aethertron

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by aethertron 6y ago
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/47995-worms-2/faqs/17376
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by aethertron 6y ago
Everyone knows solo blogging is lonely. That's why RSS is valuable, and the indieweb folks have tried to make new social protocols.
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by aethertron 7y ago
But that messes up the data it's using to try to give you compatible matches. And it misinforms the people you're trying to meet (assuming public answers).
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by aethertron 8y ago
Who uses it, and for what? Aside from the HN site.
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by aethertron 8y ago
Good point. Users are willing to browse around Twitter (and Facebook) where the experience is consistent, tolerable. And functional enough for many kinds of content creators. They've achieved a sort of balance. User hesitation to follo
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by aethertron 8y ago
How about Wordpress? What you're describing sounds to me like the standard structure of a blog with comments. Twitter is a weird sort of blog platform. It is chaotic by design: the chaos is consequence of its distinguishing features. E
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by aethertron 8y ago
Very very interesting. But I hope it's renamed to something other than a single-letter name, so we can use search engines to find info about the language later.
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by aethertron 8y ago
I segment my interactions in this way. I have different contacts on Facebook and WhatsApp. I don't use the Facebook mobile app partly because I don't want my contacts from Facebook to annoy me anywhere, expecting me to respond on
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by aethertron 8y ago
In defense of PWA, specifically the value of offline-availability: > You can’t call Uber while being offline, and why would you open Uber app otherwise? To see my journey history. Uber has this data. It's my data, why shouldn&#x27
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by aethertron 8y ago
Here's another old argument from Stallman against using nonfree software, not addressed in the blog post: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-free.en.html > As a computer user today, you may find yourself using
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by aethertron 8y ago
PicoLisp has a built-in Prolog engine. I haven't tried it yet. I'd like to build some project in it.
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by aethertron 8y ago
Here's one http://harpjs.com/
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by aethertron 8y ago
Seems that proficiency in J needs more memorisation than proficiency in Python. Some people get on better with this memorisation demand. Some prefer more stuff explicitly written out in their programs, which means bigger programs, so you&#x
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by aethertron 8y ago
It's not 'your library' if it's on someone else's computer.
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by aethertron 8y ago
Many 'dating sites' are scams. This has legitimate uses but this makes it also decidedly a tool for running such scams. Also, lol: > - Anti-Scam Tools ETA: If a good organisation wants to run a dating site, they could use this
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by aethertron 8y ago
'Decentralising' means spreading around effective decision-making power. That power comes with consequences -- negatives ones, if ineptly used. And most users are quite inept, when it comes to running powerful general-purpose comp
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by aethertron 8y ago
There's an obvious conflict of interest within Amazon here. The tasks of selling products, and collecting and publishing useful criticisms and reviews of products should be performed by separate entities.
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by aethertron 8y ago
Phones have enabled a shift toward high quantity, low quality social interaction.
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by aethertron 8y ago
Where did Greg Egan write about that? I'd be interested to read it. I've only read one of his novels, plus some supplementary writing on his site. I plan to read more.
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by aethertron 8y ago
Just reply to HN threads. After a while, you'll have plenty of material you can remix into blog posts. You may also have some opinions that you need to express. Also: if you want to be more original, pick more original topics. Write ab
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by aethertron 9y ago
If anti-ad-blocking countermeasures compel ads to become undetectable as ads, then they would, it seems, become non-popups, non-animated, silent, and not mess with webpage layouts. So, less annoying. That outcome looks like a significant vi
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by aethertron 9y ago
While I sympathise with the intent, to stop this particular debasement of language, I doubt this is an effective way to go about it. It's an anonymous voice shouting into the void. I think admonishing people to speak and write properly
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by aethertron 9y ago
ctrl f 'ted nelson' 'xanadu' no results. I guess they independently came up with similar notions. Good luck with their initiative. Because I really hope there can be viable alternatives to advertising revenue for online
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by aethertron 9y ago
So you can change your face, and you can't change your PIN?
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by aethertron 9y ago
Agreed, this is the correct framework for web comments. I'd perhaps do most of my commenting in a private comment stream with 2 or 3 friends.
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by aethertron 9y ago
What are the qualities of a good feed? 1. it shows me cool new stuff 2. it keeps me on the site 1 is obvious. 2 is questionable. It could be a consequence of point 1. Or it could be a matter of sneaky manipulative tactics. I am suspicious o
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by aethertron 9y ago
Look as hard as you wish, you'll never find it. That's why it's necessary to invent criteria for finding what we're looking for here. If they don't think tracking down stolen coins is a worthwhile pursuit, they&#x27
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by aethertron 9y ago
>I asked where the stolen money actually is. Okay, let's go down that route. Here's where it is: nowhere. Not because it disappeared, but because it was never actually located IN a wallet. And this is true of all bitcoins! They
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by aethertron 9y ago
The equal split would be a matter of convention. I think this is what people would consider fair. The amount was split evenly, so the taint is split evenly too. Here's a more detailed proposal to show it can be done as a distributed sy
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by aethertron 9y ago
The ill-gotten money's in both X and Y. 0.5 BTC each. Where else can it be? Here's an approach to deter crime here: explicitly expose the implicit information about stolen coins. Wallets containing stolen coins are to be considere

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