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semantic: the 8 letter s-word(t-ravis.com)
2 points by abathur 4y ago|0 comments
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by abathur 4y ago
Citation needed? How would digitizing their systems have saved the industry from all three of its primary revenue streams being hoovered up by free online classifieds, free debundled online news, and online advertising? If you're going
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by abathur 4y ago
One tendril of the problem is that online delivery enables organizations to track engagement at a more granular level than "which articles generated lots of letters to the editor?" I suspect it takes a lot of integrity, stubborn
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by abathur 4y ago
I roughly agree. I guess it would also incentivize some weird behavior like buying a project to take it private and try to extract value from users of the toolchains it's been built into. This would be marginally better than buying a p
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by abathur 4y ago
This is probably only marginally helpful given how ~monorepo-focused the pitch is, but, if: - you're using submodules to vendor dependencies or develop multiple related projects - you have control over your environments/toolchains
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by abathur 4y ago
You do realize the reporters didn't go to journalism school because they dream of churning out clickbait for a living, yeah? I'm sure the vast majority of them would rather be paid to do nothing than to generate clickbait, too. (O
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by abathur 4y ago
Sure--but getting clicks is (~now) part of their job .
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by abathur 4y ago
This is a low effort "gotcha" way of dismissing the work of real humans who are struggling to meet newsroom deadlines and productivity schedules as their industry gets picked over by vulture capital in the wake of online news, cra
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by abathur 4y ago
I suspect you get flagged for carrying water.
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The Gizmo's Role in Markup(t-ravis.com)
1 points by abathur 4y ago|0 comments
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by abathur 4y ago
No silver bullet. It helps to write thoughtful comments. It helps to pick thoughtful names. It helps to weave a story out of the names you've chosen. I have been picking at some thoughts on the ~naming side of this recently... https:&
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by abathur 4y ago
I guess, in an ideal world, our tools could ~pair code and comments introduced adjacent to each other in the same commit, and then ~visually surface how many commits have touched the code without touching the comment (or whether it has been
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by abathur 4y ago
I think there's a perspective slip here. I assume it means: What does the code do, why does it do that, and how do we leverage it. These perspective issues are tricky. There's a difference between "what does the code do"
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by abathur 4y ago
Suspiciously healthy :)
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by abathur 4y ago
I was a little surprised this treated dimensional media queries as an ~afterthought, but I guess my assumptions may be stale. It's just as frustrating to use a site on a desktop that insists on a mobile layout until I make the window u
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by abathur 4y ago
Using something like Nix to specify the dependencies instead.
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by abathur 4y ago
Congratulations! You are the seventh person on HN to say the words "speed run" and "finance" in the same comment :o ) https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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by abathur 4y ago
So, you would not be skeptical of the authors at Jacobin if they spent their days advocating for the decentralization and redistribution of their own power?
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by abathur 4y ago
SSG (hugo) + git -> own site (hosted at nearlyfreespeech.net) I used to do very ~project-oriented blog stuff at tumblr, but I wanted to be able to consolidate things down to one site where I could have a ~main stream with all posts, whil
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by abathur 4y ago
Unless they're intentionally using UI scripting to create ad impressions, weatherbots aren't viewing tweets--they're posting them. If people aren't viewing those tweets or deriving value, they're consuming resources
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by abathur 4y ago
I hadn't heard of it either. Only for the last ~9 months, it seems. And from the comments, it required proactive action.
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by abathur 4y ago
Even if you get reliable bot ID, there's a difference between a zero- or negative-value bot that just spams or tries to inflame social tensions and positive-value bots that automatically propagate things like weather or traffic updates
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by abathur 4y ago
This is dumb, and I am in love with it. I'll have to use some of these... :)
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by abathur 4y ago
This takes embodiment (which I suspect is essential) to a place that feels weird to me. When I say that I suspect embodiment is essential to AGI, I mean that I think a lot of people are basically presuming mind-body dualism. I mean that the
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by abathur 4y ago
For a concrete example, I've been developing a tool ( https://github.com/abathur/resholve ) that can ~build/link Bash/Shell scripts--i.e., rewrite them with external executables converted to absolute paths
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by abathur 4y ago
> - Why isn't diagram generation automated as part of the build process (UML or otherwise)? I've had a related thought/desire percolating... roughly: I wonder what interesting levers we could build if it was normalized (fo
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by abathur 4y ago
It reminds me of the stories about LARPers and edgelords who do something ironically until the meme consumes the host.
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by abathur 4y ago
It's nitpick, but I'll note that it follows that you wouldn't know if the attacker has access if you don't know how they gained it.
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by abathur 4y ago
Exciting! Back in 2011-12, my MFA (poetry) thesis project was a sort of poetic ~conversation between myself, and (selected) poems generated by a program I wrote, using transcripts of Glenn Beck's TV show. I really, really wanted to b
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by abathur 4y ago
Yes, I am also under the impression that Pike grew out of LPC (and I, too, really cut my teeth on LPC).

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