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by dwb 2y ago
You assume there is a way to scale certain kinds of knowledge, or that the current metrics-supremacy is it. I get it, humans are inconsistent and squishy, but at least we can be reasoned with. Stripping complex realities down to “metrics”,
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by dwb 2y ago
You are not thinking at all carefully about what it is to measure something and how much meaning you get from that. Metrics need to convey a lot of useful meaning, and measure something that is worth measuring, otherwise they are worse than
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by dwb 2y ago
You don't know who you are excluding by working against accessibility. It's very naive and small-minded of you to think that you are only inconveniencing some caricature in your head.
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by dwb 2y ago
What a horrible, anti-social attitude. I hope you aren’t working on anything important.
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by dwb 2y ago
It's a fine point to make, but I get the feeling some people's perceptions (that Nix introductory docs are unclear) are out of date. From nixos.org, I click "Learn", "How Nix works", and it says in the first se
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by dwb 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
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by dwb 2y ago
Oh we can’t just avoid context switching, can we? The way the company works is completely beyond the question. I should have to aggressively protect special “focus time” instead, because it’s my problem I have to solve.
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by dwb 2y ago
I can read my email on my phone, and also get it to notify me when I get a new one from a particular address. It's not as easy as installing an app, but it's really not that hard either.
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by dwb 2y ago
Emacs Lisp is my first Lisp, so I don't even really notice how supposedly weird it is. It's a fine language, don't let it get in your way, and it's just as important to be able to read other's code than it is to wri
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by dwb 2y ago
By the screenshot linked, Apple isn't taking 30% of all Patreon donations. This affects those paid through the app, after November. That is significant, but it's neither everything nor unprecedented.
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by dwb 2y ago
Maybe! I see where you're coming from. That sounds like a long and painful road, still, though, from what is still a very dynamic language. Do you have a rough idea of how much more time/space-efficient a typical JavaScript progra
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by dwb 2y ago
I know, but it just doesn't matter enough. Believe me, I'm signed up to the idea of theoretical rigour, the argument for soundness is part of what originally won me over (along with previous good experiences with Flow on a smaller
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by dwb 2y ago
Looks fine to me; wild that anyone would think it unserious. Design is much more about how it works than following the latest graphic trends.
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by dwb 2y ago
This is a point in Flow's favour. However! Seven years ago or so, when TypeScript was quite young and seemed inferior to Flow in almost all respects, I chose Flow for a large project. Since then, I spent inordinate amounts of time upda
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by dwb 2y ago
Is a six out of ten laptop “great work”? What they’re doing is very difficult, no doubt, and I’m glad they’re attempting it, but it sounds like it amounts to quite an irritating machine right now. Certainly no way I’d consider it with a rev
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by dwb 2y ago
Exactly the opposite of my long-term experience – Slack search is good enough that it’s my first port of call for information, and regularly finds me the right answer. It’s a better information repository in practice than any other system I
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by dwb 2y ago
VBScript wants a word: https://ericlippert.com/2003/09/30/a-whole-lot-of-nothing/
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by dwb 2y ago
It was sort of a joke, I’m mostly just not used to it - but also apparently it’s a pain if you forget to do it.
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by dwb 2y ago
I was born in England, live in London, have a Dutch partner, and also travel to the Netherlands often enough. I agree completely. They have their problems too (from the political to having to tap out on buses), but the overall level of qual
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Asymptotic burnout and homeostatic awakening: a solution to the Fermi paradox?(royalsocietypublishing.org)
11 points by dwb 2y ago|3 comments
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by dwb 2y ago
I disagree. I abhor advertising primarily because it non-consensually and obnoxiously competes for my attention. (the privacy thing is also bad of course)
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by dwb 2y ago
I treated floppies fine and they were a constant pain. They give a nostalgic pang, but I'm very glad to see the back of them in actual use.
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by dwb 2y ago
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nassim_Haramein > Despite his claims, Haramein's work is ignored by mainstream physicists because it is pseudoscience with no evidentiary support. Few scientists bother to respond
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by dwb 2y ago
I disagree that this is comparable to American politics in 2001, and that Eelco isn't actively involved.
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by dwb 2y ago
So if you're aware it's ok? Where has anyone in this story shown themselves to be unaware?
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by dwb 2y ago
Gotta say, this scenario you're so intricately weaving doesn't sound like any open source project I've ever come across. I guess I'll continue playing. At this point it would depend on how many people agreed with you tha
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by dwb 2y ago
Indeed. Is that not a valid complaint?
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by dwb 2y ago
Are you ideologically aligned with the distant origin of everything you use and consume?
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by dwb 2y ago
Of course not, but asking for a "proof" for a question like that is a category error. It will be decided by whatever the group decision process is, which would have to be present for all the other non-trivial, and yes, fuzzy thing
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by dwb 2y ago
Are you really expecting people critical of the US military to not use computers, else be keeping a "double standard"?

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