Beyond Compare is also available on Linux

I’ll call it XMLlamascript

I will die on the hill that XML is a superior config format and people are just afraid of it cause they see the advanced features (that you don’t need to use) and think it’s too complicated.

The fact that you consider it so black and white tells me you aren’t thinking critically. Yes, the patent system can and has been abused over its long life. Literally every legal system has and will be. That’s how it goes. The struggle is how to come up with a system that minimizes the loopholes while not entirely crippling the things they are intended to protect.

Without some protections on human creations you end up with a war of who can steal the most ideas vice who can make the new best thing. You end up putting resources toward protecting your ideas and keeping them entirely secret, which arguably is worse than a public patent everyone can review and be inspired by.

I’m not arguing that they have no downsides, I’m arguing that the position of “it’s all bad, get rid of it” is reductive, at best.

Patents give an incentive to actually do the R&D for new products and projects? How would you feel if you spent millions of dollars and 15yrs designing a product and then some random dude just buys one, reverse engineers it and undercuts you? It basically disincentivizes anyone from doing any innovation since the game theory would be to just wait for someone else to do it and then take it for your own.

I feel a paper spiral bound book has a sense of finality to it that digital never will. You can’t half ass a section and be like “I’ll clean this up later.” By committing to a hard copy you are committing to a completed work and not some poorly formatted wiki or markdown page no one wants to read

I dunno, reading the article it seems like a flawed experiment? The audio wasn’t played back through those mediums but recorded through it and uploaded to a forum. I might’ve missed what software was used to do the recording but a lot of ADCs have some built in high-pass/low-pass filtering that could remove noise. I’d be interested in the audio played back through them to headphones cause that would sound like shit

God, I love a staycation. Taking time to get the house in order or work on that self project you haven’t had time/energy for is a great boon to my mental health

Read the article? They found that decaf did not confer the same benefits