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by college_physics 4y ago
Posting on mastodon is called microblogging for a reason - cause its a public blog. One can host a single-person instance and quite literally have a mastodon based blog site. Some people seem to confuse it with private messaging. User con
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by college_physics 4y ago
What you are saying is that the opinion of the most informed about a topic does not matter because ignorance rules. The analogy is if all doctors were warning about the risks of smoking in their journals but because smokers dont read them a
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by college_physics 4y ago
Why isnt this a more widespread business model? DIY is "fun" but streamlining everything for the average household would have a much bigger audience. Offer a linux distro that is customized to provide from a menu of self-hosted se
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by college_physics 4y ago
This is maybe one of the most important discussions we could have today and kudos for the bold contribution. So many existing and future risks and opportunities we face are strongly coupled with digitization and choices on how software is d
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by college_physics 4y ago
How imprortant is elixir in all this? Is it merely the frontrunner of a useful new pattern? E.g., do erlang, BEAM or functional programming play a critical role or will other stacks effectively replicate this and how are they doing so far,
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by college_physics 4y ago
Is there some author you'd say is a living incarnation of PKD? Hope this is not seen as unseemly but curious to what degree he might be "continued" somehow
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by college_physics 4y ago
Is it a good thing to remember ones dreams or more of an indication of some sort of leakage between brain states?
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by college_physics 4y ago
For me at least the touchpad feels like a less precise channel that is only attractive due to portability. You never quite know where exactly the pointer will stop when you stop moving your finger (the inertia of the mouse might somehow hel
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by college_physics 4y ago
There might be a distribution of neuronal types (and work requirements) out there but I find small monitors suffocating. Combined with the reduced control of a touchpad versus a mouse and the superior tactile feel of a mechanical keyboard t
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by college_physics 4y ago
yes, definitely part of the mix (of what to cover building surfaces with) but a decision that probably happens higher in the flow chart. Mirrors vs paint in some sense closer substitutes. Besides optimizing reflective performance versus mon
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by college_physics 4y ago
> All you may need is HTML The opposite of a great truth is also a great truth: You may need more than HTML. The problem is (and I believe this is what the author tries to draw attention to) that people are fighting all sorts of half-bac
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by college_physics 4y ago
> That actually makes the problem much worse the more directed the light source the more damaging for retinas (all other things being equal). that is why you have prohibitions on powerful laser pointers. what you are describing is the ef
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by college_physics 4y ago
ha ha, size (of your reflectors) matters
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by college_physics 4y ago
you could reduce that by making the surface locally rough or having random geometric segments - whatever is easier to manufacture. Since this is not a mirror that must preserve image integrity anything goes.
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by college_physics 4y ago
> As far back as the 1970s, scientists and manufacturers had been developing whiter and whiter paints to help reflect sunlight and keep buildings and other surfaces cool The thing I am pondering: if the objective is to reflect as much as
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by college_physics 4y ago
Take heart, times are a-changing, even in sophisticated and freedom loving Netherlands. Its been a long oppresive period where the lemming mob would simply bully you: "I don't recognize your concerns, I don't care, I can&#x27
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by college_physics 4y ago
Well, Jack Ma (representing a more raw version or whatever capitalism they practice over there in China) said it no uncertain terms that we might as well train young people to be artists and philosophers as no other job will be on offer. Oo
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by college_physics 4y ago
The fact that many independent cross-platform app frameworks build something around webview suggests there is a baby crying to be born here, but what exactly it will look like is not clear.
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by college_physics 4y ago
> become more and more restrictive as time goes on, despite the capabilities of such computers increasing regularly True, and it is to be expected that existing interests will seek to integrate any new tricks into the old patterns The qu
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by college_physics 4y ago
Its sort of intentional. Imho, the gap between reality (what trully happens on the ground and why) and the language used (how things are labelled and communicated) is reaching incredible levels of obfuscation and misinformation. A true &quo
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by college_physics 4y ago
"Open" as in "Open for Big Business"? The main reason to worry, though, is not the proprietary monetization of "AI" algorithms: Just like it was not an algorithm (pagerank) but the invention of adtech that spaw
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by college_physics 4y ago
My feeling is that the pandas community should be bold and consider also overhauling the API besides the internals. Maybe keep the existing API for backward compatibility but rethink what would be desirable for the next decade of pandas so
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by college_physics 4y ago
its various little annoyances: rebuilding a site can be tricky when you are on the move (say with a mobile device) and just want to add/edit a bit of content. or to give editing access to non-technical people. or the search capabilitie
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by college_physics 4y ago
All bubbles have something wasteful about them as they do not represent calculated risk-taking but rather a suspension of healthy skepticism that is driven by informational echo chambers, ultra-cheap money and other such degenerate macro ph
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by college_physics 4y ago
I am using hugo for several years now, so quite thankful for what it offers but I am slowly coming to the conclusion that i) you need to learn go to get the most out of it and ii) a "semi-dynamic" site that uses a simple sqlite ba
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by college_physics 4y ago
"Data science" related work is absolutely fundamental for fixing many of the world's sustainability problems and also creating conditions for more enjoyable and fulfilled lives. Alas, we have political and economic systems th
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by college_physics 4y ago
I have deep respect for how the fields around medicine and biosciences embrace information technologies. Maybe it goes with their territory, being serious and for the long term rather than the "fake it till you make" type cultures
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by college_physics 4y ago
The reason might be that the sort of flexibility that graph models provide for queries is only critical at the exploration phase for power users. 'In production' things can be organized or approximated within the relational databa
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by college_physics 4y ago
Yep. Mainstream adoption of "graph thinking" is hindered by not having an SQL like idiom that is widely implemented and can handle most use cases. There are good candidates of course, but it does not feel like anything will settle
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by college_physics 4y ago
Its wonderful to see for once a race to the top rather than the bottom of mindless, engineered consumerism. Fairphone led the way with repairability and will hopefully continue innovating in this space, but Nokia's entrance is hopefull

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