mkr-hn

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by mkr-hn 4y ago
Graphs for things that keep going up and graphs for things that crash and die always look the same until that key divergence. "Past performance is no guarantee of future results" is a standard warning in real investments for a rea
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
They always have staff they pay with that money. It doesn't all flow into their pockets. It's very hard to reach that scale on your own.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
>> "What good is a blog without a thriving community of other blogs?" This is something I feel every time I think about getting back into blogging. A post wasn't quite the scream into the void it is now. Back then you
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
I wish therapy were more accessible and better regulated. You shouldn't have to still be so upset about a normal early adopter experience 27 years later that you unload on strangers like this.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
edit: nah
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
Also: interview with Joshua Schachter on the Web Masters podcast. One of those rare podcasts where every episode is worth listening to. https://latonas.com/blog/web-masters-episode-9-joshua-schach...
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
Nowadays browsers intentionally delay painting to load stuff.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
Just like old times. https://web.archive.org/web/20080906141421/http://blog.delic... >> "So why did we switch to delicious.com? We’ve seen a zillion different confusions and misspellings of
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
You can always email the mods if you think something is against the guidelines. I don't see any hate, personally. It's only a color chooser for people engaged in police reform advocacy.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
I know it used to be that, but it looks like an ordinary HTML web page now.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
People always talk about compound interest. Not enough people talk about compound waste heat.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
Yes. So you agree with me that capitalism is a symbiosis with the public systems it depends on and not solely responsible as your comment seemed to indicate. Moderna wouldn't have produced so much so quickly without a government ready
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
I expect them to treat fines like fees.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
Cover letters are still the brown M&M test [0] in some fields. It's a sign you read the application guidelines which specify details, usually including a cover letter. No cover, it gets tossed in favor of people who follow instruct
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
It's normal for multiple threads to occur until one takes over or a mod intervenes to merge or elevate one.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
Sorry, I forget this detail is not widely known. They were the first working on it from samples at ground zero, before it was a pandemic. Back when nobody knew anything. https://www.science.org/content/article/chin
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
I'm pretty far to the left and have never heard of this publication. I get the feeling it's suffering the same phenomenon as movie reviews where professional critics are increasingly distant from people who watch movies for fun. P
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
>> " Capitalism produced the vaccine in record time " No. mRNA vaccines are the result of decades of research with support of and collaboration with government and academia. Even the covid vaccine only happened as fast as it
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
From Babylon 5, a quote from G'Kar: >> "There are things in the universe billions of years older than either of our races. They are vast, timeless. And if they are aware of us at all, it is as little more than ants…and we h
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
You're anthropomorphizing a hypothetical alien civilization. You can only speculate at what ideologies and motivations drive them, and those drives might (for example) involve maintaining military and technological superiority relative
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
Stopgap solution until they fix it: change it to name+shopify @ gmail You might need to make it more unique if someone else had that idea.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
I've only seen the show where the gate builders and their enemy are still, and forever, a mystery. I don't think even Holden knows that much, but he at least has the good sense to not anger them. Q is more like a bored puppy.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
>> "Ideologies that see castrating yourself or you children as a moral good." Can you expand on this? I've never heard of that one. I know some people confuse accepting and affirming trans people with this because the
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
I think this is why I liked DS9 so much more than TNG or Voyager. It put less of a fourth wall between the conflict on the screen and the real-world conflicts it tried to map to, and it handled them without cynicism or easy, unrealistic sol
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
OP might at least want to consult with a contract lawyer in Italy to make sure.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
Tech is like any other human endeavor. People talk. People change jobs and still like the people in the place they left.
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
This sounds like a "do nothing script." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29083367 It defaults to not doing anything so you can gradually and selectively have it do something. Learned about when I posted my com
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
Notation has changed, adapted, expanded, contracted, and even spun off for different and new aspects of the problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_notation#Variations_on... https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
There's a gradient between "there's a reason we do things this way and you should understand it before you try to change it" and "don't roll your own notation."
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by mkr-hn 4y ago
You see the same with people suggesting MIDI is a replacement for notation. I program MIDI in a MIDI roll and still appreciate notation. MIDI is to notation as a play is to a script. Notation is more like a script. It's there to guide

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