s_kilk

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by s_kilk 8y ago
Starvation isn't exciting.
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by s_kilk 8y ago
No. Its like trying to work in the middle of a prison cafeteria.
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by s_kilk 8y ago
YouTube has become the internets cloaca.
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by s_kilk 8y ago
How? I've worked out of a WeWork and it's just an expensive shared-office space the same as any other.
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by s_kilk 8y ago
So Amazon does keep these recordings server-side, indefinitely? Are we still to trust that they're only recording once the trigger-word is detected?
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by s_kilk 8y ago
Yeah but fuck 'em
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by s_kilk 8y ago
> One of the core tenets of capitalism (well, in theory) is that wealth is created literally from nothing. Yeah, and that theory is nonsense
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by s_kilk 8y ago
Yes
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by s_kilk 8y ago
How about we leave all that shit in the ground where it can't kill us?
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by s_kilk 8y ago
Ouch, the ratio of "would use again" to "would not use again" on AngularJS stunning, if not surprising: https://2018.stateofjs.com/front-end-frameworks/overview/
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by s_kilk 8y ago
> I've been wondering how I could get better at programming while driving on my daily commute. Please don't do this. The last thing the world needs is another distracted driver.
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by s_kilk 8y ago
Full automation was the dream of the proletariat. The capitalists dream of full emiseration.
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by s_kilk 8y ago
I'd say that the app store works best for relatively small apps and developers, where the 30% tax is worthwhile when weighed against all the infrastructure they would need to roll themselves. By comparison, Ableton, Adobe, etc, aren&#x
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by s_kilk 8y ago
The difference is that Javascript is outrageously popular, while Perl 6 is confined to an audience of a handful of nerds (me included). I think this is a great time to just switch names, as the number of people affected is tiny.
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by s_kilk 8y ago
> Hindsight is 20:20 though. Well... a lot of folks saw this coming. As you say, it's been brought up again and again, since the start. Foresight is also 20:20, if the right people are willing to listen to what's being said.
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by s_kilk 8y ago
I prefer something like the SpaceEmacs layer system, where yes, the modules are written by the community, but then they're curated and tuned to actually work well together.
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Google walkout: global protests after sexual misconduct allegations(theguardian.com)
2 points by s_kilk 8y ago|1 comments
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by s_kilk 8y ago
> It comes off like you're saying "well if shit really goes south I'm screwed so these people should be too" I think it's more a recognition that we are social creatures, and that the minimum-viable unit of socia
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This Is How We Radicalized the World(buzzfeednews.com)
4 points by s_kilk 8y ago|0 comments
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by s_kilk 8y ago
For one example of JS-dumbfuckery, the Patreon embed button is served as a React app, with all of React bundled in dev-mode, weighing in at just over 2mb. All of that for a red rectangle with the word "Patreon" in the middle.
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by s_kilk 8y ago
> it's like everyone is just learning this shit for the first time. Because they are. The field is full of amateurs and under-trained developers who are positively allergic to history and learning.
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by s_kilk 8y ago
My theory is that the show started to decline after about eight or nine years on the air, which is just about enough time for young fans to grow up, go to college, start their career in writing, and then end up on the Simpsons team. The las
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by s_kilk 8y ago
Sample-size of one here, but I switched to Fedora a few years back after growing tired of Ubuntu's bugs. I haven't had any real issues since, it's just solid.
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by s_kilk 8y ago
Or Angular v1
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by s_kilk 8y ago
Which means I can't accurately represent a whole bunch of data received from the environment. Hence why I find it annoying.
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by s_kilk 8y ago
Is there a way to distinguish NIL from the Empty List?
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by s_kilk 8y ago
The one that kills me, every time I look at CL, is the lack of a real Boolean type. Maybe I'm nuts, but that really isn't acceptable in this century.
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by s_kilk 8y ago
There's a certain fetish for technology that blinds us to the obvious power of biological systems. We end up chasing pipe dreams of self-assembling materials while ignoring the already-existing self-assembling materials right in front
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by s_kilk 8y ago
> It's hard for me to guess why the companies involved would deny that these exist. My guess is that they know that everyone's confidence in them would crumble. Every business, ever household, everyone, would suddenly be aware
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by s_kilk 8y ago
IIRC, Spotify used to do something like this, at least in the desktop app?

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