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by K0SM0S 6y ago
Makes so much sense, indeed! Mod+- might be zoom out though, depending on your underlying terminal app / OS. (e.g. on Linux, I use Meta++ and Meta+- to zoom the whole screen in accessibility mode, and Ctrl with the same keys changes th
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by K0SM0S 6y ago
Indeed! I bought a pfSense-style router recently, and a Pi 4B, both from small shops (one Swedish[1], one French[2]). They shipped within 24h. These people are hard at work, and they deserve all the credit they can get. In particular, the S
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by K0SM0S 6y ago
There's life before , and life after tmux. It's like a new dimension. Or two, or n , actually. I'm pretty sure the Buddha once said “Man's suffering comes from not using tmux.” Illusion of impermanence and all that.
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by K0SM0S 6y ago
> Now tmux feels like a regular desktop app and truly boosts the productivity in the terminal. What do you think? I think it's really nice. Well done! > Mod+V: split vertically > Mod+B: split horizontally (“bisect”) That&#x2
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by K0SM0S 6y ago
I suppose the implication was that you read the docs as you build something — the proverbial learn on a "need-to-nerd-basis" I'm the same, I can read 1,000 technical pages no problem and make you a great talk, but I'll
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Ouch. Worse than I thought. I suppose it's correlated to eventual revenue— doctors aren't nearly as rich in Europe, although they are clearly among the top earners. (what filoleg suggests in the other reply) There's an underl
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Indeed... I never thought of it this way. Very telling.
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I reckon that in France, you can become a doctor without capital— although studies are long and absolutely not designed to help the student work a job part time, so there's an underlying social factor at play; gov help doesn't tar
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
> Once again we see that randomized, double-blinded clinical trials can be more deadly and less informative than ad-hoc studies performed on the battlefield of medicine. Can you elaborate? I've always heard that it's unethetica
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
This is exactly it. The terseness of mathematics, the cognitive efficiency of these notations aren't to be debated, I feel. I'd rather ignore ad hominem above ;)
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I totally agree. I find that the appeal of programming languages, their strength, fades away in the face of pure mathematics anyway. There's nothing like the full complement of a formal language, symbols, abstractions and all, one that
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
The real question is whether corporations behave like "someone", like a natural (biological, real flesh-and-blood) person. Whereas there is a need for legal corporate personhood (so they can enter contracts, be sued and sue others
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Please accept this physicalist's take: - Advertising as a first-principle works, because our biology is amenable to familiarity. sheer repetition ⇒ familiarity ⇒ positive bias ("things I know / like / trust / ...&qu
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Thanks so much for this detailed perspective. Taking notes. ;) I totally see the counter-productivity in hourly billing. It's never sat well with me. In the end, clients want a final number more than some estimation of time × some pric
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I'm wondering if it's also not heavily dependent on the business structure that you set up for yourself, as a freelancer. It's a one-man company (for the most successful), a self-employed job (for the majority, or so I hear).
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Ah, fair enough. Re-reading my comment, I once more failed to remove ambiguity. My bad. For clarity, we SHOULD use `let` with beginners, and any such pre-existing concept whenever possible. There's a time to reinvent some wheels I gues
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
The iconic Empire State building is too old structurally to create what corporations like for offices— large, unobstructed open areas. So it's turning mostly into residential. And when you think about it... what you're suggesting
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I'd go with the fact that Apple has always been a little finicky, but initially quite fixable; then it became more and more locked down and users had to accept that fact: some left, some stayed. Nowadays pretty much nobody around here
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Hard / soft bricked is already conventional for phones and consoles (most mainstream products, unsurprisingly). I kinda like "cold bricked" personally. - soft: need some sysadmin mojo, USB adb etc. - hard: can be fixed with s
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
I was replying to this specific part, which I should have quoted. Sorry. > But statements such as "x = x + 1" ARE confusing to newcomers, from my experience Merely elaborating. Indeed, `let` does reduce cognitive load, it&#x2
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
It's used in the book Think Python by Allen Downey. https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-python-2e/ (Case Study: interface design http://greenteapress.com/thinkpython2/html/thinkpyth
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Yes, the problem is not that a seasoned practitioner cannot internalize just about any quirk, typically historical. The problem is that a first-time learner already has their mind full with information (we can only ever hold ~7 items in wor
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
This is pure speculation on my part but I like to think that there's literally billions to save. It's about the order of magnitude: even 1 minute per year per person amounts to something like 15,000 man-days (>100 million man h
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Oh my, I've never thought of it this way. I really get what you mean. Can't agree more. That might very well be it. Could it be trained, through exposure, e.g. with video games as I implied? Or is it maybe related to "snapine
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Sadly, <ESC>it doesn'<ESC>t really solve t<ESC>he problem of interrupting one's fl<ESC>ow... At least, such behavior should be user preference— “get out of my way” is like #1 on most users list for a useful
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Of all the woes of modern UI, latency on text input is what I find most irritating. It's physical, visceral, mental, I don't know; when you've been raised by incredibly snappy video games (1980-1990s, 2D glory), it's asi
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
Nice interview, great mindset. Netflix is indeed becoming quite the sensation for its internal policies— the general intelligence apparently prevailing there. Seeing tools as first-grade citizens seems like a very sane approach to me— empow
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
What little I know of history has indeed convinced me that major ordeals are quite often the logical conclusion of small or past things unaddressed, gone out of proportion. "Bubbles" are such a thing. Real "black swans"
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
So awesome... I guess someone at that bank tried to pull of a fantastic side-move. It was just 20 years too early, but that guy saw "apps" before Jobs had even returned at Apple!
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by K0SM0S 7y ago
As I said right above, ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22759876 ) I think it's not that easy. Not that corporations like Sony are necessarily lacking, but the greatest emulators are works of art, some masterpieces

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