abathur

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   by abathur 6y ago

   Humans and proto-humans have presumably done most of the fundamental things we do for a very long time. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/colored-pigmen... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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   by abathur 6y ago

   Thanks for this comparison. I'm not sure how common symptomatic mono is, but I suspect it (along with some things like maybe pneumonia and bronchitis?) is a good reference point. How was your bout with mono? I recall having tonsils so
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   by abathur 6y ago

   I don't have time to absorb all of this right now, but I do still want to thank you for creating it. :) I consider what I see as process/project blogging to be one of the Internet's unsung heroes, but a lot of it has a narrow
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   by abathur 6y ago

   I think Dropbox Paper is pretty nice, and it's only really been a fully-formed thing for a few years. :) Caveat: I don't use any Dropbox desktop apps, and I think Paper is the only mobile app I use, so I may not notice/suffer
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   by abathur 6y ago

   The burden of proof should probably be on the other side, here. Why is it better to introduce hundreds of millions of bored free-range emotional-support predators into any given ecosystem than to not do this?
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   by abathur 6y ago

   I have, for years, been reading my first Murakami: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. This probably sounds like a bad thing, but after seeing some comments about it I felt compelled to offer a small defense (as in--do read it, but maybe trust some
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   by abathur 6y ago

   Good catch on -r not mattering, here. I think `read` is one I've had trouble with and assumed that was it since I bothered disabling it. But after grepping around a bit more, the only one I see that shellcheck would object to that actu
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   by abathur 6y ago

   Thanks for asking this, by the way. Going back to intentionally look through a few things for examples is helping me better clarify why I've had this impression slowly building up... 1. Some Shellcheck code titles/short messages c
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   by abathur 6y ago

   It's a little contrived in this case, but another common example is a related suggestion for `read -r`: get_nix_version_parts(){ local major minor patch # shellcheck disable=SC2034,SC2162 IFS="." read
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    by abathur 6y ago

    Intentional word-splitting is a common one. So, for example: extract_nix_version(){ echo "$3" } get_nix_version(){ # shellcheck disable=SC2046 extract_nix_version $(nix --version) }
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    by abathur 6y ago

    What is? Did I suggest anyone write complex Bash programs? Shellcheck is amazing. As I suggested in the previous post, I use it for most of my own shell scripts/projects, especially stuff I intend to release. But, because shell and Bas
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    by abathur 6y ago

    Fair :) but I think there's a degree difference here (and this is more about the language than Shellcheck itself). Also, maybe my original phrasing left room for misinterpretation? Shellcheck will happily suggest changes that break wo
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    by abathur 6y ago

    I've had a thought percolating (for many months?) but I haven't tried to phrase it and I'm leery it may sound condescending (this is also more of a public address than direct response) ... Shellcheck tends to steer us away fr
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    by abathur 6y ago

    TBH I feel like I already get paid--temporally and emotionally--for staying away. I suspect this would be a little like the cobra bounty?
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    by abathur 6y ago

    I think we (mostly) have the emphasis backwards, and that this is part of your discomfort. We like to focus on the artist, art-object, art-process, art-technique, art-tools, and art-temples. I think it all makes more sense if you focus on t
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    by abathur 6y ago

    > This would be administrative overhead I didn't say it was easy--I just said it struck a balance relative to trying to openly publish the whole dataset. Yes. Obviously comes with administrative overhead. So did dealing with the ini
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    by abathur 6y ago

    It seems like there can be a balance between "the results are unverifiable because no one else can touch the data" and "effectively open-source the dataset"? Something like: "To make it easier to verify the code beh
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    by abathur 6y ago

    I wondered this, too. Also--which draft, if there's more than one? Is it like, "latest available", or "easiest to parse", or do you have a policy like only shooting scripts ?
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    by abathur 6y ago

    Interesting work. Glad you've been able to chart a path through some tedious problems. Over the last several years I've imagined a lot of projects (both serious utilities, and the absurd/artistic) in roughly the territory you
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    by abathur 6y ago

    In case there's some motive for picking NY or CA, what about all of the empty space in Houston? Why would the rents go up, along with vacancy? I haven't gone counting, but I've been unnerved by how many storefronts, warehouse
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    by abathur 6y ago

    Looks at Hugo
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    by abathur 6y ago

    I'd already been pondering the paperclip-machine universe that could be created by a Twitter bot that just pipes tweets to bash and posts the output. Now it could just trawl Twitter for addresses at https://textdb.dev , and
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    by abathur 6y ago

    I'm glad you're expanding the list a little, but I'd also encourage you (and anyone else reading) to reflect on the difference and asymmetry, here. (Rhetorical questions--no answer needed) What's the bottom-line differen
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    by abathur 6y ago

    Also, many small museums aren't "art" museums with semi-independent objects that have similar value to collectors anywhere. Many of them have some sort of focus on the history of a place, person, community, people, industry,
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    by abathur 6y ago

    I think this is fair, but it's also somewhat predicated on the threat from deepfakes actually being a bunch of real people believing some big synthetic narratives and presumably taking some action they wouldn't/shouldn't
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    by abathur 6y ago

    I didn't really try to make an argument, nor even say I agree with Foucault here--just that I see a parallel and it amuses me. Caveats: 1) I read this over a year ago, 2) found it enough of a slog that my understanding feels pretty fuz
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    by abathur 6y ago

    These concerns, in turn, resonate with me. I think my father is still sharp and have several competing quotidian explanations (projections?) of what's going on. But, it's impossible to silence the nagging worry that there's a
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    by abathur 6y ago

    There's an amusing parallel with the justification Foucault gives for his focus in the first volume of "The History of Sexuality". He points out that, for a very long time, people speaking/writing about sexuality have te
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    by abathur 6y ago

    Thanks for posting this. It's timely for me. I'm stuck in a loop with my father for a while now where he forwards me a certain sort of propaganda. I feel like I've struggled to break through on a key point: when I say somethi
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    by abathur 6y ago

    Because GH just released a feature that shows github.com/username/username/readme.md on your profile page.