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by lordleft 6y ago
Patreon has its issues, but it's empowered so many creators. I just hope the VC cycle doesn't kill the golden goose.
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by lordleft 6y ago
An excellent article, I really enjoyed this visual take on the λ-calculus. Knowing this would have made my Programming Language Theory much smoother back when I was a CS undergrad.
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This is why Microsoft, for all its faults, has huge mindshare in the enterprise: they don't give up on anything, and when they do, they give you years to make the transition.
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by lordleft 6y ago
Imagine if Microsoft did this on PCs. a) prohibiting the installation of non-windows store software (sideloading) and b) insisting that all purchases done via apps give them a 30% cut. I think this is a ridiculous practice on the behalf of
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by lordleft 6y ago
I generally favor free expression. I'd rather an ugly, obnoxious and pernicious idea be expressed - so I can or others can be free to dismantle it in the arena of ideas. Obviously there are tremendous shades of nuance here. Free Speech
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by lordleft 6y ago
I honestly don't know...it seems the majority of Americans are alive to the dangers of COVID and believe we aren't doing enough, and Trump's approval ratings are plummeting, so this doesn't make sense to me -- but his re
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by lordleft 6y ago
I really do think this is a cynical ploy to induce universities to open up more aggressively than they would like. That is the only reasoning I can come up with.
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French Republican Calendar(en.wikipedia.org)
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by lordleft 6y ago
This is neat. This makes me curious about the licencing around popular translations, like the Jerusalem Bible or the NIV; is it not legal to post those translations??
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It’s interesting to consider the centrality of the city in ancient literature, and the equation of civilization with urban life. In modern American political discourse, it feels as if the city is constantly slandered or considered alien or
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by lordleft 6y ago
Some overlap with Stoicism here. From the Enchiridion of Epictetus: 1. Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in
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by lordleft 6y ago
If you're on a linux server, it almost always has vi(m). It's worth learning for that reason alone :)
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by lordleft 6y ago
Doesn't arch use AUR / pacman for binaries / package management? I wasn't aware that like Gentoo you had to compile most software
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by lordleft 6y ago
RE: creativity as a muscle, I think this is a powerful shift in framing. A lot of folks treat creativity as this lightening strike that you must passively wait for. And while some creative ideas are like that, many creatives, including some
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by lordleft 6y ago
Nina Simone is another musician who permeated her music with very clear influences from Bach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WHHW8PrF6Q
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by lordleft 6y ago
Thank you for this project, and thank you for sharing more about Kimiko. Congrats to her for her new baby, and for her astonishing achievements. I will always support anything that brings Bach to more people.
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Foundry VTT – a robust Virtual Tabletop for D&D and other RPGs made by one dev(foundryvtt.com)
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I've looked at the trajectory of Apple these past few years with mounting bitter-sweetness. At its best, MacOS really felt like the best of Unix combined with the consumer focus alluded to in the article. I still adore the craftsmanshi
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by lordleft 6y ago
Agreed. There's a false dichotomy here. You can use a product, and as a stakeholder demand change. Refraining from using the product entirely is one way to achieve that, but it's not the only way. Many products evolve because of u
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by lordleft 6y ago
You're doing impressive work! Thank you for writing this up and sharing your progress!
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I feel like Minix is underappreciated. I'm reading Tannenbaum's Modern Operating Systems at the moment and he makes a persuasive appeal for some of its unique takes of the *nix OS family.
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by lordleft 6y ago
The conservative political commentator (and never-Trumper) David Frum has commented about this and the general decline in coupling between the sexes among young people. He believes that part of the reason comes from the economic hurdles fac
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by lordleft 6y ago
I remember folks who would wax nostalgic about BeOS, and claim it trounced Unix & Windows when it came to performance. Could anyone speak to the technical strengths / interesting aspects of this OS?
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by lordleft 6y ago
My impression as a citizen of the US is that the social welfare in Canada is more robust, but salaries are lower on average. For some folks the peace of mind of knowing your healthcare isn't tethered to your job is worth the reduction
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by lordleft 6y ago
A little bit of grep / awk goes very, very far.
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by lordleft 6y ago
You've honed in on why I love listening to Bach on period instruments; it's kind of a musical analogue to folks who are really into some niche of CS, propelled purely by love and obsession. That passion comes through in the music.
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by lordleft 6y ago
I love listening to Bach on period music. I especially enjoy the sound of the harpsichord.
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I have to say that I quite like the visual design of this “open” textbook.
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Science is our best tool for understanding the material world, but it is unsuited for solving problems beyond that scope. Science cannot tell us what to live for, or what is good or evil. It can definitely inform the answers to those questi
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This is the WASP-iest thing I've ever read. A delight.

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