s_kilk

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by s_kilk 9y ago
I've had decent success with slamming on the '#' key while the bit is reading out its spiel.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> Don't force your horrible ideology on the rest of us (which communism literally calls for). And Capitalism is totally non-coercive, right?
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by s_kilk 9y ago
I've lived under Capitalism for over 30 years, and have first-hand experience of how bad it is.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
As a non-American, this Red Scare hysteria is hilarious.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Right, and capitalism is completely bloodless and clean /s
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> That said, I think Node is not the best system to build a massive server web. I would definitely use Go for that. And honestly, that's basically the reason why I left Node. It was the realization that: oh, actually, this is not th
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> Firstly, from the article: “In principle, natural selection predicts individuals to behave selfishly” is a faulty premise. Obviously humans who cooperate to raise children to sexual maturity will have more descendants. I think there&#x
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Except it mostly doesn't work. My dashboard has recommended Minions "because you watched The Thick Of It". Out of the whole list, only Yes Prime Minister comes close, and even at that it misses the (more) obvious Yes Minister
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by s_kilk 9y ago
I just don't see the point in this. Knowing about the eventual heat-death of the universe doesn't make the immediate prospect of my family and I dying in a water riot any more palatable.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Mindless pedantry.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
I think they meant that if we have civilisation collapse on Earth then the Lunar folk are screwed too, because their supplies would be cut off permanently.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> John McCarthy admitted this much when he conceded that most Americans are TV watchers anyway and won't need a home information terminal to do research, and Neil Postman wrote about the negative effects of television in his 1984 bo
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by s_kilk 9y ago
There's a great book called The Long Depression which offers a Marxian analysis of these boom bust cycles. It basically boils down to Marx's Law of Profitability, where the rate of profitability tends to fall as investment in fixe
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by s_kilk 9y ago
A tiny bit of feedback... > June – August is slow/unreported season for tourism in Edinburgh, so lodging and other accommodations may cost as much as usual. This is... odd. In August, Edinburgh has the legendary (Fringe) Festival, a
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by s_kilk 9y ago
I like to think that unbalanced parens accumulate in the soul, just like incomplete sneezes. Ones fate in the next life (perhaps starting equipment) is determined in part by the number of un-matched left parens hanging over ones head at the
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Emacs and org-mode will still be here (along with the armoured cockroaches) long after we're all gone. In fact, I have more faith in the longevity of emacs than I do of Android or iOS, or Evernote/OneNote for that matter.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
I'm similar, my note-taking system is a directory full of org and markdown files, synced to dropbox. I don't think i could ever go back to a notes-as-a-service system again.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> it's amazingly slow to browse the stores and much of the dashboard Same, my PS4 can take up to a few minutes to load store pages. And sometimes it just hangs, or times out, and I need to quit the app and try again. It's real
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Less than a century ago we used artillery, machine-guns and nukes to silence the same viewpoints. A little bit of social pressure ain't so bad.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Like, legitimate seig-heil, gas-the-jews nazis.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
It's a neo-nazi, white supremacist website.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Maybe it's just me, but after 15 years of guitar, I find 15 minutes to be only enough for the barest of skill maintenance. I've definitely hit a plateau in the last few years, and I think a major factor is the relative scarcity of
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by s_kilk 9y ago
It really depends on the market. I got out of .Net/MS stuff because that kind of work was bottom-of-the-barrel compared to what I could get by re-investing in my Linux/OSS skills. In some other places .Net has all the best paying
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by s_kilk 9y ago
> Don't try to learn on a crap guitar! If it has high action and truly hurts to play, or if it has bad tone, it'll drive you away. Learn on a good instrument. This x1000 Far too often I've seen people try to learn on a gha
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by s_kilk 9y ago
I'm in the same boat, played since I was 14, absolutely love the instrument, but just don't have the time to practice any more.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
The Old Machines are still running Perl 5.
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Huh, fun :)
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Perl6 feels like it could be the ultimate language for Man, Machine, Mineral, and Beast, if only we could teleport into a parallel universe where it war already in widespread usage. The sense of sheer potential off the language is intoxicat
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by s_kilk 9y ago
I'm starting to think this "AI" is just a giant regex /.*(hate|bad|awful|...).*/
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by s_kilk 9y ago
Jesus the results are abysmally bad. "Genocide is awesome" is rated at 20% toxic, while "Genocide is awful" gets 90% toxic. Google, step up your game.

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