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by asymptosis 2y ago
lol, this was obviously posted by a woman who wants other women to throw themselves under a bus. The claim is that women can help themselves by simultaneously failing to acknowledge a boss's power, while also making the female assistan
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by asymptosis 5y ago
+1 to you because I hadn't come across this concept before and it seems like a useful thing to have in the back of my mind.
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by asymptosis 5y ago
I've also got a couple of thousand. I already had about a thousand by my early 20s. I was an avid reader as a kid. I'm in my 40s now. I still like to read, but there are so many more distractions these days compared to 20 years ag
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by asymptosis 5y ago
Hey, thanks for replying, your answer is excellent :) Regarding the upright stance things, how do you see Alex the African Grey Parrot evolving towards becoming a spacefaring species without going towards an upright stance? He's smart,
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by asymptosis 5y ago
Quiet, heretic! Who let this one in here to disrupt the omnicogitations of the vimniarchs!?
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by asymptosis 5y ago
Thanks for the pointer. I guess I was more thinking about the culture involved in explicitly denouncing a from-source build. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
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by asymptosis 5y ago
I'm intrigued by this. However -- and this is probably a cultural thing with me being an old-timey unix guy who likes to build things from scratch -- I have a point of confusion. If you choose Run A Server, it suggests two main options
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by asymptosis 5y ago
We're talking about fiction. If you can't recognize it as technology or civilization, how do you plan to write about it? As for combustion, indeed, other planets may not have it. So how do you propose that they would start to deve
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by asymptosis 5y ago
> Because primates are a universal deterministic outcome of evolution on all worlds In all fairness, if you think of the constraints required for a species to become space-faring, you're going to be hard-pressed to make it work with
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by asymptosis 5y ago
The worst part for me is, it's the back of my head, where I can't see it. To a thousand other people, I'm a guy with a bald spot a mile wide, and to me in the mirror, it's like, oh, I need to run some clippers over this
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by asymptosis 5y ago
I don't think you're being clear on all the details. You say this: > I just want to validate one user. This is important enough to you that you say it multiple times. And yet, if I have just a single user, I can validate them e
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by asymptosis 5y ago
Sorry if it came across as a put down. I was more questioning the use of language around calling people ignorant for not knowing how base64 works. I thought if you're older than 16 (even in their 40s like I am), being called 16 again c
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by asymptosis 5y ago
Arguing with people who are trying to tell you how to market better isn't going to help you market better. Quite the opposite.
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by asymptosis 5y ago
Well, if you're only 16, that would have been 4 years ago. Right about the time I learned about base64 as a guy in his late 30s who didn't have a computer science background. We all start ignorant. Interesting idea about the under
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by asymptosis 5y ago
Nice to learn about the Book of Proof. I usually suggest my students read (or at least have a look through) Velleman's "How To Prove It". Book of Proof could be a good competitor to that recommendation.
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by asymptosis 5y ago
When did I say Nokia was derelict? Please pay attention to what I really wrote.
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by asymptosis 5y ago
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. The thought arises: what's the motivation for Deutsche Welle to suddenly post an article about a derelict Finnish proto-"smartphone"?
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by asymptosis 5y ago
I have this approach too. When working, I might have up to 20 tabs open at a given time, but most of them are just there passively for things like monitoring and calendars. Some tips for people who are struggling with their tab count: * Alw
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by asymptosis 5y ago
> only engineers believe most of the important issues in the world actually have an objective answer to them. Was this really necessary? How many engineers do you know, and how many of them actually ascribe to this belief?
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by asymptosis 5y ago
I remember trying this a decade ago with uzbl and vimperator. It was okay for a while, but uzbl unfortunately failed to gain momentum, and vimperator was nixxed more and more for various reasons. The article in the link makes it sound like
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by asymptosis 5y ago
Thanks! Ah, it's the spelling. I took "Payne" too literally.
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by asymptosis 5y ago
I tried looking up things like "Thomas Payne" and "Common Sense" but nothing quite matched what you seem to be driving at. Is there something obvious I'm missing, or do you have a link for where to start looking fur
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by asymptosis 5y ago
This is a great point. And containers don't even really exist in the first place, so really there should be (at least one of) a family of docs about securing the various namespaces, cgroups etc in modern Linux releases, and a doc about
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by asymptosis 5y ago
I also enjoyed it.
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by asymptosis 5y ago
This article isn't about how to structure your organization, it's targeted at people who are thinking about how to be more effective leaders. If the leaders in your org are crap, then your org is lost no matter whether it seems to
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by asymptosis 5y ago
I say this unironically: you may enjoy Vim? I enjoy Vim. It is opinionated (or its defaults are), and when you first encounter it, it makes you ask why anyone would design something this way ... but then all of a sudden you grok it and you
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by asymptosis 5y ago
I'm not an astrophysicist, so take this with a grain of salt, but I think it would be something about how rings only form in regions of gravitational instability. So we get the asteroid belt where a planet "should" be because
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by asymptosis 5y ago
Depends on what you mean by counter productive. You wouldn't cite Quanta Magazine if you were writing the next journal article on this topic intended for peer review. Instead, you would go to the original paper "Geometrization of
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by asymptosis 5y ago
I've been having similar thoughts about I Ching. I even recently changed jobs because of I Ching. I was unsure, and then the interpretation of the hexagram I cast helped me think through the issues for and against. It occurred to me th
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by asymptosis 5y ago
It's not about number of addresses available, it's about reflection of organization hierarchy in the octets. The 10.0.0.0/8 range is useful for breaking a distributed company's network up so each major office gets a 10.x

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