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tornadoboy55 | 9 years ago | on: Aheui: Esoteric programming language designed for Hangul

It won't change because of tremendous legacy inertia. Everything from assembly to scripting languages are in Latin-English. All kernels are Latin-English. CS is taught around the globe as a 100% English major usually. Our first humanoid AI will almost certainly think in 'English' and speak English.

tornadoboy55 | 9 years ago | on: Sweden brings back military conscription

They will sign up voluntarily for a military that is decently funded (having to shout 'pew pew' in training because your training rounds have ran out is ridiculous.. and yes this is real). Plus a wage that would be semi-competitive with the civilian sector.

tornadoboy55 | 9 years ago | on: Massive permafrost thaw documented in Canada, portending huge carbon release

We've been largely winning against the sea since 1500, and that's with windmills and wheelbarrels of mud. Look up the Afsluitdijk. Or the Deltawerken. Our combined 'water defense works' are considered one of the modern wonders of the world. The Dutch will never surrender to the sea. Even if the rest of the globe will experience some catastrophic flood, the Dutch will figure out how to stave it off.

tornadoboy55 | 9 years ago | on: Massive permafrost thaw documented in Canada, portending huge carbon release

Yeah, the common sentiment is 'the best time to take action was 40 years ago. The absolute limit was 20 years ago. There's no stopping it now, even if we reduce our emissions to zero. The latent emissions in the atmosphere will already bone us. I'm glad I live in the Netherlands. We're a very rich country, and we have been battling water for more than a thousand years as a people. Places like Bangladesh will be completely destroyed..

tornadoboy55 | 9 years ago | on: The Privacy Revolution that never came

Those 'after me the deluge (French saying)' people are the worst. Same as rich people fucking up the globe but massively buying 'escape hatches' in New Zealand. If you're that kind of person, you should be burned at the stake.

tornadoboy55 | 9 years ago | on: The Year of Linux on Everything but the Desktop

So does Linux. Before I had a MacBook I tried Ubuntu on my PC twice (this is back in 2007 and another time in 2011) and both times an upgrade made Ubuntu unbootable(!). These days its nicer, but the 'Linux is more stable' myth is only true if you stick to servers/CLI. Desktop its Mac > Windows > Linux and on laptops its Mac >> Windows >>>>>>>>>>> Linux

tornadoboy55 | 9 years ago | on: Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]

http://eclecticist.co.uk/notes/appledesign/images/image12.jp...

That's all I need to say about that.

As for the reasons.. Devs want a POSIX (macOS, Linux or BSD) system because many of the utilities used are written for that, and much of the infrastructure you will be working with in the future will also be POSIX. Of all the POSIXes, macOS is by far the most capable and stable laptop OS. Macbooks are still unrivaled, with only the Dell XPS range coming somewhat close.

They are also the only company with both a solid phone and computer product, meaning you get lots of ecosystem goodies (verify iCloud logins with a push notification on your iPhone, Wi-Fi passwords entered on your MacBook instantly work on your phone, 'instant hotspot', AirPods intelligent multi-pairing, etc)

And that may seem like I'm drinking the Apple kool-aid, but I'm not. The audio quality on the AirPods is terrible. In fact, Apple has never produced anything but mediocre audio gear. The $200 price bump on the MBP 2016 is unjustified. Removing the headphone jack on the iPhone is utterly insane, even if they did use USB-C (maybe in 10 years when all audio-out ports on everything everywhere also uses USB-C it would have made sense). macOS stripping out all GPL tools because they don't want to use GPLv3 stuff, etc. etc. etc.

tornadoboy55 | 9 years ago | on: Using Yubikeys Everywhere

Or just use an iPhone. The amount of marketshare Apple would lose if there was even a hint of a US-intelligence backdoor in their systems keeps them with a very, very vested interest to actively fight that.

tornadoboy55 | 9 years ago | on: Using Yubikeys Everywhere

For Apple it won't matter since apps are heavily sandboxed and can only pass eachother data through predefined APIs. Jailbroken phones are another can of worms though, since you're literally leaving open an exploit to run unsigned code.

tornadoboy55 | 9 years ago | on: Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]

Output from `bash --version` on macOS:

`GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin16) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.`

that's a 10yr old bash and there's barely any shell magic that you can do on Linux that won't work on macOS. And since by far most devs use macOS, most binaries support at least the macOS version of bash. All in all, no need to worry :p

tornadoboy55 | 9 years ago | on: Awesome OS X Command Line

That's just part of the daily coding jargon. Call it a pet peeve, but it frustrates me intensely when everyone calls their defaults 'sane' (implying others their defaults are not). Such a misused word. Same goes for sensible. Seriously, if you start looking out for these two words, you'll notice how stupidly overused they are..
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