njharman

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by njharman 6y ago
> Patrons can sit and enjoy a very small section of the museum instead of rushing through, since they can simply come back for more later They can do this now. But if museum sells collection the can't "simply come back for more
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by njharman 6y ago
But there exists a nightly reminder and guide for the two relevant story points. The count and that count changed.
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by njharman 6y ago
7 days (and almost certainly the cultural popularity of 7) is due to there being 7 regular, unique moving make eye objects in sky. Sun, moon, mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, mercury. https://astronomy.com/news/2020/0
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by njharman 6y ago
Dragon magazine covers https://friendorfoe.com/g/Dragon%20Covers/ disclosure, that is my website.
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by njharman 6y ago
> Let people like the things they like Does that include writing blog posts? Or, liking Erlang over Elixir? Or, bashing Elixir? How do any of those stop people from liking what they like? Unlike, what you did. I'm not really sure th
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by njharman 6y ago
most of that has to with libraries, not the language. I'd take good libraries with Erlang semantics and syntax over good libraries with other lang's semantics and syntax.
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by njharman 6y ago
It's probably mostly due to legal liability. Real or perceived. It's gonna be risky to convince a jury you did your fiduciary duty to either consumers or stockholders when opposing lawyer is saying "so you subjected my client
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by njharman 6y ago
The point is who gets to decide the standards of behavior? There are tons of laws restricting what standards can be. Fair housing act. Education, phone service are examples of things that can’t be arbitrarily denied because people providing
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by njharman 6y ago
It’s not always about majority values. Large part of the bill of rights exists to protect individuals from the majority. Anti-discrimination, fair housing many other laws exist to protect against majority. Democracy is not autocratic rule o
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I thought this was going to be about personal InfoSec ala Parler.
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by njharman 6y ago
> all(map(func3, filter(func2, map(func1, zip(a, b)))) That is super readable to me. Working left to right or inside out. There is one, clear, balanced, familiar, consistently used punctuation to guide you, parens, if you need it but add
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by njharman 6y ago
The actual reason is Jan 20th is pretty close now.
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by njharman 6y ago
Something like that would only be fair if first, wealth was fairly (re)distributed. As of now there are enough people, corporations, and governments with enough money to buy property for other than its value or use. Petty revenge, fucking w
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by njharman 6y ago
Why are people so up their own ass about receiving advice and aide with their kids? Do you get hostile and reject people helping you with flat tire, when you're lost, chasing down you escaped dog? Do you jump to the conclusion that the
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by njharman 6y ago
And how the copyright monopoly robs our culture. With some of David Bowie's contribution to Art being denied and forever lost.
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by njharman 6y ago
The 80's was AWESOME. The future was going to be all new wave music makeup and cloths. All neon, cyberpunk, hacking the corpos for money and "fighting the good fight". What happened wasn't bad, but certainly wasn't
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by njharman 6y ago
They’ve issued rules prohibiting all sorts of firearm related content. Firearm and ammunition manufacture is banned. You won’t find build receiver videos any more. And since rules are vague it has chilled much other content. Is replacing ha
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by njharman 6y ago
> I fear a loss of jobs and richness in ag. Your fear is a century late. Really, all of civilized history late. The very clear trend of civilization is loss of agricultural jobs.
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by njharman 6y ago
Exactly!!! Not getting married used to be cause for ostracism. Having child out of wedlock. Having long hair as a male! There will always be busy body haters who find a reason to exclude you, to elevate themselves above you. They are fucks.
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by njharman 6y ago
Man, reading Electric Sheep was the best. I really feel blessed to have been born 50 years ago, today in fact. Living through rise of personal computer, birth of internet, and the explosion on electronic and online art engendered by both.
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by njharman 6y ago
Yes. This list seems closer to "problems with c/c++"
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Corporations; soulless, tasteless and inhuman.
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by njharman 6y ago
User: your thing doesn't work the specific way I want. I haven't read the manual and refuse to learn now to use its features. You should make it magically work the way I imagine. Multiply by 100 users with different opinions, all
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by njharman 6y ago
Tberes no way Elin would be secret / anonymous. Under him, it would be massive PR stunt, social media circus.
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by njharman 6y ago
I do this while programming. Very very low transparency. To see status/output. of windows behind. Hmm, I guess I don't do this anymore. Since getting giant 4k TV/monitor. So, guess it had use in constrained screen realstate
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by njharman 6y ago
Let’s not blame abstract group/process “democratic society” when it’s clear that a concrete commercial organization, the auto industry, had profit motive to advertise and lobby for favorable PR and legislation.
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Um, the biggest one POLUTION! Including lead poisoning of a couple generations due to leaded gas. Disastrous foreign Mid East policies to secure oil.
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by njharman 6y ago
Unless only possible job, I highly recommend not wasting your time at company that doesn’t have your future coworkers doing interviews and having hiring input. That company will likely not have good developers, will be an engineering shit s
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by njharman 6y ago
HN has high proportion of "tech" people. Tech people old enough to have lived through "birth of Internet" or into 80's hacker/phreaker culture will know of MAE West and MAE East. These people, upvoted for nosta
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Not the same person.

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