rabidrat

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by rabidrat 7y ago
> shit branded as upscale high quality that is really the same garbage underneath. and this is how bad money drives good money out of the market. What is the general solution for this, assuming the quality level isn't illegal?
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by rabidrat 7y ago
UBI for water? Every man/woman/child/nonbinary gets ~10L/day for free, then the high rates kick in.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
> Also, "completing" one problem in the context of the above does not mean being able to solve it the first time without checking the solution. It means possibly struggling with the problem for 20 minutes, checking the answer,
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by rabidrat 7y ago
On the downside though, one of the main characters is murdered in the epilogue for no reason. A most unsatisfying denouement.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
I saw it in action firsthand in NYC. A garbage truck picked up an overflowing trash bin around midnight, and the dome of trash on top fell off and into the street, and the worker did not even break stride. Many well-meaning people took th
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by rabidrat 7y ago
> Its always better to hold onto the option of buying a stock Tax laws change that equation significantly.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
What's your solution to that "mental health" problem? More education? Smart pills? Inpatient counseling? I'm all for personal responsibility, but particularly when unwitting consumption can have society-wide negative
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by rabidrat 7y ago
A line worker must make 1000s of decisions a year, but even if all of them are made wrong, it won't break the company. An executive only has to make a few decisions a year, but any one of them could make or break the company. Selecting
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Maybe something like an Ad-blocker would work.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Maybe if America hadn't gotten that optimistic view from a 'good' revolution, America would not be the dominant superpower but the world as a whole would be better off. For instance, I am starting to think it was a mistake to
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by rabidrat 7y ago
I remember this usage the exact same way :)
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Google translate is tolerable for reading content in a language you don't know, but it would be terrible for translating messages to your customers! Human-human interaction requires a lot more understanding of nuance and idiom and eve
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by rabidrat 7y ago
I use local tools for all my data processing, and if I want to search for a relevant dataset, I'd like to do it locally instead of having to contact an API and do all the paging etc. The kinds of queries that might be important to me
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Is there a way to get a "dataset of datasets"? That is, all datasets you have, in downloadable tabular form with metadata for each dataset?
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Even better than raw tmux is using tmate. I fumbled with tmux sessions and permissions for awhile but tmate makes it trivial. It's a free service but it really seems like they're leaving money on the table (I'd pay for it,
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Backtick is my favorite too. Interestingly I thought it was an obscure choice, but it seems to be the 3rd most popular prefix from an analysis of tmux.conf files on github (after Ctrl+A and Ctrl+Space). I use `` (double-backtick) to escap
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by rabidrat 7y ago
pre-malloc the array.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Kind of gross for a guy in his 40s to be asking out a 19-year-old freshman at the university he's a professor at, isn't it? And in the first minute of their first conversation, and with no interest in her other than that. Also I&
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by rabidrat 7y ago
So why haven't you tried it out already? It's not like it's an expensive hobby; you can do it anytime, anywhere. In fact, in the time it took you to describe your experience here, you could have been sitting in meditation a
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by rabidrat 7y ago
"History books" have value in aggregating and presenting information with historical context. TLDs are artifacts without context. A history book that covered the 20th century and blandly mentioned that the Soviet Union was a col
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by rabidrat 7y ago
There are Ages of Reason and Ages of Vanity. It is important to know which you are in.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Can you imagine if there were a .nazi TLD? Would you think it appropriate to discontinue its use, despite its historical significance?
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by rabidrat 7y ago
"shame" is not a reasonable means of enforcing such a thing with big companies. People may feel shame, companies don't.
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by rabidrat 7y ago
Of course the fear is that you spend a few thousand dollars on a potential solution, use it for a few months only to discover that it does only about 60% of what you really need and/or it's painful/difficult to use. So now y
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by rabidrat 7y ago
These days, people often won't even try software with merit unless it has corresponding promotion. Someone mentioned my open-source tool on Twitter recently as an easier solution to someone's problem, and the person with the prob
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by rabidrat 7y ago
I think it varies with the age of the battery and the operating temperature (probably other things too). Although if they were clever they could probably incorporate those parameters as well..
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by rabidrat 7y ago
I am in this boat. However, I've been waiting for this phone for so long, that I've regressed to a flip phone since my previous phone broke and I was unwilling to buy another smart phone since the Librem was coming out in only a
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by rabidrat 7y ago
That's interesting, what was the point of the personality test? I mean it's crappy if you can 'fail' it, so in that sense I'm glad it's not an actual hurdle, but then why give a candidate the test in the first
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by rabidrat 7y ago
I checked, it wasn't there :(
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by rabidrat 7y ago
This is great! It's like VisiData as a shell. I wonder how easy it would be to use the VisiData interface with the shell output?

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