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by Paperweight 7y ago
I wonder if a spreadsheet and its editor could go in a self-contained HTML file. You'd open it in a browser, it modifies its own source code, and you just re-export or "Save Page As" when you're done? Furthermore, maybe
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Then do other people now trust you less because you were wrong, or do they trust you more because you correct yourself?
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Meta-engineer? Engineering executive? At least he's trying to advance humanity instead of squandering it all on yachts like almost all the rest of the world's billionaires.
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Then there are the overseas developers who release the same low-quality app under several different names to game the search results. (BTW, you're looking for lichess)
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by Paperweight 7y ago
"organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations." - Conway's law I mean that a perfectionist dictator must be in charge of des
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by Paperweight 7y ago
At least it's not as bad as web forums, where if you post your opinion to an old thread it's deleted as "necroposting", but when you post it as a new thread it's deleted as a "dupe", so you shoehorn it int
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by Paperweight 7y ago
He/she has to be a total design nazi to get it implemented, too, or else it will be ruined by the bean counters, "experts", and committees. "Sure, by using a crappy keyboard/display/_______ we only save 89 cent
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Agreed. I recently gave every Linux DE an honest test drive and... it's clear that nobody really has the resources to perfect them. They all get annoying after a while. I'd be happy with something as polished as Windows 95, but ev
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Not so fast :/ LG had to go ruin it with a low-resolution display. (2560x1600 vs. the 15" MacBook Pro's 2880x1800)
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by Paperweight 7y ago
So the system effectively selects for tribunal judges who are partial and/or unethical (re. the italicized)!
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Every reply misunderstood at least one of my points? Like there are even videos on YouTube that document every step of the Cornflakes production process... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmMNtV8jBqw The generics must cut c
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Semi-related: Even though it's been 123 years since Cornflakes were patented, generic breakfast cereal just isn't the same. Some of them are downright revolting (e.g. mini-wheat knockoffs) even though they're made in the USA.
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by Paperweight 7y ago
When you give a bunch of boys a $1T use-it-or-lose-it budget to run around playing with guns and buy shiny toys (no offence), with no war to fight and no metrics for success, well, you're not going to end up with a real efficient opera
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by Paperweight 7y ago
> “As Gregor Samsa one morning from restless dreams awoke, found he himself in his bed into an enormous vermin transformed.” You know, this actually makes sense. I think that after a couple of hundred pages, this would just seem like an
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Once it becomes the currency that all the kids use for black market transactions (e.g. selling used items in facebook marketplace) it will be as hard to stop as trying to ban transactions denominated in US dollars instead of Euros.
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by Paperweight 7y ago
The US system is actually the worst of both worlds (capitalist and socialist). It combines heavy regulation costs, high litigation costs, high public funding, AND profiteering. Literally anything would be better. It's based on a govern
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by Paperweight 7y ago
They do the best they can with the budget they're given. Private hospitals and health insurance are still allowed. Here in Canada, every public hospital still has a billing department for the uninsured & those with private insuranc
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by Paperweight 7y ago
It's quite spineless and revealing to abandon the standard smartphone screen size right after running those ads. I guess they're doing product development out of fear instead of boldness, now. Just a typical committee-led US corpo
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by Paperweight 7y ago
Interesting. I had assumed they were one of the 1000s of other fake review websites. Another good one I found is carsurvey.org, but I'm not sure how it'll hold up when (if not already) the marketing departments of car manufacturer
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by Paperweight 7y ago
That's a really good point. Companies being required to buy back their products when they die should align the incentives to solve the problem, which is essentially one of unhandled economic externalities. Has anything changed in Europ
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by Paperweight 7y ago
CR and the BBB are cancer. They're worse than irrelevant - they are products of the bygone age of post-war high-trust production. The field is very very ripe for disruption, but bias and conflicting interests are a tough nut to crack.
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by Paperweight 7y ago
This is the plot of Brave new World. The rise of the welfare state naturally replaces the biological family.
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by Paperweight 7y ago
I wonder if they make it intentionally confusing so that high volume corporate clients can get gouged...
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by Paperweight 7y ago
The thing I don't get about UFOs, assuming the alien hypothesis, is why are there so many different kinds of them. Surely aliens would have settled on one, perfect, scalable vehicle design after millions of years of refinement? Spheric
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by Paperweight 8y ago
I feel like you could take a subset of JavaScript and make a new "JSLite" language that forces you to do things in one, proper best way. It would be a great way for new developers to learn modern techniques.
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by Paperweight 8y ago
You know, Teslas. Marketed to rich tech geeks resulting in a computer that also happens to be a car.
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by Paperweight 8y ago
When everyone's anonymous, anyone can speak their mind without worrying about offending anyone. When everyone's identified, only the crazies and extremists truly speak their mind - they don't care about offending anyone. You
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by Paperweight 8y ago
David L. Mills, the inventor of NTP, probably looks exactly how you picture him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol#/media/F...
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by Paperweight 8y ago
Biometrics are the future equivalent of using the same password everywhere.
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by Paperweight 8y ago
Like when you're driving? :)

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