whoops. I meant "functional == timeless"

Whenever I do imperative programming I'm always conscious of time. Each statement may change state and I'm aware of how that can affect the system. I'm very aware of "time".

When I do functional programming (like Scala) I feel like I'm writing mathematical statements that aren't causing actions but just stating truths. It feels like time doesn't exist.

I know it's just a feeling and under the hood there's still a Von Neumann engine chugging away, but it's a feeling I can't seem to shake.

Be glad your Pixel 3 still works. Mine exploded (battery puffed up and split the case completely and then popped).

Never mind that the booster is never in an orbit.

Sure it is! It just happens to be an orbit with a periapsis smaller than the Earth's radius.

Fucking DRM is a whole 'nother problem!

Fuck off, fascist. There's a HUGE FUCKING ESSENTIAL DIFFERENCE between a spy agency spying on other countries and it spying on its own citizens.

Not only would I prefer not to see people with negative reputations, but I'd actually prefer to filter on a relative basis in terms of people who are clearly much better than me.

You've got a game theory problem there: why would those better people want to see you?

Why should any random asshat running a website expect to be compensated? It used to be the case -- before the sociopathic marketing droids invaded -- that people put up websites because they wanted to, not because they expected to profit. And the Internet was better that way.

Take off your rose colored glasses for minute. First of all, no-reply emails are a means to notify a customer of something. They are one-way.

I am writing to "notify" you that any business using with this attitude is run by shitty people and deserves to fail. You don't get to dictate what I'm "meant" to do!

Please direct all responses to no-reply@gofuckyourself.com

Sometimes when I have a choice of companies to buy a product from, Ill send an email or fill out the web form asking the same question to multiple companies.

And that's the other asinine thing about bullshit web forms: they force you to send the message to one recipient at a time. As a slightly different example, say I want to write my Congressmen about something. Instead of just writing an email and putting three names in the To: field, now I have to answer a slightly disjoint set of (potentially) invasive questions three times over. It's not that it's hard or even that time-consuming; it's that it's galling because I shouldn't have to jump through hoops like that.

Think about it - if you were running a very large company, would you rather: a) have a catch-all email that runs the gamut of issues, feedback, etc. b) have a way to submit categorized feedback via web forms?

If I were running a very large company, I would want everyone to be forced to just give me their money instead of having to go through the trouble of actually selling something to them in return.

But I wouldn't be entitled to that -- just like how companies are not entitled to be able to dictate communications terms to their customers, either!

Nope. Fuck that class of company too, because it's ultimately the same damn thing. Fundamentally, companies are either willing to engage on the customer's terms... or they aren't. And the latter don't deserve anyone's business.

I like $1.99 apps that have no strings attached.

LOL, as if $1.99 and closed-source weren't strings!

On a real "no-strings-attached" system you can just do:

$ sudo apt-get install youtube-dl
$ youtube-dl [video URL]

I'd call that even easier, since you don't have to screw around with a payment processor.

Firefox in F-Droid is depracated

Why?

On devices with a large enough screen for the UI to work well, I like using uMatrix instead of uBlock + NoScript.