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by pcmaffey 6y ago
I can't fathom how people enjoy killing for sport (for food, sure, but solely for pleasure?). That must be some kind of pathology?
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Could add nocrawl to your robots.txt and advertise the fact on signup page that search engines won’t find this content.
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Also camping in campsites, hiking on trails, etc is much more sustainable now that there are 9 billion of us. Perhaps a greater sense of conservation?
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Only half the population actually votes. Elections are won / lost on voter turnout, not convincing undecideds. You just don’t know which half is voting. His point is to get people to vote.
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
One thing I don’t understand is how does matter bend spacetime? Isn’t this video describing the force of gravity on spacetime instead of on things moving through spacetime?
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Don’t try to “be” anything. Do it, and let being emerge.
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
There are sanitary reasons for closing the door while pooping.
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
How do you identify "the best news" without exorbitantly wasting time filtering through rubbish? By trusting in a publisher. In which case, you then become a loyal reader, just like you become a fan of a band. Of course, this is n
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
I’ve wondered if an app-store app could work as a sort of local server for different PWAs, handling notifications, hardware apis, etc.
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Rebuild to fit our dreams all the better. Just a process to get there...
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
My house just burned in a wildfire. The creosote railroad ties previous owners had used for landscaping and retaining walls all over the property continued to burn for days. It smelled terrible and likely contributed to the house catching f
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
I believe in your theory. I wrote about it recently as it’s been a long-standing challenge for me to balance different creative/literary/social aspects of my self with those emphasized by programming all day. http://www
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Infinite scroll pages have also contributed to their demise...
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
The key difference for me in the process of making code vs making art is error handling. When drawing, knowing you made a mistake is entirely up to you, which adds extra cognitive load. I wrote about this a bit: https://www.pcma
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Cancel culture is #2.
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Shame has been used to police human behavior throughout history. See: all religions.
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
I believe flat earthers are intentionally weaponizing their ignorance as an act of rebellion. So yes in that case it is meant to be insulting, just nit anything to take personal.
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
People mistake a desire for politically moderate journalism with objective journalism. How do you objectify atrocities, corruption, lying etc without coming across as politically opposite the perpetrators? The simple act of reporting become
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Note that as soon as you accept any winnings you give Yotta full right to use your name and city for marketing.
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Wow, I had this exact idea just the other day. Letter writing is such an ideal format for nuanced discussion, particularly as it conveys the personal perspective and human element behind one’s ideas. Congrats on making it real. I will consi
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Dante's Peek(etymonline.com)
1 points by pcmaffey 6y ago|0 comments
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
What if battery status was used to triage tasks? Wait to do something intensive if you’re low, etc. Seems like a respectful enhancement. If theses APIs are only accessible with user consent, I don’t see the problem.
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Conversational design is basically command line, right?
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How Programming Shapes the Mind(pcmaffey.com)
3 points by pcmaffey 6y ago|0 comments
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Video games will change education in the way that books changed education (speculation I know). They're not a replacement for human discourse, for the teacher-pupil relationship, for social fitting, etc. But they make learning scalable
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
> "where games mostly fall short is that they’re not that transferable to the real world." I'd argue that this will change because the "real world" will begin to more and more resemble games. Sports are a good an
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
You can always roll your own basic analytics, eg https://www.pcmaffey.com/roll-your-own-analytics Doing so is extremely helpful to understanding what events and data you actually need for your use case.
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Here's one of my favorite examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDoH15ylAeo&feature=youtu.be
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Thanks! SMIL is so under-appreciated. I always look forward to doing these animations.
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by pcmaffey 6y ago
Google is monetizing Wikipedia's content. Even if that content is "free", selling it to advertisers counts as stealing.

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