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miloshadzic | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Learning about philosophy

> Note that philosophy is distinct from the history of philosophy. If you care about what is true, and not the historical development of ideas, there's not much point in reading things written before, say, 1900, or even 1950. So no Hume or Hegel or whatever. In general these texts are poorly written and unclear compared to modern ones. And of course, they can't treat the developments that have taken place in the intervening years. Consider an analogy: you would not read Newton's original manuscripts to learn calculus.

This type of view is extremely common amongst students of analytic philosophy. The "problem" approach to philosophy.

IMO Reading Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, Heidegger, etc. and other thinkers deemed outdated and unworthy is absolutely a good use of time for anyone interested in Philosophy. This post is actually the first time I've ever heard anybody suggest not reading Hume.

miloshadzic | 6 years ago | on: Escape from System D, episode VI: freedom in sight 

  Dinit has been booting my own system for a long while, and other than a
  few hiccups on odd occasions it’s been quite reliable.

  Ok, compared to Systemd it lacks some features. It doesn’t know anything
  about Cgroups, the boot manager, filesystem mounts, dynamic users or
  binary logging. For day-to-day use on my personal desktop system, none
  of this matters, but then, I’m running a desktop based on Fluxbox and
  not much else; if I was trying to run Gnome, I’d rather expect that some
  things might not work quite as intended (on the other hand, maybe I
  could Elogind and it would all work fine… I’ve not tried, yet).

  On the plus side, compared to Systemd’s binary at 1.5mb, Dinit weighs in
  at only 123kb. It’s much smaller, but fundamentally almost as powerful,
  in my own opinion, as the former.
I applaud the OP for writing a new init system, and in light of that, the few paragraphs above serve as a good counterpoint to everyone writing how systemd does too much, is doing everything etc. In the past several years it really has been insufferable to be in the vicinity of any discussion related to systemd/init systems.

miloshadzic | 6 years ago | on: Tectonic – TeX/LaTeX Engine in Rust

But there are implementations of knuth-plass in js, only they are usually not used, as the speed trade-off is not worth it for the web. If you are only using chromium to render a PDF then the speed stops being a dealbreaker.

miloshadzic | 6 years ago | on: PulseAudio Under the Hood (2017)

I think reactions like this one, and the tons of crap gnome and systemd devs get are very damaging to the linux desktop community. Criticism is fine, but people are trying to make modern systems with little support. This is hard even for a Microsoft or an Apple, let alone a few paid developers and a a bunch of enthusiast volunteers.

miloshadzic | 6 years ago | on: OP-Z Synthesizer

I would never call OP-1 limited. I haven't touched the OP-Z but I doubt I'd think it's "technically limited" as well.

I'd say that the OP-1 is probably one of the better designed musical instruments in the recent past.

miloshadzic | 7 years ago | on: Inter – open source and legible typeface

What's considered "ideal" changes. For UI typefaces the medium they're used for has changed (HIDPI screens are the norm now), so it's causing a small renaissance of type design for screens.
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