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by rosser 8y ago
I remember now wanting to create such a thing when I read the Ethics as a philosophy undergrad in the 90s, but lacking the tooling, time, or talent to do so. This is far more involved and better done than what I had imagined, or could have
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by rosser 8y ago
It's well over half again larger than any other app on my device, even after "thinning". Yes, it's a big savings, but it's still ludicrously large. At that point, I think it meaningfully falls into the "disti
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by rosser 8y ago
I read it as a think-o'ed "No problem." anyway.
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by rosser 8y ago
It seems to have mitigated the issue some, but it hasn't eliminated it. I had somehow inferred from the web of related issues in the FF bug tracker that I'd need to use a nightly build for this to be effective. Thanks!
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by rosser 8y ago
That looks really nice. If I end up staying with OSX, I'll give it a try. Thanks!
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by rosser 8y ago
I have. Unfortunately, I run my screen at a scaled resolution, so Firefox routinely pegs a full core redrawing itself, and burns my battery like it was punctured. Until that's fixed, I can't use it as my primary browser. This sadd
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by rosser 8y ago
I've been curious about Airmail, but I'm tiring of OSX, to the point that I'm leaning towards switching back to Linux.
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by rosser 8y ago
Self-hosted. The gmail address listed on my HN profile is for listing on public profiles.
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by rosser 8y ago
I find Mail.app to have a terrible UX, but I did try it, thanks. My standing solution is to use one browser to log into big-G services, another to log into FB, and a third for everything else.
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by rosser 8y ago
This is the cheapest kind of hand-wavy, recriminatory internet "discourse". It's shallow, content-free, and leaves you feeling like the good guy for talking shit about other people's choices, which you've examined o
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by rosser 8y ago
My choice to use gmail was made by my employer. I like my job. How am I supposed to pass, again?
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by rosser 8y ago
The preponderance of people who developed an addiction to prescription opioids were following their doctor's instructions in good faith — which instructions were taken from Purdue's disclosures, and included things like "take
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by rosser 8y ago
Many private prison contracts have terms requiring a minimum number of prisoners. The state is thus contractually obligated to convict people . How is this OK?
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by rosser 8y ago
> Also, how are cash fines going to work against broke criminals? Sounds like a perfect opportunity to bring back debtor's prisons, where the interest on your debt and the fees for your keeping compound at a rate just higher tha
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by rosser 8y ago
I think we're in complete agreement. Thanks for the link, that will come in handy! I'm already a fan of Ken's, but hadn't seen that one.
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by rosser 8y ago
It's somehow "better" that he behaves that way to make a buck, than because he believes it?
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by rosser 8y ago
I don't believe I said, or implied, it was. I also don't think it's particularly apples-to-apples to compare a box with a couple NIH Perl scripts and a service with $100mm+ in annual revenues for whom that's their sole
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by rosser 8y ago
And what happens when the box those Perl scripts live on goes down, or loses connectivity?
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by rosser 8y ago
So much this. Because the things we monitor are heavily interrelated, and an outage or degradation in one service will often affect others, it's not uncommon for us to see multiple alerts at once. The typical scenario goes like this: 1
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by rosser 8y ago
Can you explain how this is responsive to the question of whose interest siloing this information serves? If I want to take on the complexity of aggregating it, that's my choice. Facebook isn't doing me some kind of favor by &quot
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by rosser 8y ago
Too much information about people , yes. Business tend to want the kind of information your comment's parent was bemoaning being siloed up broadly available. People tend not to want their personal details treated that way. FB lock
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by rosser 8y ago
At my employer, we joke about the "freshman 15" — the 15 pounds you'll gain in your first year there from all the junk food. Fortunately, I also work remotely, and am much more judicious about my snacking choices.
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by rosser 8y ago
I wouldn't, personally, characterize those comments as "discussing" how the NSA is doing those things, so much as their authors throwing up their hands, and being all, "WELP!" about that behavior. "Nothing can
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by rosser 8y ago
No. This predicates meaningful access to the internet on your socioeconomic status, further entrenching extant divisions. Educational material is increasingly being delivered in video form. What happens, e.g., to poor families have to choos
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by rosser 8y ago
From my understanding, you can't (necessarily) even rely on your guest's CPUs mapping to the host's actual CPUs, which makes spending time twiddling NUMA actively useless. Assuming that's actually the case, I very much d
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by rosser 8y ago
The full quote I was responding to is: >>>> What's the difference between a teenager mowing the lawn for their parents and someone paid to mow a lawn? In response to which, I said: >>> The kid getting paid to mo
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by rosser 8y ago
I'm not 'vageli, but my definitions are that "labor" is a primarily economic form of activity, while "chores" aren't. Both of them involve "work", but the objectives — the reasons the people doin
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by rosser 8y ago
My comment was about kids mowing neighborhood lawns, not their own. Please try to address the argument I actually made.
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by rosser 8y ago
> ...more preferential treatment... I don't see this position being articulated here. Can you help me understand how you read the people disagreeing with you as saying that?
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by rosser 8y ago
The kid getting paid to mow neighborhood lawns has: 1. The right to say "no" without repercussions beyond "not getting paid". 2. Significant statutory protections regarding exploitative treatment. EDIT: There's also

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