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On this website, we pretend that the entire world can be reduced to a good-faith discussion between two sides with equal merit. Anything that is incompatible with this is distasteful.

the burden of arguing that something is productive discussion is on the poster, not everyone else.

What makes "int" better than "i" as an abbreviation for "integer"? How will you get everyone to agree with you?

It's surprising that anything involving him resulted in a well reasoned argument.

> Instead of making search powerful and contextualizing it, the author expends his arguments on frivolous pursuit of Johnny.Decimal.

What do you mean? How do you expect the author to "make search powerful"? This system is clearly in the context of a desktop/NAS filesystem, so they're stuck with whatever search systems exist. I honestly don't plan to use this system, and still feel the need to respond to this critique of it.

> Why use numbers?

Is answered here[0], to intentionally preserve ordering. You don't need to know what a plain ID means, because the only reason to use it is in context.

> What if categories do overlap?

There's nothing to stop you from tagging things in addition to using this system, if you want.

> dismisses search without giving any reason

Again, the author is not building their own document storage system.

> Additional metadata

This system is trying to solve the problem of having to supply a bunch of information to find a specific document.

Overall, there are lots of anecdotes here about how this system is useful in some situations. There's really no reason to sound so incredulous about it, even if it's not for you.

[0]: https://johnnydecimal.com/concepts/areas-categories/

These are good if you're seeking to replace a single Google product, but if you're invested in the Google ecosystem it's a real pain in the ass to stitch together 15 individual alternative products. It sucks.

yeah I ordered some food and a guy delivered it more or less on time. I'd say I enjoyed the experience

You're either implying that segregation can be reduced to "black and white people preferring not to be near each other" or this question is completely unrelated to the post.

So you would prefer a debate over technicalities with all historical context removed?

I think it's a native C++ library but I agree with your sentiment

Your first point is a sentiment that I hear very frequently. I think the reaction that your hard-earned material wealth is rightfully yours is completely fair. However, it's worth pointing out that other people may also work hard and still live in poverty. Poverty can be systemic, in that things you're born into can limit your opportunity. Further, people are sometimes faced with unexpected situations such as health problems or pandemics that can make them unable to work. Many people have proposed plans that pay to distribute more wealth to these people by taxing corporate profits and the super wealthy. Some people will make a personal sacrifice to do this, but these people may actually have a better life experience if the majority of those around them are suffering less.

> What rights are being denied to minorities ? Until recently, the right to get married or adopt children, among other things. I see your point though: people of all skin colors are theoretically equal in the law. If by "dividing people" by "race and gender" you mean movements for criminal justice reform or to end police brutality toward minorities, I disagree that these movements should be divisive. They become divisive when non-minorities take offense at them, which can happen due to poor messaging from particular individuals. It can happen due to a lack of clarity about the actual goals of the movement. Some more extreme leftists might simply have views that I would also disagree with. But ultimately, "the left" doesn't hate non-minorities. When a movement is focused on minorities, it is to reaffirm that they suffer discrimination which they should not under the law. These movements focus on minorities not to say that others don't struggle too, but to bring attention to societal issues that continue to affect some types of people just because of their "immutable characteristics".

Nearly everything in American grocery stores is packaged in plastic. How do we ensure that the companies producing consumer staples find better solutions for packaging and distribution, rather than just continuing to use plastic and passing the tax on to the consumer?

The linked article specifically explains that this does not involve the traditional practice of purchasing offsets and is focused on research.

When people are complaining about this kind of stuff at work, it raises the question of what the alternative is. The person you're replying to describes a great methodology for smaller projects, but in many cases there are great reasons to take on dependencies. Not taking a dependency means you pay in person-hours to reinvent it, and sometimes that cost is much higher than a couple extra seconds of build time.

And, once you have a lot of dependencies, ES modules won't save you. People expect web apps to load fast, and code is big. Things like Webpack help make it a lot smaller.

My point isn't that this is good, it's that it's not "indefensible". There are very real practical reasons that big companies deal with the debt of dependencies and bundlers.

Seems like a bad title since the number 19,000 means nothing out of the context of the article.

Further, you're in no way required (nor would you expect) to provide IDs for most HTML elements. In modern frontend development you often avoid styling elements by ID entirely, favoring classes instead.

This doesn't really make sense... the person who bought the used car wasn't just going to not drive if it weren't for sale, they'd just buy a different one. Now, there is one ICE car and one electric car on the road instead of two ICE cars.

If half of the world immediately upgraded to electric cars, sure there would be a temporary surplus of vehicles, but it would only last until the old ones broke down.

yes, because it's a tool in Adobe Reader and not part of PDF.

PDF is an ISO standard. PDF 2.0 has no proprietary components.

Liquid mode? It looks like a tool to reflow the content in existing PDFs, which are often intentionally not responsive. I don't see how this is similar to HTML.

This comment is pretty good if you read it satirically.

Whether or not a property of a system is emergent does not seem particularly relevant to discussing its effects. It would be nice if we could just look at the way a platform like Facebook works, or see that it does not intend to be a "political actor", but the reality is that its effects are destructive. It has a strong effect on politics. The effects of Facebook are not outside of its responsibility simply because it isn't programmed to be political.

I'm suspicious having seen how the GDPR is effectively being circumvented by making nonessential cookies more or less opt-out, and by making the process so annoying that the average person doesn't care enough to do it. It's a lot easier to enforce "not allowed" than "do it in a user-friendly way".

Plus, in a public place, how do you only apply facial recognition technology to a single person? It seems like in most cases, you must first apply it to everyone else nearby to discriminate them from anyone who opted in.

The only one posturing here is you, friend.

with respect to C, probably, because many people don't choose the clock time at which they have to be at work, at school, etc.

So if I just write "you're not allowed to do bad things with this" in the license agreement, I'm covered?

Imagine I'm consuming code written by someone else, without looking deeply into its implementation. Would I now be disadvantaged by careful and explicit typing? How much time is spent consuming code versus writing it, of course, is a bit situational.

I actually don't think that developers who use things like VSCode are simply naive. Personally, I am a young person and I frequently do use vim in a low-latency terminal emulator (xterm, mlterm) without a compositor. Yes, I enjoy the fact that it is very fast. However, I still use VSCode when I'm making more complicated edits primarily because of the plugin ecosystem. Plugins "just work", are easy to configure, and all work together nicely. I get rich syntax highlighting and intellisense. I might be doing something wrong, but this was not the experience I have had with vim.

I like the UI simplicity of VSCode in contrast to native editors such as IntelliJ and Visual Studio, which I do use when I really need the features. I am interested in efforts like Onivim 2, which seek to combine these advantages.

COVID-19 is causing strokes in young people [1]. While young people are hospitalized at a lower rate, it still happens. Texas, which has until recently been "reopening", with no mask requirements, has a very high rate of infections. Using Travis county as an example, ~30% of cases are in the 20-29 age bracket [2]. It would be disingenuous to imply that young people are isolated from the rest of society and not spreading the disease to older people who are more likely to die.

In 2-3 months, 132,000 people in the US have died from COVID-19 complications. The CDC estimates yearly flu deaths at 12,000-61,000 [3]. Further, we are now seeing a huge increase in the rate of cases in states which have had lax distancing and quarantine policy--see Travis county data again for example.

Is a year of in-person class worth the risk? Hard to say. No reason to dismiss legitimate concerns as "hysteria", though.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/health/coronavirus-stroke...

2. https://austin.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#...

3. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

To be more realistic, Flash was a much smaller attack surface than downloading and running random executables. I'm guessing that a fairly small number of kids were actually subject to Flash exploits while playing games on Kongregate. Compare that to downloading a screensaver...