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> Wayland was designed exclusively i3 style compositors I'm a dyed-in-the-wool i3 (now sway) user. I don't even use floating windows. Wayland has still been an awful experience, br…

In 2008, I remember playing starcraft over LAN with my roommate. It played better on Wine/Ubuntu than it did on his Vista machine (and unrelatedly but hilariously, in the middle of…

> No first responder can prevent a crime from happening, all responders arrive after crime has occurred I've never understood this claim. Are you unaware of the concept of deterren…

It was deprecated in 2015 iirc

Ah appreciated, that is indeed exactly what I was asking about! Now I'm left wondering why enforcement was supposedly so hard. Seems like shooting fish in a barrel, especially give…

I may be missing something, but I don't see how this clearly precludes that behavior. Which descriptor do you think is unambiguously violated by making it easier to provide consent…

It's not like NPM pre-Microsoft was a paragon of professional management or engineering...

I was surprised to hear GP's story about the Midwest, but not surprised to hear an anecdote of West Coasters being kinder to strangers than elsewhere. Any one of those stories is w…

SFGate reports that he lives in Mill Valley, though they may be wrong https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/mill-valley-man-kille...

> These things happened at SoMa, which is objectively known to be a "nicer" neighborhood. What? After the Tenderloin, SoMA is absolutely the worst neighborhood for interactions wit…

First-order, yes: Redistributive policies don't have the sum of the country's wealth as their primary optimization objective. Arguably, their goal is closer (but not quite) to the …

> Burning Man has been pretty much taken over by SV tech dweebs Burning Man has been intertwined with tech culture for like...30 years?

> Having an open pro-information stance is all well and good, but when it is obvious that the people sending you information are doing so according to their own timetable, you have…

Sure, I don't think either this[1] commenter or Ken Thompson were trying to say that the product category shouldn't exist. A computer is vastly overpowered for what the average use…

I may be missing context here, but you're referring to the fact that they leaked the Russian-state-hacked DNC emails, right? Could you elaborate on why you think it's "selective" t…

Agreed about background music, but I definitely spend time listening to music and doing nothing else, and the medium feels active to me in a way that television doesn't. On the oth…

Likewise, I don't have any illusions about medium fully defining the quality of content: eg reading 50 Shades of Grey isn't more rewarding or meaningful than watching The Wire. But…

Hospitals and the medical system in general are always the last to get a memo about health. I wouldn't touch a good chunk of hospital meals with a ten-foot pole even when I'm in pe…

Hell, Twitter's reliability has been atrocious for a long time.

This definition easily encompasses the people who post their kids' lives for no monetary gain,which is the vast majority of social media users. A lot of the people in their 20s who…

Right, sure. I was less arguing with you than highlighting the intellectual bankruptcy of this movement.

Sure, but at that point you're just saying that a neutral descriptive term is more commonly-applicable to one gender. Is the word "sobbing" or the word "weeping" derogatory? Visibl…

An additional one I noticed with my female cousins was that a lot of fun was sucked out of high school girls' social expression/reconnaissance. On the recon side, gossiping is a fu…

The example of Chrome on Windows given above seems to belie this claim. The "nebulous chance to use a better product" you refer to was apparently enough to trickle down to the non-…

My rough model was always simply that all the Western powers practiced African slavery in that period, in the regions in which it was useful (hot, humid, agricultural ones). The sa…