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by ink_13 2y ago
What an unnecessarily narrow view. There are options beyond "rules are permanent forever" and "our only choice is to remove all of the rules". But by all means, tear down all these fences without understanding why they
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by ink_13 2y ago
This may shock you, but sometimes the rule trashers only think of the advantages removing the rules will bring, and don't consider the downsides
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by ink_13 2y ago
One hack I've seen is to be the interviewer, not the interviewee
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by ink_13 2y ago
Well, in that case the good news is that they're being returned to the artists
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by ink_13 2y ago
A shame the title has been mangled by HN's filters. The store's actual name was "The World's Biggest Bookstore".
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by ink_13 2y ago
> a bunch of classmates which you have no choice about you get to associate with This is actually extremely valuable as a life experience, and not gaining it as a child represents a major loss
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by ink_13 2y ago
This is a bummer. Having used a variety of "enterprise" platforms, Workplace was easily the best. Work Chat was nothing special, but moving most communication to group posts and comments was so much better than email or group ch
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by ink_13 2y ago
Bluntly, they're irrelevant. Selling off the real estate is a short-term books-juicer that's tantamount to pillaging the contingency fund. Classic corporate raider move.
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by ink_13 2y ago
I have played a lot of Pearl, and almost as much Unruly and and Keen. I find a custom-sized Pearl board so that it fills as much of my phone screen as possible without getting teeny is just the right length to fill a minute or two. I wan
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by ink_13 2y ago
Not this thin, unless Chinese manufacturing has made heretofore unknown advances in materials science.
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by ink_13 2y ago
So the uBlock Origin rule to turn it off looks like this: youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.kevlar_watch_grid, false) I imagine if you change that `false` to `true`, that should work.
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by ink_13 3y ago
"8PM", like most timekeeping, is a human invention devoid of intrinsic meaning. Noon is the only time that means anything in relation to the world: it's when the sun is directly overhead*. Analog clocks are tiny mechanical
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by ink_13 3y ago
I'm not a "capitalism gives you brain worms" kind of person, but the idea that we should literally change the location of the sun in the sky because that's what's most convenient and the hours of work are sacrosanct
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by ink_13 3y ago
That's not true, actually. Code for restoring from Arq backups is freely available: https://github.com/arqbackup/arq_restore
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by ink_13 3y ago
Still using my Model M from 1988 via a no-name PS/2-to-USB adapter. It came with the 386 PS/2 PC my father bought for business use. I long ago accepted that it's older than some of the people I work with. I have a backup 19
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by ink_13 3y ago
Given how easy it is to create a reddit account I don't know how much privacy is being surrendered in practical terms
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by ink_13 3y ago
> There is some good stuff on the utoronto blog To be clear, this is the blog of one person at the University of Toronto, representing only himself, who has been working on Unix and Linux systems for, oh, probably 40 years at this poin
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by ink_13 3y ago
Meta doesn't do that. For one thing, "Patch Tuesday" is a Windows thing, and 0% of production traffic is served from Windows there. For another, they are constantly and always redeploying. More likely that someone bungled a
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by ink_13 3y ago
These points assume that costs would stay the same and there's no overhead in the existing insurance system. Single-payer could be cheaper and more efficient simply by returning the massive profits of health insurers directly to taxpay
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by ink_13 3y ago
I have published one complete work in Lilypond which I estimate has been downloaded about 50k times (and those downloads were probably reused for multiple people, because it was an instructional work). I guess that qualifies me to answer?
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by ink_13 3y ago
Oooh, very tricky. I think we might have to try...Upminster? Yeah, that should work here.
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by ink_13 3y ago
IMO the challenge comes from within. Can you really funnel everything into one central factory by train alone? Without traffic jams? Or can you make $XX,XXX,XXX by date YYYY?
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by ink_13 3y ago
The idea that academic work should be grounded in "applicability" is a lazy canard. Nobody was much convinced that decades of work in number theory was worth much of anything until applications in cryptography were discovered. W
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by ink_13 3y ago
Karabiner-Elements will do this for you on Mac. I consider it indispensable.
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by ink_13 3y ago
If you're going to go to the effort to build a luxury/fancy toaster, this is the mechanism to use. Since the antique Sunbeam is increasingly hard to find, might actually be a compelling product, too, on top of the "Made in t
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by ink_13 3y ago
It's certainly idiosyncratic, I might go so far as provocative or strange myself, but perhaps perplexing is a bit far, because it's not like what he meant was unclear. (Unless one finds the question "buy why mean it that way?
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by ink_13 3y ago
You could tell a rationalist wrote it from the title alone. No one else writes blog entries titled "Contra X".
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by ink_13 3y ago
Windows XP was arguably Windows 2000 with a Fisher-Price UI bolted on, which in turn was "just" Windows NT with the Win98SE shell bolted on, so there's that, too. (My MS kernel developer friends might disagree with this asses
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by ink_13 3y ago
Alas, those have been drywalled over and closed for good at YYZ. A real bummer, especially since it seems I have to traverse those passageways every time I return from the US or Europe.
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by ink_13 3y ago
In this vein, I can personally vouch for the Sakura Pigma Micron they recommend as an excellent felt-tip pen.

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