BrenBarn

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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
But what if you apportion the fuel usage over the items transported? Presumably the ship carries far more items than the truck.
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by BrenBarn 9mo ago
I was hoping this would be a rickroll.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
I switched fully to Linux about four years ago. I chose Kubuntu. I had previously used Linux Mint for quite a while, but on a computer that wasn't my main one. I downloaded some ISOs and tried out a few distros in VMs. I definitely
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Part of the problem though is that people often try to use GDP (or GDP per capita) to compare within the top of the list. Like they try to draw conclusions about whether "Germany is doing better than Italy". It's true that
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
That may be less a matter of him being wrong per se than of politicians loving to make grandiose and inflated pronouncements.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Yes, but I guess I'd say that we should not attempt to capture an exact sentiment in making policy decisions. The bigger the decision, the more people are involved and affected, and the more people, the greater the variation in their
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
GDP per capita has basically all the same problems.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
The thing is that that's not a conflict between data and lived experience, it's just a conflict between different sets of data. If you measure wealth and then you measure wealth relative to housing costs, neither one of those is
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
I said meaningful measure of economic health, not growth. :-) But I'm not sure. The book "Mismeasuring our lives" gives five recommendations for developing improved measures: 1. Look at income and consumption rather than p
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
There is also a book called "Mismeasuring our lives" that makes some similar points about the overreliance on GDP as "the" measure of economic health.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Plato is not exactly modern culture of any kind.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Do not mistake economic indicators such as GDP or "growth" for meaningful measures of economic health.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Cool idea and pretty fun. At least for this particular puzzle (island countries) though, I found myself ignoring the feedback and first and just typing as many as I could think of. Then when I did look at the feedback, I mostly just cared
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
It's wild how there's so much overlap between the faction that wants to champion "European culture" and "Western civilization" and the faction that will do things like this.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
I generally have several thousand tabs open at a time. Hacker News is a big source of them. I use Simple Tab Groups and it takes a few seconds to switch from one group to another but I've become fairly okay with that. I use Auto Tab
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
I agree this is a factor. The friction of bookmarking pages in a way that would actually reduce the effort of finding the page later is too high.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Since AI is itself a cancer, maybe this is good? The cancer of my cancer is my chemo.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
> It seems like the monkey's-paw curse for this kind of legislation is to show several ads in a row, each allowing you to skip them after 5 seconds. As is often the case I think that means the restrictions should just get even more
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Large for-profit corporations will never be the friend of any human being.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Some of the longshot biases still exists and can't be removed due to technical constraints on the platforms. A lot of times there is a minimum contract price, which effectively means the probability of unlikely events cannot be modele
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Ok yeah that was my impression. In theory they exist but they're not kept updated to allow comprehensive access to all of KDE.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
> > the purpose of government is to promote the general welfare > That's not even true. Are you talking about the declaration of independence instead? It's in the preamble to the constitution. > The thing you don'
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
I was a subject in an fMRI study when I was in college and I found the experience quite tranquil (although this was before smartphones). The hum of the machine was kind of calming. I felt I probably would have fallen asleep if not for the
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
There's some truth to that, although there can be value differences that aren't so obvious. But it does seem to be the case that power structures select for those most likely to abuse them.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
> The entire experience would not be so bad if I could write my app entirely in Cpp. What I wish is that I could write KDE stuff using Python (PyQt or PySide).
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Well, these days someone who just looked at the current situation and wasn't familiar with history might guess Russia, Hungary, Turkmenistan or even Venezuela.
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
I agree with that and I think it was the right decision. There was grousing about overmoderation but I think a lot of people got unreasonably annoyed when their question was closed. And the result was a pretty well-curated and really usef
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
I don't see how a smaller screen is "designed for doing". I already find regular phone screens to small to do any meaningful work on. For me it's basically impossible to do actual work on anything smaller than a laptop
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
Big if true. But actually maybe not that big since people suspect it anyway. This is the "innovation" that defenders of the "free market" are always touting. How to be sure? Transparency requirements. I think we need
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by BrenBarn 10mo ago
I've seen other projects that do this, and it makes a lot of sense. A discussion forum is a good place to start. It seems though that many projects don't have the Github "discussions" activated.

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