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by pgt 7y ago
Well put. “Censorship is the opium of the government,” made me snort my coffee and is highly quotable. What’s the term for when a small amount of something that hurts is actually good for you? Hormesis?
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by pgt 7y ago
Non-paywalled link, anyone?
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by pgt 7y ago
Greenspun's tenth rule may need to be updated for IDEs: "Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a JavaScript IDE." (previously Co
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by pgt 7y ago
Good to know: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more- radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/ To be clear, I was not defending coal. But I do have to ask over what time period radioactive coal wastes
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by pgt 7y ago
I'm sure this washed away debris will have a minimal effect on humanity overall, but for some people and animals, it might be a life-changing event. I really want to be a proponent of nuclear, but I don't see how any country can g
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by pgt 7y ago
Anecdote: Indoor rock climbing fixed my back & shoulder pain from computer work completely, as well as keep my wrists strong for typing and guitar.
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by pgt 7y ago
Dune 1 is one my favourite games. I still pull it up once every few years and play it out. Beautifully made. The Space Opera soundtrack by Exxos is also epic!
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by pgt 7y ago
I wonder what China threatened Apple with? Because this makes me want to not buy another iPhone. Sorry Apple, you can't bet on both sides of the same coin.
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by pgt 7y ago
Nice! I hope you will consider moving back to Rust when things have stabilised. Cross-platform compilation is much easier in Rust than in C. I think it's one of the big factors driving developers to it along with memory safety.
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by pgt 7y ago
There is a difference between a social network and "any young forum" for Q&A style posts.
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by pgt 7y ago
In “Building Communities with Software” (2004), Spolsky writes: “Q. Could you make a feature where I check a box that says “email me if somebody replies to my post?” A. This one feature, so easy to implement and thus so tempting to programm
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by pgt 7y ago
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair.
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by pgt 7y ago
The Fourier transform and its generalisations are so underappreciated. I've been trying to understand where the speed savings come from and suspect it has to do with coprime harmonics. I hope someone smarter and more knowledgeable will
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by pgt 7y ago
It would be cool if Memos could do the indexing on my Macbook and beam it to my iPhone via WiFi (no cloud plz)
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by pgt 7y ago
Now it's asking me about iCloud Photos. I don't know, man. Just start indexing, then tell me how much data it will use to process the cloud stuff later. Now I have anxiety about saying "Yes Include iCloud Photos" or &quo
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by pgt 7y ago
Argh, additionally you can only select one at a time of "All Photos", "Screenshots" and "None". Don't use checkboxes for this - this is what radio fields are for. Better yet, just index everything at once
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by pgt 7y ago
OK, I bought it. Some UI feedback. I got stuck at the "Select Photos" screen. I pressed Next and nothing happens, so I assumed it had crashed or was processing with no user feedback. Turns out you have to select from the list opti
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by pgt 7y ago
I am buying this IMMEDIATELY. Do I need to go through each photo to have them indexed, or does it OCR in bulk based on wherever it detects text? Feature request: can it also add tags for every day recognized objects with filter composition?
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by pgt 7y ago
They won't have to. Disabled people and those caring for grandparents prone to falling will seek out a Tesla with summoning if it helps them get around or can drive them to the hospital.
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by pgt 7y ago
Minority rule: if a minority of disabled people can get around by summoning their car, then - all costs being equal - their families will always buy a Tesla. Apple's ecosystem also benefits from the iPhone having the best accessibility
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by pgt 7y ago
I would like to see an artwork of an Oculus headset as a facehugger from Alien: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/9d/1b/b5/9d1bb5d1c30cebd812ba87512...
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by pgt 7y ago
Sounds like the Secretary Problem, which involves optimal stopping theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem The naive answer is 1/e (where e is the base of the natural logarithm). If you have N appl
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by pgt 7y ago
Fantastic talk! Key engineering takeaways from The TANDBERG Way - principles for effective product development that built TANDBERG to be acquired by Cisco for $3.3bn: - Embrace chaos. Continuously observer and adapt, because you can&#x2
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by pgt 7y ago
Beware of doing this, as it can easily backfire when abused by HR. Stick to exchanging stories that could not be deemed to have an impact on your job, or explain bad performance.
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by pgt 7y ago
The strongest model I have for understanding the world is that your prefrontal cortex is a simulator that is always predicting. When something occurs that surprises you (like a glass breaking in a restaurant), the anomaly diverts your atten
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by pgt 7y ago
Relationships develop through the escalating exchange of mutual vulnerability. A few people commented that I seemed to make friends very easily, so I started paying attention to my interactions with strangers. I noticed that I enjoyed shari
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by pgt 7y ago
Excel, the most popular functional programming language in the world, is closed-source.
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by pgt 7y ago
This is cool. Please consider adding a way to increase the size of the artboard and compose images on it. Put differently, let me "uncrop" the image or add margins. Multiple times this week I had to pad height or width to a trimme
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by pgt 7y ago
Looks super cool! Consider a different name suffix than "-pox", which will be associated with diseases like small pox. Maybe -blox, -tox or -hax?
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by pgt 7y ago
I upvoted to counter because the morally hazardous incentive does exist with proprietary tech that you become super dependent on. This risk may not apply to the founders (Rich, who we all love), but to a future acquisitor like Oracle, IBM o

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