SamWhited

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by SamWhited 2y ago
Don't do all the businesses in Paris, just do the ones you frequent the most. Google doesn't have all the businesses in Paris either (or at least, in Atlanta I run into ones that they don't have too or that they have but it&#
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by SamWhited 2y ago
Interestingly, in Atlanta I've had the opposite experience. In town OSM always seems to be better (Google has a lot of outdated open hours and the like). Outside of town in the cheaper burbs which is the only place I can afford to live
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by SamWhited 2y ago
I'm struggling with what you meant by "it's just a language thing", that is of course true and what I was pointing out. For the purpose of good communication, everything is a language thing and language things are import
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by SamWhited 2y ago
This whole thing is a misunderstanding of how the US system works. None of this is a legislative function, it is a determination by a rule making body. While I agree that the courts are often overworked and we need to vastly expand the nu
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by SamWhited 2y ago
"Labor" isn't being used in the dictionary definition of "doing work", here, it's being used in the sense of "the labor movement".
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by SamWhited 2y ago
There's nothing magical about a union, at the end of the day it's people working towards a common goal and it's only as good as the people in it who make it happen. If it's you and a few of your coworkers who are learnin
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by SamWhited 2y ago
I mean, copy/paste is a thing, I'm not suggesting you have to always type out every single character. Just know what's being imported.
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by SamWhited 2y ago
I have a distinct memory from the first Go contributor summit where I brought this up (I have no idea what we were discussing or what it was in response to) and the attitude of every other developer at the table was "yah, but we spec
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by SamWhited 2y ago
I really enjoyed this! I've only tried to do this once and it was a bit of a failure (nobody showed up on the day despite a lot of interest), but since then I've done a lot of organizing in other fields (political stuff mostly) an
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by SamWhited 2y ago
XMPP has threading at a protocol level, just like Matrix (and it has since the early days). I'm only aware of one or two apps that implement it though, and I'm not really sure why that is (maybe it's just a lot of old-school
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by SamWhited 2y ago
It's not less sustainable than most other FOSS projects, it's just that most other FOSS projects also don't have sustainable funding. If you're just comparing the actual implementations this is true of most XMPP stuff
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by SamWhited 3y ago
I would have said the same thing about infinite scrolling; that always feels like a dark pattern to me because it makes it hard to find specific results again, hard (or impossible) to get to any links in the page footer, etc. I always just
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by SamWhited 3y ago
All of that sounds exactly like what RSS/vCard were built for; what part couldn't be done? Comments and replies could be integrated easily enough. You could do this with more RSS, but I've always wanted to build something lik
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by SamWhited 3y ago
Looks like it's a sunny day at the moment, but check out the website after it's been overcast for a day or two. The background (which just looks yellow right now) doesn't always look that way and it's really cool when
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by SamWhited 3y ago
I generally agree that this is a big problem with Go, so I don't want to quibble too much, but the author acknowledges that the language doesn't have enums and that they're just trying to use this feature like enums (TBF, thi
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by SamWhited 3y ago
It's used by a lot of the big commercial platforms because it's well understood and has libraries for every system and language ever invented just about. Eg. Zoom and Jitsi both use XMPP (Zoom for Chat, Jitsi for chat and signalin
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by SamWhited 3y ago
I really liked "Record of a Spaceborn Few", but the entire Wayfarer series is pretty good. I think technically it's a sequel to the first one, but IIRC it doesn't really matter which order you read them in, you may just
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by SamWhited 3y ago
I don't really understand the confusion, a good writer (and Chambers is one) will make it clear from context whether the "they" is plural or not, but if you're confused you might enjoy her other works which use xe/x
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by SamWhited 3y ago
> If any of you out there have similar books you'd recommend I'd love to hear about them. I don't know how similar they are, but someone recommended "Noor" by Nnedi Okorafor recently when I asked this same questi
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by SamWhited 3y ago
> My understanding is that Becky Chambers does not have any more books planned but hasn't ruled out writing more. Ooh, that's really sad to hear; I had assumed it would be a trilogy with the city being the last one! If the firs
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by SamWhited 3y ago
I used to work for Atlassian (not on Jira) and the Jira "experts" that worked there set it up in such a way that everyone there hated it too. If your product has such bad defaults and is so flexible that this can happen, you'
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by SamWhited 3y ago
This makes me miss Blackstar Co-op in Austin, TX. Great microbrewery with excellent food that has a hybrid worker/consumer ownership model. If you're ever in the area (and if it's still around, it's been years since I&#x
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by SamWhited 3y ago
In my experience the opposite is almost always true: > Somehow finances have to work, which is usually a harsh reality for some At most places I've been involved in the workers are more careful with money because they are standing
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Meta on the Fediverse: to block or not to block?(about.scicomm.xyz)
7 points by SamWhited 3y ago|2 comments
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by SamWhited 3y ago
That's what it is now, and that's fine (well, the "harder to use" isn't fine and lots of people are working on that, but it's okay that it's not ultra-popular). The fediverse (for the most part) isn't
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by SamWhited 3y ago
You're right, we don't want that sort of adoption! We want slow, paced, organic growth. Users should join the fediverse because they want to be there, not because a giant corporation cut their accounts over to a new service that s
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by SamWhited 3y ago
It's not. In so far as you can assign a "goal" to a network as diverse as the fediverse, many services (maybe most?) started out as a way to specifically get away from the growth mindset of giant corporations. The fediverse w
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by SamWhited 3y ago
Excellent. There may be other solutions too, but I haven't heard or thought of any. There are two reasons why this is a good thing, I think: The fediverse is about creating a more decentralized internet. Facebook is about centralizing
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by SamWhited 3y ago
> There was no reason to assume either the police car or the ambulance was doing their job. The prompts were: "In an emergency, Neil, an EMT, drives his ambulance into the park" and "In an emergency, Laurie, a police offic
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by SamWhited 3y ago
Maybe run one of the large distributed computing projects like Folding@Home? https://foldingathome.org/

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