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by mherdeg 4y ago
Holey moley, we're down to $400/share - the time machine to 2020 is complete. Is this a bargain yet? Can I buy it yet? I have really enjoyed the Shopify checkout experience as a customer.
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by mherdeg 4y ago
It's funny my first reaction was to wonder how the other people involved feel about this: I wonder how the defense attorney feels about this. The July 2021 GQ article says "Chin, now retired, declined to answer questions for this
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by mherdeg 4y ago
Your guess is as good as mine here. This phrase appears in Wikipedia but the citation in the article only supports the stuff in the quotation marks, not the phrase "master race": > Maslow studied what he called the master race
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by mherdeg 4y ago
Same author (Jon Bois). I have trouble reading longform web stuff (like Worm or Homestuck). I did get through HPMOR and All Night Laundry though!
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by mherdeg 4y ago
Yeah on further reflection maybe the "immutable" part of this is that I never use the Spotify UI to modify my playlist - it only gets changed during terraform apply phases, which may change the playlist in random ways on each re-a
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by mherdeg 4y ago
Whoops, nope, it's https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4xE4NPeiQeHNjeLL5fvYrn .
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by mherdeg 4y ago
OK, here's my 2020 playlist materialized as code so that I can't accidentally clear it out and lose a track with no trace!: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6NO3v396w2tZc6MnXSKNPM https://github.c
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by mherdeg 4y ago
OK so I'm a little puzzled by this demo ( https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/terraform/spotify-play... ). The example directive "spotify_search_track" runs a server-side search on Spotify and retur
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by mherdeg 5y ago
I wonder if there is a German word for "realizing that everyone in the forum is a robot except for you".
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by mherdeg 5y ago
> Breadwinners need to treat their stay-at-homes with nice dinners, shopping experiences and pocket money that feels reasonable. This is a fascinating sentence which has stuck with me (after glancing at it a week ago I find myself thinki
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by mherdeg 5y ago
Yes that's how I read the parent post's comment -- arguing with sarcasm that we should take additional interventions to limit SARS-CoV-2 spread due to the unknown future risks of surviving infection. Measures could for example inc
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by mherdeg 5y ago
The place where the CDC left us on Zika is kind of strange. It seems like they basically stopped surveillance and left up a snapshot ( https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/zika-travel-information ). As far as I can t
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by mherdeg 5y ago
My version of this "any number is a warning sign" is: if someone is writing an article about a court case and doesn't include the docket number (so you can look up the history and new filings yourself) and PDFs of the documen
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by mherdeg 5y ago
"Secure Contain Protect" -- https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/ -- a community sourced wiki full of stories about a secret quasi -government facility that hosts cursed sci-fi and fantasy objects. Kind of like a MOO but
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by mherdeg 5y ago
I have in mind a YouTube original tv series hosted by cold reading psychics ("Crossing Over With John Edward") except instead of guessing your grandma's maiden name they just talk about mesothelioma then have the audience ope
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by mherdeg 5y ago
I've been having a tough time wrapping my head around how little recorded history there is. All individual people have rich lives and have been around for, what, 200,000 years? But only like 2.5% of that is covered by any written histo
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by mherdeg 5y ago
I'm curious about how you'd evaluate this author's solution. Where it does rank on the rubric you used compared with some of the other ways people approached the problem?
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by mherdeg 5y ago
I've sometimes wondered if the way American media and culture treat people like Musk, Bezos, Gates is that we have no royalty -- there's no hereditary monarchy and indeed the old money keeps a studiously low profile. Do human cult
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by mherdeg 5y ago
As a total outsider the key pieces of Yishan's leadership I remember are: * His "every man is responsible for his soul" view on free speech absolutism ( https://web.archive.org/web/20140908001917/htt
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by mherdeg 5y ago
One of my favorite ways of discovering niche content has been browsing /r/all/gilded and taking a look at the variety of highlights throughout the site that never make it to the front page or other kinds of publicity. I dug i
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by mherdeg 5y ago
My favorite example of this is that the cloudflare.com web UI has some extremely scary buttons, like a little "bypass CDN" button with a cloud on it that will rapidly increase traffic to your site 2-100x if you accidentally click.
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by mherdeg 5y ago
> While the author clearly feels bad about the fact that they've lost his community and that GitHub couldn't restore it (which is honestly what any of us would've felt under similar circumstances), they're also focusi
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by mherdeg 5y ago
I particularly liked: > Every time you use Numbers , you should ask yourself: can I run out of numbers?
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Using a Table of Numbers(sommarskog.se)
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by mherdeg 5y ago
Yeah that was one of the gotchas in the story at https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/attack-of-the-cosmic-ray... -- MAYBE it was a bit flip due to a cosmic ray, or MAYBE it was a bit flip due to another layer of t
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by mherdeg 5y ago
I peripatetically dive into "strace" for one-off debugging - is there something more modern I should be doing?
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by mherdeg 5y ago
I took a science journalism class in college where our instructor had us read a paper and then write the news story that explained what was interesting about the result. "You all got it wrong," he said, "the news is not that
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by mherdeg 5y ago
Oh gosh I read this part > Only by talking to people can we actually know the true scope of the issue. and was hoping the author had managed to call a franchisee who had one of these signs and could publish the results of a 15min phone i
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by mherdeg 5y ago
This video was my first introduction to the "long-form narrative game reviews" genre. I really enjoyed watching it -- I think the author made an interesting argument and presented it in a way that was more entertaining than playin
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by mherdeg 5y ago
I liked Paolo Bagciaglupi's "The Calorie Man" (which I read in "Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology") as an example of this kind of "if we project today's state of affairs 30 years into the future, what

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