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by asplake 10mo ago
Where possible, I try not to focus on negative motives. Quite simply, if people see a benefit in DRM-free, why not expect them to pay for it? And there are other platforms beside the two I mentioned – it’s not a choice between DRM-free and
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by asplake 10mo ago
Amazon wins by miles, almost to the point of incomparability. For all my issues with Amazon, that’s fine by me: compared to all other platforms, that’s where the reviews and other forms of social proof are.
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by asplake 10mo ago
As the author of five books (and my most recent one entirely self-published), I haven't yet worked out how I feel about this or how to respond. My current compromise is to charge more on the DRM-free LeanPub.
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Everything Is Dead and We Killed It(joanwestenberg.com)
4 points by asplake 10mo ago|0 comments
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by asplake 10mo ago
Brit here. Your first pragraph describes older housing stock, not anything built in decades. Not that the quality of our quality of our stock couldn't be improved, or that our (very real) energy standards for new builds couldn't b
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by asplake 10mo ago
I think that there is still enough demand for quality commenting on HN that if you’re downvoted, you’re producing mediocrity.
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by asplake 10mo ago
A fun project no doubt, and the “No tracking” notice at the bottom is cool I guess, but I still won’t submit a search to a previously unknown page that lacks any kind of About link or privacy-related information. What does “No tracking” mea
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by asplake 10mo ago
Where I live, ambulances use pulse oximeter probes incompatible with those used by in hospital and issued to home (my daughter was ventilated at night and this was a real issue). That one at least would be solved (and not expensively if onl
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The Ring, the Holon, and the Revenge of the Objective(estebanandthecollective.substack.com)
1 points by asplake 10mo ago|0 comments
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by asplake 10mo ago
Very low effort. Couldn’t read the text on my iPhone without zooming in. I nearly mistook it for a blank page!
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Pioneering new treatment reverses incurable blood cancer in some patients(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by asplake 10mo ago|0 comments
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by asplake 10mo ago
Re precomputing fifth powers, seems Fortran not only has array comprehensions, but compile-time array comprehensions. It was never exactly my cup of tea, but nearly 40 years out of university it seems Fortran has kinda kept up!
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by asplake 10mo ago
Yes or no conclusions aside (and despite its title, the article deserves better than that), the key point is I think this one: “But unlike telecoms, that overcapacity would likely get absorbed.”
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by asplake 10mo ago
I remembered he was once a techie, and Wikipedia confirms that he (Chris McCausland) has a BSc Honours in Software Engineering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_McCausland
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The Hierarchy of Work Complexity Is Inescapable (Even at Buurtzorg)(synexia.substack.com)
3 points by asplake 10mo ago|0 comments
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by asplake 10mo ago
...for senior officers
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by asplake 11mo ago
You might think of it as a nation-scale business intelligence system. It’s part of the case study at the end of Stafford Beer’s Brain of the Firm, an (over?)ambitious project cut short by the fall of Allende in the Chilean coup.
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Four Ways to Explain Anything ... but Not Everything to Everyone (2010)(psychologytoday.com)
2 points by asplake 11mo ago|0 comments
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The risk of round numbers and sharp thresholds in clinical practice(nature.com)
68 points by asplake 11mo ago|30 comments
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by asplake 11mo ago
Payload? You don’t need actual explosives to cause disruption, and for a state-sponsored actor to use them would be an act of war. The perfect being the enemy of the good here, provisioning for less hostile cases seems eminently sensible.
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by asplake 11mo ago
I wonder if they have considered Time Machine as a kind of private Dropbox, such that some directories are shares between machines, perhaps even remotely. I haven’t owned a Time Machine for at least a decade, but I might be tempted back by
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by asplake 11mo ago
Could add clicker support (which I have done previously). Note however that clickers vary between Up/Down and PgUp/PgDown. Enabling the former was potentially annoying if you like to use the arrow keys to scroll, so I made that co
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by asplake 11mo ago
Can't you? And who should have that power? I believe that this is the concern.
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by asplake 11mo ago
- Act always to increase options - von Foerster - Act always to increase possibility - Nora Bateson
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by asplake 11mo ago
And the headcount charts are “incremental”, i.e. first differences rather than absolute values – hardly like-for-like.
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by asplake 1y ago
> What's wild is that these scrapers rotate through thousands of IP addresses during their scrapes, which leads me to suspect that the requests are being tunnelled through apps on mobile devices, since the ASNs tend to be cellular n
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Tesla's "Mad Max" mode is now under federal scrutiny(arstechnica.com)
84 points by asplake 1y ago|54 comments
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by asplake 1y ago
Are you saying that it isn’t always DNS?
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by asplake 1y ago
And while we’re at it, 1) mark domains as https-only, and 2) when root domains map to a subdomain (eg www).
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by asplake 1y ago
Except that the provider of the most popular browser is also an advertising agency. A conflict there, surely?

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