rabidrat

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Pomplamoose music tour profits (Patreon CEO, 2014)(medium.com)
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One thing I've been thinking about recently, is the difference between "asking for help" and "being offered help". It's difficult to ask for help in a socially acceptable way: deferential, but not ingratiating
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> patio tables
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Where the APIs are compatible anyway, but only the names or order of arguments are different, it sure would be nice to have a standard so you didn't have to look up whether it was count or len or length or size.
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Well, perhaps there could be a small modification that would allow "use in perpetuity" and rights of survivorship, or whatever. The important part is just that profiteers have to negotiate with the creator(s) so that they get som
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Of course! It's VisiData (visidata.org). Thanks for asking, let me know if you find it useful too :)
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by rabidrat 6y ago
I wish there were a vetted Open Source license that: - allowed the code to be visible and available as a general rule - allowed an individual user to use it and modify it for non-commercial use - disallowed redistributing modified versions
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I took a sabbatical from work in 2017 and devoted that time to creating an open source project which I felt was important to exist in the world. I am not wealthy, nor was anyone else supporting me; I had saved up enough to take a year off,
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It's been proposed and tried before, and I think generally deemed not worth it. a) Almost no one donates, b) the donations would be broken up to infinitesimal levels, helping no one, and c) there are people who devote their working li
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These are order-of-magnitude increases. If it costs $5m to train GPT-3, which is 100x more compute than GPT-2, then it may cost $500m to train GPT-4, and $50b to train GPT-5. This is what is meant by economically (not to mention environme
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Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for this very reason. You might think it's ridiculous but the fight for the right to modify the software running on devices you own has been raging for 35 years and is bigger
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You're not immortal, you still need to eat and stay warm and get medical care. In fact if anything now the stakes are even higher to achieve a certain sustainable dollar amount so that you can 'retire' (i.e. live sustainably
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by rabidrat 6y ago
So it's like stenos create their own Huffman code for all their typing needs, from one of a few starting dictionaries (systems like Plover).
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That hardly works if there is no power :)
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> As soon you need to talk about these things over and over you want to write these down. This is the relevant part, to me. Can we do this documentation process JIT when someone asks about it? Maybe even convert the dialogue (in chat)
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Concentration of bad stuff matters though.
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These articles about engineering process always put the responsibility solely in the implementing engineer's lap. Always more and more work to achieve JPL-level capability maturity, no matter your budget or headcount. Of course we wa
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by rabidrat 6y ago
> get your manager to do their job better "This arrogant engineer I manage just told me how to do my job better! I've already assigned them 14 story points in JIRA, what more do they want me to do?"
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How does that help when some places have only one polling station for 100k people? And there is a global pandemic, so we don't want 100k people congregating in the same crowded space?
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Yes, I think so. There are many git clients which offer superior UX already, but they only provide a subset of the functionality available with the data structure. I'd personally love to experiment with showing and editing the data s
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An ad-hoc sales tactic from 1993 that involves pretending to be a male stripper to get attention for your software product, might not be all that viable in 2020.
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People keep repeating this, but it's not true. The interface has so many "this flag in this case" but "this other flag in that case" and "that command doesn't support this flag like that" etc. Ther
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> a business is not short-term sustainable, but IS long-term, and investor capital gets you over that hump. Unfortunately, investor capital changes the dynamics such that what would be long-term sustainable without investment, may very w
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Max Levchin (the lesser-known co-founder of PayPal) invented CAPTCHAs. So you can pretty easily get a picture of his face to print onto a pillow to punch.
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The Economist is definitely not liberal. It's intended to be nonpolitical but its conscious opinions lean conservative. Disagreeing with Trump or talking about Trump in a negative manner does not make one liberal, no matter what US p
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Some miserable things you have to do and can't get around it in the future. e.g. taxes.
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Extremely relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2030/
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Not anymore.
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Some programs may allow for plugins which can have their own options. But you may want to provide an option for where to load the plugins from.
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That's only if you `export` the vars. You can do `FOO=1 BAR=2 cmd` and FOO and BAR will only have those values for the process and children. This is isomorphic to `cmd --foo=1 --bar=2`.

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