bigbadgoose

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by bigbadgoose 7y ago
We need foot pedals for Dvorak/QWERTY switching _in charwise situ_ … virtuosos of the finger arts, please stand up. And modes, obvi prose v code. asking important question, can wha-wha be incorporated? Markdown, are you there?
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by bigbadgoose 7y ago
This guy minimalisms?
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by bigbadgoose 7y ago
I have one named thoughts.txt, and one named notes.txt, to separate daily scrum list vs. random idea or thought list. shortcuts on the desktop and aliases for easy access. Also started using the notation [ ] thing to do [x] thing got
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by bigbadgoose 7y ago
Here's an interesting paper: https://www.brookings.edu/research/a-dozen-facts-about-immig... > Immigrants are 4 times more likely than children of native-born parents to have less than a high school degree, but
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by bigbadgoose 7y ago
Ranked and unranked already exist to address your insight
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by bigbadgoose 7y ago
If you’re actually trying to do anything, and you are diligent, you’re really only competing with 10% of the pool. Now, you just have to beat 50% of your real competitors.
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by bigbadgoose 7y ago
People with enough gumption to upend their lives and leave everything they knew behind for an uncertain future … it's the "right stuff"
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by bigbadgoose 7y ago
In Korean cooking, there is a flavor known as "cool". Think thin, really heated broth, spicy with green pepper spiciness, the more nasal type (as opposed to red spiciness, more tongue prominent) In Chinese cooking, there is the &q
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by bigbadgoose 7y ago
JackFest!!
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by bigbadgoose 7y ago
During a recent discussion on this topic, this emerged with regard to "what is AI": A. System should, without prompting, identify areas of improvement and innovation B. Automated collection of data and the processing thereof, comb
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by bigbadgoose 7y ago
It's sad and brilliant how they look the other way while launching Amazon Basics as a trusted brand
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by bigbadgoose 7y ago
Because it is more cost efficient to use other means to the same end (votes)
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by bigbadgoose 7y ago
It's OK, even the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th deviations have their "normies"
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by bigbadgoose 7y ago
"Advertising exists to make you feel bad about yourself, then inserts product as solution"
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by bigbadgoose 7y ago
> We could have imposed a similar level of discipline on civilian nuclear power plant operators ... when commercial plants started being built in the US in quantity ... Three Mile Island (...clearly showed inadequacies in the way civilia
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by bigbadgoose 7y ago
The issue is that failures are catastrophic, and not under your control. And while systems and protocols can be perfectly designed, human administration is the weak link.
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by bigbadgoose 7y ago
What about the touchbar?
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by bigbadgoose 7y ago
I slack them to myself, of course
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by bigbadgoose 7y ago
Persistence is it. Quitting, by definition, takes you out of the potential winners domain.
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by bigbadgoose 7y ago
I like having a static quarterly document, in a super easy to access place. It must be one page max and lay out the "theme" of the quarter and supporting initiatives. Every team weekly summary email has a link to this document in
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by bigbadgoose 8y ago
sigh … the original AI koans never seem to get exposure. Lisp based, just deeper. Closer to the metal. http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html
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by bigbadgoose 8y ago
Per-group (URLs that operate within a 10% optimization range) cached css, generated by source tree + crawl + ongoing visit data? Edit, also pls send me a pony. Optimzations have a few audiences, the primaries of which are the visitor and th
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by bigbadgoose 8y ago
I hold that solar energy is the optimal solution, and consists of 1/ capture, 2/ storage, 3/ transmission Focus on (1) is great, but (2) is the breaker of chains. Solving (2) at enough efficiency should largely obviate the ne
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by bigbadgoose 8y ago
Rhymes with "quarterly stock reporting"
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by bigbadgoose 8y ago
Wait, when you supply your data to vendors … do they own rights to that supplication, ergo the data?
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by bigbadgoose 8y ago
OK, what all these tools have not exhibited so far is upstream optimization of source generator, ie scss. Dream scenario: 1/ run against generated output via url submission, 2/ receive optimized output, 3/ point at source gen
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by bigbadgoose 8y ago
supply chain, rapid tech shift that affects and effects capex, known unknowns and unknown unknowns.
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by bigbadgoose 8y ago
Thank you for the detail :)
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by bigbadgoose 8y ago
Apparently, testing revealed that "Freedom Dividend" polled higher with conservatives than "Universal Basic Income". So, in a ham-fisted wide appeal play, he's rebranded UBI as "The Freedom Dividend" http
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by bigbadgoose 8y ago
I love that this has to actually be articulated. To be clear, open source _can_ make money, but it is not _designed_ to make money.

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