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Note Keeping in 1786 – Blumenbach's System of Maps (2008)(takingnotenow.blogspot.com)
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by nukeop 8y ago
As a rule of thumb, people who offer their own code publicly, are usually in the top 10% of developers. People who have ever contributed to another project, even if in a minor way, are in the top 5%. And people who contribute or develop the
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It usually takes a lot of work to get a person to judge your work. Typically if you make a repository public, no one will give a shit. It takes a lot of advertising to produce any interest. I have a repository with 4500 stars, and hundreds
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Although you have to admit that Vim is excellent at beeping.
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One of Rust's major advantages over C and C++ and a huge reason why I choose it for new projects that call for a low level language is better learning resources. Others are better, established tools (like cargo), helpful community, san
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Butterfly populations fluctuate wildly over the decades, there's no "butterfly crisis". We've already seen such declines followed by huge population bursts after some time. There's no reason to speculate that this w
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Way more impressive than various fantasy consoles that typically involve a lua programming environment and an artificially limited screen. Here the limitations actually stem from the hardware being used. This is something that only huge com
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If you find these kinds of "build your own X" articles interesting, there's a repo on Github that aggregates them, sorted in various categories: https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x
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https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/supplemental-nutrition-assista...
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Actually in a modern democracy I am owed a free lunch.
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That might be true if you're an occasional developer but if you're putting in 8 hours a day for years you're going to want to have your tools tailored to you very closely.
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Those who do not understand Emacs are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. On a more serious note I could never understand why a closed source editor gained any traction among developers, especially when it lacks many, many features other more
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I wish Servo was mature enough to serve as Electron replacement.
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We need less PWAs, not more. Many people are already confused enough when it comes to grasping the difference between websites and native applications. Another "standard" created to consolidate Google's position in the market
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Now they can save valuable CPU time and your phone will extract advertising keywords from your conversations for them, even without an internet connection. It's way more efficient to cache speech converted to text while offline rather
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A million things, like missing functionalities from the new extensions api (meaning no Pentadactyl), no good way to manage keyboard shortcuts, having to disable many google integrations after installation, no way to disable "do not tra
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You know we're living in a dystopian future where the first complaint against an open source project is that it provides too few tools for censorship.
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I wish Mozilla focused on core Firefox functionalities instead of coming up with so many small side projects that don't target their typical audience. Since Chromium-based browsers are not an option, many of us are stuck with Firefox a
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There are better choices for a historical scientist, such as Newton, Darwin, Bacon or Dalton. Hawking was popular in the niche circles but it's safe to assume that many people, even in the UK, would be unfamiliar with him. And shoehorn
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Paid Gmail is spyware in addition to not being free (gratis). Why would you trust an advertising company to run your email?
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Wouldn't `npm unpublish --force` revert this? If you provided an email you'd get a notification about a published package so you'd notice immediately even if you didn't at first.
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by nukeop 8y ago
Protonmail is one of the last sane email providers. Gmail is essentially spyware and they can block your access to your account on a whim, especially if you refuse to have a phone number connected to it (phone numbers are commonly used to l
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Do Rotschilds have a monopoly on being Jewish? They did make a fortune on wars and they did own the London Stock Exchange, those are historical facts and they have nothing to do with race - why are you trying to conflate pointing out some h
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Correct, online banking is in the stone age compared to even the crudest cryptos.
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I'm not up to date with Android, but why does displaying notifications require an entire server or a paid service? Is it not just a matter of installing a client program and sending a curl to an endpoint?
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Before we can postulate a realistic generalized conclusion, we need a sample size larger than 1. Right now the scientific, rational position on Fermi's paradox is that outside of Earth the universe is completely devoid of life.
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The obvious, but hard to swallow solution to the Fermi paradox: aliens are a product of science-fiction, and don't exist. Not everything we can come up with in thought experiments has a real life counterpart.
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Ok, works as intended.
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Unintentional "let them eat cake" style comedy. $37 isn't expensive only for people drinking designer coffee out of avocados.
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Only because parent mentioned preferring that, in other posts in this thread people mentioned preferring the opposite.

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