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by jefurii 10y ago
Lots and lots of marketing?
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by jefurii 10y ago
When it's your job getting outsourced you'll suddenly find that you care about this issue.
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That's just like consensus processes in humans!
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by jefurii 10y ago
> Fourth, people use git in creative ways. Linus may think it is a cardinal sin to commit binary blobs in a git repository, but I can't imagine I'm the only one using git as a poor man's backup and file sharing solution. g
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by jefurii 10y ago
> It's precisely because most developers are terrible at mathematical reasoning that so much software is so difficult to reason about -- there are tons of unnecessary special cases, when hidden inside all the tangled logic there&#x2
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Or pipeline ruptures. The real point is that we need to get off fossil fuels altogether.
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by jefurii 10y ago
They were concentration camps, plain and simple. And yes it was FDR. I really like the New Deal but Executive Order 9066 is a big stain on his record.
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by jefurii 10y ago
Lots of copies keeps stuff safe.
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by jefurii 10y ago
Or store it in a Git repository, the "stupid content tracker". If you have binaries use git-annex.
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by jefurii 10y ago
I work for a digital archives project and we're concerned about similar issues of provenance. Our way of dealing with this has been to structure our archives as JSON-formatted text in Git repositories, with binaries managed by git-ann
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So basically these are not jobs, they are "jobs".
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" Some of these are objectively good"??? I skimmed the list and these are all good unless you're employed an oil or tobacco company. If you are it's time to make a career change. Supposedly unbiased "both sides&q
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by jefurii 10y ago
Git is not "simple" from the point of view of new users. But it is "simple" from the point of view of the programmers of Git. There's the graph structure and some tools to manipulate it. It doesn't do much t
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by jefurii 10y ago
"School choice" is code for rich people sending their kids to private schools and not contribute to the public good, or for businesses trying to squeeze profit out of taxpayer money. I'm sick of that bullshit.
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by jefurii 10y ago
The desire to be able to do whatever you what, when you want, is part of how we got to this climate-changing situation in the first place.
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by jefurii 10y ago
This is a really interesting project: store energy in the form of concrete blocks moved up and down slopes by electric train bogies with regenerative braking. http://www.aresnorthamerica.com/
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If you take it as a metaphor -- humans (consumers) as the food source for corporations -- it's not so far fetched at all.
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by jefurii 10y ago
Reminds me of a 1996 Argentine science fiction film called "Moebius" which involves a missing train, topology, the Dirty War, and of course Borges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moebius_%281996_film%29
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by jefurii 10y ago
So this is why my RPi is no longer responding to SSH?
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by jefurii 10y ago
Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone has been one of the best journalists in a mainstream publication for some time now. He was writing informative and critical pieces on Wall Street after 2008 when nobody else was. Papers like NYT and WaPo are de
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by jefurii 10y ago
We need to have voter registration and vote tally databases that have the characteristics of Git repositories. Because every piece in a Git repo has a SHA1 hash, you can verify that each and every piece is what it says it is and has the co
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by jefurii 10y ago
> It's a great story, and shows that the protectionist right-wing creed of low taxes, and low pay for employees, along with minimal public investment, is bunk. Perhaps, if the right is serious about "making the country great,&q
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by jefurii 10y ago
My sense is that 1pm Sunday is when lots of people are either a) just getting out of church or b) just waking up with a hangover. They then try to go somewhere they don't normally go to and don't know the directions to. Normal w
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by jefurii 10y ago
Emacs flickers? I've never noticed this, but I've only ever used it on Linux. Maybe it flickers in OSX?
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All the more reason for a single-payer/public option system. Spread the costs across the entire system instead of making individual small businesses take the hit on their own.
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Looks like not much of a role at all. After all of my experiences with insurance companies I'm quite okay with that. A NHS-style system would still need staff in order to function and I expect many rank-and-file insurance people would
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by jefurii 10y ago
SDF ( http://sdf.org/ ) started out as a BBS but by the early 90s had turned itself into a public access UNIX system with a community feel. One of the original admins is now on staff at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle.
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> There is no science that can explain this sort of thing that I know of, and I fully expect that others would have different interpretations. The article had a pretty good explanation: that strings sound different at different tensions.
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> At some point (agile?) we explicitly gave up all moral responsibility for our creations, to people with money. You hit the nail on the head. It happened when we stopped financing our own work.
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> LA is literally sucking them dry with the aqueduct Those alfalfa farms where the entire crop is shipped off to China are a huge chunk of the state's water usage. The Central Valley could also move from almonds and other water-int

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