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by erelong 7mo ago
Could there be a user dialog prompt about the suggested version and some control flow that allows people to manually override during installation as a happy medium between these approaches
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by erelong 7mo ago
So, be more skeptical
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by erelong 7mo ago
It's mostly a problem with "requiring" the credentials by law I have no problem with you wanting your doctors or lawyers to have credentials for your own needs I take issue with people requiring me to seek doctors or lawyers
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by erelong 7mo ago
I think this is a great question to ask and maybe I need my own blog to post about these things as I might reply with a big comment Making Unpublished Software for Themselves One issue is, I think maybe a lot of people are making software f
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by erelong 7mo ago
I think the problem is, compare credentials with reputation. A programmer who possesses no credentials might create "good" software that is validated as "good" even by those possessing credentials. However, a person with
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by erelong 7mo ago
I've looked forward to the destruction of the credential system as it seemed "highly unjust" and like a top barrier to people's freedom (although it hardly seemed to be talked about as such). It locked people in to speci
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by erelong 7mo ago
sounds like some nice light reading, thank you
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by erelong 7mo ago
haven't been doing this but have been trying to turn lights down near bedtime and also to wind down before bed more, otherwise it feels like I didn't sleep as restfully
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by erelong 7mo ago
Level up your skills to be as pro as you need or want to be Have some fun and shrug off critics when you can maybe
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by erelong 7mo ago
ehhh, for a lot of traditional Catholics neither Thiel nor Rome are Catholic currently so I think there would be disagreement with both sides here I thought Thiel's argument was that the anti-AI crowd might tend towards a pagan primiti
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by erelong 7mo ago
Just have to make it either easy to buy or easy to mod and emphasize energy savings and lots of people would be interested Edit: looks like a few chest freezers have a "fridge" setting, which sounds like the easiest way to do this
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by erelong 7mo ago
https://archive.ph/9YZGg Edit: appears to cut off article
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by erelong 7mo ago
yes, we want to avoid counterproductive things that are done too quickly no we don't want to miss genuine ways to speed things up to improve our productivity so we can do other or more things
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by erelong 7mo ago
That's a shame, although I'm not sure what I would recommend instead
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by erelong 7mo ago
Still ok with it being legal but yeah that doesn't mean it's beneficial
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by erelong 7mo ago
I'm actually surprised there isn't more of a focus on school and work reform and a lot of focus on... everything else
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by erelong 7mo ago
Sounds dystopian and backwards, especially now with cutting access to AI tools that could accelerate educational achievement
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by erelong 7mo ago
I'd expect it to go more in this direction HN seems to attract a lot of weird gatekeeper contrarian takes
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by erelong 7mo ago
is it possible to create another alternative to both x11 and wayland that might correct some of these issues? (especially now with ai assistance?) I can see arguments for improving x11 but wayland still isn't there and I end up having
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by erelong 7mo ago
I think social media is being wrongly made in to a scapegoat Rather, social media mis-use is a symptom of young people having a lack of things like "third spaces" to go to to socialize at, of not having meaningful work or voluntee
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by erelong 7mo ago
"As they should"
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by erelong 7mo ago
Do binaural beats have a similar effect (for free)?
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by erelong 7mo ago
A takeaway thought: find orgs you use or know of and suggest they get a website if the don't have one or to improve it if they do (could even be a simple web dev biz)
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by erelong 7mo ago
They probably figure it's worth a try
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Dirtsurfing: Two Wheel Mountainboard
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by erelong 7mo ago
there's a website as well: https://www.supertux.org/ it has a video trailer for the new release and also a longer development summary vid
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by erelong 7mo ago
And then there's PDOS (public domain operating system): https://www.pdos.org/
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by erelong 7mo ago
Autokey (linux) or autohotkey (windows) as examples can do text expansion if you want to create custom symbols to expand to Or you could make a snippets program in a terminal to copy a symbol to a clipboard (Workarounds I've considered
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by erelong 7mo ago
For me this has two takeaways: One, I avoid Apple products as they are locked down and overpriced The other, that it's probably worthwhile to push for apple to open these products up more - especially would be nice if more old hardware
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by erelong 7mo ago
Used thinkpad or mini pc seems more practical

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