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by lamby 6y ago
Absolutely true, but well-meaning advice like "just use an adblocker" and "why not use a VPN" somehow doesn't quite cut it for me. Defaults matter.
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by lamby 6y ago
Please someone transcribe "The Lick" for this medium.
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by lamby 6y ago
During the Spanish Civil War, volunteer fighters found that a book had to be at least 350 pages to stop a bullet. (Not a dig at your question, it just came to mind.)
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by lamby 6y ago
> Ferreira spent less time doing labour-intensive web design and more time searching for the cold fusion of internet marketing: "passive income." — Corey Pein: How to get rich quick in Silicon Valley ( https://www.the
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by lamby 6y ago
> Which hopefully was another motivation to cut it back. As an aside, it matters a great deal in which ordering you place your benefits. Which advantage you 'lead' with can make a great deal of difference between an effective a
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by lamby 6y ago
> Alligator energy This is a great metaphor.
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by lamby 6y ago
I'm trying to write this in a way that does not come across as sarcastic or ungracious, but does it strike anyone else as odd that this change blocks on the next version of the underlying programming language?
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by lamby 6y ago
Another concrete example against our "tech will solve everything" tendencies.
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Scunthorpe Sans – a font that censors bad language automatically(vole.wtf)
5 points by lamby 6y ago|0 comments
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by lamby 6y ago
Link: https://ideoclick.com/careers/
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by lamby 6y ago
You got paid in airline miles?
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The Case for Digital Legal Tender: Central Bank Issued Digital Currency [pdf](ecurrency.net)
2 points by lamby 6y ago|0 comments
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by lamby 6y ago
Go tidy your room.
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by lamby 6y ago
Whilst we're speaking philosophy... I think Pliny's "sutor, ne ultra crepidam" ("shoemaker, not beyond the shoe") might be the quip to match your comment.
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by lamby 7y ago
Mitsuko Uchida.
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by lamby 7y ago
> I suspect that it doesn’t very much matter what one reads in the early years once one has acquired the essential ability to read for pleasure alone. — Christopher Hitchens
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by lamby 7y ago
Android user here. The addition of "Focus Mode" has completely changed my approach to my device and, by extension, my life. Various personal relationships have been noticably improved for the better as I can concentrate on them
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Loss attention, an alternative to loss aversion(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by lamby 7y ago|0 comments
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by lamby 7y ago
Does anyone remember the fail2ban issue where it used 100% CPU for the entire day?
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by lamby 7y ago
Reply All is a good reminder to keep everything... unserious. :)
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by lamby 7y ago
> over the years I've begun to find this startling and anxiety-producing piece suspect on multiple levels As an amateur string player, the opening triggers me in that there is invariably one blow-hard clarinetist playing the glissan
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by lamby 7y ago
Django has announced their security releases to match. [0] [0] https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/dec/18/security-re...
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A man who claims to have created the first pop-up ad wants to apologize(techspot.com)
2 points by lamby 7y ago|1 comments
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by lamby 7y ago
> Which is much better than just declaring end of life and no further updates. Undoubtably true, although I would add that it hardly promotes free software as a "generally good thing" if the landscape is full of zombie projects
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Canadian Traveller Problem(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by lamby 7y ago|0 comments
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Accelerationism(en.wikipedia.org)
97 points by lamby 7y ago|129 comments
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by lamby 7y ago
Reminds me of: > It's said that most at home traders fail, but this is incorrect: they fail at making money, but they are successful at feeling like a trader. That is the goal; the money is secondary, which is why they fail at maki
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Spoofing Commits to Repositories on GitHub(iain.learmonth.me)
2 points by lamby 7y ago|0 comments
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by lamby 7y ago
> Everything can be done with the keyboard This is it for me, really. Whilst it makes it me two or three orders of magnitude slower when I have to "drive" someone else's machine, not having to switch to a mouse/trackp
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by lamby 7y ago
Speaking of Beethoven string quartets, Michael Steinberg once wrote the following regarding a section from the Vivace of his late Op. 135 quartet in in F: > Then it is time for Beethoven to turn to one of his favourite tricks, the one wh

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