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I see what you're saying, but I suspect the top-down approach is not the cause of the usability issues with Anaconda. The problems are simply that it isn't always clear which butto…

I agree with all these criticisms. The anaconda installer, particularly the partitioning interface, is not at all intuitive. The first time I installed Fedora alongside an existing…

I looked at the code for pass recently, and thought it was a nice example of something where bash is absolutely adequate. You point out (in discussing the design of pass): > There …

Especially so when you consider that a player is much more likely to lose on time when the position is already bad.

> Software is fundamentally broken. It's limited, never quite works the way we want it to, but it can't be changed, can't be combined and can't be trusted. In general, this level o…

> Just as knowing why apples fall down and aeroplanes fly up, the citizens of the 21st century need to know that computers are not magical boxes but composed of dynamic models. In …

This is slightly tangential since you specified a conspirator on the inside, but how easy is it to break a homegrown encryption algorithm if you don't have the source code? I assum…

I wouldn't call it 'ground-up' but you may find this useful: https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html

I don't think that proves anything at all. If you said to a free software advocate: 'Freedom is pointless because most of us don't exercise most of our freedoms' that would clearly…

> he's absolutely correct in all of his principles I don't think principles are matters of fact. A set of principles may be consistent with each other, and/or you may agree with th…

I'd be happy to be corrected, but I think this applied to the Fedora keys?

Worth noting that a GPG signature is of limited (though not zero) use if the signing key doesn't have any signatures. In this respect, Debian contrasted favourably with Fedora the …

I agree... given bash combined with a tiling window-manager, I've found very little use for a file manager. The only exception that comes to mind is when browsing a directory of ph…

> Beware the fallacy of composition. What may be "right" in a transaction between individuals can be "wrong" over the entire population. I think this issue is philosophically conte…

> standing people pack tighter than walking people, therefore all standing ends up with more throughput, at the expense of lower individual latency (for the would-be walkers) If th…

The man was extraordinary. A couple of more detailed obituaries: https://www.chess.com/news/viktor-korchnoi-1931-2016-1214 http://en.chessbase.com/post/viktor-korchnoi-dies-at-85

Mathematics also has perfect information, but people find plenty of aesthetic appeal in that. (Though in many respects, competitive chess is not at all like mathematics. An uncoope…