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by racer-v 9y ago
Every business wants the services they rely on to be commodity, but they don't want to be a commodity to the layer above them - they want to extract some of the value those upper layers provide. For example, a toll bridge is a commodit
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by racer-v 9y ago
There's some initial pain in retrofitting your Bash startup to work under fish, but after that it's worth it. For example I had to search for how to use ssh-agent with fish, and now it works great: https://github.com&#x
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by racer-v 9y ago
I like your approach but in this example, kids really should have less homework. It galls me that a 10 year old is expected to spend 8 hours confined to a school building, and then spend a signficant chunk of after-hours on homework. Unless
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by racer-v 9y ago
I'd be interested to see how this weighs out in 5-10 years. Since there's no I/O here, I don't see why a clever compiler writer couldn't optimize this whole expression away at compile time, generating an executable
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by racer-v 9y ago
Right. We don't actually know whether this Haskell code is less efficient - that depends entirely on the implementation.
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by racer-v 9y ago
People used to leave their empty milk bottles for the milkman to pick up. Could do the same with detergent bottlecaps.
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by racer-v 9y ago
Note that your MAC address is only one part of the identifying information your computer gives to the DHCP server. For another approach check out DHCPcAnon: https://github.com/juga0/dhcpcanon You can contribute to the
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by racer-v 9y ago
What was the question?
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by racer-v 9y ago
Wow, autocorrect is getting to be far worse than typos.
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by racer-v 9y ago
It's amazing how much anger/vitriol a small little modal can generate. It may amaze the designer, but it doesn't amaze me as a user. The fundamental principle of a "modal" is that it suddenly and unexpectedly robs
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Live Stream: Charles Moore at Silicon Valley Forth Interest Group(svfig.github.io)
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by racer-v 9y ago
You don't believe that an affiliation counts as a tie? Or you think YC is lying that Thiel is no longer affiliated?
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by racer-v 9y ago
The page literally says: Edit: Peter Thiel is no longer affiliated with Y Combinator. That means they at least cut some ties. https://blog.ycombinator.com/welcome-peter/
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by racer-v 9y ago
Yes; there's a certain unwholesome smugness in a person who conflates civic duty (e.g. fighting for his country) with religious purpose, which Kierkegaard mocks here.
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by racer-v 9y ago
The comparison is to a ritual that feels very important and profound to those involved, but to an outside observer is clearly a childish imitation of the real thing (like a hobby-horse): http://www.oldbike.eu/museum/wp-
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by racer-v 9y ago
For a translation of his humor into English, see The Humor of Kierkegaard , ed. Thomas C. Oden. Some of it is laugh-out-loud funny, like his description of the ridiculousness of state religion: "Rather than taking part in official Chr
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by racer-v 9y ago
If this were true, human relationships would be a perpetual nightmare. Your fundamental mistake is assuming that what humans want (or "will") is independent (except in the perverse cases of sycophants and automatons). In fact we c
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by racer-v 9y ago
I agree about variance in disposition, but I would suggest that everyone cultivate the ability to cope with big losses, because we're all going to lose everything important to us eventually. It's necessary to experience serious ad
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by racer-v 9y ago
> you yourself have never faced hardship First, this is wild and irresponsible speculation on your part. Second, it doesn't address the plain, objective fact that a person can continue to be happy and have a meaningful life after go
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by racer-v 9y ago
> someone who never owned stock still has their job and their home You've completely missed the point: people who have never owned a home or even had a real job still wake up every day and experience the joy of life. It's abo
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by racer-v 9y ago
If you seriously think there is no human cost when businesses fail you're simply delusional. There's a human cost, but your life isn't over because your business fails. I used to wonder how investors could throw themselves
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by racer-v 9y ago
If it were true that people are "ruined" because they were involved in a failed business, capitalism couldn't work. The rule is the same for any system: don't risk more than you can afford to lose. Plenty of people recov
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by racer-v 9y ago
There's certainly an option to make the school day shorter. I seem to remember a lot of dead time in my classroom days.
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by racer-v 9y ago
I agree, but sunrise and sunset have the disadvantage of not being fixed (unless you live on the equator).
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by racer-v 9y ago
As long as we're trying to fix all the world's problems, I'd submit that the ideal domestic partnership has one parent able to focus full-time on childcare and home life. It doesn't have to be the same parent all the tim
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by racer-v 9y ago
This is just a problem of schools starting too early. You can't fix stupid. Although isn't the idea of "permanent DST" an oxymoron?
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by racer-v 9y ago
Agree. Noon should be the moment when the sun is at its highest altitude in the sky, or a close approximation thereof.
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by racer-v 9y ago
Sounds like a noble endeavor. From https://suckless.org/project_ideas Suckless font rendering library There is libdrw in suckless now, which still uses xft and fontconfig. Fontconfig and xft are ugly and require too much
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by racer-v 9y ago
What would be the win in avoiding TrueType? Seems like we could easily convert any TTF files to PostScript Type 1 if there were an advantage to be gained.
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by racer-v 9y ago
You can get rid of THAC0 if you just use this simple rule: roll d20, add the opponent's armor class (plus your own to-hit bonus if any), and a result of 20 or better is a hit.

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