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> What Exactly is Docker?

For 99% of the world, the answer is "a file format like .tar.gz except composable".

These guys are really missing their target audience needs by a mile.

> Quite a lot of artists, writers, video editors use an iPad.

Maybe, but that's accidental, because every tool sucks and you might as well use a sucky tool if it's trendier.

> Why is creative work the only 'real work'?

I didn't say that. I'm just explaining what the original article writer's phrase ('real work') means here in this context - the context of personal computer users. Think of it like this: by 'real work' he wants to say 'really using the personal computer to its complete potential as a force multiplier'.

> But why are we saying that this isn’t ‘real’ work?

Because by 'real work' we mean creating stuff, not consuming stuff.

Using a tablet as a fancy embedded device with pre-loaded industrial apps isn't creating stuff.

Rust is both more complex and uglier than modern C++. If your complaint is having to learn new stuff, then Rust isn't the solution.

'Interpersonal communication' is not a skill. It is a weasel word for when you don't want to say 'social status' for whatever reason.

> taking 5 seconds to load

I want to live in your alternate reality, because in ours anything under 45 seconds is a miracle.

The 'written in Python' you speak of is actually Fortran under the hood.

> Of course a rolling release system is going to have more breakages.

Well, no. The point of a rolling release system is that you upgrade by little increments, so you never have a moment when a 'major upgrade' happens and breaks your system or forces a reinstall.

If we're honest: Arch is annoying, but the reason people (including me) run it is because they don't want their OS to explode in a shitstorm every time a 'major upgrade' cycle happens. (Looking at you, Ubuntu.)

So, your comment is 180 degrees off the mark. Arch exists for people who don't want breakages to happen.

(On the other hand, if you're conditioned by Windows to reinstall the system every year, then Ubuntu might work fine for you.)

> Lawns are aesthetically pleasing to humans.

Citation needed. My anecdotal experience doesn't agree.

> It has been widely observed...

Really? By who?

> ...that humans, having adapted to life in the African savannah,

Citation, again, needed. As far as I know, practically no ancient hominid artifacts have been found in the 'African savannah'.

> ...have a tendency to turn everything into an idealised version of their natural habitat.

Except that lawns are absolutely nothing at all like an 'African savannah'. And the fact that the largest part of humanity (India, China) live in habitats that resemble ant hills more than they do a savanna.

Science is a method, that is, a tool. As any tool, its applicability is limited.

You're nuts if you think the USSR didn't have penicillin and other antibiotics.

Chess is better than all the games on your list bar Agricola, possibly.

Agricola is a four player game, though, so not playing on the same field as chess.

> It offers no help.

Try using a compiler that wasn't made in the last millennium.

A modern C++ is head and shoulders above Rust. Rust might get there in a decade or two; not today.

Go is a complete joke if it wasn't so sad. Just no.

Why? So you can tar, feather and throw him into the fire for crimethink?

> becoming

> Both are C++: developers are more expensive to hire, and stuff takes more time to develop and debug.

Have you seen the state of Javascript 'ecosystem' and job market?? Both statements are false.

The real reason is that C++ toolkits don't have platform and device independence. HTML and CSS are really good and powerful design tools, especially compared to composing raw pixels like you'd (essentially) be forced to do with Qt and GTK.

49%? Way too low, something's wrong with this study.

> I thought this idea that humans had short lifespans historically was thoroughly debunked.

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

Genesis 6:3.

I don't know how old Genesis really is, but 2000 B.C. might be a good enough guess. So yeah, pretty thoroughly.

The Greek 'daemon' seems like a pretty accurate translation for '神'.

> Where do you get that?

An easy analogy to explain why curved surfaces are stronger: imagine an egg that is a cube instead of a spheroid.

You see how an eggshell cube would be vastly more brittle than an egg, right?

> chose these flat surfaces in steel precisely for their lower cost, solidity and ease of manufacturing

To make an equivalently robust structure out of straight edges you need the steel to be much, much thicker. So yes on 'solidity', but no to the other two claims.

> you can use that truck and do a lot of work with it without having to worry about the paint or breaking something

No. The flat shiny surfaces are more expensive, harder to manufacture, more brittle and more susceptible to denting/scratching than a normal curved car surface.

That thing is a nightmare to take care of. Best keep in the garage unless someone breathes on it and ruins the look.

Is it sobering to realize that you will never multiply 12-digit numbers as well as a $0.99 calculator?

> Why do so many new languages launch without what I'd consider to be essential functionality for any language

Maybe because what 'you consider' is not a universal metric of utility?

I, personally, care not one whit about the useless stuff you mentioned. (Probably because I never programmed in Java and intend to keep it that way while I live.)

> I hope to see a lot of things in my lifetime: life discovered outside our planet, human cloning, artificial organs and blood, AGI, humans on Mars, cures for a broad spectrum of cancers and Alzheimer's, human life extension / slowing aging, broad advances in chemistry and materials science, major advances in metabolomics, protein folding, drug discovery, gene therapies and repair...

The same list of things people were 'hoping for' in 1988. (From personal experience; probably a high estimate.) We're not a iota closer here in 2019.

Wishful thinking isn't enough; no matter how hard you hope and how much money you waste, you're not going to make a fundamentally better airliner or horse buggy.

> That's a pity the FB2 format is not nearly as popular as EPUB is.

It's made for readers by readers, so no DRM. A non-starter for publishing corporations, sadly.

Oh yes, I'm sure your daughter needs a double dose of feminism, because feminism, is, like, something that our current society totally lacks.

Because if some cure isn't working (or even having the opposite effect) of course the problem is that you're not applying it enough, you need to double or triple the dose!

(Sarcasm, if you're the kind of person who needs the hint.)

> I'm actively preparing to move all of my machines over to BSD

You remind me of all those people who are going to move to Canada "any day now" because of Trump.