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by jefurii 6y ago
In my statement I wasn't trying to center museums particularly. The OP was asking about nature conservation and museums/libraries are the aspect of preservation of the natural world or care of people and communities that I'm
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by jefurii 6y ago
It's most certainly better for your soul, but get ready to take a pay cut. After a short career in game development and a much longer career in museum/library/archives, my take is that our societies values are out of whack:
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by jefurii 6y ago
yet another reason to just stop eating beef already
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by jefurii 6y ago
I'd go out and buy a NAS and fill it up with backups from IA if it would help the collection survive. Point me at the project.
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by jefurii 6y ago
Is it really that hard to spell "Chinese" correctly? You've done it twice now.
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by jefurii 6y ago
I have an Indian dev friend who's here on an H1B in exactly the situation that KorematsuFred describes. H1B is just a more sophisticated "Gentlemen's Agreement" (a racist way of using Asian peoples' labor while deny
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by jefurii 6y ago
> I feel like with modern technologies like ... we ought to be able to do a lot of things that we couldn't even imagine doing in 2005... As a self-taught programmer I would say that what all these less efficient bit easier to learn
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by jefurii 6y ago
> The difference in productivity between C# and Python is such that they might as well have been developed by different civilizations. I think they were. Is that a bad thing?
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by jefurii 6y ago
> What if, just as the medical-care crisis started to spiral in New York City, in Detroit, in New Orleans, the internet in those places had stopped working—an hour at a time, a couple of hours in the late afternoon? What if the internet
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by jefurii 7y ago
I saw a sneak preview of Pi in Westwood, CA after finding a strange rack-card at Tower Records. The front of the card had the symbol pi and the digits printed in microscopic text in the background. The back had two showtimes, one that very
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by jefurii 7y ago
Good reminder to use pip cache.
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by jefurii 7y ago
> DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use This is news to people?
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by jefurii 7y ago
Yep, relative velocity is one of the main considerations. The other would be to have cyclists following the same basic set of rules as cars, making their behavior more predictable to auto drivers.
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by jefurii 7y ago
Yep, we gotta do what we can starting with where we're at.
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by jefurii 7y ago
As a matter of fact I have given up eating beef (except for certain special occasions involving traditional family foods) and drinking cow's milk for this very reason. I also restrict my intake of pork, which is the next most enviro
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by jefurii 7y ago
Honda Fit FTW! So much space for cargo when you put the back seats down. Engine is like a go-kart tho.
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by jefurii 7y ago
As a kid my dad commuted to work on a bike and he made me take a class at a local bike store with actual course materials and a totally-not-official bike license before he let me ride on the street. In the late 1970s-early 1980s when cyclis
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by jefurii 7y ago
I support Aaron Gordon's right to express his opinions, which I happen to share. I also assert that people who buy and drive gratuitously huge trucks are polluting the atmosphere, which affects me and my family and which gives me a ri
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by jefurii 7y ago
I thought this was going to be an article about all the SQLite databases embedded in applications, and on smartphones and watches and other devices. Or about how Archive.org publishes metadata for individual objects in OBJECT_meta.sqlite f
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by jefurii 7y ago
Maybe they do in fact care, but from the kinds of decisions they make it certainly does not appear that they do.
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by jefurii 7y ago
Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe
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by jefurii 7y ago
I think the grandparent was referring to GOP politicians who tweet their "hopes and prayers" after every mass shooting instead of doing something effective to stop the epidemic of gun violence.
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by jefurii 7y ago
How about a Rust or a Go with Python syntax?
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by jefurii 7y ago
Private and charter schools may be nice for the individuals who get to go to them but from a macro perspective they are terrible. They suck money away from the public school system. We need to have a country were education is for everybody
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by jefurii 7y ago
I'm suspicious about sites like DNYUZ that offer no information about themselves. There's an About link at the bottom but the endless autoscroller is so aggressive I can't click it, and /about/ just leads to an art
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by jefurii 7y ago
Also sourcehut / sr.ht.
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by jefurii 7y ago
I do all my personal browsing in Firefox and my work in Chromium. When I need to concentrate I run `pkill firefox`.
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by jefurii 7y ago
I wish we could see promotion of good health and good education as investments in our country.
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by jefurii 7y ago
You mean like what the U.S. did to Central American countries during the 80s? OR Vietnam, where we overthrew a democratically elected socialist government and installed a puppet, then dropped napalm on them when the didn't like that?
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by jefurii 7y ago
Good point. Update: "social democracy" is probably a better term here.

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