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by bklaasen 8y ago
> "lol it's just a joke, stop being so serious" A tactic used by many a racist and misogynist in real life, unfortunately. They manage to make folks attempting to improve the culture seem boring and humourless. The best ad
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Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies: Publications and Public Works(criticalracedigitalstudies.com)
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by bklaasen 8y ago
Credit where it's due; that sounds like Gary Bernhardt's "functional core, imperative shell": https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct... Previous HN discussion: https:&#x2
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by bklaasen 8y ago
The Android app isn't available in the Republic of Ireland. What's the reason for limiting audience by geography?
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This seems to be largely the same presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBlfPhsrvtw
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by bklaasen 8y ago
This is a terrific tool which I've used several times to rapidly assemble presentations. If you're already fluent with markdown, Marp is a very natural fit. I find working in heavy-duty presentation software packages to be like ru
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by bklaasen 8y ago
Second the choice to use Gandi.net. 3Gb included with your domain. Their spam filter isn't as good as Fastmail's, which isn't as good as Gmail's. I'm back to training my mail clients' Bayesian spam filters like
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by bklaasen 8y ago
Did you log a bug against `dmraid`? You're right, it shouldn't make changes to the file system without user intervention.
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by bklaasen 8y ago
I knew all of that too, but it didn't prevent a very unpleasant visceral response in the pit of my stomach when I saw that email come in with the old compromised password on the subject line. The content of the email made me laugh, tho
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by bklaasen 8y ago
Yasha Levine covers the commercialisation of the Internet very well in "Surveillance Valley".
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by bklaasen 8y ago
Not Thomas Watson, but A. S. Householder[1] in Nicholas Metropolis et al "A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century"[2]: https://mobile.twitter.com/benklaasen/status/874543989004881... [1] https:&
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by bklaasen 8y ago
That comes from (among others) Sidney Dekker, who recommends focusing on understanding the systemic reasons for failure: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8B5dChCifjA For example, Jeff Harbers, who gets savaged on page 4, seems
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by bklaasen 8y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I have to add G. Pascal Zachary's "Showstopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft" as another excellent look inside Microsoft's software developme
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Para 9, page 4
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by bklaasen 8y ago
Thanks for spotting that. It's the first time I've come across the title. They seem to have been a combination of tester and sysadmin. Take a look at the table on pages 2 and 3 where you'll see 'PA' under the '
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by bklaasen 8y ago
> Netbooks were a fad I've got a Samsung NC10[1] running Haiku beautifully. It's a 32-bit machine with just 2Gb of RAM and it's never run so smartly. I'm very impressed by Haiku's stability and consistency. The e
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by bklaasen 8y ago
It also requires a shift in focus away from prioritising cars to prioritising pedestrians and cyclists. In the Netherlands, you can be sure that every town planner owns a bicycle and commutes on it frequently . I live in Ireland. I've
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by bklaasen 8y ago
abcde - A Better CD Encoder ( http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/page/ ) I bought three cheap USB CD drives and concurrently ripped all of my CDs to FLAC over the course of a couple of weekends. abcde gets the best poss
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by bklaasen 8y ago
"It’s not simply the insidious dehumanisation and the patronising that bothers me - which to be fair, is a human condition - rather it’s the attempted commoditisation of what is a highly specialised trade. When you trivialise a trade,
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by bklaasen 8y ago
Looks like none in the past four years: https://github.com/zerovm/zerovm
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by bklaasen 8y ago
Imagine if the Earth's population fell to just two billion people over the course of a century. A century ago, the earth's population was two billion people.
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by bklaasen 8y ago
This is why I detest talk about "quality" in software. Quality isn't an inherent property - it's a relationship between you and the software. What you might regard as a limitation I might regard as a showstopper. It&#x2
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by bklaasen 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18153862
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It is. "He expired on the couch" is fairly common. It has the connotation of a quiet death. One does not expire while solo climbing or BASE jumping.
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by bklaasen 8y ago
That's interesting. I was left with a sickening hollowness after watching it.
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by bklaasen 8y ago
This seems like a really common use case that ought to work well. I switched to Fastmail a few months ago (I still haven't fully committed to sticking with it.) Did you contact support? Did you solve the problem by switching to another
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by bklaasen 8y ago
That's a seriously reactionary film! Just one example: footage of a feminist rally followed by violent rioting.
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by bklaasen 8y ago
I use Android and have Termux[1] installed. If you create a shell script named '~/bin/termux-url-opener' and share URLs to Termux, it'll invoke that script. Here's the contents of mine: ``` #!/bin/ba
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by bklaasen 8y ago
Thanks for this. They've come up on my radar a few times. I'd love to hear from anyone here who uses these services.
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by bklaasen 8y ago
You can do it bit by bit. Start by switching to Firefox on desktop and mobile (if you're an Android user). Install Firefox Multi-Account Containers to sandbox Google and other surveillance capitalism products. Switch to another provide

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