aaronem

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by aaronem 11y ago
Some smartphone reader apps (e.g. Marvin, for iOS) provide automatic soft hyphenation, which neatly solves that problem without requiring any effort on the part of the publisher.
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by aaronem 11y ago
Right, I get that, but the point I'm making is that the tool isn't suited to the job it's being used for. "Deal with this email" could mean anything from an immediate off-the-cuff answer to a trivial information req
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by aaronem 11y ago
Why use email as a to-do list, when it's obviously so poorly suited for the role? Why not use email for things email's good at, and use one of the wide variety of to-do list tools for task tracking? When you need to refer to an em
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by aaronem 11y ago
I suppose I'm giving the person in question credit for being able to see the blindingly obvious.
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by aaronem 11y ago
Well, I'm not very smart, and even I understand that the true value of 0.5% over four years is odds-on very likely to be zero...
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by aaronem 11y ago
I think it's really neat how they put the article together so that, by the end, it makes this sound like a revival of COINTELPRO despite a total and complete absence of anything even remotely resembling evidence in that direction.
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by aaronem 11y ago
I wouldn't. If your daily workflow includes a high volume of email, then it does. What I would ask is: is there a way I can solve this problem without having to totally rearrange how I use email? I'm curious whether the author l
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by aaronem 11y ago
Oh, is that all? There's nothing special about that. Any decently capable editor should be able to do likewise. I don't know about Vim because I don't use it, but I would assume it can, and I know very well that Emacs can bec
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by aaronem 11y ago
Well, it depends on what you mean, I suppose. I've integrated Emacs with tools like those, so that I can (for example) get linting feedback on code in real time, or jump to locations from a unit test failure report. But I've never
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by aaronem 11y ago
What has any of those things to do with someone's choice of editor?
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by aaronem 11y ago
Well, yes, of course you're right. Reality doesn't give a damn; reality doesn't even notice, because there's nothing there to do any noticing. You don't need a lot of imagination to see the horror in that. What you
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by aaronem 11y ago
I said it'd keep your attention. I didn't say it was nice .
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by aaronem 11y ago
He knew about radioactivity; fission was theorized well before it was discovered, and his circle of sf/fantasy nerds was precisely the sort which would both know about what was then still a relatively obscure branch of physics, and con
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by aaronem 11y ago
No, we'd still have shop classes if we still saw a need for lots of factory workers. What we have instead is a school system that's designed from the ground up for turning out lots of factory workers (and farmers, clerks, and home
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by aaronem 11y ago
If that's the full quote, then he hasn't thought it all the way through: > The universe is thirty billion light years across and every inch of it would kill us if we went there. This is the position of the universe as regards h
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by aaronem 11y ago
> Why not? Because "we're all equal in the eyes of the Creator" requires a Creator. Take that away and you end up with Hobbes: "nasty, brutish, and short". Anything beyond that requires a sustained miracle of hum
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by aaronem 11y ago
Well, we didn't, did we? We could make an unholy mess with nuclear weapons, but hubris aside, we can't kill ourselves with them. Lovecraft survived to the very verge of the atomic age, and it shows in his writing; one of Azathoth&
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by aaronem 11y ago
Related: http://illmatics.com/Remote%20Car%20Hacking.pdf I used to think that, however vulnerable this kind of installation might be, at least it'd be limited in scope to the IFE and climate control stuff, because no o
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by aaronem 11y ago
Given the frequency with which this discussion seems to be being rehashed, I wonder if there's a case to be made for having the UI indicate promoted reposts of the sort we're looking at here.
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by aaronem 11y ago
So basically for the same reason make still cares about the difference between 0x20 and 0x09. Which honestly never made sense to me. I mean, we all know the story about how the original author realized having leading tabs, rather than leadi
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by aaronem 11y ago
He's not talking about that. He's talking about the fact that, at any Wal-Mart you care to patronize, you'll find that while they have sixteen or twenty tills installed and ready to use, they have maybe three actually staffed
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by aaronem 11y ago
What a uniquely Canadian take on the Putin glamour shot!
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by aaronem 11y ago
Be careful how much you take at face value, though. While a lot of what he has to say is accurate, there's some stuff in there, like a reference to "leaky gut syndrome" which treats it as a legitimate health concern rather th
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by aaronem 11y ago
Yes, unless the explanation is that God directly caused whatever event happens to be the subject of discussion. That's what "divine" means . Which is, of course, not to say that said event cannot be wondrous, or awesome, or
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by aaronem 11y ago
...if you look up fast enough, you might just see the tail end of the joke as it passes over your head.
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by aaronem 11y ago
That's what he meant.
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by aaronem 11y ago
Have you never been around, or yourself been, a boy child? I can count on no hands the number of boys I knew in my youth, myself included, who were not interested in tablesaws or cutting torches.
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by aaronem 11y ago
Sure. It's also perfectly fine for a parent to expose his kids to his own interests, in case there might be among them something that will fire the kid's imagination.
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by aaronem 11y ago
I tend to suspect it's partly Lisp syntax but mostly that the entire environment was far enough removed from what people, including the mentioned secretaries, thought of as "programming", that it didn't register with the
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by aaronem 11y ago
> the "two week trial period" (or one week, or week-of-evenings, or whatever) Good God, is this actually a thing? I mean, a probationary period after hire is one thing, but if somebody actually had the gall to tell me I'd

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