peatmoss

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by peatmoss 9y ago
I hope it was okay to share your story! It's honestly one of the most inspirational science research stories I know of. Turning sci-fi into science speaks volumes to your creativity and intellectual capacity to run an idea to ground.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Depending how long ago you used it, you might give it another go. I spent a while trying and failing to use DDG reliably. Then I took a second pass a bit later, the results were only a little worse than Google. Then over time, I found mysel
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Every time I pose this question people seems to have a knee jerk reaction that no, it wouldn’t work. But in my mind, that could easily end up being an issue for the (EU) courts. As a matter of disposition and policy, I see no reason why the
814.
by peatmoss 9y ago
Yup, my undergrad journalism profs would be moritified. In my defense, it was early and I was still working on my first coffee.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
That was my thinking as well, though apparently geologists are pretty pessimistic about both the survival of human artifacts and the probability that someone would find the rare oddballs that did survive. Plus, it’s possible that some hypot
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Sure, the KT event isn’t the result of ancient civilization, there's nothing saying we couldn’t have had civilization at some other point in time, or that didn’t leave a record noticeable to us from that time.
817.
by peatmoss 9y ago
If people are interested in further reading on transaction cost economics, Oliver Williamson should be the next stop on your reading tour.
818.
by peatmoss 9y ago
That’s the one! I was hoping someone would be interested enough to fact check me :-)
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by peatmoss 9y ago
This is one of my all-time favorite “what if” questions. Some years ago a friend of mine coily posed this same question to me: What does humankind make that would survive 60 million years into the future, and if some other advanced industri
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by peatmoss 9y ago
In addition, Lexi Lambda has done a number of talks that are on Youtube. I watched one such talk at RacketCon this past year.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
iMessage ain’t Signal, but it’s also better than the default posture of email.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
iOS? Plus, I know folks who use mail.app. I also bet they could figure out how to instrument Safari with browser-side encryption for their cloud users. A few more privacy scandals break, and if Apple had an end-to-end encryption story that
823.
by peatmoss 9y ago
I feel like client-side email encryption is a missed opportunity for Apple. Easy encrypted email would fit nicely into their narrative of “we can offer privacy features that Google can’t, because we sell you stuff”
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by peatmoss 9y ago
This is only possible if one believes in the capacity to control client security on the other side. There’s also the problem that something viewable by the recipient’s eyeballs is also photographable by the recipient’s camera. Moreover, I w
825.
by peatmoss 9y ago
My goodness, you mean the Witcher 1 was worse ? I only managed 45 minutes before stopping the first one.
826.
by peatmoss 9y ago
Loved The Talos Principle, but also enjoyed Skyrim. Skyrim’s quests and side quests felt a bit thing-collecty at times, but I feel like you could get into it as a nationalistic boy scout viking barbarian, or an angry lizard thief, or an elv
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I’m not scandalized by the sex. I just find myself eye rolling at the hamfisted treatment of the topic. A couple of lame pickup lines and every woman you encounter practically impales herself on you. Not to mention the tedium of the cut sce
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by peatmoss 9y ago
While we’re highlighting quality examples, I’d like to call out the OpenBSD man pages for being superb.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Oof. Which ones? After the ten thousandth person recommended the game to me, I recently played through it and never found a plot that I didn't find pretty flat. Plus, I couldn't tell if the terrible dialog and gratuitous cringe-wo
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by peatmoss 9y ago
> If you don't need a distributed system, I'd argue that Subversion is at least as sane as anything else Oh my yes. Binary diffs were lovely. Also, support for large assets. For reproducible data science work, you’re going to n
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Agreed, but I’d have guessed that the Windows / git compatibility horrorshow (at least in the early days) would have nuked git’s chances as well. I’d have bet on the success of more friendly CLI UX and comparatively easier time on Wind
832.
by peatmoss 9y ago
Woah woah woah, let’s not get ahead of ourselves! :-)
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Darcs was also prior art (certainly the first DVCS I ever encountered), which makes me more inclined to call them innovative than hipster :-)
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Powerful? Certainly. Most sane? That’s a matter of perspective. I’m still a little shocked that git “won out” over mercurial. Even as Subversion was eating CVS, everybody knew distributed revision control was going to ultimately prevail. I
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Man, if they weren’t so crazy expensive, I’d be really excited. Part of it is nostalgia for the weird old days of exotic architecture Unix systems. As I think about it though, there’s no way I’d have ever paid for an SGI, Sun, RS/6k, A
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Yeah, OpenBSD is my litmus test for Linux compatibility. Linux distros like Ubuntu will often figure out how to get questionable hardware working for some value of “working.” But if OpenBSD runs, it’s a good indicator that the hardware will
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Impressive, but will it run Linux without being a pain in the ass? In all seriousness, I feel like the Thinkpads almost, but not completely, manage to be the standard Linux laptop. Especially for pro laptops, I don’t understand where there
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by peatmoss 9y ago
> like reading a Lisp book and then trying the example code in those languages - and then it does not work... Does SICP work in Common Lisp these days? Or is Scheme also not sufficiently a lisp? > CL is a specific branch of the Lisp t
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Well, except that C isn't a family of languages. (EDIT: or rather there is a specific language with the proper name "The C Programming Language," whereas there is no specific programming language called "lisp." EDIT
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I feel like Github's Danger Zone strikes a nice middle ground between "total footgun" and Facebook's belligerent refusal to let someone immediately sever their relationship. Actually, when compared to a breakup, the Face

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