TheLarch

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by TheLarch 10y ago
I appreciate what seems to be a sincere sentiment, but at the same time I don't feel like it's my place to point out to a stranger that her, say, sedentary lifestyle or drinking habit is a health risk.
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Bicycling: The Safest Form of Transportation(mrmoneymustache.com)
66 points by TheLarch 10y ago|69 comments
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by TheLarch 10y ago
It is dangerous. However, when you consider the economic, environmental, and health advantages it looks better. See http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/06/13/bicycling-the-safe... . I feel notably worse inside
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by TheLarch 10y ago
I am surprised to hear you assert that there is no time saving to be had in running red lights. In my opinion it's just too bad for annoyed drivers. They are welcome to join us. What angry drivers usually don't get is that the equ
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Skeuomorphs(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by TheLarch 10y ago|0 comments
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by TheLarch 10y ago
My hat is off. Someone pointed out to me recently that the ubiquitous icon for 'save' is the depiction of a floppy drive, which is essentially a skeuomorph ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph ).
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by TheLarch 10y ago
And looking forwards to each new kernel release! And trimming it down to the bare essentials to minimize resource usage. Also I knew the purpose of every process running on my box. Now I am just as bewildered as I am by Windows.
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by TheLarch 10y ago
So much time. So much time.
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by TheLarch 10y ago
Fascinating! I wish I had studied some geology. I learned here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSSxdogrv1s that the mountains and lakes around Puget Sound run north-south because of glacial descent, and that the huge boulde
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by TheLarch 10y ago
I'm not usually nostalgic but my circa 1994 Slackware CD distro is special. Incidentally I can't overemphasize how far basic sysadmin skills will get you.
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by TheLarch 10y ago
Also no one knows how to shield a spaceship from the interstellar medium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel#Interstell... over such distance.
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We’ll First Find Aliens on Eyeball Planets(nautil.us)
15 points by TheLarch 10y ago|4 comments
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by TheLarch 10y ago
"while working with PHP, I tend to feel vaguely annoyed" Exactly! I was never satisfied with my PHP code, as there does not seem to be a better and worse answer in many cases. For the record I did not mean to assert that PHP has b
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by TheLarch 10y ago
"Since when did something need to have novel features or ideas in order to be productive?" It doesn't. But if your language ideas are admittedly no better than the next guy's, what's the point?
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by TheLarch 10y ago
Around 2001 I felt jaded with the industry and determined to do whatever was expedient to earn money. That meant using PHP, because that was purportedly the place to be at the time. I have never felt so uninspired by a language. My overwhel
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by TheLarch 10y ago
I secretly thought the diagrams were kind of cool. I'm saddened to learn they were taken from elsewhere.
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by TheLarch 10y ago
I've never heard anyone call a lag bolt a screw, and yet they are pointed and never mated to nuts.
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by TheLarch 10y ago
Perhaps there wasn't a lawsuit, but rather this is an artefact of the organization the created it, in Northcote Parkinson style. That is to say, perhaps Sally, a middle manager in the NAFTA Bureau, Cyclicals Division, Building Material
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by TheLarch 10y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. I read a Beethoven bio recently and it kept talking about "the quality of musicians available at the time," meaning they were quite inferior. I guess what you're saying is part of that observatio
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by TheLarch 10y ago
"They imply a message that human runners have improved constantly since 1896" But they have! World population increased from one billion to 7.4. Also I imagine that the proportion of people who have the opportunity to train for th
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by TheLarch 10y ago
I agree that some laws promote justice at the expense of freedom, and have no problem with it in many circumstances. I am by no means the first to point out that there is a "regressive left" trend nowadays. Leftists can be authori
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by TheLarch 10y ago
I'm not so sure. "Social justice" often tramples free speech.
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by TheLarch 10y ago
My view is that freedom is the essential right, and that social justice can only follow, not precede it. Here is a clear example of a movement that values its perception of social justice over freedom of speech: https://www.googl
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by TheLarch 10y ago
You're right in that the mainstream is guilty as well. I see SJWs as attempting to suppress free speech however, which I perceive as unambiguously tyrannical.
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by TheLarch 10y ago
Well, you're right in that vagina literally means vagina in English. And yes, there are occasions where language is unambiguously metaphorical. I do not, however, appreciate how either of these undermine my larger claim. Not sure if yo
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by TheLarch 10y ago
Interesting, thank you. However I did not intend to condemn all radical politics. Rather my point was that the promulgation of any political views by foisting a sympathetic vocabulary onto the public is tyrannical. Are there any political i
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by TheLarch 10y ago
This is disappointing! If you find it snarky and not that great, why submit a link? c) is not logically consistent is it?
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by TheLarch 10y ago
There is a continuum: someone, somewhere called it a sheath, and the metaphor was so apt that it was repeated until it eclipsed whatever word was current usage before. Neither you nor anyone else is qualified to judge which words are metaph
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by TheLarch 10y ago
You have a point. There is always that possibility that a particular employment of language politics is just, so to reject all political neologisms risks rejecting the just ones too. I struggle with the language of women's rights, for
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by TheLarch 10y ago
OK read it. Not impressed. Orwell is a liar because: "Let's move to his first rule 'Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print'? Yet we only need to read as far as the s

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