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by rz2k 6y ago
How about when things should get a little hot? SOPA would have passed [1] without frantic outrage. Where do you want to be when a major hurricane hits? New York or New Orleans? How about Puerto Rico? Having a voice matters. [1] https:&#x2F
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by rz2k 6y ago
I toned down my original comment, but that looks much better than the default installation. Is that just the default installation with better choices in the settings? I should have been more patient Emacs and persistent in configuring it.
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by rz2k 6y ago
Is there a way to run Emacs on MacOS with an updated interface? Running Emacs in the terminal limits the functionality, but the GUI versions I've tried are garish-looking to me.
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Does anyone have any insight into the business logistics involved in a transition like this? I presume Apple has done maintenance on transitioning desktop OS X to ARM as an option for a very long time. How many years ago would they have had
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by rz2k 6y ago
The 1992 police riot in New York associated with resistance to community review boards and Giuliani's mayoral ambitions[1] should probably be on that list. [1] https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/rudy
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by rz2k 6y ago
What does "history" mean? The suffering of innocent bystanders in past riots is history. In a year the innocent bystanders of these riots will be "only history". Many of the immigrants who have created new businesses in
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by rz2k 6y ago
Sadly, the plain MacBook doesn't have a low end price. :) An upcoming ARM MacBook could be a great machine for a text editor, terminal, and browser, but I fear there will be new user limitations that block customizations like Karabiner
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by rz2k 6y ago
There are tradeoffs with this machine compared to a Macbook Pro. Intel laptops also have twice as fast USB along with Thunderbolt 3. At 350 cd/m2 and 84% sRGB the relatively low resolution screen is also going to be darker with poor co
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by rz2k 6y ago
I have never been in an accident where I was helped by wearing a seatbelt, and preparations for Y2K cost many times more than any of the harm that was caused by Y2K bugs. Considering that I've never experienced malnutrition, I seem to
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by rz2k 6y ago
This photography book[1] about weekly grocery shopping around the world looks like a find the bananas puzzle. [1] https://fstoppers.com/food/what-week-groceries-looks-around-...
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by rz2k 7y ago
Right now I am reading The Black Death in Egypt and England: a comparative study by Stuart Borsch. It compares the macroeconomic effects of the black death in England in Egypt. The relative power of the aristocracy to control or fail to c
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by rz2k 7y ago
Take a look at the "Relational Design Theory"[1] mini-course on Stanford/Lagunitas. Though I had used SQL for years, I took it as part of the early MOOC on databases that was offered in 2011. It is likely to match up with the
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by rz2k 7y ago
It is from relational algebra used in database theory. There is an excerpt from one of the first MOOCS offered here on Lagunitas now.[1] It is pretty intuitive once you get the hang of it. [1] https://lagunita.stanford.edu/c
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It sounds like he was diligent in researching the companies and spent a lot of time making sure that nothing went wrong. In other words it wasn't one day of work. He probably shouldn't have run any of the cars himself, since he wa
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by rz2k 7y ago
Pigeons were also used for ocean search and rescue. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1980/10/02/Coast-Guard-clips-wi...
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by rz2k 7y ago
I used QR odes for the same sort of thing, but Firefox sync has gotten so good at sending tabs to specific devices, including a desktop that might not have a convenient camera, that it's even more convenient.
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According to my, possibly incorrect, take on the situation this does not really make that much sense. As I understand it, like GitHub, GitLab offers relatively permissive free plans to individuals and projects in their early stages. Both al
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On the shortest days of the year in Los Angeles[1], there is civil twilight around 6:30am and full daylight before 7am. Maybe the writers, who even have children, live close to the schools they attend. [1] https://www.timeanddate
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by rz2k 7y ago
"a fantastic language to slice, clean up, and extract information from text files, and it was already very widely used in bioinformatics" is a description of Perl 5, not Perl 6. Even if Perl 6 is completed, I don't think it i
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by rz2k 7y ago
I thought professional audio developers try to exploit very low level access to the hardware for the sake of minimizing latency. If these same exploits allow system vulnerabilities, it seems to make sense that developers of macOS are consta
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by rz2k 7y ago
Possibly like Zynga in 2011[1]. Though CEOs seem to get additional chances even if they have blow up investors multiple times, I wonder if a publicly taking the upside potential away from employees cuts future access to talent. [1] https:&
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by rz2k 7y ago
Somewhat off topic, but is there a name for this convention: > Most people supporting no deal don't believe they're true, and for valid reasons! > Let's break it down. It is the same pattern and cadence that Sheryl Sand
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by rz2k 7y ago
Which one of "the ruling classes" are you referring to? The one that controls the narrative in the press, the civil servants that manage government machinery like the Office for National Statistics and the Bank of England, the peo
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The Divorce Rattling Silicon Valley and Democratic Politics(nymag.com)
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While the statement is nonsensical and innumerate, I think that Bill Gates was making a different point. There are trillions of dollars invested somewhere other than in oil and gas extraction, because the investors believe they are getting
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by rz2k 7y ago
About 90% of the gasoline tax goes towards transportation infrastructure, its financing administration and law enforcement.[1] About 50-60% of transportation infrastructure funding[2] comes from gasoline taxes. Approximately zero gasoline t
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by rz2k 7y ago
Hawaii has higher prices than California[0], but I don't think there is any definitive reason that gasoline should be cheaper in Hawaii. Hawaii is surrounded by ocean on all sides. Many metropolitan areas in California are valleys faci
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by rz2k 7y ago
After high school I went to visit friends on the Adriatic coast of Italy, then we went to the Aeolian Islands (we summited Stromboli which may not be allowed anymore). Anyway, I had very little money so I took a flight that was an option to
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by rz2k 7y ago
Perhaps "Managing in the Whitespace"[1], where whitespace is an answer to, "how can companies act entrepreneurial when they are programmed to operate in environments with strict policies, focused strategy, and clear authority
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I agree that it's not a credible statement. I do not think that their primary interest is the public good, even if the public good is ultimately a beneficiary of their possible discovery of fraud and shorting of GE. Releasing the state

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