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by krmboya 4y ago
It subjectively seems to me that upto the mid 2010s hacktivists were mostly against government power abuse, but nowadays they seem to be mostly against right-wing leaning targets
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by krmboya 4y ago
Hmm.. what's the link between being over 30 and suggesting markov chains?
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by krmboya 4y ago
Perhaps if your kids saw you actually reading from the shelves they'd be a bit more curious?
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by krmboya 4y ago
- Assuming the hardware does not change - Assuming the software does not change - Assuming the usb device is stored securely and lightly used. Bit rot is real
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by krmboya 4y ago
Try something different, maybe like tending a garden, growing your own food. Or try camping,a few days outside the comforts of modern life. Put yourself in the shoes of your ancestors of millenia past and try imagine how they lived. Specula
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by krmboya 4y ago
The inclination towards reductionism by the more intellectually-minded folk. We want to isolate a small chunk of a phenomenon and understand it really well, but in the process divorce it from its context. We analyse cognitive performance in
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by krmboya 4y ago
Funny seeing this pop up again after all these years.. If IIRC pg still used to post on HN those days. How time flies.. I imagine those folks on the article have long since moved on and forgotten about this incident
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by krmboya 4y ago
I'll only let go of my petrol powered car if you give me a solar powered one
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by krmboya 4y ago
Nice breakdown. Maybe it works the other way too.. that a large percentage of the population alive today can count rulership/prominence in their ancestry. I speculate that when times were hard for humans in the course of history, those
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by krmboya 4y ago
Aren't the sysadmins actual users?
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by krmboya 4y ago
Not free at all. You invest your personal capital (trust) into their products. Then it'll be degraded and shut down just like that.
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by krmboya 4y ago
Was timing the issue though? Wasn't it released during that period of confusion of the Unix wars before GNU/Linux took over the world? I had the impression that it was held back by its proprietary license.
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by krmboya 4y ago
I wonder where the genesis is of this idea that programming is young person's game akin to physical sports where speed, explosiveness and endurance matter. It seems to me that it's an intellectual activity where one should go on f
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by krmboya 4y ago
The idea of being on one side or the other of issues is what leads to polarization that prevents reasonable discourse. Education should give an adult the set of tools to navigate a complex situation and achieve a balanced point of view
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by krmboya 4y ago
Declining since 2001! That must be such a glacial decline
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by krmboya 4y ago
For experts, a comprehensive manual is useful. For beginners, or people who occasionally dabble in elisp for some light customisation work, a whole treatise in elisp programming is probably an overkill
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by krmboya 4y ago
I wish Google cared as much about customer service as they do about 'moderating user-generated content'.
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by krmboya 4y ago
While I'm generally anti-censorship, I also believe cultural insensitivity should not go unchecked. What may be acceptable in one culture may not be acceptable in other cultures. Diversity in the global sense is cultural diversity, a s
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by krmboya 4y ago
> Reading them as "blanket rules for all ages" without knowing who and why they were written, knowing about the context, what was already the culture at the time, etc, makes them really easy to misread parts as endorsing things
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by krmboya 4y ago
If I recall correctly, wasn't there some sort struggle within the company between those who wanted Twitter as a product and those who wanted it as a platform, and the product people won. Followed shortly by shutting down of third party
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by krmboya 4y ago
It's standalone website. Not tied to their browser
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by krmboya 4y ago
Moved from DDG to Brave Search about 6 months ago and haven't missed DDG at all. I can still use the !bangs I was accustomed to. Given that Brave uses its own search index, and only a few times do I need to fall back to Google, it feel
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by krmboya 4y ago
Useful to keep a child distracted for a few minutes.
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by krmboya 4y ago
Maybe being able to figure out strangers' discord passwords. More generally, phishing powers
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by krmboya 4y ago
For anyone who would like a summary and discussion of the idea here's an 80 min audio recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgnMyF-o0sQ
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by krmboya 4y ago
In uni we learnt about federated databases, i.e multiple autonomous, distributed, possibly heterogeneous databases joined together by some middleware to service user queries. I wonder how that would work for this situation, in the place of
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by krmboya 4y ago
Also a big fan of sticking to ansible and plain VMs, at least for most cases I've encountered. To me, a VM in the cloud already feels like a container and you can use the cloud provider's APIs to scale up and down virtual instance
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by krmboya 4y ago
Yeah, maybe we optimistically speculate that Smalltalk or Lisp Machines would have won instead, but it may have been the poorer alternatives that would have won if not UNIX
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by krmboya 4y ago
Nice, I like this. Till now I considered running a B2B business as only being a SAAS catering to businesses, and therefore requiring dedicated resources on standby e.g. customer service, an on-call rotation, compliance to various things tha
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Stallman: The bug nobody is allowed to understand(gnu.org)
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