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by paol 7y ago
The "intuitive" argument comes up a lot in relation to units of measure, and it just makes me wonder how people can have such lack of self awareness. Anything that is familiar is easier, that tells you nothing about the thing itse
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by paol 7y ago
This is one of the best essays I've ever read. I was surprised to find it was never discussed on HN (plenty of submissions, no traction). So go read it HNers.
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by paol 8y ago
After the entirely justified public shaming of China when they did this I though, hey at least this disaster will serve as an example and no one will be so stupid as to do it again. Then India proves they are so stupid as to do it again. I
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by paol 8y ago
In fact it doesn't have a thesis, as far as the question "why does stoicism appeal to modern rich and powerful". The partial quote you posted is part of a musing around that topic, but it only takes reading that paragraph in
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by paol 8y ago
That is not the thesis of the article, and misrepresenting it that way is doing it a diservice. It would be better to "wade" through it in full than to mis-sumarize it.
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by paol 8y ago
Interesting article. I'd like to encourage people to read more stuff from her blog, it's absolutely excellent. I'm currently reading this piece[0] (teaser quote: "then, in the early seventeenth century, Francis Bacon inv
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by paol 8y ago
It's been very productive for us (in machine vision).
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by paol 8y ago
Seems like you should be using a content management system (CMS) instead of coding a website. I'd recommend a hosted service[0] so you don't have to manage updates and security yourself. [0] Examples: https://wordpress.
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by paol 8y ago
In addition to the solutions in the sibling comments, let me offer my favorite one: a simple bookmarklet that zaps all sticky elements on the page. Works wonders in Medium and a lot of other sites. javascript:(function()%7B(function%2
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by paol 8y ago
Git won though. I'm not especially a fan of git, but at this point advocating for mercurial is tilting at windmills.
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by paol 8y ago
> I feel this will make sheep That is entirely the intended outcome.
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by paol 8y ago
If you look closely at the flowchart in the article, that won't stop security updates from downloading. I found that surprising.
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by paol 8y ago
You can use it right now, it's just disabled by default. Go to about:config and set media.autoplay.default to 1 or 2.
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Google planning changes to Chrome that could break ad blockers(arstechnica.com)
7 points by paol 8y ago|1 comments
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by paol 8y ago
I love Spotify, for the service and just for the fact that it exists (just look at the fragmentation shitshow that is movie & tv streaming, with enormous amounts of back catalog still unavailable anywhere, to see how much worse we could
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by paol 8y ago
You're missing the point. This is the absolute ceiling of success that can be reached in Spotify. If the payout of that is 90k, what do you thing the payout of the typical artist is on Spotify?
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by paol 8y ago
I think so too, but that still leaves the problem that the statement is false. I was really puzzled by this one.
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by paol 8y ago
I'm a lot less worried about the "link tax" clauses than the copyright liability clause. Not because the link tax is a good idea but because it's a spectacular own goal that is mainly going to hurt the idiots who lobbied
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by paol 8y ago
Second the usefulness of rename, but beware there is some confusion about the name of the tool. It's called 'rename' on debian and derivatives and 'prename' on RH and derivatives.
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by paol 8y ago
> Six-key home/end/insert/delete/pgup/pgdwn cluster that mirrors that on a desktop keyboard? Check. I miss this so much. Laptop keyboard layouts are usually a disaster. Lenovo was the shining exception[1], then t
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by paol 8y ago
Nope, you didn't misconfigure it, NFS behaves like that by default. In fact it's really hard to configure it not to that.
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by paol 8y ago
Having very different semantics hiding under identical syntax is still a design fault with the language though, especially considering that Javascript's adherence to Java syntax is deliberate not accidental. I really don't blame p
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by paol 8y ago
It's really frustrating that the ECMA people didn't define class methods to always be bound just like arrow functions. Like arrow functions, classes are a new syntax so there are no backward compatibility concerns. That said, havi
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by paol 8y ago
Just install Cookie AutoDelete (or equivalent extension) in your browser. You'll be able to click 'Accept' in cookie notices with abandon safe in the knowledge that it doesn't matter what the site says or does, you'
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by paol 8y ago
> RPM format was designed when computers were smaller and slower So was DEB. That's not a very good excuse.
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by paol 8y ago
Have used it before. Works well.
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by paol 8y ago
This post never actually explains why any of this was needed. The closest it comes is this bit: "If [...] the same-origin policy for XMLHttpRequests relaxed, said services could now receive a deluge of DELETE, PUT, etc… requests from a
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by paol 8y ago
Activity has ceased unfortunately. The last articles are from 2016.
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by paol 8y ago
At that point can it really be attributed to "mis-reading" the docs? If every single independent implementor understood it the same way, the docs were wrong.
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by paol 8y ago
I think Linux will use HPET if the hardware makes it available. You can prevent that with "hpet=disable" in the kernel boot parameters.

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