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by allenbrunson 4y ago
yep. good stuff! this is all new to me. eugen seems like a good steward of his platform.
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
i host, like, maybe two percent of my code on github. what's there is just for show. and i am no great fan of linkedin, that is for sure. same with facebook. but i am not quite such a big deal that i can afford to ignore all of those
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
you know what they say: capitalism is the worst form of government, except for all the other ones. i am at a loss as to what would work, here. (edit: whoops, democracy, not capitalism)
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
hey, here's an opportunity to respond to a thing i've seen going around a lot. in one respect, elon musk and i agree: the twitter bots that follow airplanes around are egregious and in poor taste. i would be fine with twitter havi
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Twitter changed science – what happens now it’s in turmoil?(nature.com)
2 points by allenbrunson 4y ago|0 comments
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
i guess we will have to agree to disagree. i think it’s way to early to assume that. also, you titled your post “mastodon is not a good social network.” that is the very definition of pessimism, versus optimism.
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
that sounds to me like growing pains. i happened to find a “generalist” mastodon instance without really trying. i just read a few twitter ex-pats for awhile, to get the lay of the land, and picked one. i sent an email to the administrator,
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
this doesn’t sound terribly likely to me, as an outcome. i am seeing a whole lot of criticisms of mastodon that, to me, sound like “social networking sites have always been bad, therefore mastodon must also be bad.” surely we can muster a l
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Protocols, not platforms(allenbrunson.com)
101 points by allenbrunson 4y ago|76 comments
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
one of my (many!) objections to using python for automation tasks was what a gigantic pain in the ass it is to transfer a codebase from one computer to another. i once helped a coworker install my python scripts, which took the better part
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
oh man, so many things. i'll choose the most annoying for me personally. let's say i am creating a new dart source file in a dart package, something i have to do quite often. the import section will look like this: import &quo
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
for me personally, it already has. i have a large set of scripts i use to automate the boring parts of my job. i originally wrote them in bash. past a certain amount of complexity, that became unworkable, so i ported it all to python. after
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
he was cheating on his wife, taking advantage of his power over the women in question, and by all accounts, treated them all poorly. i can think of a few things he might need to work through.
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
a couple of years ago, my best friend had a major pyschotic episode. among many other unfortunate incidents, she drove her car into the yard of a stranger in the middle of the night, and knocked on that person's front door. in response
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
hey, go right ahead! that's not even all my stuff. i have a couple of beos coffee cups, several boxed copies of beos, and several books. one thing, though: i am pretty sure that the haiku error messages were only in netpositive, the we
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
i worked at be, in the year 2000, for seven months. i got laid off when the company went out of business and got acquired. a few relics from my time there. my business card https://platinumball.net/be/business_card.jpg
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by allenbrunson 4y ago
> Totally see where you are coming from, and as a consumer I try to avoid any video that smells like clickbait. same. i watch a lot of youtube. i pay monthly for it, so i don't have to see ads. i've seen linus tech tips videos
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by allenbrunson 5y ago
having spent many hours researching brian eno’s discography, that didn’t ring any bells for me. on inspection, it appears that you are talking about someone named brian may , rather than brian eno .
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by allenbrunson 5y ago
i love brian eno so much. one of my favorite musicians. such a unique voice. i don't always love everyting he does, but i trust his instincts enough that i am willing to go wherever he's leading. i am a completist, i.e., for my fa
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How to Cancel a Dart Async Function(allenbrunson.com)
2 points by allenbrunson 5y ago|0 comments
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by allenbrunson 5y ago
with precious few exceptions, pretty much every media outlet in the USA is already "X for white people." it's not necessary to phrase it that way, everybody already knows. personally, i think it's great that the founde
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by allenbrunson 5y ago
> It's also important to remember that many "simple" operations, such as "print the date one hour from now", or "read the user's name" hide huge complexity encoded in human context and history. obv
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by allenbrunson 5y ago
i am going to echo a lot of the comments here and say that this is an eye-opening essay. it got me to thinking things that i would not have otherwise. that is a very high bar to clear, which very rarely happens. for any random bit of text o
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by allenbrunson 5y ago
i am going to strongly agree. i set up my first real blog over a decade ago. i picked wordpress, because that seems to be the default, and i didn't know any better. oh my god, i hated maintaining that thing so, so much. it pretty much
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by allenbrunson 6y ago
okay, fair point! they still aren't treated very well, though.
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by allenbrunson 6y ago
in all these amazon threads over the years, i've never chimed in before, but what the hell, just this once. i think you can have a better than 50/50 chance of getting a decent item from amazon. you just have to be picky about what
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by allenbrunson 6y ago
hard agree. i took up flutter a couple of years ago, which means i am now saddled with (ugh) gradle for android builds. i am used to being able to intuit the underlying architecture of various tech things and fix them, which is utterly im
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by allenbrunson 6y ago
dang did not say you can't have an opposing view, he just said not to post a "shallow dismissal." if you had originally posted this instead of your snarky one-liner, you would have been fine.
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by allenbrunson 6y ago
if the author of this blog post is correct, this could be a way out of the grave polarization that is afflicting the united states at the moment. i am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and read more about it.
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We’re Not as Divided as We Think We Are(mobileopportunity.blogspot.com)
3 points by allenbrunson 6y ago|1 comments

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