abathur

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by abathur 8y ago
Nice to read this. I've been thinking for a while that it would be nice to have paper ballots with the ability to cryptographically verify the inclusion of your vote in totals all the way up (ballot collection box, polling location, di
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by abathur 8y ago
This doesn't really answer your question, but I wanted to sketch out how I think about the blank slate (or something like it) since it seems like you're engaging sincerely with everyone here. 1. Since networks in general like to p
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by abathur 8y ago
Not clear to me what definition of "actual science" is operative here, and how you measure whether it still exists in some way/shape/form, but this may be hindsight bias. Gall was taking real measurements inspired by: -
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by abathur 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology#Application
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by abathur 8y ago
The problem is somewhat recursive. Ideally, politics wouldn't get in the way of accumulating the data. Ideally, unverified data would stay out of our public/institutional/organizational decision-making processes until the dus
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by abathur 8y ago
It might be the opposite of what the people writing the provisions expect, but the quality of the updates will necessarily have at least some correlation with how long the people most-capable of investigating and fixing the problem spend ex
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by abathur 8y ago
This is probably SLA compliance stuff (stipulations for how quickly they have to provide notice of issues, how often they're obliged to provide updates, and how quickly they'll fix an issue). These stipulations, obviously, don&#x2
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by abathur 8y ago
I think this is the big thing the previous poster is missing. The technical writer isn't going to go out in the wilderness with a copy of the source, assume they understand it after reading it once, write the documentation, and hit pub
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by abathur 8y ago
Mosra has put a lot of nice work into what is roughly a Doxygen theme (I'm not certain, but AFAIR it technically builds from the XML output and isn't a true drop-in replacement for the default theme), m.css, which you can see in a
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by abathur 8y ago
It does. I think you know this given how you phrased the last part, but I do want a mount a tiny defense of Doxygen, here: it's just as easy to write the same low-effort documentation in a simple comment, docstring, RST, markdown, docb
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by abathur 8y ago
Probably not a ton. But technical writers need resumes, too. Some of them might also be programmers. Or interested in transitioning into a programmer-writer. I pointed someone in this direction on an hn thread a few years ago. My educationa
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by abathur 8y ago
Maybe. If your goal is just, like being able to say you "have documentation." Or if you are already a lucid, efficient writer. But if you aren't, or if quality and usefulness are more important than ticking a box... It's
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by abathur 8y ago
I guess I'm supposed to have faith that whoever came up with this thought it through. It probably depends on which recyclables are going, but this seems a lot like the geologic analogue to "let's just throw all this crap in t
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by abathur 8y ago
Also: sometimes a site is misbehaving (for myself, or maybe for a user we're helping) and it's helpful to directly navigate to /logout just to know everyone is rowing in the same direction. Using a POST, especially if you&#x2
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by abathur 8y ago
No comment on your actual question, but your last sentence reminded me of some research I saw an article about in the last few years premised on learning from nature and trying to address both power-delivery and heat-diffusion problems pose
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by abathur 8y ago
Thanks for posting this. I am the kind of person to whom many forms of minimalism are seductive, and yet, the books, tchotchkies, and ephemera pile up.
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by abathur 8y ago
I have a short, related tale. In a long battle to be more intentional about what I keep around, I wanted ~/ to function both as my desktop and downloads directory, on both macOS and nixos. Using it like this would force me to deal with
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by abathur 8y ago
I had the same reaction, but by the end I think their main gripe is placing them in the root of the user's home directory.
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by abathur 8y ago
I don't do it often/regularly, or schedule/track it, but if I get to the end of the day and don't feel particularly hungry, I don't eat. Since I usually only eat in the evenings anyways, I guess skipping one evening
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by abathur 8y ago
Sure. You're doing useful work shaping something that is a bit too free-form for most. I didn't question your curation. Nor do I think your project needs to support them. But the fact that you haven't heard from the inevitabl
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by abathur 8y ago
Doxygen can generate a lot of data most projects don't need (and may not have the best defaults). Especially for external docs. There's a lot of value in shaping/limiting options and choices to make Doxygen easier to use for
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by abathur 8y ago
I have my own gripes and struggles with Doxygen, but I think it's useful to realize that it's a documentation-generation toolkit that can serve many purposes. I agree it's usually not the best tool for generating outward-faci
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by abathur 8y ago
I can't cite a source, but I recall being told when I was prescribed a few days of vicodin+acetaminophen after an appendectomy that acetaminophen is (often? sometimes? always?) combined with some potentially-addictive painkillers to li
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by abathur 8y ago
The tutorial videos were useful for putting a handle on what it means.
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by abathur 8y ago
I would like to request my data and delete, but severing the only mechanism I have for finding some people I know from previous academic programs is anxiety-inducing, so I avoid making a final decision. I've been bearish on it for a wh
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by abathur 8y ago
Not sure how they compare, but this reminded me of a thread about textql from earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16781294
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by abathur 8y ago
Similar position. May keep using my 2013 and replace the battery when it gets feeble enough. All I really want the new MBA for is the 16gb ram, but they bundled it with multiple new tradeoffs.
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by abathur 8y ago
There are too many perverse incentives in the system; the incentives need to be realigned. The amount of money coming from students incentivizes a university to provide worse education to more students. Easy loan money discourages discernme
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by abathur 8y ago
I see a lot of evidence that "thinking right" is astoundingly hard. But I don't see very many statements from real humans of any field, background, or level of intelligence/education that acknowledge the enormity of the
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by abathur 8y ago
This seems mostly right. That said, worth noting that the fleet management/maintenance expertise will be of unknown/unproven value for managing self-driving cars. No domain experience; just spitballing... - Unmanned SDC might have

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