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by riffic 4y ago
file this under no shit . Even better than buttons are good old fashioned dials and knobs, those little twisty things that click into place and give you mechanical feedback when you are adjusting something in a car. Rocker switches are gre
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by riffic 4y ago
DreamWorks shut down Pacific Data Images in Redwood City, a predecessor company who was arguably the source of all their whiz-bang tech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Data_Images
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by riffic 4y ago
who cares, this is the ultimate in bike shedding. there's never a discussion on HN where someone brings up a product without this asinine comment about its name. btw Mastodon is great software and it has a great name and branding. It&#
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by riffic 4y ago
and surely it's not about the robotics in use all across Amazon's warehouses. why the heck does Amazon want to be involved in "mapping your home"?
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by riffic 4y ago
people don't know how to set their mirrors properly, for one. Always assume you're in a blind spot.
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by riffic 4y ago
this looks rad, thanks for sharing.
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by riffic 4y ago
it's absolutely not my site but I'm going to make a series of infrequent submissions here pattern-by-pattern of posts from A Pattern Language . Folks can jump ahead and find the rest here: https://www.iwritewordsgood.c
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Pattern 1: Independent Regions (A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander, 1977)(iwritewordsgood.com)
2 points by riffic 4y ago|3 comments
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by riffic 4y ago
Good hosting companies don't really like anonymous clients. They know who you are, or they know the name of the person paying the hosting bill.
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by riffic 4y ago
perhaps copyright owners could be more willing to share their content if they had a place they could do so from, and could also monetize to their hearts content. this would effectively cut Google out of the rent-seeking loop.
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by riffic 4y ago
really cool! Cities aren't the only ideal client to make this pitch to either, there are all sorts of art collectives, educators, museums, even commercial interests who would probably benefit to move off of YouTube perhaps simply for
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by riffic 4y ago
that should probably be my go-to metaphor here. Automattic seems to be doing okay as a professional WordPress hosting shop. Your clarification about the data being portable is definitely key here.
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by riffic 4y ago
I made some edits to my parent comment to further explain my pitch and what the benefit to my hypothetical example city would be if they were to be a Framasoft / Peertube customer.
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by riffic 4y ago
an example of this in action: I live in Los Angeles. I want the city to archive its city council meetings on a video platform. Preferably, these would be available from a subdomain of lacity.gov instead of being available through youtube or
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by riffic 4y ago
Framasoft should run a Peertube-as-a-service and pitch the platform to those who may be Google-averse or have a need to keep content on their own domain name (govs, institional orgs, etc). btw I think this is what Eugen, et al, should be do
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by riffic 4y ago
I wish someone at Twitter would explain what each of these options is responsible for. These seem like magic incantations without knowing what they are actually muting.
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Terms to mute on Twitter to clean your timeline up a bit(gist.github.com)
14 points by riffic 4y ago|3 comments
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by riffic 4y ago
the war was only a period of 4 or 5 years. We've been in many wars for far longer than the one specific war you are talking about.
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by riffic 4y ago
The nugget of my reply you're moving past concerns automobile-centric planning and its extreme toll on the built environment, and those external costs. https://www.planetizen.com/definition/car-centric-planning I
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by riffic 4y ago
inspired to post this from an earlier submission about microtransit (this really isn't a new idea, but the technology exists to put phones in every riders pocket rather than at every stop): https://news.ycombinator.com/
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Pattern 20: Mini-Buses (A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander, 1977)(iwritewordsgood.com)
3 points by riffic 4y ago|1 comments
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by riffic 4y ago
this (mini-buses, dial-a-bus as it was known in the 70s) was one of the patterns in Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language https://www.iwritewordsgood.com/apl/patterns/apl020.htm > Establish a syst
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by riffic 4y ago
as awful as they were they allowed all sorts of people the ability to get around without owning a personal car. Interurbans[0] allowed people to get from city to city. All of this has been thrown out and there are all sorts of negative exte
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Powers of Ten(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by riffic 4y ago|0 comments
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by riffic 4y ago
on a geological time scale, it might as well be.
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by riffic 4y ago
well, it's not an approach I would prefer, but here's an example: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModerationMediation/comments/v7xhu5... > Many subreddits start with a permaban just to test how the rule
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by riffic 4y ago
lol.
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by riffic 4y ago
> Is it normal to get perma-banned from a subreddit on reddit Generally, yes. I prefer to use temporary bans myself but there are a lot of mods who use the permaban first and then gauge your reaction when you modmail to ask why you'
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by riffic 4y ago
I tell all of the biggest whiners all of the time, I'd be more than happy to give mod permissions to ( almost ) anyone who asks and expresses interest. The only thing I'm gaining by volunteering to steer conversations on a subredd
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by riffic 4y ago
as a mod of some niche medium engagement/high quality subs, I still link to the self-promo guidelines because while they're no longer updated, they give the clearest example towards how not to use Reddit . Mods have full discreti

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