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by eesmith 2y ago
Your own statement say that you would never - not even theoretically - pay for Sourcehut hosting. The 2018 restriction on using "this data for recruiting, solicitation, or profit" would have been an offense to your belief that res
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by eesmith 2y ago
> but especially if I'm paying for a service I don't believe you are paying for Sourcehut hosting, so why do you care? For that matter, "This has been part of our terms of service since they were originally written in 2018
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by eesmith 2y ago
I pay for sourcehut hosting, and I have no problems at all with this decision. Unlike you with your GitHub-based project, I avoid Microsoft like the plague. I do not want to be complicit in supporting their monopoly power, their human right
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by eesmith 2y ago
Based on the linked-to page, no: 47 days might seem like an arbitrary number, but it’s a simple cascade: * 200 days = 6 maximal month (184 days) + 1/2 30-day month (15 days) + 1 day wiggle room * 100 days = 3 maximal mon
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by eesmith 2y ago
"Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43525395 "probably some contributor was geolocated in a sanctioned region" - https:&#
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by eesmith 2y ago
I think this means you learned about 'lived experience' on Twitter in 2018. The term has been increasingly used since around 1960 - https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=lived+experien... Here's
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by eesmith 2y ago
Ifpology acknowledged. "Word to the wise: If you say “sorry” and then immediately follow it with a conditional word like “but” or “if,” you’re headed in the wrong direction." - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/i
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by eesmith 2y ago
Most members of the Commonwealth - Canadians excepted - say "maths" while North American English uses "math". https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/12/math-versus-maths-h... An Aussie chas
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by eesmith 2y ago
Someone living in Sydney ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41546796 ) and using "maths" in the Commonwealth style ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41280463 ) decides that someone like my fo
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by eesmith 2y ago
I said life during 1800s high tech was more demanding on people than now, but I also said that life in the Middle Ages was less demanding on us than now. Which makes it decidedly difficult to see a simple correlation between technology and
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by eesmith 2y ago
Sure. My mention of "printing press" was specifically meant to be moveable type, but that detail doesn't matter. Now how do you get from your true observation to characterize how technology now is 'several orders of magn
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by eesmith 2y ago
The Economist article compares young adults now from those of two generations previous to the young adults of now. I'm using 1970s - 25 years per generation. The 1890s were a tumultuous time. You now had cities with a nightlife, becaus
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by eesmith 2y ago
I'm old enough that grocery stores had tube testers in them. Vacuum tubes are technology. So are canned goods, and milled flour, and white sugar, and refrigeration. My grandfather's shop included a lathe and welding torch. He and
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by eesmith 2y ago
> The world is more complex than it was a couple of generations ago. But is it, really? That was already the era of "information overload" and "future shock."
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by eesmith 2y ago
It reminds me of Steve Mann's WearComp. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wearable_computer#History
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by eesmith 2y ago
The suffrage movement in the UK also had a militant component: > The tactics of the [Women’s Social and Political Union] included shouting down speakers, hunger strikes, stone-throwing, window-smashing, and arson of unoccupied churches a
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by eesmith 2y ago
People wouldn't use publicly-owned cars, they would used publicly-owned buses, trams, subways, and other forms of mass transit, plus (as the article points out), making it easier to walk or bike. I believe the goal of limiting car use
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by eesmith 2y ago
> whether I can easily forget about the existence of state government So, rich, white, straight, conservative male? Checking .... Yup. And natalist and anti-feminist. > Growing up in California gives you the idea that only rich people
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by eesmith 2y ago
The way I read it, if a foreigner living in the US says it would be wrong for the US to invade Canada or take over Greenland, or bomb Houthis, etc. than the could be deported because that would "compromise a compelling U.S.foreign poli
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by eesmith 2y ago
Or a new Zeppelin. An elegant future quickly surpassed by alternatives, remaining mostly as steampunk dreams. Or a new Saturn V. An engineering marvel only possible by spending huge amounts of money. Or a new monorail. Rarely cost competiti
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by eesmith 2y ago
The chain reaction made it more fun.
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The naive belief that having more data means the organization will be more effective at carrying out its goals. Doesn't matter what data - the algorithms/AI will figure it out. Doesn't matter how messy the data - the algorith
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by eesmith 2y ago
Actual title is "Contextual Advertising After the Death of Cookies" Promotes their planet-killing-in-the-name-of-ad-tech. Nothing to do with why cookies don't seem to taste that good any more.
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by eesmith 2y ago
> Apple iOS led smartphones until Google made Android free and open source, enabling manufacturers and developers worldwide This is the Android which Google is now developing in private ( https://www.androidauthority.com/g
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by eesmith 2y ago
I switched to Python in 1998, and I haven't gone back to the Unix philosophy of decomposition into small command-line tools which interoperate via text and pipes, nor the COM/DCOM/CORBA approach, nor microservices, nor even E
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by eesmith 2y ago
I don't really get the joke. Given the context and timing, I'm guessing it's a Perl6/Raku commentary, with Larry Wall as the Ancient?
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Could be, but the game play doesn't encourage me to continue. Again, the first time I went to the store I could max out with everything, so there wasn't the accumulative build-up, or decision to prioritize one purchase strategy ov
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by eesmith 2y ago
I've been using Python almost full time since 1998 so, to misquote Dijkstra, I am mentally mutilated beyond regeneration.
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I got up to level 8 before I decided to go to the store. I had something like $500,000. I bought up the entire inventory (at least, until the Buy buttons stopped working - there were still items available). It then became a 'click as f
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by eesmith 2y ago
Based on the account name, bio, and internal evidence you should assume this is Don Hopkins. His Wikipedia entry at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Hopkins includes: > He inspired Richard Stallman, who described h

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