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But destruction of Earth is inevitable! Even if we manage not to destroy ourselves in the next hundred thousand years, we still have to deal with some "soft" and "hard limits". Fir…

I... don't even know how to start answering this. "C" is glorified assembly and learning assembly is *fundamental* to understand how computers work. "C" *should* be the first langu…

After re-reading this whole thread I think I now know *why* we disagree: our level of "pragmatism" (or maybe "time scale") is different :) You favor limiting the spread of misinfor…

Thinking that "people are easy to manipulate, thus we must prevent lies from spreading to protect society" is too paternalist and (in my limited experience) does not reflect realit…

Saying (as I do) that everyone should be able to express their ideas (no matter how atrocious) publicly without facing administrative punishment does *not* mean that other actions …

You are literally the first person I find who agrees with me. Hi there! :) Just for the shake of discussion, let me put on the table some other extreme examples people bring up: A)…

> Yes, you are accountable for the communications you make, whether via keybord, orally, or any other way. Just for the purpose of debating let me bring up my (very unpopular) poin…

I would like to think that there are *dozens* of us! At least, many people in HN and most people in /r/thinkpad seem to agree! :)

> Have you looked at the P series laptops? They come close in number of ports and battery life *but* they still have an excessively big touchpad, don't have a 13 inch version and s…

You are completely right. The X61s is a better design (I happen to own one too!), I completely forgot about it as, due to its much slower CPU, I must have put it away somewhere in …

I own both the x230 and the x395 (which is, externally, almost the same as the x13) and I can definitely feel a difference when typing on the much more comfortable x230. It's mainl…

I'm on the same boat as you: my ideal laptop would be an x220/x230 on the outside with a 1440p display and a modern CPU on the inside. I can't understand why Thinkpads are moving a…

I just downloaded it, and ran `firefox docs/html/index.html`... and everything is in Chinese :P It will require more than I thought to make a non-trivial commit!

Well, there is one drawback I can think of: they are well established terms that have a very specific meaning on an engineering context. I agree that "leader/follower" might be eas…