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by asoneth 5y ago
I wouldn't say bullshit, just a tad idealistic. Then again, I'm old, and I admire your idealism. Being self-sufficient is a noble goal, but I think it's also helpful to be realistic about the costs in order to make the proper
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by asoneth 5y ago
I feel the same pain as you do about being complicit in all of this and I have no ready answers. The best I managed to do is that my family's email addresses use a custom domain I manage so I am not locked into a single webmail provide
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by asoneth 5y ago
As someone who used to have a server in my dorm room but switched to outsourcing it I stopped because the list of technologies I had to keep track of kept monotonically growing and I had no interest in making it my day job. If it becomes si
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by asoneth 5y ago
These may seem like very easy tasks for you. If you truly believe that a layperson can "easily follow" a technical guide or that a guide with the most common cases is sufficient to maintain a webserver... then the only thing I can
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by asoneth 5y ago
I have various friends who have made similar statements about food (everyone should cook meals for themselves), cars (everyone should do their own basic repairs and maintenance), homes (everyone should do their own basic home maintenance),
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by asoneth 5y ago
Thanks, that makes a lot of sense. I use Fish so I'm used to having to occasionally translate snippets from the web by now. (I try and tell myself it's good to understand what the commands I'm copying from random internet gui
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by asoneth 5y ago
I'm very curious to hear from the folks who have used Nu as a daily driver. Besides the initial relearning costs and the rough edges to be expected from work-in-progress software, have you run into downsides compared to shells like Bas
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by asoneth 5y ago
I agree that quantitative metrics would make for a much stronger comparison than a few people's subjective experience using both kinds of devices. In absence of that, even an anecdotal comparison seems more relevant than a statement th
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by asoneth 5y ago
This mirrors my experience, but it does not invalidate the parent's statement. Specifically: While iPhones are noticeably more power efficient than Android phones the latter have been sufficient for my usecases especially given that th
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by asoneth 5y ago
Good question. I think it would on the motivation of the wearer. If if they are wearing it primarily as a method of socially fitting in and signaling to those around them then it might be "virtue signaling". If they would continue
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by asoneth 5y ago
My understanding is that "virtue signaling" implies that the primary goal is performative with minimal personal risk and minimal commitment to productive action. The example that comes to mind is a company that spends far more mon
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by asoneth 5y ago
That seems like a reasonable comparison. If most people switched from driving cars to riding motorcycles I would be willing to wager that they would find it fun and that traffic fatalities would increase. (I say this not to discourage anyon
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by asoneth 5y ago
I agree the author didn't present enough evidence to make a strong claim, but the author's point (that more powerful cars will make roads more dangerous for everyone else) is certainly plausible. Having said that, I also would not
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by asoneth 5y ago
Just knowing about services like PC Part Picker and the management tools you mention requires time and expertise that people generally do not have before they build a computer, so "no real extra time investment" may only be true f
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by asoneth 5y ago
I avoid those stands even in a totally safe environment after watching a friend with heavy panniers warp his front wheel in them.
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by asoneth 5y ago
Polysemy is orthogonal to the cases I am aware of in which people are concerned about the primary meaning, an example being "slave" to refer to an item that is bound or subservient. And even in that case I think it depends on the
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by asoneth 5y ago
True, it's much easier now, and you can get a much wider sample of end-users and a more accurate representation of their behavior in their natural context. It's absolutely worth doing most of your usability testing remotely. But t
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by asoneth 5y ago
Over-optimizing for the walk-up-and-use experience at the expense of a more realistic subset of usage is sometimes referred to as the "Pepsi Challenge" or "sip test" observational bias. You might even consider it a speci
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by asoneth 5y ago
They certainly engage in public relations efforts to burnish their public image and I agree that Xi is not crazy and would not make that task any more difficult than necessary. But it does not seem like logical consistency is the driving fo
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by asoneth 5y ago
I'm not sure China is as motivated about the logical consistency of these positions as much as their strategic impact on China. In their defense, most countries only bother holding consistent positions when it is advantageous for them
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by asoneth 5y ago
If you are purchasing a bicycle with the expectation that others will use it and you will in turn use theirs, then I'm not sure the term "personal bike" applies. It's more like your personal contribution or donation to a
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by asoneth 5y ago
As a counterpoint, when I commuted to an office in NYC I relied on CitiBike for the last leg of my journey, as did several thousand other office workers. I will admit there were a few days where I stood in a line outside of Penn Station to
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by asoneth 5y ago
I don't think the parent comment was suggesting we have an obligation to care about ARM's survival. But ARM probably cares about ARM's survival so it is relevant to the discussion about what future decisions ARM might make.
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by asoneth 5y ago
I too have concerns about charter schools and I suspect that they will end up making the American school system better for a few kinds of families but even more unequal, segregated, and expensive. However, your assumptions about the motivat
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by asoneth 5y ago
Given the large difference in cost between average students and expensive students (ESL, special needs, behavioral issues, ADHD) I expect that charter schools will find creative ways to ensure they minimize the latter. (Similar to how healt
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by asoneth 5y ago
> give every kid $15k/year and be done with it I like the idea in principle, but one challenge I haven't seen addressed is that the cost of educating a student is not uniform. Students on either end of the bell curve with speci
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by asoneth 5y ago
Those are improvements over free-form tags and I especially like the namespaces for attribute/field names, that's clever. The enterprise software my company makes has decent support for defining and applying structured tags like b
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by asoneth 5y ago
> I created 20 million files in it and attached an average of 100 tags to each one. Each tag had a value randomly picked among 1000 choices. That is really impressive, but when the parent commented that they have never seen a tag-based
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by asoneth 5y ago
Correct. Think of low-lying coastal property as a disposable luxury good that we choose to subsidize, like large cars or air travel. In a few wealthy regions like SF and NY I would guess that Dutch-style defenses will be economically feasib
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by asoneth 5y ago
I suspect the next stage will be to admit that it's real and was caused by humans, but argue that it's too late/expensive to do anything about it. (And therefore I don't have to change my behavior.)

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