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by athriren 6y ago
i am using Obsidian to sort of address this problem by tackling it in reverse. my team has a massive project going live and it has to have a knowledge base. we are creating the master in Obsidian, which is just a wrapper around .md files. t
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by athriren 6y ago
not in my view, a person who knows neither java nor c. but i think the counterargument from the people in this thread would make would be something like: i can write my C programs without ever thinking about java. it is irrelevant to me. ho
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by athriren 6y ago
for the historical record: this user gave them 10 days; it took 8 days for spotify to reverse course, allowing users to transfer out their own playlists (those not generated by Spotify itself) to a third party controller (such as SongShift)
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by athriren 6y ago
assuming this person is dutch, i find ESL people write better “strongly worded letters”—if they have a strong grasp of the language—because they are trying to communicate their point as clearly as possible, which comes off as coarse and ste
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by athriren 6y ago
if you want the one thing that will work, though with a much less polished very un-Apple-y design, this is expensive, huge, and it will work basically edge to edge. I will say having used it, I understand why Apple axed the idea. It is huge
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by athriren 6y ago
one of the things it is perplexing to me never caught on.
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by athriren 6y ago
i have a model 3 performance and the suspension tune that came from the factory is worse than any performance car i have driven—rear seat passengers actually complain if you do more than highway cruising or drive somewhere with perfect asph
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by athriren 6y ago
m000 is saying that the usage of Jekyll (Ruby) and Hugo (Go) are driven in part by hip trend-following programmers not wanting to use Python, not that Jekyll and Hugo are written in Python.
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by athriren 6y ago
workers state is more memorable, mainly because of the double entendre.
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by athriren 6y ago
the phrase “wrong side of history” imagines some future perspective where a thing called “history” will say “thus and such person/act/idea was wrong in a moral sense”. it is comforting to imagine the future judgement of those pres
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by athriren 6y ago
this is incredibly cool. your friend should do a Show HN post!
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by athriren 6y ago
this was the unstated purpose of calling all the students back to campus in the first place. if there is an outbreak on campus or in the community, just blame the students—not the adults running society.
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by athriren 6y ago
humans are not yet beyond enslaving each other, which i do not feel bodes well for our treatment of an uplifted species; however, as concept fiction it allows exploration of ideas in interesting ways and i tend to like settings with “intell
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by athriren 6y ago
echoing this. i find typically that academics in highly specialized areas are excited a member of the general public is this enthusiastic about the conceptual problem the academics are working on.
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by athriren 6y ago
this is patently false, frcc assistance is race blind and you only have to be covered by the ballot initiative to qualify. i would be very interested to learn where you have (falsely) heard there is some race based test for assistance that
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by athriren 6y ago
edited to delete as i was discourteous.
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by athriren 6y ago
gluon looks great, but the book site is down for some reason, which is unfortunate since i am looking for something nearly exactly like this.
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by athriren 6y ago
You read it right. I think they are saying it is unlikely ARM or x86 disappear, and that these instruction sets share some unexpected commonalities. They are not otherwise comparing/contrasting x86 and ARM, they are basically evaluatin
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by athriren 6y ago
i like this idea. quick splash page with a nice faq and links out to organizations that help questioning people!
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by athriren 6y ago
to be pedantic i believe it was a hacksaw
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by athriren 6y ago
this was my experience as well. it is a great article that accomplishes its narrative goal. i never want to read it again.
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by athriren 6y ago
english was not the language of the internet prior to the internet existing, which is the period of time this article is primarily concerned with.
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by athriren 6y ago
imagine a person gets cancer and dies. this is, by itself and with no context, an act that has no moral component—it just happened. now imagine YOU gave the person cancer. this difference is the difference between the presumably undirected
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by athriren 6y ago
yeah, i was struggling too. egan’s books are too much for me because i feel like i need a highlighter and a graphing calculator, but i totally admire them and wish i was smarter.
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by athriren 6y ago
how come you are so condescending?
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by athriren 6y ago
Expanding on this, oxytocin has many known (and likely unknown) purposes but is most closely associated with context dependent social bonding and exclusion, sex, and childbirth. Somewhat coincidentally for the purposes of this conversation,
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by athriren 6y ago
Most of the time if someone speaks to me in a non-casual context, my brain is constantly navigating the pathing process you describe. Although language is often not ambiguous, most people do not make their meaning as explicit as necessary t
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by athriren 6y ago
The links on that page for the names appear go to github, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, so I think as long as the alumni use some online service that can serve as identity you would be able to post on the website itself. Obviously that is at
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by athriren 6y ago
What reader do you use?
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by athriren 6y ago
This is actually pretty interesting, I will give it a spin! I appreciate the write up. Very good copy, making it clear who the product is for and why you are passionate about it.

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