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> The private sector will almost always deliver a better result as you mitigate market power abuse. Yeah, and feathers fall at the same speed as baseballs if you mitigate friction.…

I believe emacs chunks large files and then lazily loads them to enable this. I remember having to mess around with a specific mode to get it to work in the past, but I think it's …

I don't even use finder and I still find these things popping up every now or then.

It took me forever to figure out that windows defender was what was slowing emacs down to a crawl on windows. I even went through the trouble of compiling native-comp and it was st…

I wish I could tell it I always want English language wikipedia results first regardless of which language I search in. I'm tired of my top result being a poorly translated version…

If I were talking about sentience I would definitely be including goldfish. What about them is so different to us that we would have sentience while they would not?

Remember that dude that wrote the vast majority of Scots wikipedia while not being able to speak Scots? Yeah, just waiting for the first LLM to make headlines by hallucinating it's…

I wasted two hours yesterday just to track down a bug that was in the documentation, not the code. It's so frustrating. Maintaining good documentation is incredibly hard especially…

It shouldn't, that's wage theft and is very much illegal.

Trademark and copywright aren't quite the samee things. We can get rid of copywright while still allowing trademarks.

Do we actually need monetary incentives to get people to create new things. Won't people naturally keep creating new things as long as they aren't constrained by a more fundamental…

More Lord of the Flies than Anarchy. There's definitely hierarchy in our system.

I shove them all into ~/docs and then edit my ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file to match.

Can you really not imagine any kind of system where everyone can pay their bills and knowledge isn't guarded behind a paywall?

Misattributed. It was actually Kurt Tucholsky who was himself quoting an unnamed French Diplomat. "Der Tod eines Menschen: das ist eine Katastrophe. Hunderttausend Tote: das ist ei…

until you get to the one actually tricky part and you need to pause it for sec so your brain can catch back up.

Hell, it's hard enough these days to identify which physicians are actually physicians. I recently had an NP introduce herself to me as "Dr. So-and-so."

Yep, google published a bunch of research about their hiring processes and it basically said "we've tried everything and nothing works... anybody else have any ideas?"

I mean, I'd say that about regular Duolingo.

Hell, I can learn that just by chit-chating with my redneck neighbor.

Would that also include side affects from medications?

> CBT can be helpful, but it 'intellectualizes' problems too much. How about teaching these kids how to increase their self-confidence? How to identify their emotional needs? How t…

The Royal Game of Ur?

I find that the more you use emacs the more you get frustrated that nothing else works the way it does in emacs. You either deal with it, try and hack some emacs functionality into…