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Never got to try how much this Macbook did in macOS (I bought it used just to tinker with Linux/FreeBSD, but the time I used it, battery on FreeBSD was on par with Linux, if not slightly better.

I didn't like the idea of permanently losing 1 of the only 2 usb ports, although when connecting android tethering I lost one still. I wanted a solution that would allow me to have internet and also be able to connect a mouse and a usb drive.

Some months ago I got FreeBSD running in a Macbook Air, and surprisingly the UEFI boot worked out of the box. I say surprisingly because when I tried, the Linux efiboot didn't work, the only way to boot linux was through GRUB.

I had almost everything working (Audio, suspend on close, i3 or gnome) but never got the wifi to work, I even tethered from my android phone to the Macbook and it worked very good. But in the end it was to annoying to do often. If only FreeBSD supported that wireless chip, I'd be writing this on FreeBSD. When the wayland and updated intel drivers come to FreeBSD maybe i'll try it again, but wifi is a deal breaker.

I always wondered why there isn't wifi drivers for this macbook in FreeBSD if Fedora had them (and AFAIK Fedora only ships open drivers)

four decembers would endorse extremely premature christmas decoration

The only reason I used karabiner in macOS was for TouchCursor. But TouchCursor is originally a windows app, so when I transitioned to windows I didn't miss any of karabiner. OTOH I haven't found yet something like that for linux.

I find interesting that you in the US are thinking in banning the death penalty.

Here in Colombia death penalty was banned about a century ago, unfortunately, it has done more harm than good, because criminals (even very bad ones, the kid rapists and stuff) are not scared of prison, prisons are so crowded that sentences are short (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Garavito is a good example, I don't think a lifetime of prison would forgive all he did, he should be condemned for 1800 years) and this has led to crime rise.

There is a common belief that politicians banned death penalty long ago to be able to be corrupt without any risk, in the long run if they're not dying, they could steal a lot of money and then use half of it to get out of prison early.

I know US corruption is not as bad as Colombian corruption. Unfortunately we have to deal with our system, and the ban of death penalty has kept terrible people in our country for a long time. It may be unethical to kill someone, but in the end is the lesser evil, because it will never compare to the harm that this person does to the society. As a Colombian I feel that corruption and crime is going down now, and we are proud for it, but I also feel that if we took the 'evil' decision earlier, we would be much better now.

But maybe that is what they suggest should be handled by web frameworks.

Is like asking WSGI api in Python to handle all those things. It just handle raw connections and is an interface for web frameworks to worry about content and not low level stuff. Maybe database connectors would be a good inclusion as well, but in Python I believe it is not part of WSGI

On the other hand, Apple has libraries for handling image and video for macOS and iOS, are written in C but Swift interfaces so easily with C, but I don't see them releasing that stuff.

I used that sometimes while holding ctrl/option for copy-pasting text without altering the clipboard, is actually a feature I missed in Atom and VSCode as well.

I'd actually like a 'light' web browser, made for nothing else than 'web browsing'...

Some time ago I tried Lynx and I liked the idea, It was waay simpler that I'd like, but in the other hand I feel that interfaces made for web are always crippled compared with desktop interfaces (from G docs vs MS office, up to clara.io compared to blender).

For web browsing I think that something between a browser and Lynx is something that I would use, most of the time I am interested in the content more than the aesthetics or the pixel perfect alignment of visuals... and if I was interested in an application (that requires the newest tech in browsers) most of the time there is a better tool for desktop.

I'm trying it out just because of this. Thanks for the info =)

I learned programming in flash with as2 a little and then as3, and I feel that is still the easiest way to learn programming, you convert your symbols into classes and bam, in two seconds you're doing OOP, setting properties and calling methods (like play() stop()), it even helped me find the use of sines and cosines because it wasn't clear how trigonometry was useful back in school. I find it easier to learn the concrete stuff first, and then go to the abstract.

I have backspace in caps lock and found very comfortable to be able to go back with caps lock.

I think that some day the humanity will grow too much and will get tired of overpopulation (I'd hope 30 billion would be the number, but if the humanity is arrogant, they would push it up to 100 billion or more), some people will just die because the planet can't provide enough resources, some rich people will buy other peoples live and kill them (give them a ton of money only if they are willing to die soon) and the world population will agree in not growing anymore but enjoying and preserving the planet as it is, maybe staying in a billion population. After that the world will start to restore and men will have to do nothing because machines are already doing everything, and the only jobs the humanity will have are going to be science and entertainment (incluiding arts and sports)... humanity will no longer grow not because they can't, but because they don't want.

You can always move earlier, I moved to Linux for work and only keep Windows for videogames and couldn't be happier.

oops I think you commented the wrong thread

I have to admit that when she started in Yahoo, they tried to do their best to not suck that much, but I think it was too late. In a time where internet and word of mouth can punish very hard bad PR/bad UX, they tried with Tumblr showing they weren't going to screw up anymore, but still they couldn't go back to what they were before.

I recently discovered Gmane, and found there were a lot of interesting topics, but also found that some (mainly videogames) were somewhat active before but now aren't active at all. I wish I had found it earlier. Still has been a tremendous resource as others have said.

you can use twitchls.com to see pure html5 twitch (I use it from linux)

But he was saying DX12, and I believe Xbox One will support Vulkan as well, so no need for DX12

I would like to this become well supported, a while ago I wanted to have a Python codebase that would use the native widgets of each OS (you can program cocoa with python, although I tested it barely) and being able to have the same python codebase in all OSs with just display wrappers would have been nice. In the end I decided using Swift and C# for what I needed, but still would have preferred using a single python project for both targets.

Although I'm happy with all the fuzz that this gimp release brings, I feel sad because Krita (another excellent graphics software, also available and better supported in windows than gimp IMO) didn't have this much attention. Still I feel happy that a lot of open source projects are becoming powerful enough to replace its commercial counterparts. I hope that more people start using it and the developers get better funding and can support these software better.

I believe text handling is one target of this years kickstarter campaign

I'd like to know if you (or someone) knows who had that stupid idea of localizing csv files (for those who don't know, excel in spanish uses semicolon for separating values, because commas are reserved for decimals, i'd prefer some standard behavior rather than localized unstandard behavior)

although it is not exactly programming, it is more about linux stuff, i've been enjoying the overthewire.org games

if you skip saying "tomorrow" it will wake you up the same morning

swift comes with 'swift-ide'test' which I believe is the linter/codecompleter that would allow any text editor to have the features that xcode has

would be nice to have a shortened url to send it to someone without spoiling the content

I think programming converts the game into a different kind of game.

maybe he is also a pc gamer, so he sees the problem as a pc gamer perspective

I think these are Swift playgrounds in XCode