guidoism

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by guidoism 3y ago
This difference in our perspectives is fascinating. I think of cultural works to be owned by society. The moment you make something public then society can do what it wants with it. We give exclusive rights to the author as a pragmatic step
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by guidoism 3y ago
I think this assumes managers (or anyone else for that matter) are able to actually quantify productivity.
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by guidoism 3y ago
> Copyright grants a time-limited monopoly to the reproduction of works by their authors The copyright length is so long and has been extended so many times that it for a long time could have been considered infinite. Maybe with some new
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by guidoism 3y ago
> novelists and artisan software craftsmen could produce for the love of it People probably won't build some dashboard for a large boring corporation but they absolutely will do it for something they love. This isn't even theor
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by guidoism 3y ago
I’m curious. What does the second iteration accomplish? Is it dirt and grease that is embedded in your skin? What kind of job do you have if you feel comfortable answering?
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by guidoism 3y ago
Question for you in particular since you are an author who I read and enjoy (and pay): Would you continue writing novels if you got UBI of equivalent size and weren't allowed to charge for your books?
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by guidoism 3y ago
This exactly. I'm actually really surprised that so many people here who are head-deep in the open-source software community think that books are somehow different. Is restricting the use of your software or the blog post you spent a l
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by guidoism 4y ago
Heh. I have experienced several times where my car didn’t start because the battery died due to too little use. Oops
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by guidoism 4y ago
Is it because the vi-type editors are a lot better or VSCode or just the whole IDE thing (not sure if this is still a thing these days)?
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by guidoism 4y ago
The Paul Nordstrom comment is so funny to me. I joined his team in (I think) late 2000 to build the distributed system that moved Amazon from the single (massive) monolithic binary. I was using vi at the time and I could see him physically
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by guidoism 4y ago
My wife was rocking an Ivy Bridge MacBook Air until just this year and it was working totally fine on all non-browser activities. The only thing that caused her to switch (which she didn't want to do) was that her browser with the 300
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by guidoism 4y ago
I wonder what percentage of the population edits video on their computer. I don’t but I have no idea if I’m just weird or something.
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by guidoism 4y ago
A couple weeks ago I realized I was still running the previous version of MacOS and I honestly don't want to put any effort into upgrading. It works fine right now. What a weird departure when I used to want to upgrade on day 1 and had
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by guidoism 4y ago
What a great name!
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by guidoism 4y ago
I feel this way when I speak Spanish. I'm constantly looking for the right word and it always seems that there is only one word in Spanish that fits multiple words in English. I've had the opposite happen where there are more prec
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by guidoism 4y ago
And that’s not even mostly coffee. It’s milk and sugar, with a little bit of coffee to flavor it.
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by guidoism 4y ago
Nice chunk of historic C code to study. This is what RMS used as a base when he moved from TECO to C. So, if you want to study Emacs without all of the clutter of the modern Emacs repo this is a great place to start.
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Gosling Emacs Source(github.com)
24 points by guidoism 4y ago|6 comments
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by guidoism 4y ago
This is definitely the eventual answer. I can't imagine in ten years we will be hand measuring walls.
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by guidoism 4y ago
https://github.com/guidoism/wildwood/releases/download/20230...
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by guidoism 4y ago
I tried hard to make Sweet Home work for me. It solves the quick and dirty use case but I really wanted something where I could measure out every dimension in the house with a laser measurer, describe the shape and the relationships between
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by guidoism 4y ago
This is almost exactly my gaming setup. I know people have different expectations but in my house this is the fastest gaming computer and can play the best games (like MSFS2020) perfectly. My main computer is an M1 MacBook Air which is esse
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by guidoism 4y ago
Slightly unrelated, I have a friend who moved to the US from Mexico and was asking me about potentially buying a house. He started looking on Zillow with me and his reaction to houses build in the 1950s OMG how can it be that houses are tha
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by guidoism 4y ago
It would be great if this was coordinated. Ideas that are good for people usually don't get a very intelligent effort promoting them compared to really bad ideas that make a few people really rich.
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by guidoism 4y ago
The alternative heat point is interesting, you don't need to be able to heat your entire house with alternative heat for extended periods of time. If properly designed, 99% of the hours of the year should be warm enough for the heat pu
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by guidoism 4y ago
Heh, I was in middle school in Murray KY at the time.
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by guidoism 4y ago
I grew up around here. In 1990 a scientist (Dr. Browning) predicted there would be a major earthquake on a certain day and most parents kept their kids home from school. My dad, a geophysicist, said the guy was a quack so I had to goto scho
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by guidoism 4y ago
I remember when “they” decided to remove the number from the paper invoices and it was pretty controversial within the company. That was in 2000 or 2001 I think.
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by guidoism 4y ago
I actually ordered a Light Phone II a few days ago. I'm not looking to completely replace my iPhone 11 — It works great and I use it all the time and I don't feel like I need to limit myself. What sent me on a quest for a dumb(er)
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by guidoism 4y ago
It looks amazing. Honestly I’d rather see that in most books than colored pics.

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