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by rabidrat 6y ago
Financial solutions like this have proven to perform poorly with 'black swan' events. Pressure from stakeholders and people who decry 'waste' (i.e. "slack in the system") when there hasn't been one of the
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by rabidrat 6y ago
> I can't even understand why anyone would propose such a thing A bill that won't go anywhere but gets a lot of attention is a great time-waster. Think of it as part of a DoS attack on meaningful legislation.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
I agree, I would not have either. But my present financial philosophy for such things is to always sell half (and only half).
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by rabidrat 6y ago
> Even basic 1px horizontal line takes 10px of height or whatever. Places where 1 or 2 px padding could do will use full cell instead. This is not true; there is an underline attribute which can add a ~1px horizontal line without taking
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by rabidrat 6y ago
> oldest images they could find Sounds like survivorship bias (as with most "they don't make 'em like they used to" plaints).
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by rabidrat 6y ago
How might you recognize a project like this?
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Except for these "greenhouse gases" which reflect an annually increasing amount of radiation back to the planet?
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by rabidrat 6y ago
This is like saying that books made out of text are a workaround for the movable type printing press, and with high-DPI laser printing in an ideal world the concept of text books would not exist.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
> unwanted third party making demands on my information input It seems like we want the same thing. If we don't have any kind of moderation, then that filtering is pushed out to each and every leaf node, instead of being handled ce
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by rabidrat 6y ago
I banned people from public IRC channels on EFNet all the time. Google deplatforms SEO spam sites all the time. The internet is unusable without some kind of filter on participation.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Or CNET reporter James Kim in 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kim#Death
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by rabidrat 6y ago
I guess it would have had an even greater impact if you didn't go to the bathroom.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
License keys, software phones home to verify the license key, refuses to run if license key not verified. You could hack the software to remove this protection, and for popular software packages people have done this (Windows, Photoshop, e
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by rabidrat 6y ago
I tried programming in XSLT and it was not fun . I'm sure if it took off we'd have the equivalent of Clojure that compiled down to it, but by itself it is not a hacker's language, if you know what I mean.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Hey, VisiData author here! If you do want to make a FIX loader (or any plugin), you can come chat with us on Freenode #visidata and we'd love to help. A straightforward row-based file format should be quite straightforward to make a
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by rabidrat 6y ago
That's a moat, not network effects. A network effect would be if your friends at other companies get value from joining Slack while you're on it. But there's not (except maybe sharing integrations/bots).
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Escaping is an unnecessary kludge in 99% of cases. If you need nested tables, then you need a special-purpose format that allows for it--and it will very likely look more like a binary filesystem than a parseable text file. If you don&#x27
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Escaping drastically complicates parsing (though not as much as quoting, thank god). But you seldom need to nest tables within tables. Much more frequently, table values want to contain embedded newlines.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
I'd like just a .jsonl or .csv of the list.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
How is it so obviously not heroin? I, a fully-formed and functioning adult, feel the pull in my brain. I was addicted to cigarettes in my 20s and I've had unhealthy relationships with numerous other drugs and video games that I&#x2
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Maybe he could use 'sanction' instead of either.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
The streaming is public and free, only the chat is sold out. So you can still watch (now or later).
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by rabidrat 6y ago
It's very hard to get, even for solid performers. Possible but not available to most employees.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
dish-washing is a cost-center, not a profit-center, so really the solution is to cut costs by washing dishes as little as possible :)
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by rabidrat 6y ago
I applied to this company a few years ago. The first question the hiring manager asked me on the phone? "What editor do you use?" This same hiring manager was out sick for my interview (I did not learn this until I arrived at th
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Learning involves being wrong, and being wrong is stressful. The older you are, the more stressful it is. In humans, there is a strong ego component, but I imagine that there is also a physiological resistance that comes from a lifetime o
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by rabidrat 6y ago
The median wealth in the US is $70k. The ratio is more like 1/100,000 for your average billionare, and 1/10,000,000 for zuckerberg, gates, and bezos. In this scheme 1/99 would be downright communistic.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Sometimes I just want to move the plug from this socket to that socket. Sometimes just to make room for another wallwart.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
I love desktops, but I have to admit that it's pretty great having a built-in UPS. To get the equivalent for my desktop is an extra $200+ and a big honking box that apparently will only last for 30 minutes when the power goes out.
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by rabidrat 6y ago
Smaller requires more innovation than larger.

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