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by cxr 2y ago
> that's the unfortunate thing about growing and becoming a massive encyclopedia that's more respected than it was in 2004 Is it? Wikipedia was massive and respected in 2014, too, but it wasn't dominated by the problems d
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by cxr 2y ago
For what it's worth (to whomever was upset by this): this is not apologetics—there's nothing here in my comment to give anyone cover for being dishonest. It is sufficient for something to be dishonest in order for to it to be des
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by cxr 2y ago
I, too, am disappointed with the unabashed bad takes on this incident, but you aren't quite responding to the comment that you posted your reply to.
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by cxr 2y ago
That's not right; you're conflating dishonesty with lying. Why do people get weird when it comes to grokking what it means to lie? Mere deception is not lying. (Though it is dishonest.) A mere untrue statement is not a lie. (Th
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by cxr 2y ago
Keybase's integration with XLM was pretty great. It's too bad the community revolted for reasons that amounted to a form of begging the question about the things you list here.
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by cxr 2y ago
> A lot of standing job people do tell me they could never do what I do, sitting on a desk daily. They're trying to insult you, not provide you with anecdotal information so that you can have a broader view of the world.
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by cxr 2y ago
I'm not a trial attorney, but I've done more than my share of dealing with my own civil suits, and your guess is pretty much bang-on. The rules of civil procedure generally require that the defendant in a suit file a response with
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by cxr 2y ago
> Git only replaces the lock file aspect of package managers Nope, Git is pretty good about downloading stuff over the network, too. In fact, it's so good at it that many people using a language package manager insist you use Git a
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by cxr 2y ago
Slack was born out of the (second) attempt by Butterfield to build a game. But Slack didn't start out as a game; there was a game being built, and it didn't evolve into Slack—they productized their internal comms (a separate thin
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by cxr 2y ago
This is a worthwhile read, but I think it would be better if it offered not just interactive exploration or a video, but a conventional document, too—ideally as the primary form of presentation. This is by the same creator who made the Thi
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by cxr 2y ago
This is good if you're good at coming up with names that are good, even if they're inscrutable. If you're not so good at it, or do too much of it, then you end up getting a situation like the Urbit ecosystem.
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by cxr 2y ago
tim.org is still online. Originally started by Jason Scott of textfiles.com and now at archive.org. I'm convinced the Slack-killer is going to be a user programmable MUSH.
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by cxr 2y ago
This comes off a little bit like, "You're lucky not paying for streaming services that cost 60 bucks a month." You, too, can be someone who doesn't use these things. It doesn't take luck.
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by cxr 2y ago
What?
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by cxr 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_the_shorter_term
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by cxr 2y ago
K.
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by cxr 2y ago
No.
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by cxr 2y ago
> I am not sure about your level of computer literacy, so sorry in advance if I give a a overly detailed response In technical discussions, this is what I call "The Move". It comes from a desire to position the person making T
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by cxr 2y ago
Right.
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by cxr 2y ago
Every "language package manager" with a lock file format and requirements file, is an inferior, ad hoc, formally-specified, error-prone, incompatible reimplementation of half of Git. Almost every use case for a package manager is
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by cxr 2y ago
Those of us trying to get them scanned in and online. Black Mask is pretty rare. Brooks Hefner at James Madison University oversaw the acquisition/accession (I think) of their Black Mask collection, of which they have quite a bit in c
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by cxr 2y ago
You may be interested to know that the story for The Maltese Falcon, not listed, will also be entering public domain because it was published in monthly installments in Black Mask magazine before it was published as a novel. (Any changes b
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by cxr 2y ago
Unfortunately, public domain isn't everything. There are lots of works that we know of and that we should be able to share with one another, but it's hard to come by copies. To give one example: The novel Red Harvest from 1929 i
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by cxr 2y ago
You're comfortable acknowledging that the relevant principle isn't specific to sandwich shop workers or women named Alice and that what's at issue in the example provided is something more general than either of those two det
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by cxr 2y ago
> I wrote the entirety of my Master's thesis code without version control because one of the best universities in the country doesn't teach it They probably do, but it's not under the university's college of engineeri
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by cxr 2y ago
You wanna, like, actually digest what I wrote there? The second comment here is so unlike the first that your "Saying it over and over again" remark can only lead to the conclusion that you either didn't read it or didn&#x27
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by cxr 2y ago
> This isn't really an argument though. It's an assertion that not honoring a commission agreement Wrong. It's that (not honoring an agreement negotiated beforehand) and an argument against treating past-action-thing as
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by cxr 2y ago
> Me having a cup necessarily means you don’t have it. That’s not how ideas and pictures work. You can infinitely perfectly duplicate them. This is a stupid argument, no matter how often it comes up. If I hire Alice to come to my sandwic
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by cxr 2y ago
Fact: NodeJS's never-standardized APIs that change from release to release are a source of non-negligile breakage and churn for JS programmers who make the mistake of entrusting it to run their programs. Fact: for a great many programs
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by cxr 2y ago
You are either confused about something, or you're simply refusing to engage with reality. > Any nefarious thing a browser-based app can do, a local program can do, too, [or worse!]

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