mikro2nd

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by mikro2nd 6y ago
I've been going with GRAFT when referring to the social-media incumbents. (Strictly speaking it should be GRAAFT, and I can't figure a way to neatly include an 'M'.)
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Interesting. Netbeans had just such a plugin many (10? more?) years ago, working via XMPP that was a joy to use. Then Sun decided they wanted to sell some cloudy/server-based "collaboration" thing that was nowhere near as goo
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
I recall reading that Babbage was so well-known for his disdain for street musicians that when he was campaigning against them (to parliament, iirc?) buskers would flashmob outside his house to deliberately taunt him.
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
So if you're neurotic you'll (likely) be noise-intolerant, but that does not imply the inverse -- that being noise-intolerant means you're neurotic.
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Even wiser: stop after step 3.
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
>The recipe for success of Silicon Valley... You seem to have left out "Tons of government money funding early electronics and aerospace development"... a bootstrap factor that should not be forgotten.
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Same experience on Firefox/Ubuntu - made it unusable.
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
I wonder if he received any reply, and, if so, what it said.
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Add the "Kill Sticky" script/button to your bookmark bar. Problem solved.
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Why? (Asking seriously what your reasons are) IF it turns out that Bennu has abundant/valuable mineral resources then it might make sense, but we don't know that yet.
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Doesn't need a gun, just an aerosol can of fluorescent dye.
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Always possible for a person to have more than one purpose/goal in doing a job.
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Which title, in turn, is a pastiche of a bloody awful 1970's pop-song.
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Or don't. Just ask users to tell you (without any burden of proof) if they've been paying less. Will a handful of users abuse this? Probably. My bet is that the vast majority are honest people -- particularly if the circumstances
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Did this 25 years ago. Never looked back. eta: Admittedly I did a bunch of design/architecture consulting and teaching tech courses for the first decade or so to pay for the farm. Consulting is a good way to keep your hand in, and teac
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
A very common pivot I've observed and am part of is to brewing craft beer (with the caveat that maybe that's a local/regional thing). It sure as hell doesn't pay as well as development, the hours are longer, but... you g
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Complete nonsense in the absence of any sense of why a site is designed the way it is. Is it a product brochure? Is it something functional (e.g. a search engine)? Does it target the general public? Or (say) highbrow art appreciators? Or
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
From what I've read, PGP for Thunderbird is just a first step. My guess is that they chose the easiest/quickest path for first implementation, but I think we'll see more facilitation of encrypted email in TBird in time. This
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
When you (eventually) get to speak to a human (assuming you do, eventually) simply say to them, "Hi. I'm very happy to hear that $ORG is recording this conversation for [quality|security] purposes. I, too, am recording this conver
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
What, exactly, was "obsolete" about those libraries. Did the code stop executing? Were they written in languages whose compilers/interpreters stopped functioning? Or were there simply newer, shinier toys to play with?
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Too many UI designers and not enough real work for them to do? Seems to me there's far too much of that sort of thing going on in the software economy (not just UI designers!) -- far too much redeveloping existing wheels (and usually
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Curious about what use-case you have where you'd need a document that urgently...?
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Or distributing Linux ISOs or large magnetometer datasets or astronomical observations or...
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Had to laugh: "I'm seeing complaints from all over the planet on Twitter" The one site I can't see is Twitter. (Not a heart-wrenching loss, mind you...)
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Why is every link on the site routing via google? Does this project -- cool as it sounds at first bite -- originate from google? Funded by google? Routing every link through google's tracking panopticon just looks... weird. Raises ques
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Cliodynamics: History as Science(peterturchin.com)
1 points by mikro2nd 6y ago|0 comments
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
The USA is doing it: The permitting authority is a US government agency taking unilateral decisions that affect the entire globe.
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ALife 2020 Keynote [YouTube](youtu.be)
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
...which would require a valid SIM. So just don't add one. If the device comes with a pre-inserted/hardwired/virtual SIM, well... several countries in the world require KYC-style registration of the SIM owner before networks
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Please don't editorialise titles needlessly. This is not reddit and HN does not welcome clickbait. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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