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I can understand the maintainer’s point, it seems like in essence, people want drag-and-drop positioning, which is a complexity I wouldn’t want to add either. Personally, having dabbled in some light extension-making recently, couldn’t find a way to set extension load-order or set one extension as depending on another, both of which seem to be basic features they need to add. Either of which could speak towards an answer to the basic problem of ‘things keep loading in random order’ which is kind of annoying. From there, it seems the maintainer is correct and one could just write an extension to add drag-and-drop ordering to the mix.

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The i5 model is a better machine today than when I bought it like two years ago. Other than an iPad, I’m still not sure if there’s anything better on the market. I haven’t really used it for work, but I’ve played with Crostini enough to know that I could if I needed to.

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My thoughts here are that this is an interesting example of cognitive dissonance. I guess the core issue isn’t if we agree the lunatic shouldn’t have a gun, but rather the philosophical question as to _if_ an authority is qualified to make that decision. I wonder how far this goes, if Libertarians believe that the state shouldn’t regulate guns whatsoever, should the state allow them inside prisons? Should violent ex-cons get their gun rights back with their freedom? I see some in this thread have argued that the military should have no weapon that a civilian can’t have, presumably this argument leads to personal nuke ownership. Just seems like a wantonly reckless policy.

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I’d say your response should be somewhere between standing up for yourself, and dismissive of their point. I wouldn’t go into a big speech, but I would probably tell them to mind their own business then and that you don’t take your emotional cues from their insults.

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Go fiddle with the microwave for a minute and learn how to change the setting, then you will have learned something and won’t make the same mistake again, which generally registers as a success.

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Imagine if we knew all the math governing the matter in the universe, if we had a snapshot of matter-placement for any point of time, we could extrapolate the positionings at any point of our timeline. Then, imagine if we had the ability to reposition that matter, we could recreate the conditions of any point we like. You may argue that ‘well maybe you could do this with a solar system, but there are billions of humans on our planet, not to mention all the lower life… would you be able to precisely predict their movements based on one snapshot? Perhaps you could, if you perfectly modeled the native universe, it’s possible that the same neurons always fire just as so, and given the exact same conditions you can expect the same output. Really, the question becomes, is it an acceptable answer to virtualize this time travel, or do I have to manifest it in this reality? Because one’s a bit harder to do than the other.

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You know, there is an actual bright side to most situations. With the pandemic, I get to stay home to work and skip traffic, small talk, wearing pants, pretending to work when I need a distraction, spending money at restaurants…

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In fairness, I think we’ve all taken a look at our project’s package.json and wondered where in the hell the front-enders in our org get this shit. But generally, when you look through their trendy set of libraries and the gulp workflows running it, it’s typically fairly sensical. I find a lot of times, this kind of thing is a team member or two trying to enhance their dev experience, and while it can be hit-or-miss it’s not like people don’t do these things in other areas. I think all developers get wrapped up bulking out their areas of concern, and if we’re not careful other people won’t be able to make heads-or-tales of it. So when they use your projects, they should be able to just drop right in without a bunch of specialized knowledge. I think this is why it’s important to add libraries sparingly, and to automate everything you can, as that removes barriers to entry for people just trying to cling on to life.

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For the most part, Star Trek is a hard-science universe and encourages us to view religions in that context. DS9 and TNG, for example, it’s clear that humans are generally atheists. When Picard interfered with that proto-Vulcan culture, he wouldn’t play to their belief systems because he refused to lead them down a bronze-age religious path. DS9 shows it fairly well, the Bajorans see the wormhole aliens as the prophets, but even to people who have witnessed them firsthand they still wouldn’t call them prophets regularly.

Take Star Trek: The Final Frontier. Kirk never once accepted they were going to meet god, and as soon as he confronted “god” he begain his kirkian mind games. One streak we notice with all the Trek captains is that they are astute students of the humanities. Kirk too has a deep appreciation for history and literature. So when he’s talking about God he’s not speaking as though he’s some southern baptist. I imagine he has a deep respect for religions and has studied them somewhat, but at the end of the day he’s a walking science book.

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