jefurii

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   by jefurii 9y ago

   I can't cite anything to back this up, but Esperanto is a lot easier for native Japanese speakers to pronounce than English is, plus the grammar is more regular.
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   by jefurii 9y ago

   It's not like private enterprise is doing such a great job.
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   by jefurii 9y ago

   So it's much like traditional print media, just a lot faster and with fewer filters.
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   by jefurii 9y ago

   I suspect that these games are developed by employees rather than temporary contractors.
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   by jefurii 9y ago

   I've been working at my project for ~6 years. It's true that it doesn't have the everything-is-possible excitement of starting a new project. On the other hand, growing and maintaining a codebase over a long period is also
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   by jefurii 9y ago

   > Ah this is infuriating. The link compares USA to other countries. Why not given evidence of Medicare compared to private insurers? If Medicare covered the same set of people as private insurers it might be a good comparison. However i
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   by jefurii 9y ago

   Medicare patients are more expensive because of who it currently covers: elderly and disabled people, two groups that use more services than the general population. The whole point of a single payer AKA Medicare for all system is to cover
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   by jefurii 9y ago

   I'd be okay with less innovation if it meant that everybody got decent medical care. Statistically speaking, most people don't die from exotic conditions but rather from mundane things that just need treatment.
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   by jefurii 9y ago

   > The same phenomenon occurs with glass spheres. Also clear water bottles (filled with water). In 1991 there was a brief period where homeowners all over Japan were putting clear PET bottles (PolyEthylene Terephthalate) at the edge of t
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    by jefurii 9y ago

    I also thought maybe that was some gravitational lensing effect but TFA says there's a "giant bubble" on the surface so maybe it really is shaped like that.
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    by jefurii 9y ago

    > benefit of this is compared to mosh? I use byobu (screen) for all the things this is supposed to address. I think. Byobu doesn't keep your ssh connection from dropping but the session is still there once you reconnect with no lo
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    by jefurii 9y ago

    Again.
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    by jefurii 9y ago

    True, many people are ignorant, but also we've been target of massive, decentralized, decades-long pysops campaigns (aka marketing and public relations) that have steered us in this direction. Update: edited for clarity.
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    by jefurii 9y ago

    Developing world wages wouldn't be so bad if we had correspondingly developing world prices.
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    by jefurii 9y ago

    Also because there are many times when you may not be in front of your own computer but you have your phone with you.
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    by jefurii 9y ago

    I hope you remember your comment when you're 72 years old collecting those shopping carts.
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    by jefurii 9y ago

    Stick around that startup long enough and this a good set of things to do with your own code.
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    by jefurii 9y ago

    If you have line-of-sight to a utility pole, would it be possible for them to mount some gear on it and give you point-to-point wifi?
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    by jefurii 9y ago

    > "What if we do the good things that some religious book says we should do, avoid the bad, be decent human beings, and help others, and there's no afterlife to be rewarded by?" > It is not a good sign if your worldview
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    by jefurii 9y ago

    > I don't think people being forced out of the neighborhood they live in is necessarily a bad thing I wish my account would let me downvote this
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    by jefurii 9y ago

    What about nonprofit web sites that can't afford to pay the extortion fees?
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    by jefurii 9y ago

    "The mark of an experienced engineers is to work backwards from deployment, planning and designing for the reality of production environments." Important point!
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    by jefurii 10y ago

    I dream that someone will come out with a sequencer that's basically a Cirklon with an ncurses UI.
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    by jefurii 10y ago

    I've tried a bunch of tiling WMs and had this same frustration with predefined layouts. OpenBox has turned out to work best for me. It's not a tiling WM exactly but you can map "GrowToEdge(North|South|East|West)" and g
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    by jefurii 10y ago

    Is it related to GalliumOS? I run that on a Chromebook and works great. That said, the top nav element on the site takes up half the screen on my phone and won't go away. Super annoying.
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    by jefurii 10y ago

    > Also similar to American houses, they now are all built around wooden frames. That's cheap and easy (the frames are made in a factory and just screwed together on site), but in a wet and windy island it's a very bad idea. Any
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    by jefurii 10y ago

    > I also recall a Minecraft mod called ComputerCraft There's also OpenComputers https://github.com/MightyPirates/OpenComputers
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    by jefurii 10y ago

    Lewis and Tolkien both spend a lot of time exploring the internal moral and ethical struggles of their protagonists, the development of courage, and the importance of doing the right thing even when no one is looking or in the face of oppos
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    by jefurii 10y ago

    Apparently, if you have Taiwanese ancestry and a relative who owns property there, you can apply for dual citizenship. Once you have that you are covered under their national healthcare system. You still have to fly there to get treatment
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    by jefurii 10y ago

    "Extreme pedantry"! I like the sound of that! Makes me want to listen to some MC Frontalot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7sKhHPKqAc