noizejoy

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by noizejoy 5y ago
> … maybe I'm not asking the right questions, You’re holding it wrong :-)
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Actually the petunias *did* know [0] [0] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/198068-another-thing-that-g...
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> natural fit for how my brain works and that is a perfectly sensible way of looking at this (and many other) fanboi discussions over the decades. But then again, if such sensibility ever took hold in the majority of humans, it would be
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by noizejoy 5y ago
I’m using a 40” 4k monitor for Win10, and never found snapping to be attractive, although I routinely have about 20 active windows.
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> has already made me miss a couple meetings. Congratulations on a novel permutation of “the dog ate my meeting notification” :-)
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by noizejoy 5y ago
Could be a fun ask HN: What would happen if Mr. Wolfram and Mr. Musk would have to share the same room for a while?
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by noizejoy 5y ago
> Calling that R&D is disingenuous. You can learn valuable things on your way to making stupidity, of course, but that's not R&D. I don’t necessarily disagree with your take, but for tax accounting, a lot of “stupid” progra
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by noizejoy 5y ago
> Life is much more enjoyable if … That sentence has widely different endings for different people.
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I believe most trains in the world are grounded to this day. (Mixed metaphors always make me smile.)
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Article is not in English - and also clickbait, since no examples of 50% given. Highest I could see was an instance of around 30%.
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Exactly, but I couldn’t figure of how it actually differs from CC0, despite apparent protestation to that effect: > The CC0 and various "do what you want" licenses and various public domain dedications may be less attractive to
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by noizejoy 5y ago
> To everyone else, labelling a phone number 'text' makes much less sense than labelling a telephone number a number. In some jurisdictions there’s a strong culture of having phone numbers represented as text - so they’re easie
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> Todo lists are ephemeral. They're not meant to be stored and archived. I have many recurring items on my todo list. So those might be nice to be portable between apps.
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I just meant they are pretty much independent dimensions, and I interpreted your comment to mean they are highly correlated. Or did I misunderstand what you were trying to say?
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“My time being valuable” can legitimately be meant in a fully subjective way. In the sense of: I would like to cram a long list of activities (including thinking about certain things) into my remaining lifetime. If that list is a lot longe
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by noizejoy 5y ago
> I think the unforgiveness is the problem. People should be able to make some mistakes. Wholeheartedly agreed - the “Internet never forgets” is a related problem, although I've also seen some apparent “forgetting” over years. Accor
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by noizejoy 5y ago
And then I’d love a game-of-life style visual simulation of the effect of both kinds of blocks. Will the Twitterverse split in two? Into n? Will everyone end up in their own Twitterverse of 1? Will Twitter implode with blocking taking all t
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by noizejoy 5y ago
> I once lived near a cafe that served coffee, breakfast, lunch, dinner, and at night turned into a jazz bar with fancy cocktail drinks. They also had a retro shop at the back of the cafe selling all kinds of vintage knick-knacks. Their
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by noizejoy 5y ago
I find it one of the more amazing things, that so much of our physical world has a time/frequency dimension. And our bodies have at least a couple of obvious senses (vision and hearing) to experience some frequency ranges. And with mod
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by noizejoy 5y ago
When I got my first NVMe SSD, I was disappointed that it wasn’t significantly faster than my SATA SSD. But soon I realized that it was Samsung’s Magician software that made the SATA SSD competitive with an NVMe SSD via RAM caching.
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by noizejoy 5y ago
I have to admit, that I have higher expectations of people understanding licensing subtleties when they create software for distribution.
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A seatbelt also doesn’t have a concept of the real world and doesn’t live in a shared reality either.
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… or under the influence of some substance, or a health event, or voluntary or involuntary distraction, or …
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You ignored the key detail: Who set the price for the Kellog’s corn-flakes?
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by noizejoy 5y ago
Fair enough, maybe I read your post as more absolutist than intended.
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And I prefer to see judges and lawyers as safety valves for mitigating badly written legislation.
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by noizejoy 5y ago
While I agree with your well intentioned sentiment, “intent” is even more nebulous and arguable.
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I have no idea how much sense it makes to have this discussion without a reasonably specific underlying business context.
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As someone who’s worked and managed in that type of environment and later left that world to start small companies, I was very glad, that this corporate insanity made it possible to hire great individuals away from big corporations.
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> The problem is a lot of the parts that tend to fail like a screen replacement or water damage to the main board cost as much in parts as the phone is worth. The problem is a lot of the parts that tend to fail like a $part cost as much

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