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>This drop is largely caused by deaths of despair, partly related to a lack of affordable health care in the US I'm curious whether you believe lack of affordable health care in th…

>A 2 day standoff for a shoplifter seems like a huge waste of city resources and taxpayer dollars. Correction: a 2-day standoff for a suspect who when chased by police, barricaded …

>It was peak America mostly for straight, white, Protestant men. >It was not peak America for gay people. Or for blacks. Or for women. It makes me sad how often discussion of any p…

The 4-page manifesto posted yesterday: https://egbertowillies.com/2019/08/03/patrick-crusius-manife...

Almost all modern jet engines have (ducted) fans. In planes that never go supersonic, e.g., all current commercial airliners, the fan provides most, but not all, the propulsion. An…

Canola oil looks good on paper, but there is something very unhealthful about it if my experience is any indication. (I have to eat well or my chronic illness gets worse almost rig…

If it were as easy as bootstrapping a retail food business by buying or renting a few food trucks, someone would've done it already. Food trucks are not exactly new. (The reason fo…

Aren't you worried that such a startup will run up against the same systemic biases that have been preventing poor minority neighborhoods from accessing healthy food at reasonable …

Just because there are peer-reviewed scholarly articles making an argument does not make that argument correct. I hope anyone who suspects they or someone they love has chronic lym…

>Being on an empty stomach also seems to help There might be microbes (bacteria) in your gut (intestines, etc) that produce toxins that dull your thinking when they have food.

This comment sits at -4. Can someone who thinks it should be downvoted explain why? I ask because I want to learn (not to argue).

That's not true. It is difficult for humans to estimate how they spend their time, but my guess is that I've spent at least 35 hours recently exploring Windows 10: Changing various…

> You can spend a year (seriously) just drilling down the source tree, more than a half million folders I would be more inclined to switch to Windows if its source tree were smalle…

>A small aircraft is mechanically simpler than a car Maybe so, but the consequences of a failure of the design or the implementation are much higher.

My hope is that some enterprising developer will write an implementation of vscode's extensions API in Rust without the Chromium dependency and that that will lead to something wit…

It's on a different computer than the one I am using now, so it is going to take me at least a few hours to share it. I will make another reply to your comment when I have it.

Yes. To be precise, after `(server-start)` is evalled inside the Emacs.app process, whenever the command line `emacsclient ` runs anywhere, inside or outside the Emacs.app process,…

Which OS was the vscode running on?

>Mouse and scroll-wheel integration roughly doesn't work at all. emacs, when started with the -nw flag, has nothing to do with mouse gestures. The terminal emulator (iterm in your …

Thanks for clarifying something I failed to explain. The relative ease with which I can change the size of most of the elements in Emacs is the reason I didn't switch to, for examp…

Emacs's Mac (graphical) interface does that, too, which is not conforming to the environment it is running in. And there is no user option for changing it to a contextual menu cont…

If MS ever loses the plot and ruins VS Code, I'll probably switch to some fork of VS Code along with millions of other people.

I admit that I have spent a lot of time adjusting Emacs to my preferences (by writing Emacs Lisp code that gets loaded automatically every time my Emacs starts). I am not particula…

My visual acuity varies, so I benefit a lot from software that lets me change the size of the elements on the screen. The typical Mac app allows the user to change the size of the …