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by asark 7y ago
Design quality for a UI, ordered easiest to hardest: 1) Information dense 2) Looks good in screenshots 3) Information dense and easy to use 4) Information dense and easy to use and looks good in screenshots An awful lot of designers stop at
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by asark 7y ago
Human language isn't math. Two things can be described with the same words and still very much not be equivalent. "Muggers use the treat of violence to take money, government threatens violence if you don't pay taxes, ergo,
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by asark 7y ago
Getting some premise or early bit of reasoning wrong, or taking something for granted that really deserves some prior justification (assuming such exists), then building a whole castle atop that foundation of sand is basically mises.org&#x2
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by asark 7y ago
A stupid-simple $20 coffee machine with no interface but an on/off switch will produce something most daily coffee drinkers find acceptable, given grounds a notch or two above the absolute cheapest around, and it takes at most 1 minute
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by asark 7y ago
Useful home automation mostly involves robots of one kind or another. Stuff you might pay a person to do because it's so time consuming and tedious. Cleaning, washing & putting away clothes, lawn care, maybe cooking. Basically anyt
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by asark 7y ago
Mid 30s, same, and my k-12 experience wasn't even bad . I wasn't really bullied. I was popular enough, and moved between a few different friend groups, some of them semi-cool (though one of the nerdier groups was my "home&qu
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by asark 7y ago
The only major(ish) browser I know of that seems to give half a damn about performance—by which I mean "does not make the whole system feel slow" rather than "achieves high scores on JS benchmarks"—is Safari, unfortunate
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by asark 7y ago
I remember preferring lighter alternatives to LibreOffice (OpenOffice, in fact, at the time) on Linux back in the early and mid 2000s because that suite was such a sluggish resource hog, only firing it up if I needed a decent chance at MS O
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by asark 7y ago
The bones of the setting and plot, the tone, plus lots of details, are so heavily borrowed from B5 that it's practically a kind of remix. Not complaining, though, since [heresy incoming] they seem to have said "what if we took B5&
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by asark 7y ago
1) There actually are quite a few games available that run natively on Linux these days. Usually not AAA titles but lots of indie games. I've got (checks) about 550 games on Steam, largely through various bundle sales, and something li
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by asark 7y ago
The first 1/3 of The Diamond Age is the best part of it, so if you have trouble with the first 100 pages don't worry about the rest. One of the most frustrating books I've read.
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by asark 7y ago
Especially if you're "texting" from a computer (iMessage linked to a phone, for example)
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by asark 7y ago
Yeah, NPR found plenty on their part of the national media's "how the hell did this happen?" tour right after the election. Lots of "well yeah he's awful and I wasn't happy to vote for him. But... court nominat
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by asark 7y ago
I've wondered before how many of the "OMG tons of candidates can't fizzbuzz" anecdotes come down to messing up syntax or forgetting the name of something in the language they're using and mixing in something from an
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by asark 7y ago
Basically anywhere not unusually rich? They're no longer Maserati-uncommon around here like they were a few years ago (Maseratis: also rare most places) but they're still pretty uncommon. Might see one, maybe two a day on the road
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by asark 7y ago
Yeah, having lived in the world before the Web had much on it, when it was slow and inconvenient to use, and could only be used certain places (at a desk, with a computer), when a computer not connected to the Internet wasn't a useless
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by asark 7y ago
Ad supported also competes with entirely free, by having more resources for development and, go figure, more marketing/ad dollars to promote their services elsewhere and gain usershare, for cases in which everyone-is-using-it matters—s
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by asark 7y ago
Rather, from observation, I think most people are used to not understanding what any of their software is doing and to seeing what looks like random, unpredictable, or otherwise weird behavior from it constantly, so Facebook's not un
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by asark 7y ago
I tried Facebook in, IDK, 2009 or so, for a month or two. I have productively used, for significant amounts of time: every desktop Windows since 3.1, maybe a half-dozen Linux window managers under almost as many distros, BeOS, Solaris CDE,
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by asark 7y ago
I don't assume they have no value. And this general sort of decision-making happens all over in companies (and the public sector) all the time. It's not limited to any particular department, it's just a little more checklisty
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by asark 7y ago
The vast majority of business decisions I've seen around security have boiled down to "we need to be able to put something on this sheet/slide, and it needs to be something that will raise the fewest questions—so, exactly wha
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by asark 7y ago
Probably it's mostly "we did something!" box-ticking. Having policies matters more than their being effective or sensible, generally.
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by asark 7y ago
Singing along to French songs in the car finally fixed my R problem, in a matter of days. Found I could do the rolled Spanish R and even the lazy, liquid Latin R with very little practice after getting that one down, too, and I couldn'
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by asark 7y ago
1) it's really, really hard to effectively drill vocab out of context because the gender of nouns affects everything around them, the indefinite form conceals gender (via contraction) in too many cases to be of much use, while the defi
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by asark 7y ago
Yeah, I'm a meat eater who's most of the way to vegetarian just because I don't care for most meat, really. I usually go for vegetarian options when dining out out, when they're available and look like they'll be de
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by asark 7y ago
The Official Preppy Handbook repeatedly treats a phase of interest in horses and horseback riding as nigh-inevitable for girls (of the set of people it's describing, so, the wealthy professional class up through the idle rich, though
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by asark 7y ago
Do any of these open-source solutions support Apple's Live Photos and videos alongside ordinary photos? I don't really want to have multiple applications for my family memories stuff. Just want to toss them in a directory and let
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by asark 7y ago
You need node to "build" a React app, but not (generally) to serve it. Can typically just stick it on S3 or in an Apache htdocs directory or whatever. Unless your backend is Node and you're doing some server-side-rendering st
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by asark 7y ago
> I think cell phones eliminated the home phone line for most people, not the internet. Right, in functionality, but if you think in terms of a kind of slot for bills, I think home Internet fits close into where the phone bill used to
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by asark 7y ago
With you on that, been really happy wearing nicer leather "work"-style boots. They look good, they wear great (after the first couple foot-destroying weeks), they last for-friggin'-ever, and beating them up doesn't reall

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