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by rabidrat 8y ago
And then there is Jevons' Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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by rabidrat 8y ago
I say we've lost the war when global civilization is over. People can survive Mad Max style but that's a colossal failure in my book.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
I want to edit the commit message of a commit that is 5 commits in the past, that I have not pushed yet. What is the command to do it? Okay so it turns out I made a minor typo in that commit and I want to change it without adding any more
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by rabidrat 8y ago
> That's fine. There is plenty of space in the Unicode standard. But there is not infinite time from a font creator. Already it is impossible to know which of the newer characters will be supported by which OS/fonts/etc.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
I think the SF/BA reps and senators are already pretty well-aware that our borders are terrible, but they lack the political situation and/or acumen to do anything about it.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
You might want to try VisiData ( https://visidata.org ), for visual terminal-based exploration of data. Everyone loves the 'Shift+F' Frequency Table with histogram. Can also do scatter plots, filtering, transformation,
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Maybe in a startup you're right, because it's too small for any kind of metric-hacking to go unnoticed and become systemic. But it definitely happens in larger companies; some might say that making the metric of revenue/prof
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by rabidrat 8y ago
"And tracking towards the wrong goals can be even more counterproductive than failing to track anything at all." The author doesn't seem to recognize that KPIs would be subject to Goodhart's Law. ("When a measure b
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by rabidrat 8y ago
"A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes."
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by rabidrat 8y ago
How long have you been using this approach? (Curious to know if it remains effective over several years).
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by rabidrat 8y ago
You mean, like blockchain?
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by rabidrat 8y ago
That's cute but I hope no one reading this thinks you are being serious. If they do, to wit: So many webforums strip leading indents from code. It's not like it looks right on the forum, and then gets inserted into your editor w
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by rabidrat 8y ago
It's also basically impossible to cut-and-paste code from a web forum. Was that "else" from the inner or the outer "if"?
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Awesome work, fellow textpunk!
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by rabidrat 8y ago
They've just been punched in the face, they can't reasonably punch back. (Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth). I know it seems like universal surveillance could level the field and make people less likely t
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Very quick, it turns out. Judging others is a deflective tactic against being judged yourself. "People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" is great spiritual wisdom but most people don't abide by it.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Then there is a house fire and your computers are destroyed and you're in a coma. Would your spouse know how to retrieve your wedding photo from your parity-padded offsite backups? Does anyone in your life know where they are, and th
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Yes but they don't have enough life experience to be an elected representative.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
I think they do have information campaigns, but it's hard to tell the information from the disinformation these days.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
*AC is 50 to 60Hz (DC does not alternate). Also I can see how it's possible that electrical fluctuations could happen at a higher rate than the utility frequency. 3600 Hz does seem like a lot though.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Try getting one :) Remote job listing also means that there is an entire world of competition out there, much of which makes less than half of SFBA dev wages.
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Agreed, I've also opted for the pat-down every time, and have had only neutral-to-positive interactions and never hostility. Maybe it's worse in other cities?
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Actually, the bomb and its design and construction require so much tacit knowledge that we might be on the verge of uninventing it already. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/230699 http:&#x2F
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by rabidrat 8y ago
It's not like that, in my experience at least. I can do amazing things in 6 weeks, but it involves eating, breathing, and sleeping the system/problem/project. It turns out there are 1000 hours in 6 weeks (including sleep ti
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Taking a sabbatical and going to the Recurse Center ( http://recurse.com )
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by rabidrat 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
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by rabidrat 8y ago
> MapBox is venture-funded and recently raised again, while we're bootstrapped and don't plan to raise VC money. This could be really important. Mapbox is a Softbank rocketship, which is trying to get to the stratosphere but h
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by rabidrat 8y ago
And the queen had a duck! http://pud.com/post/59851751577/the-duck-technique
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by rabidrat 8y ago
Hm, while I agree that there are some gotchas serving static sites via AWS, the one you mention seems to work fine for me. See e.g. https://visidata.org/releases/ which is definitely served via CloudFront and definite
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by rabidrat 8y ago
What about plumbing or sanitation? Construction of shelter? Medical care? Firefighting? If those things aren't "necessary", it seems difficult to argue that farming itself even is necessary.

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