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by decasteve 6y ago
Tech has become a marketing term. Might as well call them synergy companies. There's a conflation of concepts and how the various "tech" companies make their money. How can anyone keep track when "tech" is such a br
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by decasteve 6y ago
Much has changed in the nature of the beast but you're right, the terms do state the obvious. Still feels sinister. Reading those old comments and privacy policy brought so much flooding back to me. The value proposition has changed bu
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by decasteve 6y ago
Are you sure? Where's the citation to back that up? What I remember are many products released around that time by Google, et al that were sold to us as: we're making gobs of money off of our core offering (e.g. search + little te
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by decasteve 6y ago
ctrl + cmd + shift + 4 was what first came to mind. For the longest time I did cmd + shift + 3 and did the rest manually. cmd + ctrl + o to open another tab in Finder in the same folder that's current open. In my opinion this should be
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by decasteve 6y ago
I find it’s easier to mentally parse typos than it is to parse the wrong autocorrect word.
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by decasteve 6y ago
Two examples you might look into: Typewriter maker Olivetti. Beautiful mechanical design and innovation right up until the end of the typewriter era. They successfully made computers for a while but couldn't compete in the long run. Co
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by decasteve 6y ago
It’s utilitarian society or oblivion. If you’re not min-maxing your life you’re not a productive member.
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by decasteve 6y ago
Chisels are underrated! A well sharpened and honed chisel is a beautiful thing to behold.
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by decasteve 6y ago
That the term ‘tech’ has become synonymous with the embrace/extend/extinguish, business practices. Quarter of a century’s old computing/internet tools are still called ‘technology’. The word has lost its meaning.
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Flying cars. It’s always flying cars.
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by decasteve 6y ago
What was published about the Kalahari Bushmen by the Marshall family (Laurence Marshall, co-founder of Raytheon) provides some of the best real connections we have to early human life. If you’re interested in this stuff, I really enjoyed El
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by decasteve 6y ago
It is useful to ask why. The constants are often for confusion and diffusion properties: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusion_and_diffusion
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by decasteve 6y ago
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” - John Culkin (1967) A Schoolman’s Guide to Marshall McLuhan
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The key word in Science is Observation . Making close observations and communicating the results. Use tools to help the observation and mathematics to hone and sharpen the description. If you want to teach science, start by teaching carefu
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by decasteve 6y ago
Block all of AS32934.
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And straight to the course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-...
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by decasteve 6y ago
How about some indirect ways? This is what I've done. Use the money you make to decrease your carbon footprint: Operating an electric car, buying or building a net-zero home, etc. Work from home. Get involved in local government.
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by decasteve 6y ago
That’s not how the web works. The host (YouTube) serves the content, my user agent (Firefox and add-ons) renders it. Stop trying to turn the internet into cable TV. YouTube can create its own client software (like it does for iOS/Andro
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by decasteve 6y ago
These seem obvious and fundamental yet devalued by school in terms of preparing kids for the “real world”. This disconnect only seems to be getting worse from my perspective.
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Glad to see the service still going strong. I seem to remember you being quite active back on Google+ during WriteLaTeX’s early days. I enjoyed following the progress.
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My kids, who are in that age range, like to listen to audio books. “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!” was a hit with them. They also liked Chris Hadfield’s book, “An astronaut's guide to life on Earth“. But in general I listen
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by decasteve 6y ago
> Somehow the centralized web became better... That "somehow" was billions of dollars for development, acquisitions, and marketing. Sites loved to market themselves as ad-free havens that are making the world a better place. Ev
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by decasteve 6y ago
When the perception of what’s out there is filtered through so few sources, then it’s bound to be skewed. The blogosphere is as vibrant as ever. The blogs that have staying power, that are well done, are still there. Finding them through se
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by decasteve 6y ago
Twitter and social media are a cesspool. Any sort of curation, trending, or recommendations, tend towards what will garner the most "engagement". Playing on people's fears and outrage to keep them glued to the feed and a capt
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by decasteve 6y ago
~50 years ago, Buckminster Fuller called this the ‘World Game’. Its objective: Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyo
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by decasteve 6y ago
Or Elisp in script tags in html. Can already browse pure html in eww.
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by decasteve 6y ago
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo since it launched. But are we down to two search engine choices now? Google or DDG? What other alternatives are there? De-Googling services is quite easy for the most part as there are many competing alternatives
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by decasteve 6y ago
I’m in a similar boat though the school system where I am put mental health as top priority right from the start and very little emphasis on distance learning. The teachers do send resources in a do-what-you-want and let us know how we can
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It’s named after the book by Umberto Eco, which is a pen name Dan Brown sometimes uses for his more esoteric and intelligent writing.
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Along with Taiwan, Vietnam is also another country that dealt with and learned from SARS in 2002/03.

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