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by crispinb 7y ago
That looks very useful, thanks.
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by crispinb 7y ago
The bus factor is a potential issue. Legal terms & conditions probably aren't as the corrupt civil law systems of nearly all polities make legal redress unavailable or hopelessly impractical to all but the wealthy (who probably are
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by crispinb 7y ago
GYOB?
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by crispinb 7y ago
G suite is pretty expensive for email, presumably because you can only buy it bundled up with all the other stuff.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Quite. A proposal for yet more of the consumer-capitalist program of dehumanising via inculcation of greed which is devastating the globe. I entered tech because I was broke at the time. But it truly is an ethical wasteland, and I bitterly
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by crispinb 7y ago
I'd like something like this in Australia, targeting real estate speculation which is probably our largest single source of corruption at all governmental levels. The US polity though seems too deeply corroded for transparency to be mo
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by crispinb 7y ago
Not here (Aus). We're doing pretty well so far.
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by crispinb 7y ago
The epidemiologists seem to have earned our trust so far. The countries that have made competent attempts to follow their advice (S. Korea, NZ, Australia) are doing way better than those that haven't (the UK, US, Sweden). (Unless you w
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The secret call of the wild: how animals teach each other to survive(theguardian.com)
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by crispinb 7y ago
It's not supposed to be profound. It's just a tiny tutorial/taster. He has more to say (fwiw) on the why here: http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2019/08/22/WhyClojure.h... Quite agree
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by crispinb 7y ago
Whenever I look it just looks pointlessly complicated Well naturally if all you do is 'look'. Is that how you learnt whatever programming language or style you use now? You just glanced at some code and the necessary cognitive
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by crispinb 7y ago
I don't think that's really off-topic & I agree. Another case in point: indigenous Australian cosmology. On the one hand, I don't personally take the notion that ancestors created the landscape very seriously. On the othe
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by crispinb 7y ago
Almost more interesting than Reiki itself is the reflexive responses, bifurcating essentially into: 1. it's all mumbo jumbo 2. there's more in heaven and earth, my son Note that neither group is particularly interested in the empi
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by crispinb 7y ago
Chiropractic can cure all known ailments. Which is nearly as many as are smited by the mighty turmeric.
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by crispinb 7y ago
The opening scene of Underworld, enacting a baseball match, is some of the most electrifying writing I've experienced (& I dislike spectator sports, and know zip about baseball).
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A writer with a 'verbose' style. A terrible sin.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Lazyweb question here as I've only marginally followed this issue - are most of the reported security problems (obviously bar the lack of end-end encryption) obviated by using the web app?
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by crispinb 7y ago
I was wondering how many new projects with names derived from insults would now arise. Having searched on github for a few, my conclusion is that all the best ones have already been taken.
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by crispinb 7y ago
Thank you - I'll check them out. (Ironically, the only friend I have with a 3d printer is over the nearby NSW/QLD border that has been closed due to the pandemic crisis. Not an insuperable problem however).
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by crispinb 7y ago
On the DIY mask issue: I've tried making a couple, based on online instructions. It's very obvious in use that without literally taping the filter material to my face, the airflow goes around the edges. Anyone who's done any
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by crispinb 7y ago
This may be true of conservatives qua conservatives on the world stage. Conservatism in the US, however, has become married with a very particular dysfunctional form of identity politics. And that does tend to deny any science that contradi
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by crispinb 7y ago
The two tend to go hand in hand. Being strongly money-motivated almost invariably requires lying to yourself in order to maintain a sense of not being a bastard (which almost no-one, not even the most egregious figures, tend to believe abou
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by crispinb 7y ago
https://github.com/aatishb/covidtrends (linked at bottom of page)
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Citation?
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by crispinb 7y ago
I chanced on Julia's post, which happened to alert me to PaperWM. I had considered i3, StumpWM etc from time to time, but in the end always opted to stay with Gnome to avoid too much messing about. I've only spent a day with Paper
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by crispinb 7y ago
For software projects a viable alternative to a separate web app is to use the repo, eg with a commandline app like Nat Pryce's https://github.com/npryce/adr-tools
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by crispinb 7y ago
This is really useful if you want to use your distro's maintained gnome package for a desktop, but cast longing glances towards the ergonomics of tiling WMs. It's a gnome shell extension that adds its own particular flavour of key
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PaperWM: Tiled scrollable window management for Gnome Shell(github.com)
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by crispinb 7y ago
Researching a 'myriad of products' takes its own time, perhaps not usefully if you're dealing with heaps of 'unanticipated shit' in a time of crisis. Zoom is well known, so people are likely to try it early in the p
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by crispinb 7y ago
Thanks for the kitty recommendation. I'm going to give it a try for a few days.

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