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by kd5bjo 7y ago
When I’m mailing out Christmas cards every year, in addition to friends and family, I often include some random thank-you notes to people that have been helpful in the prior year, whether they know me personally or not.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Actualy, it’s the maintainer’s responsibility to make their code serve their own interests. Those often, but not always, align with the users’ interests.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Re: #2, it's also possible that an ad you saw and dismissed prompted you to start thinking about replacing your TV, and then a later ad from the same campaign seems like an odd coincidence.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
There is an assumption here that all conciousness and experience ceases at the moment of death, which doesn’t agree with many people’s beliefs. If there is an afterlife, it is entirely possible you’ll find yourself in a universe where you
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> What are your ways of reducing this warm-up time? Or maybe I'm just lazy and nobody else have this problem? As far as I can tell, this is a fairly normal part of knowledge / creative work. You call it wasted time, but some p
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> Can you imagine any ordinary industry acting like this? You mean proactively explaining to their workforce the reasoning behind actions likely to gain widespread attention in the press? Yes; that's called treating your employees w
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> figments of the imagination and thus not real Physics doesn’t have exclusive domain over the term “real.” Dreams and hallucinations belong primarily to Psychology, but they are real phenomena that we can and do study.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Cameras can't see anything that doesn't interact with the electromagnetic spectrum, but most people see things that don't physically exist from time to time; they're called dreams or hallucinations, depending on context.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I was working at Facebook when the CA story broke, but not when the events happened. I was in a department far removed from any of the involved parties. I haven't worked for them for several years now, and I currently own no FB stock
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Point of order: Based on the anti-linkbait guideline for titles, can this be changed to something less imperative and more informative? “Underfunded research initiatives” seems like a reasonable start, but maybe someone can come upwith some
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
If I remember correctly, the percentage of light that passes through a column of water exponentially decays with distance, like stacking a bunch of fixed-percentage optical filters on top of each other. They’re using parallax shift between
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
>I for one cannot help see the author in their books, and knowledge of their actions certainly influences how I interpret these books. This is part of the reason why I avoid reading about authors. Like the practice of symphonies doing a
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Interestingly, it's the lack of searchability that made me gravitate towards a physical system. It forces me to think about the situations I may find myself in when I'll want a piece of information, in order to file it in the cor
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
GTD's a wonderful system for keeping track of things you should be doing, but I find his filing system for everything else to be a bit lacking. I've supplemented it with ideas from The Card Index System ¹, traditional library ca
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Write the topic of the note on the index line, and store them sorted. If a card connects multiple topics, pick one and make cross-reference cards that point to the topic with the actual note. The act of filing new notes will force you to a
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
In many ways, it comes down to the standard writing adage of "know your audience". In the case of notes, that's generally a future version of yourself; knowing how you plan to use the notes in the future will inform their st
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> If you ask me this is a problem in every highly regulated industry. You often find that the regulations have exceptions for smaller changes. Another example of this is getting planning permission to build a house. Renovations are gene
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> So why is write not doing an implicit drain? Well it's a massive API oversight and I'm not exactly sure how it happened. Separating these two operations allows code to use multiple write() calls to build up a single record at
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
At some point, the company was renamed from Masaki to Mitsubishi, and the logo similarity can’t be an accident. They may not be officially related, but there’s almost certainly an interesting history between the two companies.
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I think you may be misusing the term “capitalist”. I always understood that it had more to do with the production side of a business than sales or long-term goals: the capitalist (a founder or investor) provides capital so that a business
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Copyright and patent authority is explicitly granted to the Federal government by Art. I, Sec. 8 of the US constitution: The Congress shall have Power ... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I would not be surprised if they had a safety specialist assigned to evaluate paragraph A3 of each proposal, in isolation from everything else. For fairness, that specialist may not have even been given access to the other parts of the app
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I didn’t mean to imply that your assertion was unsupport able , but rather to draw attention to the fact you didn’t provide any justification for it. Had you referred to one or two of these in your original comment, it would have gone a lo
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
I'm certainly not going to defend San Francisco's behavior. I think we can all agree that Skip was wronged by the city here. If you're in a position to do something about the quality of the bureaucrats, fixing their behavio
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
>Who is down voting this? It is correct. Simply being correct is not the only criterion for a comment being a positive contribution to the conversation. The comment also needs to relate its new information to the topic at hand. At a gue
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
The application form requires a paragraph labeled A3, and their application had the required information but didn’t label it as A3. That’s the sort of mistake that can land you in bureaucratic purgatory anywhere in the world, which is exac
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
> it's demonstrable that they did not vote in their rational best interests Actually, it's not. You're reducing the whole spectrum of things that they may care about to the single axis of healthcare costs, and not perform
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
It’s important to understand both why you want to retain ownership and why the company wants to have ownership. It’s entirely possible that there’s some arrangement that satisfies everyone’s needs. For example, you may be able to get them
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
Python for loops aren’t actually bounded: if the iterator you’re looping over doesn’t terminate then neither will the loop. It also only calls the iterator’s next() method once per loop, so it’s possible for the body of a loop to affect fu
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by kd5bjo 7y ago
If none of the more complicated strucures will provide the liability protection that you're going to need, there's also the possibility of doing business as a sole proprietor/DBA. You get no protections at all, but the repor

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