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by mfsch 7y ago
I actually find the “step-by-step instructions” the least useful part of the nonviolent communication books. I think the most important part of communication, especially in conflicts, is being genuine and authentic, which is very difficult
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by mfsch 7y ago
While I have no experience with System76 and the quality of your devices, I doubt you can make any claims about the number of incidents with confidence. I have owned many devices that have had various quality issues that didn’t rise to the
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by mfsch 7y ago
That looks interesting, but I wonder how accurate the flight behavior is when they are not including any atmospheric dynamics. The wind in the atmospheric boundary layer is characterized by strong semi-random fluctuations that arise from th
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by mfsch 7y ago
From what I gather it should be possible to use 2FA with JMAP. I‘m looking forward to no longer having to decide between using third-party email clients and properly securing the account that’s probably most worth securing.
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Making email more modern with JMAP(fastmail.blog)
327 points by mfsch 7y ago|166 comments
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by mfsch 7y ago
It looks like they’ve decided not to publish any non-English books [1]. It’s a pity – I much prefer reading books in their original language if I’m able to understand it, and I was even considering contributing some German books to their co
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by mfsch 7y ago
Does someone know whether it would be legal for someone to go through the ZFS code and write a specification of the features this author hasn’t figured out yet? I.e. could someone write a detailed description of the missing functionality th
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by mfsch 8y ago
For a bit more background: The online newspaper Republik recently published a piece about this project and some of the problems with the company Scytl providing the system. They provide an English translation of that article: https:/&
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Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio(hacks.mozilla.org)
1415 points by mfsch 8y ago|368 comments
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by mfsch 8y ago
As someone working with scientific codes in (relatively) modern Fortran, I agree that Fortran is still very strong in its niche. I don’t know any other language that makes it as easy to write fast numerical codes, and it’s relatively hard t
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by mfsch 8y ago
The whole notion of “your brain thinks …” is a common interpretation of fMRI studies, but I think it is not very accurate or useful. It contains the idea that what your brain does is somehow separate from what “you” are thinking and doing.
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by mfsch 8y ago
Previous discussion about the acquisition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16989505
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Addressing Your Concerns(blog.shiftyjelly.com)
1 points by mfsch 8y ago|1 comments
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by mfsch 9y ago
There are also “De Correspondent” [1] in the Netherlands, which inspired “Krautreporter” [2] in Germany and “Republik” [3] in Switzerland. Both De Correspondent and Republik set new records for crowd-funding in journalism, with the latter r
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by mfsch 10y ago
I agree 100% that it is way too hard to climb the mountains of knowledge, that it could be much easier, and that there is little incentive and cultural support in academia to work on these topics. Time and time again I see examples of where
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Video calls for Signal out of beta(whispersystems.org)
7 points by mfsch 10y ago|0 comments
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by mfsch 10y ago
The issue I have with lists on how to be successful in a class is that they rarely provide much guidance on how to prioritize the work. Of course students are successful in a class when they read & understand the material before the lec
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Visualizing the Invisible(blog.mozilla.org)
2 points by mfsch 11y ago|0 comments
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Julia is awesome, but..(danluu.com)
178 points by mfsch 12y ago|66 comments
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by mfsch 12y ago
Cool game, it really helped me brush up my regex skills. I think I found an error in “The Lektor Device“: The “I“ in “WITH” could also be a “T” from the rules, but only the “I” is accepted.
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by mfsch 14y ago
I too have moved from Wordpress to Concrete5 and was a huge fan. I appreciated the flexibility of the system, combined with the free availability. However, a few things have started to bother me about it: * The CMS interface is very powerfu
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by mfsch 14y ago
Sure, a lot of what school does is teaching compliance. Yet, I have heard a lot of speeches about how school teaches children to be critically thinking citizens and you can probably find the term “critical thinking” in most mission statemen
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by mfsch 14y ago
It’s funny how what you do (engineering in my case) affects the way you think about some things. I started to think of happiness not as a direct function of the different “happiness variables” (like wealth, relationships…) but as the deriva
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by mfsch 14y ago
The impact on aquatic life and on humans can’t be compared directly. First of all, toxicity is often related to body mass, i.e. the lethal dose is approximately proportional to the weight. This means, that a lot more of a substance is neede
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by mfsch 14y ago
Let me give some more information on that: It is true that pharmaceuticals, personal care products and endocrine disruptors are not really addressed by clean water rules, but that doesn’t mean that they are ignored. The reason that they are
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by mfsch 14y ago
To use the same analogy used in the article: A random person would not be qualified to participate in the discussion about medical procedures used in an emergency room, sure. But if I had worked in an emergency room for 12 years, even witho
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by mfsch 14y ago
There are two parts to both “merit” and “cracy”. Merit can be thought of as your abilities and talents or as your willingness to work hard. “Kratein” means to rule (i.e. have responsibilities, make decisions), but in this context it’s often
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by mfsch 14y ago
The point is, in web design there are a lot of different aspects that have to be balanced. One of them is accessibility & speed, an other one is visual design and identity. The choice of a web font over one of the ~6 standard fonts affe
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by mfsch 14y ago
Your argument can be extended to most of website design. The identity of a design and the impact on accessibility are two factors that constantly have to be weighted against each other in web design. Do you choose a slightly gray text color
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by mfsch 14y ago
> Mobile visitors often have a very different set of objectives for visiting your site. In my experience, this is not true anymore and continues to be less and less the case. I thought this was the case before I started really using a s

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