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by econ 5mo ago
You are not supposed to get any attention and you are not supposed to have any say in how the city and the world looks. If you buy the building you still don't get to paint. To deface it would first have to have a face.
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by econ 5mo ago
Mockups in Gimp are great. Then can start with everything wrong, get input and make lots of versions. Thinking about it, we should probably have some tool to make pictures behave like websites for demos.
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by econ 5mo ago
Proper sleep definitely isn't optional.
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by econ 5mo ago
After two weeks I woke up and didn't notice it was German tv. Eventually after 5 minutes an unknown word came along. I still can't speak it. When 13 i use to code till 1-2 am. In school I slept with my eyes open till 11. The info
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by econ 6mo ago
I just renamed a dozen variables from short rather poor descriptions to good long ones and replaced array offsets with vars. The code changed from somewhat confusing code into easily readable. I'm usually not a fan of giantCamelCaseVar
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by econ 6mo ago
Still much to big for my taste. It should (IMHO) have performance like a ZX spectrum or a c64, bare minimum io. 4-6 buttons and so cheap you have to buy it.
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by econ 6mo ago
> He would type in one go only compiling in the end, and it would work. (Even typos were rare.) Then with each year grow more paranoid if there are no bugs or typos.
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by econ 6mo ago
Adaptation is good but it might turn reactionary if not populist. You also want to limit experimentation to measure results. Like when you change few or many lines of code and performance changes.
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by econ 6mo ago
I never got to a full plan but over the decades I had many creative ideas that try to be good but might not be. The interesting pattern is that few people are curious enough to thing (or help think) about it. Best most can do is find flaws
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by econ 6mo ago
I asked about the wero[1] US tech lock-in since it is based on Ideal which (in contrast) also works with a browser + card reader + pin code. The response was not to worry about that. Wtf? I also find the de-banking mechanism fascinating. Bu
221.
by econ 6mo ago
>If nothing else I'd like it if operating systems and web browsers helped me be less distracted and frenetic, instead of encouraging exactly that multi-tasking freneticism. When I opened my phone or computer, it'd be nice if it
222.
by econ 6mo ago
The name is strange. They had a fox and a bird, used fire and thunder. The logical next would be Earthworm or watervole.
223.
by econ 6mo ago
The next study will be just to ask and measure how fast they run away.
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by econ 6mo ago
A team of fresh slaves.
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by econ 6mo ago
Right, soon we will be like those weirdos still running their own website while everyone else is on Facebook, reddit and X (making low effort comments complaining about a standardized set of topics like who got banned and why) Or like the d
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by econ 6mo ago
At some point you end up writing a lot of code to say something that is a single word on the db query. Perhaps (besides simple things) if you have many millions of users and no money. Or if you need something a DB is truly bad at.
227.
by econ 6mo ago
Back when Ajax was a hip new thing someone asked me why xml? We later answered that question with JSON of course but his hypothetical solution was much more hilarious. I'm calling it the html database. He made two mockups. One where ev
228.
by econ 6mo ago
I keep thinking how laws rely way to much on hard coded values. Privacy laws should really switch on and off depending on how much citizens trust their government. IOW I have no objection to even the most draconian spying if the voter trust
229.
by econ 6mo ago
Repeat the title 3 times in the first 3 lines then again as the start of the next paragraph. Fill the rest of the article assuming this is the readers first day on planet earth. Like, an article about a CPU architecture should start with th
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by econ 6mo ago
Home is where the work is.
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by econ 6mo ago
A webpage with a form should be good enough.
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by econ 6mo ago
Mike owes us a second docu. I don't know of anyone else changing everything to gold by touch. He deserves credit fot South Park too if only by osmosis.
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by econ 6mo ago
I hear vending machine ppl often have 1-3 very profitable locations and 10-40 locations that only barely make sense often only because they already are in the business. I imagine hiring someone to fix or restock them makes a lot more sense
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by econ 6mo ago
I wonder, will big tech adopt the EU Digital Identity? Or will they have to be forced? It would dramatically improve the service.
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by econ 6mo ago
For me it is more curiosity about what they are doing. If you work in the same field you should be able to have a chat. If it doesn't flow you can't work there if you get along perfectly it would be dumb not to hire you.
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by econ 6mo ago
This is fun to watch if only for historic value. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL12574BA6D8566A03&si=SyeE... >Having to find consensus is messy and difficult but always wins out in the long run. It is talked abou
237.
by econ 6mo ago
You can eat olives without martini. The actual problem with technocracy (if done right) is that the work of experts grows increasingly incomprehensible to average men. Even if things work out perfectly, experts can't properly take risk
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by econ 6mo ago
It certainly doesn't sound like something many people would be into. More like a long trol.
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by econ 6mo ago
>Almost no one wants to be the childless crank that shows up at a PTA or school board meeting demanding that tech be removed from the daily lives of the children. I had never even realized. As a bonus I now also see cranks proposing to r
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by econ 7mo ago
The kind we don't want to see in the world. I won't argue it is close enough to make the cut but it is more technical than some topics that do make the cut. Mines seem more of a long game effort. If we see more of that the war wil

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