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by podiki 6y ago
The comments below raise some good points, I'm not going to argue against that. Still, it is remarkable the difference in the Ivy and Public reading lists no? The structure of most societies and power hierarchy I think is still very mu
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by podiki 6y ago
In short, it is one of the most influential books on humans being inherently bad and needing force to be otherwise. To take just the top of the Wikipedia article [0]: "The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate governmen
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by podiki 6y ago
Yeah, this is a presentation/analysis of that data (mixed with a bit to organize by school).
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by podiki 6y ago
Fascinating, and also troubling (Leviathan...that makes too much sense). A counter point to that is the intriguing and optimistic Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman [0] that I am finishing now. It certainly has it faults, especi
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by podiki 6y ago
I'm guessing you mean their own privacy (company secrets, what they do to keep things running)?
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by podiki 6y ago
Yes, I was thinking just the admin interface with it's DNS not listening to the outside internet. What I see as the biggest risk (other than from other exploits for any web service) is that an attacker could change where DNS queries ar
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by podiki 6y ago
Spotted at UploadVR [0], with some further context and links there. [0] https://uploadvr.com/carmack-facebook-login/
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Carmack: Facebook Login for Oculus “Isn't Going Away”(twitter.com)
8 points by podiki 6y ago|6 comments
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by podiki 6y ago
What I was trying to get at, is there anything special (worse?) with an exposed DNS related service over anything else? Is that inherently more risky than other services?
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by podiki 6y ago
Why not both! Of course, since it is org-mode, you can just do your ledger-ing in there (like any other source block), make reports, comments, etc. Literal programming becomes literal finances. I haven't done this yet, but have played
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Ask HN: Exposed Pi-Hole, what's the worst that could happen?
2 points by podiki 6y ago|7 comments
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The Valve Index. On Linux. On a Min Spec Machine(boilingsteam.com)
2 points by podiki 6y ago|0 comments
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by podiki 6y ago
I commit the tangled results so that I can use Stow directly on other computers. But this could be easily automated with a script (since you can tangle without opening emacs directly, or within the org file itself!) to tangle after any upda
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by podiki 6y ago
STOW is great, it is simple and works well especially combined with git. That's what I do [0], and recently combined it with org-mode for literate programming, so each program has just a README.org that then generates all the files via
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by podiki 6y ago
That recent thread linked had lots of good stuff. For me it was the Practical Common Lisp [1] and Land of Lisp [2] books. I like starting with a book and articles, but then need a project to work on to really learn it and experience the lan
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by podiki 6y ago
Lisp (specifically, I've learned Common Lisp). The power is amazing, being able to have code write code was something I didn't realize I was trying to do over and over in different languages, but to have it all just be code....ama
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by podiki 6y ago
Signed distance fields (SDF) is very cool and easy for great text rendering. I've been on and off working on a text based graphics engine in Common Lisp using SDF to get smooth text at any size and effects like glowing. There was a pos
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FreeType Merges New “SDF” Renderer for High Quality Text Rendering in Games etc.(phoronix.com)
3 points by podiki 6y ago|1 comments
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by podiki 6y ago
If he's feeling better and doing well, why mess with a good thing! There's definitely a range of issues people have, and probably an over prescribing of treatment generally, which can make some of these broader studies harder to i
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by podiki 6y ago
I believe the placebo effect can also work just by telling someone about it (and then giving them the sugar pill or whatever). However, the whole placebo effect may just be (poor understanding of) statistics, namely regression to the mean.
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by podiki 6y ago
Knee surgery [0] is the one I've heard about before. Placebo (and nocebo) are really interesting effects, but also conflated with regression to the mean. There's a nice discussion of this in the very entertaining Math of Life and
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by podiki 6y ago
That might depend on your hardware, but over the last few years I've had all those things on Linux with minimal (or no) tweaking on laptops. I did search beforehand about Linux on the Dell XPS I'm on right now, but the situation i
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by podiki 6y ago
Yeah, that's a good analogy! And it captures how you have that freedom, but also the onus is on you to take care of things :-) Of course, that's part of the fun of both.
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by podiki 6y ago
In a sense that was me too, where everything moved to emacs, Firefox, programs like that where I can run them where I want. Games was the big hold over, along with photo editing (hello Darktable). It is great to have that freedom now.
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by podiki 6y ago
Yup, that's kind of the point, it really isn't a big deal these days (or at least less and less reasons one might have to be on Windows). The big one, games, has seen massive improvement in the last few years with Wine/Proton
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by podiki 6y ago
Author here, happy to answer any questions! Life is good on Linux :-)
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My Journey to Finally Ditching Windows for Good(boilingsteam.com)
64 points by podiki 6y ago|73 comments
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by podiki 6y ago
Hahaha that's great! I wonder if it is just a static catalog of images, or uses all that fancy machine vision to find new images...
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by podiki 6y ago
I haven't seen in many years, but the one concert I saw I remember being most awesome (this was almost 15 years ago now). I do remember everyone having a beer handy on stage, but don't remember it getting too messy at the end.
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by podiki 6y ago
All these comments and not one of how awesome Herman Li is? Even if you are not at all into the type of music he plays (though, come on, shredding and video game sounds!) I think there's quite a virtuosity to be appreciated. Plus he tr

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