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by klik99 4y ago
I forget who said it, but one theory I've heard is that kids are naturally afraid of their parents and haven't built the ability to hold opposing views at the same time, so they have trouble reconciling these loving god-like figur
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by klik99 4y ago
For those who don't want to watch the whole thing - check out the repair @ 9:54 - truly amazing work - they show the detailed work leading up if you rewind from there. Personally I have a bunch of patches I like that I sew over holes -
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by klik99 5y ago
THIS is how you sunset a product, good on him for making a tough choice and doing it the right way
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by klik99 5y ago
Sounds like they're a trisolarian agent
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by klik99 5y ago
Supports Windows and Mac too, not just linux - thanks for mentioning this, this fills a really big need for me
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by klik99 5y ago
Marmite vs Vegemite is a niche holy war of emacs vs vi levels - literally noone outside cares. Being in Shanghai with a bunch of UK and Aussie expats it came up a lot. I'm Marmite/Emacs myself.
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by klik99 5y ago
This is absolutely true, and also why this can cause so much anxiety in most people. More people are afraid of flying in airplanes than driving a car precisely because they have no control over the outcome. Posting an opinion on social medi
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by klik99 5y ago
Depends on how you read it. His writing is very playful and he tries to break up dense parts with a lighter part or an allegorical retelling of the previous info. I'm a pretty quick reader, so the first time I read it I got through the
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by klik99 5y ago
I see a lot of similarities in The Witness to "Godel, Escher, Bach" and I was certain JBlow had read that book - and I asked a friend who worked out The Witness about it. My friend said during development he thought the same exact
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by klik99 5y ago
There are obviously layers of meaning (like how things are taught), but ultimately I don't think it's about that - it's about how being immersed in a way of looking at the world bleeds into all aspects of how you see the worl
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by klik99 5y ago
Did you use https://code.google.com/archive/p/acme-sac/ or acme in p9 or inferno? I only had limited experience with acme in p9 during some experiments with distributed audio, but once it clicked with me it m
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by klik99 5y ago
Yeah, I never really looked at mouse binding, but does look quite simple. This implements acme chording for copy/paste and the approach looks straightforward: https://github.com/akrito/acme-mouse/blob/mas
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by klik99 5y ago
> Adding right-click context menus is a natural extension to Emacs’s already-extensive support for the mouse (even if a lot of people don’t use it.) If emacs could support plan9 acme-style chords with custom commands then I'd probab
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by klik99 5y ago
I remember in my early 30s complaining to a friend about how I thought I was becoming boring. He reminded me that I complained of the same thing when I was in my early 20s. Despite it not /feeling/ good, it's probably a good
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by klik99 5y ago
Regarding the complex phone arrangement: There's an effect, the name escapes me, that adding security can make threats less frequent but more dangerous. Sounds like he was more complacent because he had trust in his phone system. And I
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by klik99 5y ago
There's one easy rule that could have avoided all of this - never give out any info on incoming calls. If I get a call or text about fraudulent transactions, I'll keep them on hold while I log into the bank website. If I get a cal
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by klik99 5y ago
Reminds me a line in the song "Lucky like St. Sebastian" about the desire to be a martyr - "Scenes like this give sadomasochism a bad name". In it he laments that his unrequited love is not as "divine" as Dante
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by klik99 5y ago
A couple of questions from someone struggling to put this in more relatable terms: Isn't information in theoretical physics just mean something that repeats, or perhaps relatable, in some way - for example an underlying structure simil
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by klik99 5y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Chris seems like a very respectful person and I've never heard this direct language from him publicly - it must've been a pretty bad situation. It's too bad Swift is straying from his origina
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by klik99 5y ago
What's frustrating is that it used to be more common in the US in mid-20th century, after the break up of large companies 100 years ago, but is now regressing back to what's been the norm for almost all human civilization.
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by klik99 5y ago
I think the focus on the ultra-rich misses the point a bit. My family had enough money that I have a safety net - I know if I royally messed up I'd still have a roof over my head. I think once I borrowed $6k from my dad and paid it bac
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by klik99 5y ago
As my Grandpa (child of the great depression) said in his typical ineloquent yet wise way: "Back in my day, when we weren't happy we were fine with it!"
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by klik99 5y ago
What better way to understand the flaws in the system than understand the gripes of those who were driven truly to the edge? He didn't exist in a vacuum. Most "deranged terrorists" you have to really read between the lines of
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by klik99 5y ago
Good point - he assumes that false positives are always less costly than false negatives, but that may not be true in this example.
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by klik99 5y ago
Funny, but since when did McSweeneys turn into the Onion with no pictures and nicer fonts?
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by klik99 5y ago
I was CTO of a company that was a pretty early user because they were physically located close and directly sold it to us, around 2014 IIRC. We were very happy with the service and the company still uses it. I currently use Gusto for my own
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by klik99 5y ago
Just on your last sentence: The ideal amount of fraud is not zero, the cost of checking everything is too high. I recommend the book “lying for money” which breaks down what fraud is and what that tells us about the overall system
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by klik99 5y ago
That blog has also completely broken me
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by klik99 5y ago
I had the exact same experience at 35 - I was a self taught at home handyman and thought that it was inevitable that screws just get stripped! Funnily enough my dad was pretty handy at building, but the extent of my help was holding and gop
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by klik99 5y ago
Wow, another thank you for scanning and uploading these, looking forward to trying some out with my kids! I bet there would be a strong demand for a modern "Things of Science" - youtube is great and all but having a kit put togeth

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