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by eivarv 7y ago
"don't throw the baby out with the bathwater" Right, but we don't have any reason to assume it to be true if there's noe evidence to support it - which would be step one in determining whether its a reason
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by eivarv 7y ago
There might be side effects to modern medicine, but there's no reason to assume that traditional beliefs re: health and medicine are more correct; The arguments behind them are usually epistemologically unsound, and they are often out-
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by eivarv 7y ago
Because in neither case has anyone actually even made a coherent argument for a causal effect that doesn't ignore all the other factors? Besides, when "all the evidence points to the contrary" is usually a bad sign... There a
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by eivarv 7y ago
Cleave ( https://cleave.app ) Kind of a project-feature / workspace-switcher for macOS. Facilitates human context switching by allowing you to save and load all open applications and their state (open windows, tabs, etc.) Not
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by eivarv 7y ago
I don't think social media should ever be trusted as a source of news (by itself) – and frankly, I don't know many people who have seen Facebook as such.
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by eivarv 7y ago
Good article, but for the sake of argument: Don't you think any technical "solutions" to this issue will also eliminate the possibility to use these tools for ethical goals (let's say the roles were reversed or whatever)
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by eivarv 7y ago
Bekk (a Norwegian consultancy) bought a bunch of domains under the "christmas" TLD, and made bunch of "christmas calendars" [0]. They're probably submitting many of their daily posts from many of their calendars. [0
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by eivarv 7y ago
Update post (and add/update "last-updated"-field).
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GitHub Security Lab(securitylab.github.com)
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by eivarv 7y ago
Why not just use conda for envs and deps (or env-specific pip), and install youtube-dl etc. via your platform's package manager?
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by eivarv 7y ago
Don't know the specific solution you're talking about, but I'm currently making a mac app that handles this. Open beta this winter. https://cleave.app
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by eivarv 7y ago
Human context switching. I'm being cheeky; I mean closing down and bringing up all relevant applications, their state (open windows, tabs, files...) and so on for working on a given task or project. Sort of like a workspace manager for
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by eivarv 7y ago
Yes. But the Necronomicon is one of two things (depending on what you're talking about): A fictional grimoire, or a piece of fiction (a hoax, even).
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Stallman's final interview as FSF president(theregister.co.uk)
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by eivarv 7y ago
He's also seeking interim housing: https://stallman.org/seeking-housing.html
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RMS Quits GNU Project(stallman.org)
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by eivarv 7y ago
They're mostly distributed on the App Store these days. The old distribution channels are still available, but installation using these trigger a warning.
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by eivarv 7y ago
Not to my knowledge, no.
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by eivarv 7y ago
Human context switching. I'm being cheeky; I mean closing down and bringing up all relevant applications, their state (open windows, tabs, files...) and so on for working on a given task or project. Sort of like a workspace manager for
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by eivarv 7y ago
I'm sure you could make a case for a few non-sensitive emails – but I think what you're talking about might be a civil or even a criminal offence (depending on where you live and the relevant jurisdiction), as the work and communi
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by eivarv 7y ago
Author here, AMA! Ever since solving a similar problem on the terminal a few years back [0], I kept wanting to explicitly change working context, keeping application states between whatever tasks I was working on. Cleave attempts to solve t
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Show HN: Cleave (coming soon) – Enabling human context switching(cleave.app)
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by eivarv 7y ago
Well, TFA opens with "Blacklisting at work has been illegal in the UK since 2010", but I guess it'd be hard to argue that what's described is bona fide blacklisting.
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by eivarv 7y ago
Custom shell script that automates everything from UI settings to installation of applications and dependencies, preferences and dotfiles.
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by eivarv 7y ago
I know - it really is a matter of definition. Though the EU has said it will consider intention etc. there's really no way of knowing for certain until when and if it's settled in a court case.
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by eivarv 7y ago
Author here! Ever since solving a similar problem on the terminal a few years back [0], I kept wanting to explicitly change working context, keeping application states between whatever tasks I was working on. Cleave attempts to solve this b
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Show HN: Cleave (coming soon) – Enabling human context switching(cleave.app)
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by eivarv 7y ago
Agreed re: using ES as primary storage (which it is NOT meant as) - as far as I can tell, it might even make you in breach of the GDPR [0]. TLDR: Lucene < 7.5 won't merge segments larger than 5GB (default) unless they accumulate 50%
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by eivarv 7y ago
Qt is decidedly not native, but can attempt a "native look-and-feel". wxWidgets actually wraps native GUI widgets though...
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by eivarv 7y ago
Shell script that sets OS defaults, copies configs, sets up symlinks and installs software package managers.

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