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by bambataa 8y ago
Thanks for this. I’ve been interested in permaculture since coming across it at festivals but I’ve been put off how everyone seems to be selling courses. This is the first free one I’ve found. It feels a bit like minimalism where everyone t
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by bambataa 8y ago
After meditating for a few months this I have started to notice that the increased mental awareness can make it harder to sleep. I’m more aware of myself gradually falling asleep and sometimes that sudden awareness of ‘oh, I’m falling aslee
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by bambataa 8y ago
It’s striking how unreadable the V8 output is. Is that due to V8 itself or just this particular use of it?
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by bambataa 8y ago
The link between doing useful work and being paid for it is broken in these cases, just noone openly admits it. So why not make it explicit and stop requiring people to pretend to work to get paid?
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by bambataa 8y ago
Well, depends on how your taxes are raised. I live in the UK and it's incredibly centralised so 'everyone' is the nation.
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by bambataa 8y ago
It's also based on the (mis?)conception that the taxes you pay are for your own children's education, rather than being for everyone's.
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by bambataa 8y ago
What is this 'tiffin service'? I'm from the UK and have never heard of it.
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by bambataa 8y ago
None at all. What's great about SICP is that it starts from pretty much first principles and builds everything gradually on top of them. Things like managing state etc are presented as a very natural progression.
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by bambataa 8y ago
The waste of human potential is staggering. The purpose of the economy should be to enable making full use of it. Instead we focus on profit.
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by bambataa 8y ago
Out of interest, why did no-one notice you were only working two hours a day? Presumably you did the work you were expected to do in that time, but did you not have a manager or co-worker noticing you sitting in the corner reading?
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by bambataa 8y ago
College students who didn't plan their time properly. The only reason it happens in those other white collar jobs is because it's cheaper for management to work a few people really hard than hire enough to the job with reasonable
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by bambataa 8y ago
I think the idea of selling to agencies etc is worth exploring (though take my experience for what it's worth). The main thing I noticed when scrolling through the home page is that fifteen pounds a month seems like quite a lot. I was
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by bambataa 8y ago
I don’t think that lack of consistency should stop you though. Ok maybe it wouldn’t be suitable for testing things but there are other uses for a headless browser
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by bambataa 8y ago
The South West seems to be full of interesting sites. Last time I was in Cornwall we went for a walk to visit a stone circle. It’s fascinating to think that people like us at one point thought it important enough to create these circles, bu
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by bambataa 8y ago
Yes, although sorry I wasn't very clear - I was wondering what you had in mind saying 'modern and safe'.
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by bambataa 8y ago
- Ocaml already has a very mature module ecosystem and is now becoming safe and modern. Do you have any resources on this? I am learning Ocaml and am interested to see what is changing.
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by bambataa 8y ago
Even with Quantum I still find Firefox is almost unusably slow on some pages. It also causes very spikey resource usage. I’d like to use it exclusively but sometimes when I want to cool down my laptop I just switch to Chrome. This is on a R
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by bambataa 8y ago
Doesn’t that show how much easier it is to overdose on heroin than alcohol?
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by bambataa 8y ago
The only thing keeping me on Mac is audio software like Ableton and Traktor. I’m aware that there are Linux alternatives but I have an Ableton licence and so want to keep using it. If they ever release a Linux version of Live I might jump s
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by bambataa 8y ago
There's an exhibition at the British Museum ( http://www.pharmacopoeia-art.net/articles/in-sickness-and-in... ) that shows how many prescription pills people take over their lifetime. It's striking how many mor
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by bambataa 8y ago
I had a similar thought, but I guess it’s true in the context of considering suicide over it.
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by bambataa 8y ago
I was just going to comment the same thing. A fairly polite comment to someone who’d added a new root commit to the kernel, acknowledging why that had seemed like a reasonable thing to do and proposing fixes to the people who could implemen
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by bambataa 8y ago
I’d be really interested to hear about what MZ is like from people who’ve worked closely with him. All of his public pronouncements seem to lack reflection imo (eg that letter to his child), but perhaps he’s limited by what he can say.
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by bambataa 8y ago
I’ll pay. So what are my options? What paid, ad-free social network is there that most of my contacts are on? There isn’t one. LinkedIn is sort of an exception but it’s not for general use. The market isn’t providing s supply of these produ
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by bambataa 8y ago
Surely an unmarked van owned by Apple would have none of that?
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by bambataa 8y ago
The nail-painting one can be used to be a bit ‘sassy’, so it’s like saying “don’t worry, I know other ways to find myself a bed for the night ;-)” but in a more nuanced way that I at least find funnier. It’s probably not a universal meaning
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by bambataa 8y ago
A friend asked if he could crash at my place one night and said “don’t worry if not, I got options” followed by the nail-painting emoji. How do you express that in ASCII emoticons?
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by bambataa 8y ago
There is a general belief that parents inherently know best for their own children and to hell with any experts or professionals who might experience from more than their own children.
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by bambataa 8y ago
Germany also seems to make more of a thing out of forest kindergartens (Waldkindergarten), which sound amazing to me. Still supervised I suppose, but at least they’re outdoors.
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by bambataa 8y ago
Because people in the EU read their articles and view their adverts, which is presumably how they make a lot of their cash. What are they doing with the data of an unregistered visitor that means they aren't GDPR-compliant?

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