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by nmg 8y ago
Agreed. I've only seen it once but I recall feeling "what's the big deal" at the end. However the interview made me re-think this a bit. That the interviewer mistook the number of extras by a large margin speaks to the c
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by nmg 8y ago
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps by Peter Adamson. Told chronologically for the layperson, with consistent tone and running jokes about Buster Keaton. An ambitious project, valuable resource, relaxing, illuminatung, and logical.
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by nmg 8y ago
old.reddit.com still works well for me (as well as it ever did) on mobile. The login is (intentionally?) broken, so I use i.reddit.com to login.
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by nmg 8y ago
I love LuaKit. Zero chrome/bezel on the browser windows - turn off window decoration and the web content is just a (fully) resizeable rect in your desktop layout. The vim-style keyboard controls are a plus (for me, anyway).
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by nmg 8y ago
The author's stance is that because it was a volunteer effort, he bears no responsibility for transferring ownership to an unknown third party who wants to commandeer the code used by millions of people. I believe this is false. He als
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by nmg 8y ago
some really neat homebrew games for this system -- http://www.packratvg.com/vechbrews.html
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by nmg 8y ago
IANA clojurian, but its inelegance of tail recursion is a limitation of java, correct?
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by nmg 8y ago
> it's illegal to report an attack by US intelligence agencies Can you provide a citation for this statement please
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by nmg 8y ago
"Editor's note: The following story is either true or false" doesn't have a very journalistic ring to it..
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by nmg 8y ago
Edit: sorry for typos, should have read more critically
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by nmg 8y ago
Consider that Fuller intentionally obfuscates text, inventing words and constructing labyrinthine sentence structures, to underscore his philosophy that an entirely new way if thinking is required. The act of deciphering meaning from his wo
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by nmg 8y ago
Is there such a thing as "interactive nonfiction"? Because if not, there should be. Design educational websites this way and watch children learn.
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by nmg 8y ago
Every time I hear about the Librem 5, I get excited about the idea that I could run Debian, or Arch, or another open source OS on a phone. But I can find scant details about how this would be implemented.
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by nmg 8y ago
Naive question: Would a reasonable way to avoid this scenario be, to increment a secondary counter when the primary counter reaches max-1, then reset the primary counter to zero?
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by nmg 8y ago
Sounds like the good kind of problem! Let me chime in and say thank you for implementing and sharing this.
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by nmg 8y ago
I don't interpret it as being "blinded by perspective", though. I think Thompson was (in a lighthearted curmudgeonly way) describing the virtue of having the primary buffer of your document in your head. I certainly don'
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by nmg 8y ago
I've been using Upwork for side gigs since it was Odesk. The tracking system (which has scarcely changed in 5+ years) has always seemed fair and flexible to me. the tracker works well cross platform.. I can move from OSX to Win10 to Ub
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by nmg 8y ago
I was reading "Physics and Beyond" by Werner Heisenberg this weekend, and he mentioned reservations about Plato, specifically, speculation about the form and behavior of constituent particles of matter as described in the Timaeus.
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by nmg 8y ago
One of the most frustrating parts of Win10 is the update scheduling. You can request that an update be delayed, but the OS does not always honor the request as specified (settings - update & security - windows update - active hours). In
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by nmg 8y ago
This is not my area of experience, but is it feasible to capture all raw tracking data from the client devices and then just pass it on to the API?
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by nmg 8y ago
This is gorgeous. For me it recalls Fuller's Dymaxion map. He would be cheering if he had this in his web browser.
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by nmg 8y ago
May I suggest Robert Frost? He's fanatical about rigorously adhering to meter, cunningly so.. when you go back and count the iambs it's striking how few deviate. The way he encodes his lyricism is subtle and soothing, like a preci
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by nmg 8y ago
Net Neutrality's been dead for less than 24 hours. Tin foil hats aside, is it realistic to consider a relationship between these two events?
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by nmg 8y ago
I see that it affects Chrome, Edge, IE, and the desktop runtime.. no mention of Firefox however.
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by nmg 8y ago
If I aim a gun and pull the trigger, the results are not the byproduct of chance, excepting that in some sense everything is. This was consciously aiming a gun at an explicitly-named remote target, ricocheting the bullet off an unprecedente
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by nmg 8y ago
Second this — I like Compiz but the ccsm & gnome-tweak-tools tandem/overlapping configuration is a nightmare. Preferences must be imported/exported via GUI and they (frequently!) import improperly. Ccsm itself is a maze of dia
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by nmg 8y ago
must say that regardless of its age, this tutorial is superbly written.
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by nmg 9y ago
There's a more subtle point in the article about how digital media have trained us to be less tolerant of delays, more impatient for new information. How often have you gone to a website on a whim, but clicked "back" after wa
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by nmg 9y ago
If you don't mind my asking, what X server for windows are you using? And, what is your display resolution? I've had good default font rendering with VcXsrv on a 1366x768 display, for example, but the same configuration is almost
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by nmg 9y ago
Not to belittle your point, but in defense of the original comment, I think he looked "more like an engineer" because he looked like he'd been up for 48+ hours powered nothing by coffee

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