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Comment Re:Reminds me of disabling raise on click (Score 2) 49

For years I used fvwm and reprogrammed the UI as follows:

1) remove all the window decorations.

2) program the extra two mouse side buttons to either move or resize the window under the pointer. Unlike decorated windows, there's no need to target the narrow frame, you can just stretch the window from the center, or grab and move it from anywhere inside.

3) focus follows mouse. If I really want to I can raise the window with a key.

4) Hotkey to open a terminal. Terminal appears under the mouse, ready to be moved or typed in. Timeout in bash closes the terminal automatically, after enough inactivity. Reclaims screen real-estate.

Nowadays my desktop is temporarily a Mac. I hate it.

Comment Re:This is just "God did it" (Score 3, Insightful) 51

There is no god. But this argument isn't the Prime Mover Conjecture.

Think of an island in the Pacific. Animals arriving from a nearby continent is a reasonable explanation for the native fauna. It doesn't mean that all fauna everywhere on every continent must be explained as immigration from the outside.

If the Earth is an island, then this may in fact be what happened locally, provided it can actually be proved. The real issue with Panspermia is that cosmic distances are so vast and timescales so long that chance arrivals of chemical compounds from elsewhere in the galaxy (or even the wider universe) is exceedingly unlikely and shouldn't be taken seriously with what we currently know.

There's a variant wherein Life As We Know It may have originated on another planet in our solar system, and later injected into Earth. But that's a much weaker idea, because it raises the question why Earth, which is clearly in the most hospitable band for Life As We Know It, wouldn't have evolved its own variant. Instead of waiting for a comet that traveled all the way from a more inhospitable region bringing Life from there.

The good news is that these arguments can be tested scientifically by drilling into the proposed mechanisms directly, no faith needed.

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