mbar84

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by mbar84 3y ago
One of the most wonderful developments of the last decade is the "Command Palette" UX pattern. You can have a tool driven predominantly by keyboard and also make all the keyboard shortcuts discoverable (display them next to the co
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by mbar84 3y ago
"Might do" ? Is it not the case, that they have declared their intent to commit crimes and it is perfectly plausible that they would?
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by mbar84 3y ago
I've come to the conclusion that the only way to convince these people that voting machines are a bad idea is to actually engage in election manipulation and then uncover it after the election has already been accepted. Consequences ar
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by mbar84 3y ago
Reading this is enormously frustrating. People have been shouting at the top of their lungs, that this will be the inevitable outcome of policy in Germany. Energy policy in Germany has no chance to accomplish its stated goals and is costing
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by mbar84 3y ago
Reminds me of the Post "Wait vs. Interrupt Culture" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33266372
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by mbar84 3y ago
This article offers an incorrect causal explanation. Profits don't account for anything. Profits are the result of other effects. Corporations always try to maximise profits. If their profits are higher than previously, the question is
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by mbar84 3y ago
I do wonder if Google included their own monorepo codebase in the training data.
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by mbar84 3y ago
Completely agree. You need to feed the algorithm the right data. Spend a little time to explicitly tell it to not recommend specific content and channels. You see a channel doing outrage porn (X destroys Y!) and clickbait thumbnails that te
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by mbar84 3y ago
Can you say, if this makes it more difficult to tell jokes?
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by mbar84 4y ago
When circumstances change, people's behaviour must change. People don't like to change, some even fear change. If some people are insulated from reality, such that they don't need to change, other people will have to bare the
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by mbar84 4y ago
I imagine there is significant value alone from stating your situation explicitly in writing.
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by mbar84 4y ago
aka. "shrinkflation": Same price, less product.
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by mbar84 4y ago
To prepare for retirement, you have two options: 1. Have children and treat them well. 2. Save and invest, so capital is available for the few children of the next generation to work with. As long as millennials are doing option 2. there is
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by mbar84 4y ago
Who is John Galt?
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by mbar84 4y ago
I attribute it primarily to lack of appreciation for the foundation of civilization: Private property. Violations of private property are primarily done through the state, which socializes costs and thereby both reduces incentives for respo
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by mbar84 4y ago
We didn't start the fire. The world's been always burning, since the world's been turnin'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g
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by mbar84 4y ago
> We're wandering through a desert looking for an oasis; they're swimming through a lake of garbage looking for an intact water bottle. I think it's more like, we're both in a corner store and while many men can'
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by mbar84 4y ago
Gavin Belson taking full responsibility https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u48vYSLvKNQ
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by mbar84 4y ago
I'm almost 40 and I'm much more aware of the circumstances when my mental ability are worse. If I want to be at my peak, sleep well, not have breakfast, drink a cup of coffee. Under these circumstances I think I may have better me
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by mbar84 4y ago
There once was a boy named Danny Day, he always maintained his right of way, he was right, dead right, as he drove along, but he's just as dead, as if he were wrong.
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by mbar84 4y ago
Going by the diagram in the article, I hope you can see, that the approach in the Church of Strong Civility is better able to scale. As a devotee of the Church of Interruption, I hope you can recognize, that too many participants can lead t
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by mbar84 4y ago
Ah, the world is not perfect, let's bring to life a monopoly on violence, what could go wrong!
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by mbar84 4y ago
It's a great idea. I think it's one part of a great tool that would give excel a real run for its money. If you can create, populate and reference tables, I think you'd have a real winner.
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by mbar84 4y ago
On a balance of risks, your your former employer may have made the right call. The issue is, do you use something that isn't perfect but everybody can use, or do have a substantial portion of tech illiterate people not use anything, wh
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by mbar84 4y ago
The question is, in terms of energy input, are we talking about Q-total or Q-plasma? Based on the video by Sabine Hossenfelder, my guess would be, the announcement references Q-plasma. That would mean that the announcement is a motte-and-ba
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by mbar84 4y ago
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt.
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by mbar84 4y ago
Time to purchasing power halving: 9.4 Years
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by mbar84 4y ago
Sounds like you might become a fan of the Austrian School theory of subjective value and (in the context of Crypto currency) of Mises's regression theorem of money. https://consultingbyrpm.com/blog/2014/03&#x2
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by mbar84 4y ago
If Julius Caesar had set the leap year rule to be for every year divisible by 5 and/or 19, We would still be using that calendar today. Also would be nice if he had set New Year to be on the winter solstice.
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by mbar84 4y ago
I think Feynman would have loved excalidraw. I find it very difficult to sort my thinking in a text editor, even though I find the mechanical process of writing is much better there. I'd say there's still quite some room left here

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