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Nope.

I find myself in the utterly bizarre position (to me, anyway) of defending a megacorp against government interference because government has failed to reign in the bad behavior of …

There's competition of regulatory regimes —mandatory and strict (could be stricter, IMO) vs. optional and looser. Absent government outlawing a bunch of the bad behavior Apple trie…

macOS, for that matter, despite over a decade of predictions that that'd be taken away.

They've done this since the early days of the app store. Mostly-content apps without really broad appeal have long carried a high risk of rejection. > Homescreen widgets: utterly u…

I do think it's at least surprising that changing your email address on GitHub would cause you to lose access to places where you used GitHub 3rd party auth to login. If those sche…

Damn dude(ette?). I sincerely wish you peace. I suggest we not continue this (doesn't seem like you were planning to anyway). Sorry if this exchange caused you pain.

> Anecdotally, I would say that the two interests are positively correlated. The physical sciences (and social sciences) are core pillars of the liberal arts, so... yeah, I'd hope …

No rigour? > Show me that liberal arts types are on average more ethical than science types Liberal arts types? Science types? More ethical ?! I could pick out more but that was a …

Again, feel free to disagree with and ignore the entire millenia-long traditions of the liberal arts outside math and science if you like. You may be right, and all those other peo…

Shrug . If you don't find it valuable, feel free to ignore it. Meanwhile most of your requests amount to "give me a liberal education in a Hackernews post" so are entirely ridiculo…

We don't get to see, directly, how everyone else experiences life. They might tell us, and they might do so more or less truthfully and accurately. They might struggle to communica…

I think that's one of the most important qualities of literature and poetry—they can illuminate those "truer than science" personal-perceptual aspects of the human experience, whic…

Seven house members. Vice President, entire Senate, and the rest of the House, told them to pound sand. About as comparable as a housefly is to an elephant.

Evidence points to it mostly being small-scale and largely accidental (e.g. someone has two residences and forgets they voted in one place earlier in the year, votes in second plac…

Yeah, I would entirely love it if I could use the same key for everything I have that takes a key. That'd be great. As it is I just don't bother with keys for, like, back doors to …

Clearly it contains alchemists' lost secrets to creating slimes. But is cursed to gradually turn anyone who reads it into a slime. Which at least one player will obviously try to d…

Linux was my main desktop OS for about a decade. About four years of that on Gentoo, so yes, I do actually know what I'm doing, didn't just pointy-clicky install to an Ubuntu deskt…

It only just dawned on me reading this—Windows doesn't actually "cut" files, does it? The behavior's different from "cutting" text. The files remain until you paste, right? Mac's c…

Then you can select other text to paste over.

I hadn't thought about it until just now, but soundtrack music has been so terrible for the last 15-20 years that it's one area AI might genuinely be much better than what we've go…

I'm so glad the gap between "we can keep very-long-term records" and "AI now dominates content creation" is going to be large enough, even for very recent things like video games, …

Boot from external media (USB disk, cd or dvd if you're kicking it old school, maybe even network) with no persistent storage (ramdisk or whatever only). Mount the hard drive. Form…

A non-mobile work environment, but unplug one cord and you can take the laptop part to meetings, including offsite, you can travel with it, work from the coffee shop or roof or par…

> It’s entertainment. Complete disagreement here. Informative writing may serve as entertainment, but if it's done well, that's not all it is. It helps people understand the world,…