masukomi

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by masukomi 8y ago
yes, there are some things that you can convey more accurately or precisely in lojban but... i think this is a poor example. Also, I think you're forgetting that translation is about intent not literal word / phrase conversion. Th
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by masukomi 8y ago
> they breaks down after the translation they also break down because systems like Siri are terrible about recognizing words in "foreign" languages (foreign being any language different from the one it speaks in, even if suppor
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by masukomi 8y ago
> All an address really does is act as a set of instructions for a postal worker. I think you are unfamiliar with Japanese addressing. While it has been changing since 1962 the older style was basically instructionless. It was just a uni
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by masukomi 8y ago
> How can we (or a mailman) deduct/reason about the 'address' of a neighbor, or the what3words for the other side of a property? why do we need to? Why can't it simply be this string = this place. that string = that p
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by masukomi 8y ago
It's common knowledge that refugees streaming across border regularly bring computers, cell phones, solar panels, and large batteries to keep all those things going. Plus unlike most people in first world countries, most refugees are w
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by masukomi 8y ago
having worked in the ad business... a conversion rate of 1 in 1,000 of in-market people is fairly standard. having zero sales with just over one thousand visitors is not surprising at all _especially_ if you consider that a good percentage
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by masukomi 8y ago
that's pretty nice platz. Am i right in thinking this is basically a pinboard clone but without the archiving capabilities?
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by masukomi 8y ago
Are you speaking from experience or theorizing? My thought is that if i asked you for an email, and I was running a system like this, i wouldn't be a dick and make you jump through that hoop. I'd proactively add your email to the
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by masukomi 8y ago
the strategy of continuing to unsubscribe from things is based on the flawed idea that i want to opt-in to an ongoing maintenance task for the rest of my life. I do not. We shouldn't just _accept_ the idea that other people / comp
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by masukomi 8y ago
E-mail is currently useless for me. people have been talking about going through and unsubscribing from things. NOT counting the spam folder i have 52,541 unread emails. I am not going through all of that to click a bajillion unsubscribes
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by masukomi 8y ago
yup. just came here to say that. this is 100% FUD spreading.
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by masukomi 8y ago
something not having caselaw doesn't make it illegal. it just means it's untested. In this case I believe @jahewson is correct. They just can't legally _punish_ you for violations until you enter the EU. You've still bro
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by masukomi 8y ago
> Is there something like wiki, but for man pages? yes. it's the source repo for whatever app you want improved man pages on. Everyone can submit changes to it. All the good ones get merged in. It's effectively a wiki curated b
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by masukomi 8y ago
no way i would read an entire book, to write a small summary, and then get only 50% of "profits" (even if it is changed to 85% (still says 50% for me)). On top of that there's no clue how much that would be. You're basic
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by masukomi 8y ago
thanks. i was assuming it was referring to which material for the bullet you were inevitably going to take.
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by masukomi 8y ago
did i miss something or does this article COMPLETELY ignore the amazing possibility for abuse this opens up? Now any a-hole can make a public link in your page (or whatever future form that takes)? Nah, no way _that_ could go wrong. The wor
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by masukomi 8y ago
> That's another solution but I fundamentally disagree it is a better one. eg what if people are dyslexic or partially sighted so have their terminal configured for readability reasons? What the developer is doing is overriding that
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by masukomi 8y ago
sadly the vast majority of new projects these days seem to be done in nodeJS regardless of if javascript is a good choice for the project or not, and if it needs a desktop GUI that means electron. :(
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by masukomi 8y ago
is you suggestion that if they had of used 3/4 bit ANSI colors (basic but not high intensity) that you could have remapped "white" to be something that shows up in your white terminal? That.... works i guess but it's pre
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by masukomi 8y ago
not to diminish this creation in any way, but if you had to create something like this might awk have been an easier tool to use, and equally available? Obviously this is just for.... i dunno someone desperately wanting to chat on a product
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by masukomi 8y ago
i was recently looking for a good html to pdf solution and found wkhtmltopdf and weasyprint results to be... poor at best. turns out, you can do it on the command line via a call to Google Chrome and the results are great. Details here: h
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by masukomi 8y ago
> What should I do? Is quitting this job a good idea? yes, absolutely. I've been there. I've burnt out twice and i'm working on my third. (not proud of that statement at all). In my experience it's not a question of i
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by masukomi 8y ago
the screenshot has go, java, c++, and nodeJS as choosable languages....
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by masukomi 8y ago
> Also, I'd be interested in any opinions here about how to financially support this project. At the very least I'd just love to somehow make this my job. I think before you can answer that question you have to figure out if th
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by masukomi 8y ago
when you sign up for a service that does shit with your email, and give it access to your email account, of course the service can read your email. This seems pretty obvious to me. There are many useful services that do this (SaneBox for ex
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by masukomi 8y ago
it's radio. the length is infinite. there are pauses in music. there are pauses in speech. Also, he didn't mention anything about delayed listening. The implication was that it happens in real-time so you don't know how long
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by masukomi 8y ago
So is this the "lean startup" equivalent of a Show HN? "I have this great idea. buy it here!" oh really we haven't implemented anything, but now that we see a bunch of people tried to buy it... I'm fine with t
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by masukomi 8y ago
very cool. I didn't know about that. thanks.
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by masukomi 8y ago
even when it doesn't. I find that if you are careful about adhering to the unix philosophy of tiny scripts that do one thing well then you end up with lots of tools to solve problems specific to your problem domain that get reused in f
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by masukomi 8y ago
thanks @albertgoeswoof "The small piece of code is designed to only invalidate and deny access when a valid response is returned from our servers." seems pretty easy to circumvent but... i guess you could make your app stop workin

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