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by bambataa 4y ago
I agree that many contractors were more or less perm. That in turn seemed to be a consequence of the pay differential, rather than an actual desire to be a contractor.
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by bambataa 4y ago
The focus on cursive seems to be very American. I really don’t understand why people think that joined up writing isn’t useful any more. Don’t people note things down and want to do it faster that writing out each letter separately?
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by bambataa 4y ago
I dream of creating “the thinking player’s Stronghold” with more complex defences and economy, but articles like this confirm that it will only ever be a dream. Hell, perhaps DF is already 80% of what I want.
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by bambataa 4y ago
I do find it interesting that people hate on crypto for its energy consumption but ignore all the other wasteful computation.
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by bambataa 4y ago
I studied modern languages in undergraduate and later taught myself programming. Apart from a general “learning how to learn” and maybe a familiarity with language manipulation, it wasn’t a very useful precursor to programming. With that sa
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by bambataa 4y ago
Does anyone know how Basecamp is doing since it had its moment in the news?
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by bambataa 4y ago
I think people use different terms imbued by their own value system to describe the same thing. Sometimes people talk about code being “beautiful”. I’ve never felt beauty from code, but I’ve felt pleasant satisfaction with well-designed cod
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by bambataa 4y ago
I never knew why semantic HTML stuck so closely to the print metaphor and didn’t better reflect how websites are used. It always seemed to involve shoehorning an interactive website design into print concepts, so losing much of the meaning
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by bambataa 4y ago
They’re in a simulator, aren’t they?
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by bambataa 4y ago
I think I know what you mean. He has quite an arrogant streak and is amusingly dismissive of large swathes of people (“the Basques are so dour!”). It’s worth persevering with, imo.
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by bambataa 4y ago
I have gone from activism to some kind of cynical acceptance. Fundamentally people don’t really care so you might as well go on that cruise or fly out to see the coral reefs before they die. Try to account for possible scenarios when decidi
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by bambataa 4y ago
Recent research argued that the loss of the Greenland ice sheet is now inevitable: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/29/major-se... Given the lag in the climate, isn’t 1.5C warming more or
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by bambataa 4y ago
I find this an interesting idea. Normally the response is “the whole point of a hereditary monarchy is that you don’t get to choose” and obviously Charles has been champing at the bit for years. However, there is also the historical idea of
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by bambataa 4y ago
I’m not sure I agree, because people might put in the hard work without the psychedelic and not experience the benefit. Michael Pollan’s “How to change your mind” talks about psychedelic studies where the more effective, longer lasting chan
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by bambataa 4y ago
There are some psychedelics (maybe 2CB, 4-Ho-Met too?) that give trippy visuals but are known for being less “in your head”. Popular with ravers because they’re easier to handle on the dance floor. It would be interesting to identify drugs
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by bambataa 4y ago
What are you talking about?
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by bambataa 4y ago
Shazam as a product feels a bit odd. Almost as if they’ve never quite outgrown their slightly sketchy “advertised on MTV2 alongside the Crazy Frog” origins. They must have loads of data on songs people actually want to know yet never really
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by bambataa 4y ago
Text does feel like a really slow way to work sometimes. A while ago in a React app I needed to keep some state around so lifted it from component state hooks to a context. Very mechanical work. It feels like we should be to say “move these
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by bambataa 4y ago
The whole grey windows thing is so odd. I can see the argument that white uPVC can actually look out of place, but the grey makes no sense and will look dated very soon imo. We were house hunting in 2020 and saw so many houses with it.
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by bambataa 4y ago
I was in a team like that. One person in particular would pick ambitious tasks, do a completely inadequate implementation, reject all feedback and then leave everyone else to deal with the production outages. Unfortunately management only s
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by bambataa 4y ago
It is however true that the boomer generation has held the electoral power during the years that mattered most and refused to do enough. I don’t think it’s chance that their most popular papers were all the most strident climate deniers. Yo
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by bambataa 4y ago
When climate change was far away enough that we could have solved it with incremental changes, skeptics in the media mocked and denied it. Now things have got bad enough that we would need more radical changes to keep to 1.5-2 degrees. But
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by bambataa 4y ago
Did you have an onion tied to your belt?
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by bambataa 4y ago
What kind of feeds are you talking about? Surely the problem is that there are many things implied by the feeds and only a fraction of them come to pass?
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by bambataa 4y ago
It’s interesting though that JS never picked up a Rails alternative.
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by bambataa 4y ago
If there is awareness that perceives the ego, are any of these models meaningfully aware? Do they have an awareness of self? I don’t know anything about AI but I understood that some symbolic AI systems had a symbol referring to themselves
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by bambataa 4y ago
Yes, from Making Money onwards I think. I haven’t actually read the most recent few because of that. It’s a shame to hear that but still, what a body of work to leave.
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by bambataa 4y ago
Discworld was a real joy of mine in my early teens. I think some of my early computing forays including a Discworld mailing list I found on a webring via Yahoo or somewhere. I had the Discworld official map on my wall and used to love getti
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by bambataa 4y ago
It serves a niche but I hope it doesn’t become the standard for everyone. Stadia was great for me because I wanted to play RDR2 but didn’t want to buy a TV or console.
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by bambataa 4y ago
In my experience, big but boring companies seem to more amenable to this. E.g. in the UK high street banks, supermarkets made quite a thing out of their flexible working when I was looking. I guess they know people aren’t “passionate about

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