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by asark 8y ago
> I see a number of comments celebrating the choice to live in a bubble uninformed and blissfully unaware of local and global events. I'm pretty sure my being aware of local and global events, plus voting, plus demonstrating, plus o
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by asark 8y ago
> There's evidence to suggest voters preferences don't really impact policy in the long term, such as the Princeton study. The dirty little (open) secret of US politics: nothing, nothing an individual does really matters unle
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by asark 8y ago
I definitely don't want my six year old to be able to use their school-provided, Internet-connected iPad any way they please, with plenty of privacy. And yeah the actual solution is "don't fucking give a six year old an Inter
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by asark 8y ago
Now that all TVs are "smart" the ones with built-in Roku are just about the only ones I find tolerable. Pretty fast booting, especially from "sleep", compared to the rest, and the interface isn't garbage. The remote
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by asark 8y ago
Oh, sorry. You asked what Phase 2 would be and I didn't pick up that it was a rhetorical question.
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by asark 8y ago
Just explaining, not taking a side: it's probably a reference to "embrace, extend, and extinguish". So "phase 2" is "extend". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingu
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by asark 8y ago
People selling stuff (to clients, to investors) think having a big open room full of developers using computers is impressive enough to help them sell. The developer zoo. A normal professional office with hallways and doors doesn't loo
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by asark 8y ago
That and LEGO, especially the often-looked-down-upon act of building sets from the directions, which are pretty much a series of "spot the difference in a 3D scene" puzzles.
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by asark 8y ago
Dunno, I've seen the same reaction from a lot of people seeing themselves at a computer for the first time. A kind of frowny "ew." Those of us who use webcams a lot are probably getting over it, but I bet it's still a no
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by asark 8y ago
What? I'm considering why we find "screen time" especially distasteful. It just looks bad, for some reason. Worse than someone lounging and reading, worse than a person running or playing a sport, and so on. It's an un
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by asark 8y ago
There aren't a lot of activities a person could, theoretically, engage in in public view without getting in some kind of trouble, that look as gross as staring at a screen alone. Any time I catch a glimpse of myself doing it, in a mi
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by asark 8y ago
Heh, oh yeah, tons of that, usually the ones most relevant to narrowing the search beyond "everything on the Web". Thanks, Google. So then I do the quotes thing, especially quoting phrases that 100% for sure must exist on some we
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by asark 8y ago
I've "lost" a few sites that way. Forgot the address, can craft several searches that years ago definitely would have brought up the exact site I want. But... nothing. Or it's buried so far in the search results I&#x27
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by asark 8y ago
I've had this problem recently. I can craft a search for something just slightly obscure and specific that should, nonetheless, have had plenty of hits on the "old web", let alone now on the many-times-larger web. But "n
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by asark 8y ago
Once you get past one kid, having a whole house when traveling is... the only thing that makes traveling seem tolerable, really. Some more touristy places have cabins and such, but in others it's AirBnB or nothing, except maybe some ex
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by asark 8y ago
Part of the problem is that "smart" crap becomes hard to avoid if you want non-shitty devices. We've run into this with refrigerator shopping—we want a counter-depth fridge with what amounts to maybe $50-100 worth of "lu
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by asark 8y ago
Common in some older books, and modern books in certain fields. Some (philosophy is where I've see this quite a bit) will instead put from a paragraph up to a couple pages describing the topics a chapter/"book" covers at
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by asark 8y ago
Their 4k's also almost exclusively for their own content. So it's low quality and you can pretty much only use it for content that doesn't much benefit from it, assuming it's worth watching at all.
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by asark 8y ago
There's also Kanopy, which is a free limited-views-per-month streaming service you can sign up for with some library cards. My boring Midwestern city's main library has it—the library network in the outer 'burbs didn't,
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by asark 8y ago
I've found the cheapest possible automatic drip machine (small, the only interface is an "on" switch, probably one at your local Goodwill right now for like $5) with middling grounds (something available at Costco, not your f
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by asark 8y ago
1) yes, they believe that in part because it's an ego boost, but 2) there are values, behaviors, attitudes, patterns of speech, and so on, that are socialized in at an early age and damn hard to consistently, convincingly fake later
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by asark 8y ago
It didn't vanish so much as it was vanished . Trump and friends calling anything they didn't like "fake news" effectively destroyed any utility or specificity the term may, briefly, have had. Brilliant move.
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by asark 8y ago
I'm not old (well, not that old) and I bounced off Facebook when I first tried it around 2010 or so, because I couldn't figure out where anything was or what anything did or meant. Recently have had to use their "workplac
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by asark 8y ago
If you reveal your class by your outrage at the very topic, you reveal it also by the way you define the thing that's outraging you. At the bottom, people tend to believe that class is defined by the amount of money you have. In the mi
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by asark 8y ago
It's a very similar psychological trick. I've even heard project managers I like and who I think are generally very good do it. I think it's just part of their language now, and some may not realize they're doing any
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by asark 8y ago
I've noticed some managers and project managers love to emphasize the that sprint plans are "commitments". "OK, is this what we're committing to for this sprint? Is everyone comfortable committing to this?". LO
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by asark 8y ago
I'd encourage everyone to guesstimate how much distance could be taken out of their commute or drive to the city by removing parking lots, huge highways and tens-of-foodball-fields interchanges, large set-backs and front lawns to keep
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by asark 8y ago
Googling has gotten really hard. I used to be able to really nail exactly what I wanted, craft queries that'd "drag" obscure pages up to the first couple results by picking words likely to be used in links to those pages
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by asark 8y ago
For the specific case of creating software , then? I'd say the Swift Playground is (much) easier to get started with and also more compelling than hacking around with Perl on (at first) Win98 was.
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by asark 8y ago
Betting a solid half of those are for Canada (mostly those living near the border—don't you still need at least a passport card to drive over?) Mexico (all-inclusive resorts for the most part) and/or Caribbean cruises, entirely. T

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