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by TOGoS 5y ago
The Friday Facts were fantastic. I don't know of any other non-open-source project (but counterexamples are of course welcome) that encourages the developers to put that much technical information about what they're up to out on
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by TOGoS 5y ago
Good idea. Who will enforce it? Because those with the most to lose will always, by definition, have the most money to throw at un-separating them. I am not implying that it cannot be done, but I like to encourage people to think long and
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by TOGoS 5y ago
> there'd be just as many people thinking "I'm stuck outside doing manual labor planting trees Then we could trade jobs for a while. Part of the problem (for us knowledge workers) is that we get pidgeonholed into doing on
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by TOGoS 5y ago
> there are a variety of options between the extremes. There are a variety of options completely outside of that continuum. Like, how about a democratically planned economy where we intentionally work on things that actually help society
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by TOGoS 6y ago
Even if Patrick is or has been a CEO of some sort (I don't know anything about him past what I've read today, but another commenter mentioned that he's working at Stripe), the fact that most of the article talks about how to
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by TOGoS 6y ago
> A lot of day jobs structurally inhibit capital formation. If I were a Marxist I'd say "And this is an intended consequence of Capital's desire to keep Labor subservient to it", but I honestly think it's true ev
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by TOGoS 6y ago
A lot of your comment went over my head, but I have modeled relational data in a way conducive to being stored in a Merkle tree. The trick being that every entity in the system ended up having two IDs. A hash ID, identifying this specific
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by TOGoS 6y ago
> 'lying about how unions work'. I've seen unions do the same. I was in a union where they promised to accomplish some things... didn't even try. Zero effort to do so, they simply chose not to. Indeed, a lot of union
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by TOGoS 6y ago
> Although it initially performs to a very high standard, work quality drops within 200-300 subjective hours (at a 0.33 work ratio) and outright revolt begins within another 100 subjective hours. Way ahead of you there, simulated brain!
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by TOGoS 6y ago
Not as annoying as learning to navigate some IDE-specific way of doing it. And I usually end up cleaning up my commits, anyway. Also, if I've committed things, then I have commit hashes to refer to in my notes.
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by TOGoS 6y ago
Keep hacking, learn from your own mistakes, do this for 10 years. By the end of that time you should, for example, understand why we use Postgres instead of MySQL. :)
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by TOGoS 6y ago
Friedman may have written them a nice excuse, but capitalists have always behaved this way. Look at the behavior of the robber barons around the turn of the 20th century for example. The question is not one of motivation, but what allowed
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by TOGoS 6y ago
In that case 'mismanaging my work and time' means 'not finding a different job[1]' :) [1] Or forming a union and demanding better conditions, but, y'know, programmers.
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by TOGoS 6y ago
Care to define "gunsch"? Other than the expected gross definitions from Urban Dictionary I'm coming up empty-handed.
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by TOGoS 6y ago
Because the voting system is only one of many factors that determine what kind of government you end up with. Who controls the money in Australia? Who would they prefer to have in government representing them? Are there any ways they mig
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by TOGoS 6y ago
> 49% of the voters approve. I wouldn't assume that 100% of voters even know the economic policies of the people they're voting for, let alone approve of them. It seems like people mostly vote because they've been told th
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Ken Perlin prevented me from using Objects.equals(nuke24.net)
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by TOGoS 6y ago
> in today’s standards, 30-40 inches is not enough screen real estate. TF does that mean? What 'standard' indicates the amount of screen real estate that qualifies as 'enough'?
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by TOGoS 6y ago
Douglas Adams wants a standard 12V connector? Those 2.1mm barrel plugs are basically that. Most any 12V LED strip you buy from amazon will come with jacks already attached and maybe include a power supply. Half the small electronic devic
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by TOGoS 6y ago
I read way too far into this article wondering when it would start talking about the topography of that giant cloud thing.
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by TOGoS 6y ago
If you mean being able to access your server from elsewhere... I have a dynamic DNS thingamabob going (a script on a raspberry pi that pings my website a few times per day) and have had no problems. Haven't even noticed my home server
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by TOGoS 6y ago
I clicked hoping that it would start with 1. Turn magic quotes on but actually it's about religious use of (popular) frameworks and design patterns. Which I might actually agree with (people at my old job were always trying to
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by TOGoS 6y ago
I'm pretty sure what was meant by 'code is data' is that a lot of OOP training encourages you to "bundle the code and the data in an object". People take that to heart, and...bundle code and data into objects. Whe
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by TOGoS 6y ago
Yup. This kind of gets at why us socialists are generally against UBI. It doesn't actually put any power in the hands of ordinary people, and the ruling class can just as easily take it away again as they gave it. Much better to hav
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by TOGoS 6y ago
'computational photography' is interesting because it requires a different way of thinking about what an image is than what we were used to. As if going through a certain shaped lens is the only way to make "real" photo
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by TOGoS 6y ago
> "Reducing inequality" is very different from democracy, and would probably lead to reduced economic efficiency, as it necessarily reduces the incentives for efficient production. They are absolutely bound together. Ensuring
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by TOGoS 6y ago
The number of people who would be adversely 'negatively' affected if we said "alright, we're taking control of this situation and not just going to blindly let you maximize your profits at the expense of the rest of the
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by TOGoS 6y ago
And when factory workers try to unionize, and the company spends millions of dollars on anti-union propaganda, that's just price signals, too, I suppose? No. That is the owners of capital wielding their power to keep the workers--the
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by TOGoS 6y ago
I don't think the individual reselling sunglasses is necessarily being "unethical". As you point out, there's nothing obviously wrong with the individual actions. The reason it's troubling is that they are making m
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by TOGoS 6y ago
With regard to point 1, I think the reasoning is that they wanted precise control over their .d.ts file, since that's the public interface. This I understand, though I don't see why switching to JavaScript necessarily helps. May

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