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by flocial 8y ago
I think you underestimate the emotional toll of this disease on caretakers and sufferers alike. There's no point in aggravating someone with dementia unless you're goal is to hasten their demise by making them engage in self harm.
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by flocial 8y ago
I feel this link would be more informative with context (I leave it to mods). https://wptavern.com/alex-mills-ends-his-battle-with-leukemi...
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by flocial 8y ago
Just wanted to say I remembered you from your rails blogging days (thanks for those articles and code) and seeing this on r/emacs made me smile.
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Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL(bofh.org.uk)
465 points by flocial 8y ago|191 comments
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by flocial 8y ago
thanks!
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How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy (2012)(theatlantic.com)
19 points by flocial 8y ago|5 comments
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by flocial 8y ago
The dreaded "show me your sources" question. Of course this can lead to non-specialists trading flawed studies based on skimming the abstract which adds marginal value. That being said one person's anecdote supporting a highl
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by flocial 8y ago
Not the poster above but emacs' evil mode has really good vim emulation but the yak shaving rabbit hole goes much deeper. Emacs isn't stellar when it comes to large files and long lines although that's mainly for code and not
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by flocial 8y ago
That was a shocking read. Is the shortage of affordable housing a nationwide phenomena or something that just draws a lot of attention on HN?
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Hammerspoon : the best Mac software you've never heard of(medium.com)
2 points by flocial 8y ago|1 comments
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by flocial 8y ago
Facebook already has access to a larger repository of photos going back over a decade and all the years inbetween along with decent face recognition to create a much bigger dataset than resorting to a hashtag challenge. But I guess that wou
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by flocial 8y ago
No screenshots?
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by flocial 8y ago
The other hidden cost of automation that feeds into less engagement is that some social media will put a damper on automated/bot accounts based on internal criteria for organic engagement. Also, automation isn't a binary choice. Y
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by flocial 8y ago
This comment and its parent was referring to a long time ago. It's amazing to think how much the landscape changed since these services emerged.
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by flocial 8y ago
Bitbucket was originally focused on Mercurial. At the time I think Google Code or whatever they called their Mercurial/SVN hosting was an option too. There was also Gitorious, etc. At that time even Bazaar was still being used by some
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by flocial 8y ago
In a sense this is much scarier than the controversial IQ strongly correlates with genetics argument. Instead of being "pseudoscientific swindle" it becomes a reliable tool to marginalize people on the lower end based on their tes
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by flocial 8y ago
Mods please remove this comment it's only adding toxicity.
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by flocial 8y ago
Investing in noise cancelling headphones dramatically increased my productivity and well being. Not just in the office but using them to dampen urban environmental noises during the commute. The other side benefit was that it created a nice
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by flocial 8y ago
By getting help from a qualified professional and seeking out safe places where you can share your struggle and open up without judgement (be careful with this one). As with any serious health issue prevention is always best to the extent p
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by flocial 8y ago
The title on WSJ reads "SoftBank’s Biggest Backers Balk at Planned $16 Billion Acquisition of WeWork". I think the original is better than OP's.
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by flocial 8y ago
Totally valid point and I agree. There's a lot of nostalgia around retro/vintage but the truth is technology has improved in so many ways over the years. But again nostalgia is more a sentimental thing and seeing a Spotify interfa
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by flocial 8y ago
The title doesn't do the post justice. This is an amazing use of a vintage Macintosh and the technical details are quite interesting.
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by flocial 8y ago
I always thought that the early promise of the internet was built on a lie: decentralized and anonymous. The architecture never really was, it's just that the technology at the time and costs involved made it seem believable. Now data
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by flocial 8y ago
This is a beautifully written article but at the end of the day the way a business uses a tool says more about the organization than the tool itself. Is Jira a tool of oppression or liberation? It can be misused by managers to bully whip a
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by flocial 8y ago
Thank you and others for pointing that out. I can see how a blanket insult that would unintentionally fit many Hacker News users would lead to a pile on. I've been on an iPhone forever but I've stopped considering it and Apple par
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by flocial 8y ago
I'm a bit flabbergasted by all the "wow this person just wasted all his free time fixing a nonexistent problem instead of just getting an iPhone" on Hacker News of all places. Yes there's an ideological bent to the whole
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by flocial 8y ago
Perhaps that level of obsession is what makes them good at their jobs. You can't really fault people for wanting greater control over the tech they own. Repairability of hardware and true control over what we can install on our phones
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by flocial 8y ago
I still can't select multiline text in a reliable manner after all these years. Those little handles jump around and you end up stuck selecting the weirdest substring. Moving app icons from one page to another is more of an art (I don&
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by flocial 8y ago
I just happen to be reading Clive Cussler's Inca Gold (1994) where they use computers to decode a quipu cord from scratch in about an hour and a half. I'd love to see the spreadsheet used for the initial insight.
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by flocial 8y ago
I don't know what it is about the current environment but it pains me to see people get the life sucked out of them for sharing code and making the world a better place. It's also equally disheartening to see prominent open source

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