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811.
by jefurii 11y ago
Similar to the reason why lawyers, doctors, architects and accountants don't have labor unions. What about the American Bar Association, American Medical Association, and other similar groups? They're maybe more like guilds, bu
812.
by jefurii 11y ago
It's interesting to see him being accused of being "socialist" or "communist" when his decision seems to flow from his conservative Christian upbringing.
813.
by jefurii 11y ago
In one of William Gibson's Bridge Trilogy novels one of the main characters lives in a shipping container in Southern California. It has come to pass.
814.
by jefurii 11y ago
> this type of wealth redistribution As opposed to the kind where the bosses pay absurdly low wages and distribute the profits to themselves? Update: grammar, typo
815.
by jefurii 11y ago
> “If you went to Boston Harbor and pulled up a cup of water and looked under a microscope, you’d see very different species later on,” Dutkiewicz says. “By 2100, you’d see ones that were living maybe closer to North Carolina now, up nea
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by jefurii 11y ago
> "configure everything, expose everything" The very UNIX-y solution is to have a nice, simple, friendly UI on top of the infinitely-configurable command-line engine. Or better yet, two different friendly UIs and you choose wh
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by jefurii 11y ago
Recently a cosmic ray flipped a bit in my home laptop's configs. The wifi stopped working and I've been too lazy to fix it. My home network rack is far from my reading chair and has no seating nearby. This has worked out surpris
818.
by jefurii 11y ago
I'm interested in the data formats and image processing used for all this. I've heard a couple mentions in passing that they're "not in your standard JPG" but I'd like to know more.
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by jefurii 11y ago
~$400 is cheaper than a real standing desk but not that much.
820.
by jefurii 11y ago
Reading the title I thought maybe this was going to be about the logistics industry. Shipping containers are a lot like packets, ports and train yards are a lot like routers, etc.
821.
by jefurii 11y ago
++ I'd like to know what software was used. Please!
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by jefurii 11y ago
Some of my most productive times were in school when I got up super-early, went to classes before noon, slept all afternoon, and then studied til late at night. Early morning and late night are both really creative times, while afternoon i
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by jefurii 11y ago
I set up Redmine for my wife, who is an attorney. She uses it to communicate with her clients and manage projects, and also for some personal stuff. She really likes it.
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by jefurii 11y ago
> That said, Laura Poitras in bustling Berlin or an entire major newspaper might be an easier target ... That incident where British government officials destroyed the laptop containing The Guardian's copy of the documents makes mor
825.
by jefurii 11y ago
I'm working on a distributed digital archive built on Git and git-annex. https://github.com/densho/ddr-cmdln
826.
by jefurii 11y ago
Part of me wishes I could un-see all the stuff that came after it, so that I could go back and play it with my original excitement intact. You're in luck: "Black Mesa is a re-envisioning of Valve Software's classic science
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by jefurii 11y ago
Yet another reason to wipe the drive on a new computer and just install Linux...
828.
by jefurii 11y ago
Except in California.
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by jefurii 12y ago
> Personally, I gave up on the commute and just rented an apartment 9 minutes away from work Not everyone can do that -- it's harder when you have kids.
830.
by jefurii 12y ago
> Unfortunatelly, Los Angeles is built with 3-4 choke points to get from... San Fernando Valley to... the west side and mid-wilshire. Public transit in Southern Cali is pretty good if you work in downtown LA.
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by jefurii 12y ago
This would be less of a problem if companies didn't all feel they had to be located in Santa Monica and West LA. Maybe the head office absolutely has to be on the Westside because of the cool address, but what about satellite offices
832.
by jefurii 12y ago
xX | Kerbal Space Program MLG_PRO_SKILL | NO_MECHJEB | 360°_ORBITS |Xx - YouTube https://youtu.be/zszJRsGzo9A
833.
by jefurii 12y ago
Seriously, speaking as a parent, I can tell you that life gets a lot more complicated when a child is in the picture. I want to be a good parent to my child, and because my spouse also works this sometimes requires that I occasionaly atten
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by jefurii 12y ago
A couple years ago when I visited the Computer History Museum I hadn't ever seen an analog computer, or hadn't realized what I was looking at when I saw a depiction of one. Modular synthesizers were just coming to my attention ag
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by jefurii 12y ago
You don't have kids, do you?
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by jefurii 12y ago
astronomicalbodiesformerlyknownasthemoon.com was registered by someone on 2015-03-12.
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by jefurii 12y ago
You can also just turn styles off ("View > Page Style > No Style" in Firefox).
838.
by jefurii 12y ago
The Force is strong in that one.
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by jefurii 12y ago
This and git-annex (and git-fat and others) use the same basic architecture of storing links in Git and schlepping the binaries around separately. Git-annex renames binaries with their SHA256 hashes, puts them in a .git/annex/ dir
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by jefurii 12y ago
> ... and always had false starts with Fedora or Ubuntu. Usually the package manager would break and everything would fall to pieces. I ended up installing Arch as a Subversion server for some personal projects, and that's what fina

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