mikro2nd

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by mikro2nd 4y ago
My own[*] contribution in this area: A calendar with 12 months, each of exactly 30 days. Then the days between xmas and New Year (5 days most years, 6 in leap years) are struck off as "intercalary days"... they simply don't e
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Julian Assange denied permission to attend Vivienne Westwood funeral(theguardian.com)
14 points by mikro2nd 4y ago|0 comments
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
What's to stop them? A wallet is just a keypair.
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
How long would it take, do you suppose, for ~~Disney~~ $ProductionCompany to simply get rid of the voice actor altogether. Now there's another person without work.
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
This is the same Saudi Arabia that is now the 2nd-largest shareholder in Twitter.
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Observations on Modern Computing (The Last 10 Years Were a Misstep)(ajroach42.com)
3 points by mikro2nd 4y ago|0 comments
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Amara's Law: "We overestimate the impact of a technology in the short term. We under estimate its impact in the long term."
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
How does he recover 44B this way?
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Dealing with Google's Malware Robocop(the.webm.ink)
1 points by mikro2nd 4y ago|0 comments
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
"engineers who design these things don't clean their own houses, and don't talk to the people who do" I have long harboured similar suspicions regarding the design of kitchen utensils. Clearly designed by people who&#x27
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
"cross platform graphics stacks make a lot more sense" Oh how they laughed when Sun tried this with Java some 25 years ago...
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
(As another KDE user) I'll second this. Electron-based apps seems to be the worst culprits -- ignore my preference settings for max/min/close buttons, frequently do away with the title bar altogether leaving me with no window
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Or maybe not. It's harder to change an organisational DNA than just changing the people. tl;dr: MS is still evil.
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Interestingly, Netbeans (though strongly Java focussed at the time) once had a fantastic collaborative coding plugin at one time, based on XMPP. It got killed because Sun wanted to foist their own "via Sun servers" thing on everyb
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Mozilla VC(mastodon.ar.al)
2 points by mikro2nd 4y ago|0 comments
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
You're looking at it from the vantage point of "the future". For some span of time, "plastic never degrades". Then someone discovers something new, and after that plastic degradation becomes possible (though not wid
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Not a single penny.
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Fair enough, but a similar, albeit lesser impact, scenario holds if there's a localish (but not close enough to walk) dropoff point. (anecdata: My closest dropoff point is a 40 minute drive each way.)
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Which model is better for minimising environmental impacts of all sorts: 1. 50 people all drive from their homes to various stores/pickup points to buy shit, or 2. 1 vehicle drives to 50 homes, dropping off the shit they ordered online
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Summer is HERE. Dancing in the sunshine, me!
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
But everybody's not you. Sometimes we're on expensive, metered bandwidth. Sometimes we're in an online business meeting. Sometimes we're giving/about to give a presentation. Sometimes we're under deadline press
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
No. I've seen several this very morning. eta:... including a submission of a post by Elon Musk. I think they're simply generally very low quality/low effort submissions that sink to the bottom of the "new" page fast
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
I resent your assumption that only US senators should do mine hunting. Surely politicians everywhere of whatever stripe are good enough for this job?
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Building arbitrary Life patterns in 15 gliders(btm.qva.mybluehost.me)
510 points by mikro2nd 4y ago|112 comments
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
The pendulum always swings...
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Running jet engines on Hydrogen? Easy peasy! Hydrogen-fueled aircraft? Never gonna happen. The weight of H2 containment is prohibitive, and you get to keep flying that shit even after you've burned all the fuel. Makes no sense.
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Not stupid, they just don't know what a lot of food looks like before it's been processed into food. Not their fault, just a fact.
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
As someone who lives "out in the country" I can tell you from experience that city people will walk right past a field full of food without even recognising that it is food. They're too used to seeing the polished, buffed a
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
OK. I was going with something Mr Musk quoted the other day, but my aging memory may well be faulty.
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by mikro2nd 4y ago
Vox bot, vox dei.

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