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by musage 9y ago
> there doesn't seem to be a way around the fact that web apps have no persistent access to the local filesystem A local webserver and a little scripts for writing files. Plus symbolic links to your music folders maybe? I never tri
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> So you want to sabotage the system because you're afraid of being replaced by a robot? Being "afraid" for oneself isn't necessary to simply be passive-aggressive towards something you don't like for reasons you
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> Most people care more about their issues locally (which is in line with human psychology, we weren't meant for these large social networks) but people who sit here and cast stones at people who aren't keeping up with what hap
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We already have the complaints about censorship. What we don't have is sensible moderation.
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A few days ago someone posted this in a comment.. I can't find the comment, and the whole thing is worth watching, but since apparently a lot of people share this sentiment, maybe they too can have some of their faith restored a bit by
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What makes a philosopher other than love of wisdom? And in your estimation are they missing the point of other philosophers, or of non-philosophers? If the latter, what's a non-philosopher?
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> These companies add value but they are not the Internet. Even more importantly, they are not people. By that I mean that (marketing departments in) so many companies just love to take credit for the things people bring to the table
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Having a flip phone I get a kick out of it how dorky people look using their gadgets, the same way the one button mouse made me laugh when I had an actual one. More of all that, please. As long as it's more than a piece of cloth people
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by musage 9y ago
Is this some kind of contest in missing the point?
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The only thing I didn't like about customer service was being hindered by ass backwards bureaucracy, lazy colleagues without empathy, or outright CRM bugs, to solve the problem. Or to be the first person to actually listen to something
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In a way I love that this comment is greyed out. It's the only one that has merit. Think of it: how often do you see articles of this kind on HN, that could be written in the thousands easily , all of which you could call "amusin
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Then that justification for the price is the justification for being willing to pay that price; same thing. Also, "free market" is kind of a joke as a mantra. For example, "without interference" kind of would require a w
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> I can assure you that no German bureaucrat would use the term "Yanks". Well then let me assure everybody your assurance is mistaken. Two examples: > Wir haben den Amis ja was versprochen und Mitte März ist AL [Harald Fechn
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Unbeknownst to you, this goes both ways.
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> People learn by watching much better than they do by reading a manual Except so many video tutorials aren't "to achieve x, do y and z", 90% of the running time is bloat. And that's not even counting the apparently m
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by musage 9y ago
Why are you throwing "knee-jerk naysaying" and having a conscience and an awareness of the recklessness and greed of some, and of the lack of spine of others in one bucket? What about the knee-jerk cheerleading? How does that expr
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by musage 9y ago
For example with songs I'm in the process of making, I like to have a list on me with just the titles so I can note down acoustic observations made while listening to them on various speakers or headphones, for the next iteration of &q
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by musage 9y ago
Have you ever seen UltraEdit? I dare you to try the trial, actually go through the exquisite configuration dialogs to make it yours, and then to ever look back :) This isn't as a knock on ST, which I also like, and might even sometimes
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There is no Nazi "ideology" without victims. That is, there is no ideology that can't shift on a penny, but there's always resentment and powerlessness (as well as the megalomania that accompanies them) projected on th
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> Conversations have context, you know. Parent poster mentioned dignity being different. Did you not read the or are you intentionally clipping it. No, I got that. And then I asked, why would one need a "list of activities" to
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by musage 9y ago
> So do you have a list of what earns you dignity vs what is narcissism? Like covering your gut in loose clothing is fine but but what has it to do with dignity? And why would anyone need a "list"? > Don't like it, don&
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by musage 9y ago
Then allow any computer to be configured that way, but don't try to sell lack of this feature as a feature.
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Come to think of it, generating decent verbal description of graphs automatically would be a worthy (and probably hard) challenge.
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by musage 9y ago
I prefer something to that that I'm sure that has a name, but I don't know it (but would love to), at least for real-time things: Let's say you have X buckets, with Y slots each. Each tick, you put the current value in the cu
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> it seems strange and disturbing to talk to regular users like they’re all marketeers It doesn't surprise me, not anymore. A lot of marketing is getting high on its own supply, as in, they actually somewhat believe what they are sa
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> "Have you donated everything you made this month above the poverty level in your country to some kids who can't afford to eat say in Bangladesh per chance or its equivalent?" > the moment such actions inconvenience th
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I care about others because I care about the person I am. > A kid born in the year 10,000 is a stranger to me. And if treated with a modicum of attention and love, it will be much wiser than you before it even enters school. Rationalizin
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Dome_(film)
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> it doesn't yet suck for the vast majority of Chinese in their own minds For me that says more about them than about China.
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That's kinda like me saying how to comfort a child is not part of the C++ standard, and you replying someone used an app written with it to comfort their child when they had to work overseas. Nothing in the C++ standard says they could

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