EdSharkey

Distributing native binaries is so dangerous!

Just debate, talk more. You'll get lots of kudos and people agreeing with you. The dummies will stay dumb.

Why do you lack confidence in your positions and feel justified in appealing to power to silence your opposition? Probably because your positions are debatable and that scares you.

Demonstrate your ability to convince everyone with your dazzling philosophy and concrete facts on any topic you choose and see where all that smug superiority gets you.

A strong Internet Bill of Rights (IBOR) would wreck lots of surveillance state tools, shady business models, and the burgeoning censorship industrial complex.

I wonder if undermining terms of service in this way is a stop on the road to IBOR?

Government money is artificially scarce

Wot? Not sure how to respond to something so silly. I hope you mistyped. From whence does one derive their "money supply"?

Scrip is a placeholder for value like any other printed currency. It works well in place of debased government fiat, at least in times of trouble, because the web of trust at the local level is strong enough to back individual transactions.

Sounds like a stimulus sugar rush to get them out of a funk.

When national currencies collapse, local communities that issue scrip to facilitate ongoing commerce fare well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip

I am an average, flawed and vulnerable human. I am aware everything I value and love including my life can be taken from me.

Should that happen, I don't consider that a special punishment from God any more than my current condition is a special gift.

I'm here for a blink and then I am gone for the rest of long time. This brief opportunity to improve things and make earthly living less hellish for those who come after me is the blessing that I am thankful for.

Hope that helps.

Word choice can help your thinking. We all receive different struggles and decide how to respond.

The way you describe your 'luck', I read as "random good fortune" tinged with some guilt for being a 'have' when there are so many 'have-not's.

I prefer 'blessed', and not in the corny #blessed way, to describe my condition. To me, I was given much because so much is expected of me by God, by universe and by my higher self.

The extent to which I am blessed is a component of my calling to improve the total human condition.

If you lean in to that way of thinking, you obligate yourself and that can be as heavy a burden as you choose to make it. That choice and the freedom to decide how to fulfill that obligation are a part of the blessing.

To naval gaze and feel guilt is natural but fruitless stinkin' thinkin'. Motivating oneself with gratitude and humbling oneself by giving glory are ways to power through guilt.

So these patchers are monkey patching a system executable needed to have a bootable/usable system?

Why is this allowed? This sounds like a small hell.

I left Windows the moment we shifted from "developers, developers, developers, developers" to "advertisers, advertisers, advertisers, advertisers" and never looked back.

Ubuntu is very pleasant to work with, nowadays.

To juice their ESG rating to maintain their bond rating, I imagine. Same reason Gilette and Nike and every other megabrand suicided over the past 5 years. All to keep getting the speculation fiat buckerinos.

The purple snake should have never cancelled the two-time, back-to-back, 1993, 1994, Blockbuster Videogame Champion.

And on the way down, there was an unholy congress between SharePoint and OneDrive to create a new eldritch horror.

A gist, the digital equivalent of scribblings on a stained cocktail napkin, lays bare the great mystery. The great dragon is slain! His precious treasure is of no value whatsoever.

Fellow scrounging raccoons, raise your chipped mugs and cracked cups! Let us toast to our fortune, we truly are the blessed ones.

Pro-vaxxx team-sport zealots like this guy only inflame vaccine hesitancy in otherwise reasonable people.

Stop scaring people off with your othering, jerkface attitude.

History will be the judge as to whether you are right about a particular vaccine. They're not all the same in terms of efficacy nor safety, OBVIOUSLY.

Billionaires don't care about you. Scariest creatures on this planet. Tell me why the controllers need my charity?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aiFp-XqV_M

Bullcrap. This is just a demoralization play from an ubermensch who doesn't want young bucks trying hard like he did and perhaps giving him and his friends some competition/grief.

No one knows what they're doing when they are just starting out. This is just dumb.

I was worried that making MacOS free with the purchase of Macs would lead to it withering on the vine and/or become a featureitis junkie.

Is that the case here? Not enough regular care and cage cleaning? This seems like a DEI class-action lawsuit nightmare in the making.

Penitentiaries are supposed to engender penitence.

"Maybe I am part of 'the problem'." Having that observation, becoming humble, and owning up to one's mistakes is very hard to do.

In fact, short of the world burning to ashes, many sociopaths would never reach the conclusion that they are a cause of the woes around them.

THAT is why you imprison criminals and make their lives terrible, to give them a chance for penitence such that they can reform.

HN discussion quality check:

Jobs clearly wasn't resistant to app stores.

Wrong, here's receipts.

30%!

Wrong, 15% unless you're a whale.

Don't argue. Just read my mind through the screen, you already agree with everything I said.

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I don't get a dopamine hit from threads like this, they drain me. The opposing side gets a dopamine hit, reputation be damned.

I wish everyone would broaden their media sources as well as treasure history more (myself included.) I do appreciate flippant vs. philosophical exchanges like these to sift the comments for nuanced truths.

Jobs was ahead of his time, and he pushed the vision of HTML5 and offline apps. He was resistant to app stores, I suspect, because he wanted maximum freedom for users in the future rather than the corporatized, schlock-filled, freedom restricting, walled garden the post-Jobs Apple brought.

You see his vision as a big miss. I see his vision as evidence of good taste and also an eventuality.

The psychology of knowing ahead of time you'll delete all the code is interesting. Devs would be in hack-hack-hack mode and not worry about design - the goal is just explore all the territory to find the hilly parts and landmines. Move as quickly as possible and report back.

In general I think developers value their code too much and should be willing to scrap and rewrite, especially whenever requirements are changing. I chalk it up to everyone's desire to conserve mental energies due to not understanding what their energy peak/limits are.

Dopamine is a helluva drug. Get off social media!

You're placing a lot of faith in a system whose power would have long-since been stolen from the people.

I cannot abide. What is your point? That the last 5 years have seen _fewer_ true conspiracies and clownish gaslightings? Are you quibbling over the number 5 or something?

I think fiat is dying and all the bond values are going to zero which will prevent the big megacorps from paying their bills. That collapse is a better explanation of the curious, brand-destroying things these companies have done recently.

I noticed recently YouTube made it REALLY hard for me to download an mp4 for a video using VLC.

Now if I were a betting man, and the collapse of Google were imminent, I'd bet that in liquidation, they'd want to charge to get an offline copy of the videos they store. Soooo, in the meantime before the collapse, they're making it painful/time consuming to download their videos so they can max out their post-meltdown profits.

Make backups of your fav's while you can.

Imperative shell, (ever-expanding-through-relentless-refactoring) functional core seems to work pretty well for practical applications. Modern Java gets the job done in that regard.

What I don't like is the concentration level required for functional productions over equivalent imperative routines. I have found it difficult to impress upon junior developers the testing advantages of functional programming and in refactoring pairing sessions with them, they quickly lose the thread and go all doe eyed.

I feel like the current functional programming paradigms favor terseness that completely obliterates the thought process that led to the production. So, even if junior has the aha moment when we reach the end of the production, and understands what we just achieved there in 6 lines of dense code, they'd be at a loss to retrace it themselves in the future because the thought processes of each operator in the production require too much simulation space in the head.

That, and libraries like RxJS that layer in concepts of time and observables and higher-order observables with sneaky completion states that only stretch the mind further because the true semantics of the program are coupled with under-documented quirky edge cases of the operators. Running into one of those while pairing with junior is not exactly confidence building.

Long-form programming with named pure functions might help, but then I suppose you can lose the terseness and can get lost in a sea of 1-line named functions.

Parler. Someone defend their detonation for power/politics by Amazon and Apple. Do it!

500mg twice daily, but I usually forget in the morning and take 1000mg before bed.

At least for my body, the troubled GI side effects faded over time. I never noticed any lightheadedness or fatigue by it unless I overdosed. But as I mentioned, I never changed my lifestyle and eat America-sized portions, so I suspect there's plenty of sugars and energy sloshing about and all systems have power.

One thing metformin does is occasionally encourage cells to burn excess energy rather than store it. This may lead to extra cellular repair processes. I heard cancer rates were lower in metformin users and could extend life. Had my doc prescribe it to me 5 or so years ago.

I take it daily. There were mild GI side effects and weight loss at first, but my body adjusted and now it is BAU.

Haven't changed my lifestyle, can't know if it has made me more healthful. I still get colds and flu maybe once every other year.

Had a vaccine injury scare after the second jab. My health has been down since, can't know if Metformin is helping or hurting that situation - hopefully in the background helping me heal.

CIA is worldwide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CIA_controversies (AND THAT'S THE PUBLIC LIST)

How many redlines they gotta cross and ops they gotta run before they rival the KGB for you?

The volume of your n responses had me convinced until I saw you refuted n+1 times. I won't question your motives for sweating the unabomber.

That said, if someone OTHER THAN YOU was paid by the post for posts akin to yours, and I was their boss, I would reassign that person to Reddit.