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I liked the idea of Facebook's watchman. Cross-platform and it would only add a watcher on each dir once, regardless of how many apps needed watcher functionality. But it's current…

> "says" I had of course already checked and it does not. https://github.com/bitgapp/eqMac/issues/380 So please remind me of why your condescending comment was necessary?

And which one has a keyboard shortcut for bass/treble smarty pants?

What I really need is a software bass/treble control that can be mapped to keyboard shortcut.

This line of thinking led me to think: global variables should be, rather, considered good! Plain text is the problem. We write code so it can be easily read as plain text. Not as …

There are so many config files that are read in a particular order for each shell, interactive vs login, and for each platform. They all configure themselves using env vars and she…

Yeh horror story was probably too strong a word. I need to try it.

I've heard a lot of horror stories with Swift UI. I think it's crazy that it's closed source too. It's a big black box which makes debugging hard. Plus its the kind of framework th…

Wow 55K GitHub stars. This is like some record.

Good point. I would prefer to write in HTML/JS. Vanilla JS is probably the way to go. I think modern frameworks are so bad at perf because they assume people just have so much comp…

When I said "stack/strategy", the _strategy_ part implied this build-for-each-platform approach. The question still remains then of which to use for each platform. On macOS there i…

Apple should really be investing in their own stuff here.

I want to build a cross-platform native app that starts up as fast as possible and responds as fast as possible, and has minimal memory use. Something that when the rest of someone…

> showed my tax dollars flowing through to that child...would be eye opening I agree. Charity's often use this for marketing. Making clear the direct human impact of your donation.…

> small government A different spin on "small". I wonder if you could have micro-governments instead on a per-topic basis with their own mini-budgets. These omnibus spending bills …

> If companies aren’t forced to NOT pollute, they will pollute If no one buys their products, or any products with them in the supply chain, then they won't pollute. Visibility int…

Subscription tiers for national defense is funny to think about. Priority assistance / 24/7 support / merch

Schooling is a tricky one for the free market, and it ultimately gets a bit morally dubious. I guess you are trying to sell the benefit of a highly-educated country to those who ch…

I'm interested to dive into this healthcare topic a bit deeper. To find out what a true free market of healthcare looks like. Often you find that government intervention distorts m…

> Maybe I try organizing online, which probably goes nowhere...Very few people have the time, energy, or resources The thing is...a sector of companies that do this is probably a g…

> Nobody would pay for the fire department But they essentially do via their taxes. Implying people understand they need to fund it. If we imagine a very transparent flow of inform…

> inherent monopolies I've learned to be careful about this "natural monopoly" term because it turns out to be very debatable. Recently with fiber deployments is a good example...s…

> If you don't have, and don't plan on ever having kids Then you don't pay for their services, and other people pay more. Most people don't want an uneducated population so they pa…

Already came across her. She was very good.

Every service government offers today could be thought of as a subscription service which we are forced to pay for. Every service exists to offer a benefit (direct or indirect) to …