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by barnabee 4y ago
I dislike touchscreens. Sure, phones are a marvel ans show what you can do with touchscreen apps but that is nothing like driving. I also can't play games on a phone well without a controller (or keyboard and mouse for FPS) for the sam
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by barnabee 4y ago
Some cities are definitely and quite rapidly redesigning themselves around bikes/ebikes/scooters et al. (aka [electric] micromobility).
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For sketch + extrude FreeCAD really isn’t bad once you get over the slightly quirky UI.
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It's noone's responsibility not to make things that are helpful to criminals.
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by barnabee 4y ago
Perhaps! I also believe Wikipedia would be a better encyclopaedia and a more useful resource if it relaxed the notability requirements. But it’s true that in the absence of that, the alternative is indeed to create a page on a different wik
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by barnabee 4y ago
Material Design looks awful to me. I quite like this. The elements in the demo are also definitely not too small for my taste. On my iPhone 13 Pro I actually think the demo looks best at 85% and it is still perfectly usable at that zoom lev
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by barnabee 4y ago
Alternatively, critique threads like this and overall community discussions might eventually lead to a change of policy. They also might not, but it's both a lot less work than your suggestion, and if succesful would lead to a better o
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by barnabee 4y ago
Because it is a much tighter “standard” than it needs to be given the constraints. It is depressing to think of all the effort that people put into writing articles that no one can ever benefit from, knowing there’s no good reason for their
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by barnabee 4y ago
> It's worth thinking about alternate policies you could set up A reasonable alternative would be for the notability requirement simply to be that the general public may run into the topic/person (and presumably therefore be in
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by barnabee 4y ago
The idea of an encyclopaedia that only includes topics with significant mass media coverage is both incredibly crass and extremely depressing. If that is the primary standard for inclusion (or “notability”) it is a huge shame and a wasted o
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by barnabee 4y ago
> Why assume that academic intelligence makes you less creative? Perhaps it’s not the academic intelligence that makes you uncreative, but the lack of willingness to play those games means that anyone who does endure the process is bound
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by barnabee 4y ago
LoRa makes a lot of sense. Whether Helium can make a lot of sense as a way to deliver LoRa connectivity remains to be seen, but it's certainly not true that there's no good use case for the underlying tech or that WiFI and cellula
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by barnabee 4y ago
Almost everyone I've met in crypto cares about these things. Sure it is probably not even 1% of projects by number and there are plenty of frauds/scams (which are oviously illegal without any new laws) and even more just really te
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by barnabee 4y ago
I’m not particularly attached to time zones, so perhaps I would have opposed introducing them. Sticking with local solar time in the age of jet planes would have been at least as much fun as daylight saving time.
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by barnabee 4y ago
The current situation doesn’t need to benefit society to oppose changing it for Facebook. Society, science, and culture are not the result of some utilitarian optimisation function, and that is precisely the reason to oppose changing them s
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by barnabee 4y ago
Agreed. Honestly the only thing that article did is make me add “to irritate Facebook/Meta” to the list of reasons not to ditch leap seconds.
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by barnabee 4y ago
Let the infrastructure fail at the next leap second. If it’s enough of a problem eventually everyone who can’t cope will go out of business.
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by barnabee 4y ago
There is literally no aspect of society, science, or culture that I’m willing to buy into changing to make things easier for software developers and tech companies (or in fact any companies, but only tech companies seem to be arrogant enoug
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by barnabee 4y ago
As I understand you are engineering for a range of temperatures with problems to be found outside either end of the range (though I imagine it’s also possible to engineer for wider or narrower ranges to some extent, with appropriate cost im
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by barnabee 4y ago
I am a relentless optimiser and someone whose mind immediately always goes to how a situation can be improved or how I can achieve more. I became happy when I realised none of that shit has remotely anything to do with happiness, which is a
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by barnabee 4y ago
It seems obvious to me that there should always be a serious imbalance of power away from the police. That is, they should only feel “comfortable” in any situation and willing to carry out any action if they feel like they have the suppor
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by barnabee 4y ago
I wish theming would go back to being something we as end users do to our whole system, not something forced upon us by app developers (or their corporate overlords).
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Or use another DNS service (Quad9, Cloudflare, Google, etc.) and never even be aware the block exists :)
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A better phrasing might be “how dare you cause me to expend time, effort, and attention in order for you to try to further your goals and those of your company”. You are not qualified nor invited to asses your ability to improve mine or my
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by barnabee 4y ago
Mysten Labs' Sui[1] also uses Move [1] https://sui.io/
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That’s more of a demonstration that code is law but laws can change by the consensus of the participants, measured transparently and verifiable by their willingness to mine the fork. That was the system working as intended, even if not ever
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> You are mistaken. There is a technique called "rubber-hose cryptanalysis" which works wonderfully in cases like the one you described. Once applied, you will gladly give up your key and anything else they ask for. That's
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> Let me repeat: any kind of government comes down to monopoly on use of violence. It does not matter if it's Henry VIII or Kim Jong Un or Democratically Elected Government of Cyberspace or Pablo Escobar. The core of any government
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Cash is great when the people you want to deal with are all in the same room, or at least can easily arrange to be (though governments are quite good at stopping them getting together when it suits them). You're also subject to control
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> The system we have today requires surveillance and control of governments to function. The parallel system or systems on the internet would also require some form of external, i.e. off blockchain, control to function as well as the cur

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