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by panglott 11y ago
The point is that they target both.
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by panglott 11y ago
Yea, I used to use Wiki on a Stick on a flash drive. When I had to migrate away, I ended up going to Evernote rather than Tiddlywiki. But it's a great tool.
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by panglott 11y ago
Interesting b/c Microsoft had made a big push to promote the tablet form factor back in 2002, but the OEM devices weren't popular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_editions#Tablet_PC_...
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by panglott 11y ago
Of course, these are ends that are only now being seen as noble instead of nefarious. It was necessary because same-sex relationships were viewed as deviant and sinister for so long. What's an interesting question is why this was so wi
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by panglott 11y ago
Siri as of 2013: http://www.wired.com/2013/04/siri-two-years/ "Whenever you speak into Apple’s voice activated personal digital assistant, it ships it off to Apple’s data farm for analysis. Apple generat
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by panglott 11y ago
To be far, this is a world where 1 in 3 men is a secret agent, and the rest are insouciant pirates. Jack World sounds like a pretty interesting place.
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by panglott 11y ago
The answer isn't to let cyclists run stop signs, because the problem is that there are too many stop signs in the US. Don't put a four-way stop on every corner and this won't be a problem. https://en.wikipedia.o
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by panglott 11y ago
Mostly I think alternate spellings should be tolerated, and there should be fewer irregularities. I like a lot of Masha Bell's suggestions to simply make English spelling less irregular. http://phonetic-blog.blogspot.com&#x2
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by panglott 11y ago
Obligatory fleventy-five reference: https://panglott.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/fleventy-five/
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by panglott 11y ago
It also solves only half the "problem", since each decade still has its own name.
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by panglott 11y ago
Semi-relatedly, I've wondered why coders haven't adopted something like the tonal system for hexadecimal. http://panglott.blogspot.com/2010/01/nystroms-hexadecimal-nu...
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by panglott 11y ago
I love a lot of this new reasearch on the relationship between language and cognition, but. What I hate about this article is the way that it plays on American parents' educational anxiety, implying that these very mild linguistic effe
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by panglott 11y ago
People who are all alike tend to have the same blindspots. If you have a group with different POVs, they can more easily catch things that others might miss. Race/gender/age/&c.-related blind spots may be more important i
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by panglott 11y ago
Exactly. And yet the message of the page is that it is e-books that are the threat. "The Dangers of E-Books". "Join our mailing list about the dangers of e-books". "We must reject e-books..." DRM is the enemy,
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by panglott 11y ago
e-book != DRM EDIT: To be more clear, it says "We must reject e-books until they respect our freedom." But every single benefit it notes of printed books is also true of non-DRM'ed ePub book, except that non-DRM'ed ePubs
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by panglott 11y ago
bf is complex? It's about as simple and straightforward as a language can be. ;)
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by panglott 11y ago
Wow. E-books such as non-DRM'ed ePub are great sharing and accessibility tool. I can't quite decide whether this conflating of e-books with the Amazon Kindle store is stupid or dishonest. The Kindle format/store is only &quot
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by panglott 11y ago
Wow, it looks like GuixSD has made a lot of progress since the last time I looked into it. https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
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by panglott 11y ago
Most of the US market had shifted to cable TV by the introduction of digital TV, and simply wasn't aware that it existed. I think there's a bit of a generational divide: older people think of the cable companies as the institution
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by panglott 11y ago
I use Nix for OS X, and it seems to work well for my needs. Nix for Windows is the abandoned cygwin version?
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by panglott 11y ago
Hm, I think the shift to part-time workers in service and industrial jobs is mostly about evading labor regulation of full-time workers and further eroding the remuneration, economic stability, and bargaining position of lower-income worker
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by panglott 11y ago
Since each language has a language-specific but OS-independent package manager, this is a language-independent but OS-dependent package manager?
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by panglott 11y ago
The simpler explanation is that the VW Diesel that won was cheating the system too ;)
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by panglott 11y ago
"Nearly eighty years ago, John Maynard Keynes did the math on economic growth and concluded that within a few generations—by the time his peers' great-grandchildren came of age in, say, the 2000's—the persistent economic prob
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by panglott 11y ago
It's simply true that, barring disaster, the next generation will have it easier with more resources for cheaper. This is because worker productivity continues to rise. More is produced with fewer hours worked. It's beyond me why
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by panglott 11y ago
> What about ADHD in populations where there are few whites, say Asia, Africa, what has been observed there? This is a great question. ADHD diagnosis rates vary pretty significantly between the US and Europe (due to diagnostic and cultur
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by panglott 11y ago
Hyperactive black boys were taken to prison instead, I suspect.
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by panglott 11y ago
I don't doubt that ADHD exists so much as I suspect that it is wildly overdiagnosed in the U.S. Every other developed country has much, much lower rates of diagnosis than the U.S., but even in countries like France where there is a cul
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by panglott 11y ago
I think I have a trackball upstairs in a box from circa 2000 that I suspect still works fine, with an ADB-USB converter. The design goals of these two devices are different. Of course, it's perfectly fine for different devices to have
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by panglott 11y ago
You didn't like side-swiping or multi-touch tapping on a mouse with no buttons?

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