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I only ask because the website says "because there just wasn't any free or paid font that I found both readable, effective and elegant" and I can think of several, including the on…

Why is this better than Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Consolas, SF Mono, Pragmata Pro, and Operator Mono? The reason can be anything, but what is the reason? I don't find that this fon…

Try getting a refurbished 2015 MacBook Pro (the last good model), as powerful as you need.

I think deciding to not free your memory or use GC (instead of not) would count as having a different program.

"The reality is you still have to free resources, so it's not like the garbage collector is doing work that doesn't need to be done." It's common to use stack and pool memory alloc…

I downloaded it, connected a bunch of apps I use (Twitter, Google Drive, Gmail, Messenger, Slack) and played around. Sincere question: what's the benefit of using my apps this way?…

The article takes issue with Stallman commenting callously on a sensitive topic, having a view the author finds offensive, and directing those comments insensitively toward the wro…

I know she thinks that, but it's not what her post is about. She quotes Stallman, assumes the reader will agree that what he said was problematic, then spends the rest of the artic…

Did he try to absolve Minsky of guilt? I thought the thesis of his defense of Minsky was: "Whatever conduct you want to criticize, you should describe it with a specific term that …

That's my whole issue here. The author's post makes it sound like her problem is with his lack of tact. She complains about his "choice of words," about how it wasn't "appropriate"…

Fair point, but the expected norm in society, the one that posts like this draw from, centers around outward tact. Like, the whole moral injunction the author is trying to establis…

I've noticed that people who write posts like this like to quote their subject, and then go, oh my, how shocking! what an appalling thing to say! without addressing the thing that …

Here's an argument that although Myers-Briggs isn't scientific, it doesn't need to be, and is still as useful as it promises to be: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/05/27/on-types-o…

Because you would have to have dozens of such operations, at which point you have to filter through them, at which point it’s faster to just type what you want to do. Seriously, th…

You realize Vitalik Buterin invented Ethereum when he was 19? The guys who did the Manhattan Project were disgustingly young. Newton invented calculus when he was 21. Hell, Nas rel…

The funny thing is that Excel would basically meet this need perfectly if it didn’t take 5 seconds to open.

I understand the point you’re making here, but having done webdev for about five years now this has just not been the experience of me or anyone I know. Admittedly, limited sample …

This just shows how shallow web programming is in intellectual content. If your expertise consists of stuff that can be looked up on the fly, all you need to join the field is a hi…

This general movement has a “screw the system, man” vibe that I think steers it away from reality. It’s already possible to own your platform. The problem that no one else will use…

You are right that large-scale things happen as the cumulative effect of many small things, but the difference is that in your example the smoker is responsible for all of those ci…

Am I alone in fundamentally not believing in the power of individual action when it comes to stuff like climate change, recycling, voting? People always say that if everyone though…

The biggest benefit of remote work is that it directly rewards productivity. At an office if you finish your work early you can’t just go home; you’re expected to do more work. Wit…