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by michaelpb 5y ago
> It's the same disgust and denial at being biological animals that all religions foster. Huh, I didn't think of it that way! Good point! I love history and a few weeks ago I read passage in a history book on a period in the ea
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by michaelpb 5y ago
Perhaps religious cult territory too. "The Algorithm" [1] is already being used to tell fortunes -- which if it just stays as a few people having fun with horoscopes I don't really care, it seems harmless. But I could also to
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by michaelpb 5y ago
Definitely. For me, at least from what I remember from school in the 90s/00s in the US, this stuff wasn't taught at all. We just learned a bunch of left-over cold war rhetoric about being "leader of the free world", and
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by michaelpb 5y ago
Right: Assuming good faith, this project seems completely backwards. But if their real product is the telemetry that also ships with it, and they've identified that many newbie developers have a hard time seeing through marketing pages
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by michaelpb 5y ago
Yeah, JACK / ALSA / PulseAudio is probably the harder thing to straighten out, and if you are using the computer in normal usage as well switching back and forth is a perpetual head-ache filled with edge cases and incompatibiliti
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by michaelpb 5y ago
Yeah this project totally completely baffled me. "Autocomplete for the Terminal". What?? Bash has had fully programmable auto-completion for over 20 years [1] -- and that's just one comparitively bare-bones shell, out of doze
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by michaelpb 5y ago
Looks like it uses a "Yocto" script - https://github.com/elk-audio/elkpi-sdk - https://www.yoctoproject.org/ I thought of Ubuntu Studio as well, but it looks like Elk is intended to be more l
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by michaelpb 5y ago
Exactly. I know this may give grumpy-old-man vibes, but I find it ridiculous that with a Pentium III with ~0.1GB of RAM we could do similar day-to-day tasks with IRC or AIM or whatever (group chatting, sharing media, etc), but running Slac
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by michaelpb 5y ago
Re. your last point, I generally agree with the idea that performance testing should be automated, not on an ad-hoc local machine basis. But I also do think developers live in bit of a "CPU bubble", and we need to break out of it.
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by michaelpb 5y ago
On Amazon it's described by Jacobin (a leftwing magazine in the US popular with Bernie supporters etc): “A searing critique… a necessary contribution to the effort to push contemporary social justice movements further to the left and t
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by michaelpb 5y ago
I've have had the opposite observation, probably has a lot to do with whoever is in the particular thread
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by michaelpb 5y ago
Oh, so for an incognito search with clear cookies in my locale (bay area), all you get for 1-5 pages or so with the search term you provided is the book and reviews and articles discussing it (with and without quotes): https://go
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by michaelpb 5y ago
Not OP, but Answer 1: Yes, it's anecdotal but you definitely see the trend. Answer 2: So I did the Google search as you requested, and read about the book [1]. I hadn't heard of it but it looks interesting, thanks for recommending
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by michaelpb 5y ago
Yeah, exactly! It's also simply not a useful type of statement even when made in good faith. It assumes all issues fit on scales. For example, there are people today who call themselves feminists, and have extremely different views abo
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by michaelpb 5y ago
The problem with this line of thought is that some of the "crazies at the edge" in the past are the sensible, moderate ideas that you no doubt hold right now. For example, viewing slavery as an evil institution was considered the
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by michaelpb 5y ago
I know I'm not at all the first to say this, but those "curl into sh" installers are just such terrible ideas in general, and typically inconvenient and brittle as well. I hate the idea of any arbitrary, unknown side-effects
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by michaelpb 5y ago
Hahah yeap we're basically back to skull-size measuring. And what you write is exactly correct: It's a definitely form of "othering", arbitrarily separating people. I've lived in both countries (US and Brazil) and a
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by michaelpb 5y ago
Yeap, it's a very inconsistent mess up here. In the media, "Latino" and "Hispanic" are often treated interchangeably, and both as though they were a race. It's very common to see statistics broken down like &qu
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by michaelpb 5y ago
IMHO the most important thing that a framework can have is complete documentation and SLOW, deliberate release cycles, while this sounds like it's the opposite on both counts. Anyone can make a framework, the real value is in the docum
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by michaelpb 6y ago
Gay marriage was more common than you might think during that time period as well, even in Europe! I found a few interesting accounts, from this summary of an older book on the topic: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/
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by michaelpb 6y ago
I use Django test fixtures in one way! I have a series of E2E tests with Splinter [0] that go through setting up a variety of things from scratch and testing core features. Instead of having really long, complicated test that goes through t
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by michaelpb 6y ago
Yep, many! Today's era is quit unusual in how few open gay and bisexual relationships are had by public officials (which are the unions that are typically best recorded). In many other historical periods across different regions, today
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by michaelpb 6y ago
"The Roman Empire never fell, DEBATE ME" Though seriously, thanks for writing this up. This is a great explanation of how periodization says more about the "periodizer" than it represents some sort of objective truth abo
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by michaelpb 6y ago
Huh, then that's confusing that the README mentions it. It could just be a planned feature and that wasn't properly clarified.
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by michaelpb 6y ago
Also a Dokku fan. I don't think this project is related or uses it under the hood ( https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify/search?q=dokku ), although it's clearly similar. The marketing page only mentions
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by michaelpb 6y ago
To clarify, I guess what I'm saying is it's often mistaken that this complexity is somehow intrinsic or unavoidable to the craft, when in fact it's completely avoidable. Bad (but popular) tooling isn't new --- I remember
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by michaelpb 6y ago
Very true, while I appreciated React Hooks for making React easier for beginners by avoiding the giant can of worms that is OOP mechanics in JavaScript, they are also very magical and even more framework-specific. That said, vanilla JS can
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by michaelpb 6y ago
Not to mention terms that do come from a general programming paradigm, but have a very narrow practical / framework-specific use within frontend dev that makes it even harder for beginners (e.g. "thunk" might be a general ter
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by michaelpb 6y ago
Out of curiosity, do you think forensic science methods in general are likely to randomly incriminate people?
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by michaelpb 6y ago
Yeah, so much of forensic "science" is notoriously flawed, that this seems like a likely addition the usual junk-science pantheon of "gunshot analysis, footprint analysis, hair comparison and bite mark comparison" - h

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