lamasery

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by lamasery 6mo ago
I expect the downvotes are because rather than simply calling attention to and providing an interesting perspective on another area of weakness, you're also suggesting it's a mistake to address this one while the other exists, whi
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by lamasery 6mo ago
The broader effects of designing the world for car-efficiency wipe out the individual benefits, for most people. Exception for those who can afford to be driven around by others. I was skeptical too the first time I read this kind of argume
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by lamasery 6mo ago
> > scum people trying to destroy democracy and government services > No need for hyperbolics, no one will take you seriously. Everything but "scum" was just a statement of fact, though? I guess maybe people trying to wre
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by lamasery 6mo ago
There might be, but we didn't find many of them. Lots of things that work just how the parenting books et c. say they should on one of the three kids, and not at all on the other two. This is one of the very-rare things that actually w
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by lamasery 6mo ago
I was mainly doing that, and more-obliquely making use of math/CS dork jokes like "1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1".
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Key detail: > Immigration authorities say the move is aimed at preventing cases in which foreign workers obtain visas under one category, but then engage in unrelated or lower-skilled work. The claim appears to be that people were using
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by lamasery 6mo ago
I'm noticing one major early effect of them is making extensive, visually consistent, very impressive slide decks accessible to individual workers who need to actually do real work and wouldn't ordinarily have time to make those.
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by lamasery 6mo ago
In the '90s I was ready to jack in. More computers, and getting me closer to them? Awesome. By the 20-teens I was repulsed by the idea and kinda hated computers. Today if you put a magic button in front of me that'd permanently un
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Huh, I doubt I've averaged more than two hotel-stays per year over my life and it's happened to me several times, something like "well there are 10 restaurants within easy walking distance as the crow flies, and man that Indi
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by lamasery 6mo ago
I can jot out a system diagram on paper way better and faster than I can on a computer. Ditto UI design mockups. Having something that can translate those into a better computerized representation than a png is awesome. Paper -> graphviz
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by lamasery 6mo ago
All of my document "scanning" for the last—god, maybe 15 years?—has been with a phone camera. Before everyone just started using Docusign anyway, I'd bought houses with a phone "scanner". LOL. I don't think I s
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Other copies of the Primer do have a computer backend. There are basically three versions of the book: 1) The ones developed for a few rich kids. These are partially automated, but backed by gig workers. They get what we might call (if yo
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Yeah we red-queens-raced ourselves into a position where now we have to have private cars, because if we don't we're screwed. Turned cheap 25-minute bike commutes into expensive 25-minute car commutes that can't safely or pra
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by lamasery 6mo ago
I entirely fail to see why this is a "fact".
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Exactly, that's why fostering an environment where most people can walk out their front door and get to most of what they need day-to-day pretty fast without having to own a car is so important. Freedom of movement. Increased car owner
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Ambulances: good. Trucks: good. Busses, even: good. Cars? Waaaay less clear they're net-beneficial.
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Sure, on your own land, just like you can drive more-or-less whatever you want as long as you stick to your own property, today, including vehicles that aren't "street legal". On public roads? No reason we'd have to lice
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by lamasery 6mo ago
The amount of space in US cities (broadly, out into their sprawl) that is used up by cars is incredible and serves to make other modes of transportation (to include things like busses, even) less-useful and make cars on-par with or wors
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by lamasery 6mo ago
It's easy to type, and even easy to discover, on the default Mac keyboard layout. Until recently, the main thing employment of the actual M-dash in web posts indicated was that the user was more likely than not typing their posts on a
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Well theirs is good, of course, because it protects them from soft-on-crime liberals who want open borders and communism and want to keep them from doing their jobs with ridiculous "ethical standards" and "laws governing ac
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by lamasery 6mo ago
You would get so much weird shit happening if you did this. For example, if you ask your average normal person who's critical of foreign aid spending how much they think we should spend on it, if they don't answer "zero d
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by lamasery 6mo ago
How is there this much misinformation out there about this? It's a neologism based on the character M from the James Bond franchise. Do a little free-association from the phrase "Bond—James Bond" and you end up calling that t
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by lamasery 6mo ago
I grew up on Windows, Linux, and other non-Mac machines, only shifting to Macs around age 30. Within months I was convinced that every default English keyboard I'd ever seen except the Mac one is strictly worse. It bothers me now how h
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by lamasery 6mo ago
HTML still collapses multiple spaces, doesn't it? Does HN go out of its way to add an nbsp glyph? Typing this post the original way I learned to type, with two spaces after the end of each sentence, to see if it renders that way. He
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by lamasery 6mo ago
I got my heavy m-dash use from Salinger, many years ago. When I find some distinctive habit of an author I'm reading, and it's to my taste, I often rob them.
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by lamasery 6mo ago
But the em-dash is a pretty informal mark... I'd tend to re-structure my sentences to avoid it more often in a formal context, than an informal one. It's what you reach for either for a specific effect, or because it's the le
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Can’t you just make ten… one larger?
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by lamasery 6mo ago
3 for 3 sleeping through the night by 60 days. All we did was have a feeding schedule that we stuck to pretty closely, and around week 2 started intentionally delaying our response to night-time crying, gradually increasing how far we stret
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Chicago School assholes backed by the conservative/"pro-business" think tanks that boomed in the post-war era managed to place some judges and influence some lawmakers to completely break our anti-trust enforcement in the &#x
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by lamasery 6mo ago
Yeah, managers adopt agile to try to un-fuck their organization but it doesn't actually do that. You need an un-fucked organization first. It's not a system of management and it won't work if the way you're managing suck

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