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by asark 8y ago
> Let alone in connection with Bandersnatch, which was mediocre at best. Yeah, that one was an odd connection for me. Interactivity does change the experience of narrative media, as has been obvious to anyone playing video games for a
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by asark 8y ago
Oh, no, the prose was fine. Did my post come off like I don't like the prose in Blindsight? I just didn't want anyone to think anything else about the book was similar to Stephenson's work at all—for one thing, Blindsight h
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by asark 8y ago
Second the recommendation for Blindsight. It's competently written (I don't mean that as faint praise) and has a darkness to it that's substantial enough to stick with you for a good long while. You're right that the pro
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by asark 8y ago
My kindergartener's at one of the best public elementary schools in our city. Great middle and high school in her future, too, assuming their quality holds out. Brand new building, too, first year in use. They give them (the kindergart
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by asark 8y ago
Oof, you're right, I totally misread that. We were fortunate enough to be in detached housing. If we'd still not been consistently getting full nights of sleep until almost a year after our first one was born (as in the post I ini
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by asark 8y ago
Typically, they want them to be illegal because they consider them morally close or identical to murder. One might not vote for the legalize-murder party just because the stats say fewer murder happen when they're in power, preferring
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by asark 8y ago
Abortion's all the Rs need for the same loyalty from a big chunk of the population. They end up voting for all kinds of other stuff incidentally, just because the Rs are—thanks to some serious errors in our system of government that ar
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by asark 8y ago
Do you trust any documentation at all? A test's just documentation a machine can read and, to some extent, validate. Other docs are necessarily even less trustworthy, if they can't be automatically checked for accuracy.
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by asark 8y ago
> To me, including a test suite in your code base is a code smell. You'd put it somewhere else, then?
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by asark 8y ago
> Kids should not be afraid and cry themselves to sleep. > But if you just leave them alone in their bed they will. Worked for us 3x. Did it soon after they no longer physically needed to eat in the night, which is a lot earlier tha
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by asark 8y ago
Can confirm, found ~2 beeswax candles (dunno if other materials are different brightness) is perfect for reading and getting about the house. I've been looking for a < 5 candle power battery incandescent-bulb lamp, but haven't
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by asark 8y ago
A key miss with the print vs. digital design is that digital's interactive, and you don't usually see the whole thing at once. Plus, you know, screen sizes. "Unique" may be attention-grabbing, it may look nice, and it ma
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by asark 8y ago
... which one's supposed to be bad? If the website'd[0] had a UI similar to the left back when I briefly tried it in ~2010, I might've stuck around. I stopped using it after a couple weeks because I couldn't figure out w
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by asark 8y ago
Color me skeptical that our healthcare system contributes to our being more innovative than our peers. Looking at the way it distributes risk (bumpily and with little certainty) and the immense cost of it, I'd expect precisely the oppo
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by asark 8y ago
> He was a president who ruled by executive order. Do you hold this opinion due to the nature of his orders? His rate of orders issued doesn't make this look plausible, on its own. Lowest per-year average since well before WWI, by
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by asark 8y ago
What do other wealthy states with populations who generally prefer their healthcare system to one like ours (the US) do? That'd be a good place to start looking. Plenty of examples. Like, all of them, pretty much. > The solution isn
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by asark 8y ago
> I think the "high availability by redundancy" story is oversold. More generally, an awful lot of systems that'd be fine with a SQL mirror (non-failover), some real backups on top, and a restore-from-backup event every 3-
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by asark 8y ago
"!gh lsd" Though yes, many computer-thing names are bad in the search department.
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by asark 8y ago
One major benefit of a separate program and network (network of hypertext, that is, not IP network or whatever) is that if you can overcome an initial usage hurdle (big if, I know) it'd provide an audience incentive to get current webs
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by asark 8y ago
The biggest power efficiency hack for macOS is to avoid running JS anywhere other than in Safari, and there as little as possible. Chrome and Firefox both eat battery like crazy. Firefox worse than Chrome, but either will take a couple hour
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by asark 8y ago
> If there are going to be arbitrary mouseover effects then JS has to be able to see your mouse. If you want Jupyter notebooks to indent text & do tab completion then JS has to see text you haven't submitted. Just don't all
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by asark 8y ago
Under what I propose you could only do stuff like recording a user's entire session, including mouse position and typing-in-progress in text fields, which is commonly and easily done on the modern web for "UX research", with
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by asark 8y ago
You misunderstand, I think. The problem is that the ecosystem of the modern web is entirely and irreverisbly full of spying and user-hostile junk, due to decisions that were made. TL;DR you can't have Javascript with anything close t
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by asark 8y ago
We need a Web again. A hypertext document browsing system. Update the basic elements like they should have been updated 20+ years ago (sortable tables seems like a no-brainer to include in base HTML, there's got to be a way to update f
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by asark 8y ago
It's faster on my 2018 well-above-base-config Macbook, too. Somewhere along the way the original promise of this whole AJAX thing—faster updates, no page loads—got lost. The page loads are usually faster for real sites in the wild, whe
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by asark 8y ago
Careful or you'll let a libertarian define a term very broadly then start making bad syllogisms at you with it. [edit] actually may be an Objectivist, I guess. They argue the same.
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by asark 8y ago
> It was foolish the way I felt in the 90ies thinking that Software and computing would be a net benefit. I'm so friggin' sick of looking at glowing rectangles (he wrote, looking at a glowing rectangle). Watching all the faffin
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by asark 8y ago
Took me several years past school just to get used to the ordinary level of dishonesty and scumminess that's common to pretty much all business, let alone the worse stuff. Sometimes I think my parents (and, to be fair, children's
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by asark 8y ago
> You are agreeing. As an adult, the choice to agree or not agree to conditions of a private transaction seem to be a fundamental liberty. 1. There's already plenty of stuff you're not allowed to sign away, no matter how much m
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by asark 8y ago
First person to create "thisdoesnotexistdoesnotexist.com" with some appropriate functionality wins one Internet. And apparently several HNs.

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