bolivier

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by bolivier 8y ago
> Unfortunately, people just love to see asses in seats. A related problem I've noticed to this attitude is people's acceptance of it as a "fact of life." I work with a ton of people who recognize that time-in-seat i
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by bolivier 8y ago
> "we've observed that if you do this this, then that happens" statements The whole endeavor of making science "map to reality" seems wholly misguided to me. Really, it's a set of predictions and outcomes.
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by bolivier 10y ago
Keychords are a bit of a pain in the ass if you type quickly and want to have mnemonic shortcuts.
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by bolivier 10y ago
I've never found most of the emacs navigation keys to be particularly useful. I do not want to be hitting C-n or C-f more than one time. I use ace-jump-mode for almost all of my movement. I can go straight to where I want to with a f
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by bolivier 10y ago
Which would mean that it wouldn't solve poverty, as the author suggested it would.
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by bolivier 10y ago
Why am I supposed to want to track my temperature? How could that benefit me? It's just data collection for the sake of data collection. Nobody is going to use the temperature data. It doesn't benefit anybody trying to snoop on
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by bolivier 11y ago
https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude or if you know/like Vim: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs
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by bolivier 11y ago
All I can think is "duh." Why wouldn't the US deploy military drones over her own soil? Who's going to stop them? I doubt any level of wrongdoing within the US Government could shock me anymore.
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by bolivier 11y ago
I bought it and read about half of it. It's pretty good. I feel like it was the straw that really helped me turn off evil mode for good.