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My Raccoon: Two brothers and the wild company they keep(aeon.co)
1 points by gerbilly 8y ago|0 comments
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Next time you are on a plane, see how many people sneeze just after the plane lands.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I'm sorry you broke your phone. We just got back from a Caribbean island, and once or twice my wife used Google maps as a backup to our paper map. It was almost always wrong. Google was always selecting really stupid routes that anyo
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I find it's really hard to play with a phone while surfing. :-) Also to surf moderately well requires keen observation of nature. It's very meditative.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> I don't say that your story is not true, but those guys in your management are lamentable, they don't understand how much more could be done if they would not have those problems in first place... In large companies with more
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by gerbilly 8y ago
A Zen teacher I listen to by podcast, said that one of the nicest things his Zen master told him when he was a student was: "Sometimes people have weird thoughts, and it's OK."
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Yeah I don't know if I have autism or whatever but I do know that I can't fucking concentrate with a dozen people having loud conversations 5 feet away from me. It's not autism. Ignoring a stimulus takes effort. It div
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> easy going, pleasant to work with This is a survival tactic, and in a way it's a dishonest put on. If the same developer were abrasive arrogant and difficult to get along with, then the other programmers, who always have to fix hi
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I have definitely experienced this. Imagine a competent developer writes a mostly correct system with few bugs, and that requires few fixes over time. Management will likely perceive the first incompetent developer as better than the more c
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> SQL, it's so ugly on some inner level I'd much rather start with datalog and build my own up SQL syntax may be ugly, but for once , it's an example of a widely used technology that is based on a very firm and well thoug
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> The solution is either no one does it or everyone does it. There is no in between. This is the classic race to the bottom, and it's not a valid defence in my excuse.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> In order to preserve the usefulness of those models and the hundreds of millions in R&D spent to develop them, you have to carefully understand exactly what products and algos will be affected by just deleting a single record. My a
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Kubernetes is hard because its trying to solve a hard problem. Yeah, and for most of us it's a problem we don't actually have. Use of these technologies seems aspirational to me. It's a kind of cargo-culting: as if usin
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Me think, why waste time say lot word when few word do trick? Could have been more briefly stated as: Avoid circumlocution.
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Scientists Release Genetically Modified Mosquitoes in High-Security Lab(npr.org)
71 points by gerbilly 8y ago|73 comments
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Thanks for this amazing comment.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Jails do harm and even kill people. Jails and prisons inflict violence daily on the inmates, and even the guards and staff, just from the very nature of the situation they create. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stru
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Forgot every phone number because it's 2019 and we all have our contacts in an app? This is going to be off topic, but I find this dumb. Is it so hard to learn a 7 digit number that you need to make yourself dependent on a stupid
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Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright(vox.com)
2 points by gerbilly 8y ago|0 comments
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Liberals and Conservatives React in Wildly Different Ways to Repulsive Pictures(theatlantic.com)
6 points by gerbilly 8y ago|0 comments
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> but slap the maximum rate on a stubborn holdout for enough years in a row and that 15% maximum annual reassessment increase (the maximum in my city) can turn even the least valuable property imaginable into an unaffordable anchor aroun
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Me neither, the thing that seems to be unique with Marie Kondo, is that she encourages people to bring a spiritual dimension to their relationship with objects. You may not agree with that perspective, but to me it's a nice change from
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Some people say the 2008 mortgage crisis was sort of a land grab. It would probably be giving the 'financial engineers' who came up with credit default swaps too much credit to say that they planned it that way all along. But as
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Although unlikely in this case, but sometimes 'they' promote urban blight of entire neighbourhoods till it becomes a slum and even poor people move out, then buy the whole block of properties for cheap.
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Bacteriophage treatment of human infections [pdf](ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
3 points by gerbilly 8y ago|0 comments
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The Backlash Against Marie Kondo of Netflix’s ‘Tidying Up’(thedailybeast.com)
6 points by gerbilly 8y ago|6 comments
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Well I can't even say "I told you so" yet. This is just Microsoft discouraging the use of IE, Windows will still be around for a long time. In many ways I've been lucky that I've been able to keep it to UNIX and Mac
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Ha, I'm waiting this whole windows thing out. I've never used windows ever, from ver 1 through the horrible 95 and NT, till v8 and onwards with it's spyware built in. Glad to hear IE is also going away. Enjoy your backslashe
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by gerbilly 8y ago
The 'education' of today is starting to look more and more like job training. However, education is meant to expand your mind and to teach you how to think critically. Education is supposed to round you out, teach you about the hi
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by gerbilly 8y ago
So the only alternative is to let corporations offload their training externalities onto higher education? If that's what you're saying, it's a false dichotomy. Cry me a river for the corporations, who cares what they want?

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