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by igor47 6y ago
Have you considered that there are many other people with the same thing to say, who are saying it with the respectful tone you demand, and are being just as politely and quietly ignored?
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by igor47 6y ago
mmm, i wouldn't say that. arrow is really meant as a lower-level utility with usability abstractions layered on top. for low-level tasks, like serializing/deserializing, arrow is amazing, but if you want to actually explore or tra
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by igor47 6y ago
if you're a fan, or intrigued by, ivan illich, i recommend the convivial society ( https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/ ) which is probably the most consistently insightful newsletter i receive
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by igor47 6y ago
seriously, my heart was pounding for a sec. the subject line should really be changed.
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by igor47 6y ago
if we run out of oil, we have much, much bigger problems. even if you take claimed reserves with a healthy dose of skepticism -- which you should, because oil-producing nations treat those reserves as assets that they can borrow against --
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by igor47 6y ago
oh, interesting. do you have a source?
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by igor47 6y ago
this makes a lot of sense. sure, "anything could happen", even in 50 miles, but the risk of an accident when driving a short distance is much less than the risk of an accident when driving longer distances. this is simular to how
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by igor47 6y ago
> Ultimately, this omission of experts and lack of nuance results in The Social Dilemma feeling like a missed opportunity. On the plus side, it informs a wide audience about issues like surveillance, persuasive design practices, and the
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by igor47 6y ago
I've been coming at this from the other side and writing typed Python for my little experiments. You can add just enough type hints to make life easier, but not go obsessive over it. Then vim with Python ale tells me if I've done
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by igor47 6y ago
for folks in the bay area, i have a few extra PMS7003 devices. if you'd like to build your own one of these, ping me (email in profile) and i can leave one on my porch for you to come grab.
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Minimum Viable Air Quality Monitoring(igor.moomers.org)
8 points by igor47 6y ago|2 comments
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by igor47 6y ago
Not sure about Emacs, but node and go can be maintained with `asdf`
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by igor47 6y ago
Makes me think of the bash' from Too Like the Lightning
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AWS MFA Locally with `Direnv`(igor.moomers.org)
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If not you -- who?
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by igor47 6y ago
> the best way to allocate resources i think the word that jumps out at me here is "best". what does this mean? is there an absolute agreed-upon best, or is best relative? in this situation (re: ride-share companies), i think i
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by igor47 6y ago
saw a comment in a readme, like: > the initial reputation for the first author becomes negligible as time goes curious, how do you handle automated author creation and reputation farming?
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by igor47 7y ago
Aclima -- ONSITE -- San Francisco (Embarcadero) -- Full-stack( JS/Python) & Embedded (Python/ROS/Angstrom/BitBake) keywords: Cleantech, clean air, climate, public good, civic, govtech, big data, data science Hi folks
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by igor47 7y ago
Doesn't help your own career, though. After leaving a certain well known tech company, I also wanted to reflect honestly on the experience of working there. I tried to be honest, in a blog post you can probably find, about the problems
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by igor47 7y ago
Is this "personal" workspace hosted on someone else's computer?
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by igor47 7y ago
a friend who works on comms for health organizations mentioned that the number of cases of 19-ncov in the US is probably dramatically understated because of problems with testing kits, described here.
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by igor47 7y ago
it would probably be some sort of PCR, probably something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_transcription_polymera... edit: yup: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab&#x
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by igor47 7y ago
i bought a house with a group of friends, and we're using loomio to manage the household -- organizing maintenance, meetings, and various decisions. it's especially nice for asynchronous decision-making, which should be the only a
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by igor47 7y ago
Product pitch reminded me of Loomio, which is a platform for community collaboration that I've been using a lot lately. If the headline brought you here, but then you got confused by all the block chain stuff, maybe check it out.
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Air quality and air pollution are real problems with real consequences for people's lives. At Aclima, we're partnering with communities and regulators to help. Come work with us on something that really matters. We are building a
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by igor47 7y ago
I keep my GPS turned off most of the time -- more private, and saves battery life too. But there's no way to hide my location from my service provider (I guess I could be in ️ mode most of the time? Maybe an app that puts my phone in a
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by igor47 7y ago
plug: if you're interested in air quality issues, we're hiring at Aclima. ping me at igor at aclima.io. we're deploying a distributed sensor grid to get actionable air-quality intelligence around the world, which we believe c
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by igor47 7y ago
Similarly, just yesterday I had to go home from the cafe I was working in because I had to push a docker image. The wifi just wasn't fast enough for that, though plenty fast for googling documentation
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by igor47 7y ago
Why do dynamic languages excel when failure is not so bad? What makes non-dynamic (compiled?) languages better when failure is bad? I'm parsing your comment to mean, "it's easier to write correct code in compiled languages&
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by igor47 7y ago
the author is focused on finite games, which are games that you play to win. but it's interesting to think about applying the same logic to infinite games, where the goal is to keep playing forever. For instance, capitalism is a game t

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