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by ics 12y ago
Hopefully someone who really wants this feature won't just spam them with a thousand "+1" messages. ;)
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by ics 12y ago
Not the best source, but I recall Mythbusters testing some of these things years ago without any success. That site is particularly scammy ($500 to get started as a dealer! "I made over $21k in less than half a day!") but do you k
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by ics 12y ago
I said it elsewhere, but it's just a sign to the removal crew so that they don't have to look [hard] for it. It might be unnecessary, it might just be up the whim of whoever was working that day. We don't know, and so I'
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by ics 12y ago
Read my analogy again (despite it's flaws). It isn't mainline kernel development has been breached . It is more like *Ubuntu accidentally set `APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated "true";` and then thousands of users upgraded
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by ics 12y ago
My comments were solely directed towards those whose knee-jerk reaction was to call this a clear act of deliberate censorship[1] or "Soviet-style oppression" (in another comment chain). If you don't agree with those comment
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by ics 12y ago
Unless destroying it was the only way to remove it, it would likely go to the nearest impound lot (where I believe it can actually be claimed by the owners for a fee, though that might invite other problems).
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Construction and Installation of the Charging Bull in NYC(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ics 12y ago
I was born here in the '90s so I'm pretty sure I missed the whole phreaking scene, but your statement is a strawman regardless. I am advocating for this sort of public intervention. I support it 100%. Do I have to repeat that
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by ics 12y ago
I am not inventing them; it is their (Parks and Rec) responsibility to handle contingencies that could cause them or their users trouble. You don't know what chance it [the sculpture causing harm] is because you know absolutely nothi
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by ics 12y ago
> It's a couple feet tall and entirely inside the width of a large pillar. It's not going to fall on anyone. You're probably right, but that's a very naive way to approach public safety and accountability. If it was s
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by ics 12y ago
Indeed, the analogy is rough and probably reveals that I am not a programmer by trade. As with all analogies, one hopes that others can lift them into slight abstraction in order to find the meaning and reach a similar conclusion or line of
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by ics 12y ago
- Smuggling a heavy bronze statue into a park has bypassed security (yes, parks have security). - Statues have potential but very small likelihood of being 'malicious'. - Heavy statues have great potenti
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by ics 12y ago
Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean– litter? Or "junk" as in something hidden in the statue (far more conspiratorial than I intended this whole discussion to go)? Edit: I think I know what you mean based on your other reply to
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by ics 12y ago
No, it's the universal sign for "this is the thing that needs to be removed". Unfortunately they don't have cones which read "unauthorized object subject to removal immediately" which would get the point across
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by ics 12y ago
Well as someone who lives right nearby, visits the park from time to time, knows people who work in the park... the integrity of their system has been compromised . Sure, the threat may be considered pretty mundane (by non-sculptors at lea
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by ics 12y ago
By otherwise trusted I simply mean that it is included by default, not that you specifically trust the source. Is the the park's reaction much different from using a disassembler? They cover it up so until someone can come to inspect i
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by ics 12y ago
As I said in another response: it's a political statement made with public art. As far as Parks and Rec is concerned, it's big heavy piece of vandalism, the integrity of which they know nothing about. To put this in a programmer&#
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by ics 12y ago
They have to wait for someone to move it (maybe someone within the Parks department, they have the equipment at least) but it's worth pointing out that a job in NYC Parks as highly bureaucratic it is desirable. Many employees are profe
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by ics 12y ago
Err... we're talking about an installation in one of the most heavily trafficked park systems in the world. I'm surprised it stayed up long enough for some stranger to get a video of it. Sure, there are neglected parks in NYC but
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by ics 12y ago
It builds fine for me just now on 10.10. I did have to pop in to zsh instead of fish because of `SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'` though. The font rendering looks a bit off for me but it's blazingly fast.
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by ics 12y ago
But then maybe wanting someone else to use their money efficiently is selfish of us when they might rather develop as people by observing and empathizing with the struggles of others.
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by ics 12y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbMVj9XSUo (Running emacs in neovim) This is pretty fun. It's using the new terminal emulator within Neovim which is mentioned in this newsletter.
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by ics 12y ago
I've read Christopher Alexander (related: A Second Modernism - MIT, Architecture, and the 'Techno-Social' Movement). While I like his work and agree that he has had far-reaching influence on today's world, his architect
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by ics 12y ago
I may be missing the sarcasm but the idea that "nobody want to travel and take photos of [modern movement]" is about as myopic as it is perfectly opposite to one of the leading pedagogies in architecture schools today. People do m
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by ics 12y ago
The cost of decent sushi is: - The owner going to the market every morning to select what he thinks are the best fish and then haggle for them - Bringing it back, holding it until a customer orders without letting it spoil - When ready, pre
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by ics 12y ago
See my response below regarding note cards. As an alternative, a twice-folded sheet of letter size paper may be more available and gives you much more space. I lay the card down either beside the page I am reading or on the back cover (you
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by ics 12y ago
> My summary is that I think he's a con man who figured out how to insert himself into art circles and game rich pretentious patrons into parting with their money, who then justifying the purchase of trite oversized dentist office p
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Complex Numbers [pdf](numbertheory.org)
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by ics 12y ago
I used to be able to remember most of what I read verbatim without any effort. These days, the harder I try to filter and remember selectively, the worse my memory gets. What started as a mild compulsion has since become very useful– taking
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by ics 12y ago
I'm sure if you could murder people en-masse from a website (or offer them "we won't murder you" service for a fee) that they would be getting much longer than 18 years...

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