they take away my space heater I riot.

But in all seriousness, why are we moving away from usability features ingrained into muscle memory after 30 years across all desktop computing platforms?

Have we not learned in the past 10 to 20 years that pandering to the lowest common denominator destroys good software and turns it into an enshittified mess?

We need to stop removing features because people are too stupid to use them.

If they’re too stupid to use the features they’re too stupid to use the product.

Homelessness wasn’t ignored in Sim City 2013, it was an integral part of managing housing supply and employment. Until I figured out how to balance things my parks were filled with homeless camps, inverting the land value effect of the park.

I’m deeply autistic about city builders and figure out the systems behind them and build metropolises. I’ve spent well over 35k hours playing city simulators since sim city on SNES and most of that with Sim City.

I haven’t given Cities 2 a try because they think cars should be free from a parking standpoint and while I can design around that to minimize the number of cars overall, it doesn’t feel real.

Parking is something every city builder tries to pretend isn’t real so I hope this game considers that a problem to solve by city designers, not the game designers…

This is really exciting, and I can’t wait to see where it goes.

Yet at the time it seemed to need one. Glad I never looked back at that fragmented mess.

I also don’t ‘KTH-Trust’ Meta of all corporations to have a compile step for a web technology.

Yes. When I dipped my toes into the front end ecosystem in 2021 to build a portfolio site, the month old tutorial video I followed, was already out of date. React had released an update to routers and I could not find any documentation on it. Googling for the router brought me to pages that said to do what I had done, which disagreed with the error message that I was getting from react.

React had just updated and documentation hadn’t.

I then discovered that Meta owns React so I got frustrated as hell with their obfuscation and ripped out all of the React and turned what was left into vanilla html+js.

Nope, that would be velocity changing sign, which means acceleration would increase.

I hate to tell you, but Siri and other voice assistance are not good at controlling music playback. I have been waiting for that specific feature to get “good” for over a decade now.

The closest one came to handling controlling music playback well in anyway was Cortana but even Cortana didn’t do the things that I needed to do with my voice while controlling music play.

The biggest Used case for me was always hey Cortana hey Siri add a specific song to now playing and play it next. No matter what on any operating system. The voice assistant delete the entire queue and then probably plays the wrong song. Not only will they play the wrong song, but they will play the entire album from the wrong song if it is available so now I’ve gone from a playlist that I was building and listening to on loop for potentially days to some album that I don’t wanna listen to because it could not just add a song next.

Oh cool, physical spyware so children can tell you directly what toy companies to invest in and what ad spots to buy.

How many marketing companies and toy manufacturers are you sending all these children’s data to?

The term for the sort in the article is called lexical, but the problem is the people are stupid.

The average user does not know the difference between lexical and alphabetic sort

this is an ID-10T PEBKAC ERR.

Not this keyboard not this chair, but the problem is with idiots between keyboards and chairs.

The author is not the ID10T it’s the other general users.

The author is intelligent enough to recognize that this is not alphabetical sort, but the term that they are looking for to describe the sort that they see in dolphin windows, google etc. is *lexical* sort, not alphabetical.

The engineering problem is ID10Tic not technical. How do you educate an illiterate public on what the difference between alphabetical and lexical sort is in practice?

You can’t, so you engineer around it and call lexical sort alphabetical.

Yeah, half of what you’ve put here isn’t in the article. As a deep fan of Rick and Morty these are the very base level gags.

This is why we call this shit slop. Sure you’ve written an article but it’s missing half of the information that you claim is in the article, and it’s information that you’re not even familiar with anyway.

Anyone who actually knows what’s up looks at this and can tell.

I hope this article ends up being a black stain on your career.

You don’t know that because the regulations have never existed. Please try to refrain from unscientific thinking such that there are things you think you can know without experimental verification. This is the thinking of a technological dark age.

I've been messing with this and you can get a very detailed view of another highly self-similar structure by changing the packsize to 1, the cellsize to 2, and then adding packSize++; to the end of the drawRow function.

I can drink from a marked 1L water bottle in the morning before I've weighed myself for the day and subtract the volume of water I drank so I don't have to weigh immediately when it's cold and I'd rather not be nude, which means I can take my ADHD meds without getting out of bed, letting me take them earlier which sets me up for success.

Calorie counts become more precise as well, when you measure in grams.

50kg and 100kg are intuitive bounds for healthy weight.

I don't know how to put into words how much more sense celsius makes than fahrenheit other than to say you intutively know that 0 is freezing and 30 is fuck me.

A kilometer is 1000 steps with an average adult stride length of ~1 meter. How many steps is a mile with an average stride length of 2.5ft-3ft?

There's some other stuff around cooking and sous vide.

it makes dealing with weights of liquids very intuitive.

Can we all stop making the football field/alligator/sedan/truck measure of length joke?

If you want to clown on Americans, quit using the imperial units at all! Be better than us, don’t stoop to our level and spit in our hair.

Coming from an American who switched to metric a decade ago to lead by example in my friend group.

You may see it has a clever, pithy joke but it is feeding American anti-intellectualism due to the pygmalion effect. Treat someone like they’re going to be stupid, and they’re going to be stupid.

I got taught about lying to children at the same time that I learned about the orbitals of the electron and that Neil Bohr model of the atom wasn’t totally correct, by the least woke chemistry teacher I’ve probably ever known.

Even he would read this and think That you were suffering from a semi lucid state of psychosis and he would begin seeking an annihilation after reading this.

While yes, lying to children does induce some cognitive overhead cost—and I personally believe that the act of learning and the act of changing one’s mind from something already learned is in a way painful (in so much as the brain can feel pain since it doesn’t really have any nerve endings) because of the forming of new connections and the breaking of old—I fail to see how that has anything to do with wokeism, other than being “woke” inherently requiring the critical thinking capacity to make those changes in things that you’ve learned.

My pet theory is that conservatives are conservatives because that pain is unbearable for them and they just hate learning or relearning or changing their mind at all.

Which leads me to ask after this ramble of yours: do you suffer from this pain?

Oh I was bawling during the Pa Kent scene in the theater yesterday, it was so good. I also cried at the way Superman was distraught over the treatment of the monster, and then also the scene with the kid and the flag.

I don’t have much to offer the conversation other than a linguistic alternative.

TAURUS: Torqued Accelerator Using Radiation Unleashed from the Sun.

Grammatically correct and it doesn’t drop a word just to mimic a sci-fi robot’s name in an incredibly awkward and stilted way. I like Interstellar as much as the next person, but that acronym felt like a stretch, and it leaves out (literally) useful information.

I have more intellectual curiosity about base58 and base85 and Metas wrist based gesture control system than I do a neglectful father who nearly let his daughter drown because he was too thick to realize that if it was deep enough for water to get up to his toddler’s elbows that she could drown horizontally.

It does not take a genius to figure this out. Would he have left his daughter in the bathtub unsupervised? Would he have let his daughter walk around the rim of the bathtub if it were up to her elbows?

I can almost guarantee that he would not have let her go freely at a place with a 2 foot deep kiddie pool, so why let her run freely around the yard with the 2 foot deep mossy pit?

To me, it’s a signal that this person should not ever be involved in any safety decisions in any product that interfaces with humans and the real world. They simply don’t have the proper risk assessment faculties.

Why is this back on the front page of the site? It was posted several days ago and has little to nothing to do with the content and context of the site.

Why didn't the aunt think to just go get her instead of calling you over to say "Hey so I know you told her to stay away from the fountain, but what about her walking around the rim of it, is that dangerous or not?"

For what it’s worth I agree with them.

Hanson’s razor says never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity.

Nowhere in there, does it say that stupidity should be acceptable or accepted.

Yes, fuck them for being too stupid to know better. At some point in their life they made a decision to disengage from any use of their brain, and have remained that way to the detriment of everybody around them.

This is the way I’ve been treating my clothes for years. I still have clothes that would’ve been thrown away a decade ago, but now they’re my favorite, softest shirts.