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by carapace 4y ago
So what I'm not hearing is that Elm didn't work. It worked, right? Evan and co. just wouldn't agree to let you contribute to solve your problems and issues in the way you would have preferred? (In re: the "harsh"
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by carapace 4y ago
> Why is maintaining a fork and remembering to use it everywhere easier than just setting an environment variable? 1) Presumably, you're just deleting a few bits of code here and there. 2) It's not going to stop at one lil ENV
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by carapace 4y ago
So, is that a claim you're seriously making about Evan? - - - - Not to be arch, but this whole line of discussion is uninteresting to me. I'm glad to discuss Elm, but I don't want to hear unfounded character assassination of
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Do you have an actual point to make, or are you just being pedantic for fun?
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Evan's hella nice. Some folks just really really don't like being told "No." (There are comments upthread calling the Elm community "happy cult" because they said "no" so nicely!) The complaints you
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These books are probably dated by now but they're a good place to start: "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert B. Cialdini "Persuasion Engineering" by Richard Bandler
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> what if it were written as a library, with the traditional cli implementation as a thin layer over it? That's kind of the way it is. Most of the core utils are thin wrappers around C libraries. - - - - It sounds like you're
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Fair enough.
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They did. That's what the WP article section I linked to was about: > In re: High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation (U.S. District Court, Northern District of California 11-cv-2509 [10]) is a class-action lawsuit on behalf of over
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by carapace 4y ago
This seems like another good moment to bring up that time the FAANGs and adjacent companies literally colluded to abuse their workers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L... It went far and wid
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it's been a bit of a slog just to get people to take climate change itself more seriously, eh?
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Yeah, I agree with that. Unfortunately, it seems to me that we're going to overshoot on climate and it's going to be bad: mass migrations, mass starvation, war... I feel like there's a narrow window here to choose our future
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Have you seen Dr. Gwynne Dyer: "Geopolitics in a Hotter World" (Sept. 2010) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc_4Z1oiXhY Transcription: https://spaswell.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/dr-gw
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by carapace 4y ago
> The very premise of modern environmentalism necessitates human extinction by logical extension. No. At best that's a position held only by a tiny and extreme minority. Consider "Permaculture", a school of applied ecolog
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by carapace 4y ago
I can't find it now, but I remember reading about this guy who will etch your data onto a ceramic disc and store it in a old mine in, like, Switzerland or somewhere like that. It's not a lot of data per disc, but it's effect
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by carapace 4y ago
One possibility would have a large membrane with wires connected to a pendant load. The wires would be fractal: the lines from each small kite in a unit would combine to make that unit's single line, and those units' lines would
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by carapace 4y ago
> but it would surprise me if you could scale them up to a kilometer in size. It's like the intuitive argument that heavier objects fall at the same rate as lighter objects: throw two shoes off the roof, if you tie their shoelaces t
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by carapace 4y ago
Not only that. I always bring up that big "no poaching" collusion among the big tech companies. By some estimates they managed to keep around eight billion dollars that would have gone to employees. Pando had good coverage: ht
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by carapace 4y ago
I've been slowly and sporadically working towards making large airships. Basically you make a large (like a square kilometer or more) rigid kite (see Alex G. Bell's cellular kites) and add enough drone guts to make it into a gian
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by carapace 4y ago
A group calling themselves "Guerilla Skeptics" have worked to bias Wikipedia against what they consider badthought . E.g. they deleted the page of a certain author because they feel he's a kook. (Granted, he is pretty kook
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cf. xkcd/810 "Constructive" https://xkcd.com/810/ - - - - Schimidhuber says that his task is "to create an automatic scientist, and then retire." Not long ago it was mildly insulting for someon
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by carapace 4y ago
Elm on the frontend, Elixir on the backend. Elm because then you can mostly ignore JS et. al. You can hire a normal person (anyone who can solve Sudoku puzzles) and train them up to make working web UI in a week or two. Elm makes that pos
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by carapace 4y ago
"The Richest Man in Babylon" → https://archive.org/details/RichestManInBabylon_650 > The Richest Man in Babylon is a 1926 book by George S. Clason that dispenses financial advice through a collection of pa
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Make Your Own Model of the Webb Space Telescope(jwst.nasa.gov)
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by carapace 4y ago
Good question. I have no idea. (That's why I said "or something" above, eh?) I know almost nothing about unions, and I don't work for large corporations. (FWIW, I mostly worked for startups, but I did try the corporat
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We're yak shaving . There's a simple algorithm, similar to the "Five Why's" technique[0] that uses a particular question[1] to elucidate the chain of intentions between a given behavior and it's deepest motiva
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I used to think programmers didn't need unions. Then that massive no-poaching collusion amongst dozens of the top tech companies in the US surfaced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
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I like BubbleOS. :)
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> Embrace, extend, and extinguish is a very specific term, which means – quoting Wikipedia – "a strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and t
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by carapace 4y ago
> I don't follow how it's even remotely similar. Well then I don't know what to tell you. From my POV as a "Free" software fanatic* it all seems "of a piece": VS Code is a Trojan Horse, GitHub is insi

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