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by asymptosis 5y ago
It gives you more insight into why he acted the way he did.
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by asymptosis 5y ago
Yeah, I can see where you're coming from. It is definitely easy to abuse these models for unscrupulous purposes, and I don't claim otherwise. I only suggest, it can be a useful tool for understanding self and others, so some nuanc
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by asymptosis 5y ago
If you are only interested in testing, then yes, I agree it's bullshit. But there is more going on with MBTI than just testing. There is a broad family of personality models based on Myers-Briggs and Jung, and they all loosely get call
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by asymptosis 5y ago
I feel pretty torn about Myers-Briggs, because while I recognise its shortcomings as a "scientific hot mess", it still provides a useful heuristic model for personality types. At its core, it is a model about binary preferences, a
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by asymptosis 5y ago
It comes from a constellation of causes: * Most command line programs are FOSS, which means people are scratching their own itch instead of trying to develop a product intended for consumption by others. * Adding any kind of interactivity i
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by asymptosis 5y ago
I thought they were riffing on recent UFO hype.
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by asymptosis 5y ago
> Not sure how easy it is under Linux. Not sure how easy it is on other OSes. On Linux, it's easy.
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by asymptosis 5y ago
This seems a bit contradictory. You say that the lone genius is often overestimated, then you attribute Kuhnian paradigm shifts to these lone geniuses. Perhaps it is better to be skeptical about the idea of paradigm shifts. They are often p
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by asymptosis 5y ago
Reminds me of Saunt Lora's Proposition from Neal Stephenson's Anathem :D
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by asymptosis 5y ago
This lost credibility as soon as it cited Einstein as an example of one of these "lone geniuses". He was anything but. He wasn't lone, and he wasn't a genius. He happened to be born at a time and place in history when ph
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by asymptosis 5y ago
Okay, so you're saying we should just discard the centuries or even millennia of etymology encoded into spellings because it's better to make sure symbols on the page directly correspond to your preferred pronunciation.
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by asymptosis 5y ago
This question doesn't parse well. What does this "average person" have to do with me? If you're my boss, and I'm reading your question, will the average boss communicate clearly?
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by asymptosis 5y ago
Without needing to worry about setting up a web frontend, I can quickly and easily have as many free and lightweight repos as I want, on any server I own, with support for ssh certificate authentication. And if the server goes down, Git is
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by asymptosis 5y ago
More like VDIs everywhere, rather than SaaS suites, I think.
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by asymptosis 5y ago
I don't not use DDG. I also don't not use Google. I tend to mix it up depending on what sorts of results I'm after and how private the search should be. One thing I like about IS compared to DDG is that DDG is still funde
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by asymptosis 5y ago
There already exist paid search services which you can compare Google to. I use infinitysearch and it costs US $5 per month. It's true that their coverage isn't as good as google, but around $1 per week feels very cheap. And the d
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by asymptosis 5y ago
Rethinking is fine, if it leads to action. If the desktop isn't working for the vast majority of users, then it's certainly the prerogative of anyone in the world to code up something which is guaranteed to make every one of those
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by asymptosis 5y ago
This is spot on. People want to hand over responsibility for their computations to some big company offering a "free" service so long as you use the official app, and then they wonder why they don't feel like they have any po
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by asymptosis 5y ago
Not some bad ideas in there, but it suffers a bit from not taking a universal perspective on computation. The flexibility of computers means you don't have to try to come up with one thing that works for everyone. Something different c
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by asymptosis 5y ago
Or AU
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by asymptosis 5y ago
Something missing from the list of problems: Git LFS is a http(s) protocol so is problematic at best when you are using Git over ssh[1]. The git-lfs devs obviously don't use ssh, so you get the feeling they are a bit exasperated by thi
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by asymptosis 6y ago
Steam is a great example. I'm usually very pro-FOSS, but when it comes to gaming, I happily fork over the $$$, and a surprisingly large number of games work just fine on Linux. As I understand it, Valve have been explicitly marketing p
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by asymptosis 6y ago
In Australia there is still a reasonable amount of unionisation, although membership percentages dropped off markedly when a past government sharply curtailed union powers. In particular, the "right to strike" as understood by muc
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by asymptosis 6y ago
It works both ways. When management form an elite club focused on exploiting workers, this induces sides. Workers who didn't care about unionisation are provoked by management to collectivise. Then these workers learn that collective a
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by asymptosis 6y ago
Why are you focusing on multiplication? That was one aspect out of what was being replied to.
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by asymptosis 6y ago
Why is it about what's "necessary"? There is nothing wrong with wanting to pass on a love of learning, and recognising the ability of a child to participate in the culture of the mind.
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by asymptosis 6y ago
I started teaching my daughter letters at the age of three (eg "that letter looks like a snake, what does a snake say?") She was able to read basic signage while going around town before she turned four. She could independently re
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by asymptosis 6y ago
Thanks for the tl;dr, it really wasn't obvious from the essay itself. So, I guess the author has never heard of sqlite? Power users today can easily and freely create offline-first apps.
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by asymptosis 6y ago
Based on the title, I thought this was going to be about finding, archiving and curating those lost apps. Instead, it's just a complaint about how "it was better in the old days." What gets me about this line of thought is th
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by asymptosis 6y ago
Assumes: * You have login access to the router * Your router is directly exposed to the internet * You're not using a VPN

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