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by medstrom 4y ago
I didn't have to get accommodation, so you're right. If it's just a work trip it may not be worth it.
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by medstrom 4y ago
What's the advantage of a coworking space over a library?
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by medstrom 4y ago
It's not just an issue of poverty, as if only poor countries have to contend with old phones. In rich countries, there's still an issue of valuation. I have money, but I don't value phones that highly. Just like I could buy
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by medstrom 4y ago
That's interesting, someone I know just upgraded to the iPhone 7. It's got iOS 15, which is just behind the current iOS 16.
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by medstrom 4y ago
It's one thing if you already have the app and just stop updating it. My experience with the iOS App Store has been that if you only just now heard of the app and your phone's too old, you can't even download the version that
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by medstrom 4y ago
Have you hiked off-road with backpack? Many are exhausted after 15km, and that's with good shoes and good backpacks. To make it worse, a distance you can do in 1 day isn't the distance you can do every day for weeks, which has to
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by medstrom 4y ago
Another hack is timing. Often I've taken a day off on either Friday or Monday when I'm travelling over the weekend -- the difference in cost can be as much as a day's wage.
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by medstrom 4y ago
Or the Arkenfox config ( https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js ), which enables resistFingerprinting among other essentials. In this kind of game, a community config is exactly what you want.
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by medstrom 4y ago
Why does transparency annoy you?
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by medstrom 4y ago
I've never even imagined copy-pasting straight Common Lisp code into an Emacs Lisp file. And I have to say: 1. The implementations of many functions are subtly different anyway, much like you can't expect Ruby's string join
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by medstrom 4y ago
I assume it's the typical corporate situation: when you have to work together on a codebase that's too big for one person to get a mental overview of. And unlike with a codebase you develop in your free time, you have no real con
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by medstrom 4y ago
But this is odd. When has the lack of namespaces caused a problem to you? When has cl-defstruct or eieio been insufficient to give you what you wanted out of OOP paradigms? I feel like your examples, and multithreading, are just programme
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by medstrom 4y ago
Such irony. He had a golden opportunity to practice self-awareness.
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by medstrom 4y ago
2000-2010 or so.
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by medstrom 4y ago
Not a physicist, but I was led to understand there is no universal frame of reference. You can't base time on deep space as if time was the same across all deep space, because it isn't. Right? A local time "correction&quot
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by medstrom 4y ago
How long would you say this input lag was? Like how many milliseconds? Some people, especially non-gamers, just "don't see" lag unless it's significant. So you could be right that there is lag even if others don'
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by medstrom 4y ago
Would people seriously use an on-screen touch keyboard for long? With Emacs? The intended approach must surely be with a Bluetooth keyboard.
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by medstrom 4y ago
And an intelligence agency is not as willing to share their data as an ISP would be, so you pretty much still win over the status quo. Indeed, several ISPs were found to be sharing with intelligence agencies anyway, so by putting your traf
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by medstrom 4y ago
There's always someone in a position to acquire all your information. If it's not a VPN, it's an ISP. And ISPs have much weaker incentives not to step on the needs of the few. Most ISPs get to stay in business no matter ho
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by medstrom 4y ago
You're using others' scripts from the firmware up all the way to the lite comment input box on HN, and you have just as much reason to trust any piece of that gigantic stack as you do a *Monkey script.
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by medstrom 4y ago
Without a full log of everything, it cannot give context-aware advice tailored to you (i.e. useful advice). It'd be like relying on the advice of a random person on the street instead of someone who knows you.
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by medstrom 4y ago
I only said candle=human with regards to oxygen. Agree a candle is different because of byproduct gases. Strongly suspect that Carmack said "air quality" sloppily and meant specifically the oxygen aspect of it.
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by medstrom 4y ago
You got an example of such a post? Only one I see is maybe dekhn's post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34427789 But because someone says that "candles produce soot and other molecules which have been shown
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by medstrom 4y ago
Re. point 2: I wish I had sources for this, but as I understand it, few adults have ever died in their 30s and 40s. We hear the average age was 35 in some periods of history, but I don't know how many scientists even said that, maybe i
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by medstrom 4y ago
Heh, enclosed spaces. Before civilization, we just tented outdoors. Imagine doing that all your life.
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It's not incorrect, just misuse of "air quality". In principle it looks like candles and humans could have a very similar effect, because both work by the process of combustion. Humans even supply fat as fuel which is simil
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by medstrom 4y ago
From my loose skim, this seems to be more for UX than anything else: no-clicks account creation and no-clicks login, but there's still account creation and login happening, presumably with a key provided by BitWarden. But websites can
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by medstrom 4y ago
That's just because your skin has water molecules that freeze on contact with the ice cube. If you use tongs to put an ice cube on your desk, it doesn't stick at all, right? And the friction is very low so it's easy to kick
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by medstrom 4y ago
Hacker legacy. It comes from "RTFM" (Read The Fucking Manual), said to people on mailing lists who ask questions easily answered by the manual.
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That "99% of standard usage" is the kicker, isn't it? The greybeards who opposed multithreading since the beginning tend to say that the remaining 1% of use cases is best done in an external process, ideally not even written

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