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Right now I am on my ancient cheap laptop with some 4 core intel and hard drive noises, the only time it has issues with webpages is when I have too many tabs open for its 4gigs of ram. My current lap…

>But we are discussing what is morally appropriate punishment for this misdeed, not what current law allows. Even if you had not said that, your argument ignores my point.

Compensation and damages would probably mean decades of a bleak existence with most of your meger earnings going to the compensation and damages you owe. Chances are it will be a long time before he c…

There is a big problem these days with viewing digital hoarding as distinct from normal hoarding because the hoarder's home is not cluttered, only their computer, but the effect is the same and t…

Delete it all. Helping her declutter it is validating the hoarding. She needs to make that step to realize that the hoarding accomplishes nothing and there is no consequence to not hoarding.

Western harmony can not be understood in one dimension, it is very much in two dimensions.

I think things like compilation speed are fairly low on their priority list because they are focusing on the user and not the developer, the people who are not going to bother compiling anything and w…

So what would you say its point is now?

I have not followed Hurd since ~2010 when development stalled, what is the purpose of Hurd at this point? Is it just hobbyists having fun and exploring the possibilities or are they still trying to be…

This summary for XY 1.7 [1] seems a better writeup of what XY actually is and the 1.7 links at the bottom of OP also provide terse documentation. >XY is a direct descendant of the vector language K…

Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day is an interesting read on this and explores the rapid changes in a far more human way than anything else I have read on the period. He renders it as the period …

There is some circuit by Aaron Lanterman that I made years ago and have long since forgotten, have spent the last hour trying to find it with no luck. Seem to recall it was a fairly popular circuit an…

Not sure what I am more surprised about, that AOL still exists or that dialup still exists. Internet was painfully slow last I used dialup shortly after the turn of the century, can't imagine wha…

People are not the monolithic group you seem to think them to be and in my experience most people adapt fairly quickly to their situation once they realize there is nothing they can do to change it.

Because your "points" were all more of the same and my responses would have been the same, walking you though the logic of my reasoning and just reiterating what I said. I was making a point…

Did coolness evolve as a response to parental neglect? I think this is mostly what it is, a general slang for approval, awe, etc, which is deeply tied into the zeitgeist. Cuteness was a very different…

Digits, 11, decimal, and system; provides all the context required to reason out that the deci mal system does not contain 11 digits . Unless you think not learning about the decimal system also mea…

The decimal system I can reason out through my knowledge of language and context, it does not require having learned about it. How would you feel about being friends with someone who remembers everyth…

Speaking as someone with a ridiculous memory for specifics and details, no. I don't think anyone could function with eidetic memory and even having a really good memory is difficult. The ability …

Any chance you can elaborate on your use case? Part of why I submitted this is because I am not completely sure on when it is wise to use, I can see situations where it is clearly useful but things ge…

Pendulums don't swing towards center, they end up resting on center when they run out energy. This analogy mostly fails because center is not correct, it is generally just less wrong than the ext…

I don't think it needs much development at this point, it is stable, all it needs to do is keep up with Tcl/Tk development. I just started playing with it two days ago so I might be missing …

Depends on how much C you need, it might make more sense to write a proper Tcl extension and it might make sense to just embed Tcl/Tk but having this middle ground is nice because swinging to the…

It excludes the current administration, the separation of powers goes a long ways here to help insure things are not overly influenced by internal politics. Worst case is you stall until things change…

The US dollar provides a massive stabilizing effect on the global economy, which we don't need but it is nice.

I suspect there will be at least two big ones on about the same level but I don't think this will be particularly near future, at least not near future in context of the global economy which is f…