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by fipar 6y ago
A very interesting (though I think it’s impossible to proof or refute) read related to this: https://www.julianjaynes.org/resources/books/ooc/ I learned about it while reading Dawkins’ “The God Delusion,” and
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Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies(github.com)
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Cracks in the Conversation Table: Robert Pirsig and the Great Books Idea(s-usih.org)
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by fipar 6y ago
I agree with what you say, but I think there are valid points in the beer vs speech part. I agree with you that it seems impossible to have free as in speech software that isn't also free as in beer, but you can have free as in beer so
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by fipar 6y ago
Let me add my own anecdata: I've been running linux on machines since 1998, and I've never experienced a failure like the one you describe. In fact, the only hardware failures I've experienced have been external (usb) hard dr
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by fipar 6y ago
Reminded me of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gift_(The_Velvet_Undergr...
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by fipar 6y ago
parent is using case to highlight a typo in the domain name, not to imply that the problem is with the case.
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The lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite(github.com)
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by fipar 6y ago
I thought about Cage when I saw this submission, and submitted the Wikipedia page for this piece right away. I see your comment now and I’m glad I’m not the only one that made the connection!
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As Slow as Possible(en.wikipedia.org)
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by fipar 6y ago
Respectfully, I disagree. I think the condition may be simple if looked at it from, say, a programming logic point of view. But given the costs involved, I think the other constraints are not noise: they're the signal needed to make t
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by fipar 6y ago
Which one is that forum you're talking about? If you meant this one, it should be obvious that it's not exclusively about coders. Even if it was, your argument is quite weak if you don't qualify the non zero part a bit more.
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by fipar 6y ago
zero vs non-zero of what? If you say the argument is dying now vs dying later, sure, I'll agree.
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by fipar 6y ago
I think even if you ignore the environment, and cost, the argument for cryonics is not very good. Let's say someone is successfully revived, there's still heart attacks, cancer, crime (and not just "lowly" criminals, cri
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by fipar 6y ago
Respectfully, I disagree: > Working from home isolates you. There is no way around this. You lose the one huge opportunity in adult life for making new relationships - and that's at work, in the office. It may be that way for some p
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PostgreSQL cloud native High Availability(github.com)
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Functional Programming in Enterprise Applications(se-radio.net)
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by fipar 6y ago
I think 'delivery worker' is a clear term that identifies the worker that brings the food to someone's door. It's certainly the term that identifies, of all the people on your list, the one in the most fragile position.
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by fipar 6y ago
Do you believe that the full delivery app fee goes to the delivery worker?
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by fipar 6y ago
As a member of the MySQL community who is not a native english speaker, I never payed attention to the terminology, it's all greek to me. However, just one conversation (and I had more than one) with other members who are both people o
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by fipar 6y ago
Seems he had an approach to reviews worthy of emulation: "Code reviews from Bruce came in three flavours, "mild", "brucified" and "brucifiction", but they were never personal: It was always only about the
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by fipar 6y ago
On emacs, sagemath can be used on babel blocks in org mode, and it can keep a sage session open for all such blocks, updates result blocks when executing, etc. Since with babel you can do this with multiple languages, this means you can cre
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by fipar 6y ago
Since you mention having finances to manage for some time, I can share that in my personal experience, when I lost my job amid a regional financial crisis, I focused my efforts on an open source project (something I built, I didn't joi
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by fipar 6y ago
I got a new MBP earlier this year, and while I personally did not care about the touch bar, it's amazing what you can do with BetterTouchTool if you're an emacs user. For a long time I was evaluating getting some additional keys (
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Where we have failed [pdf](dl.acm.org)
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by fipar 7y ago
"The American Hospital Association, American Medical Association and American Nurses Association asked Congress on Thursday to allocate $100 billion to help health-care personnel and providers, including physicians, nurses and hospital
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by fipar 7y ago
You may be reading "crap hits the fan" as something massive, like a collapse of the banking system. I'm not the OP, but I can also read it as "crap hits the fan for me ", and this makes it simple to imagine ways in
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Early Impressions of Go from a Rust Programmer(pingcap.com)
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Org-Capture in Files(joshrollinswrites.com)
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OpenTelemetry Beta Release Plan(medium.com)
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