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by saidajigumi 4y ago
Having worked at a company that did a four-day week, I'll chime in that it was both amazing and eye opening. I say that as someone who had read Tom DeMarco's now-classic book Slack[1] long ago, after a lot of up-close and persona
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by saidajigumi 4y ago
There were a few TV models a couple of years ago that would stop working after enough time without a network connection. When they reconnect, they're clearly going to download a new cache of ads and transmit their existing tracking da
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by saidajigumi 4y ago
This is precisely what the linked article says. From the section "Charging Incentives": “And it’s not just California and Western states. All states may need to rethink electricity pricing structures as their EV charging needs in
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by saidajigumi 4y ago
To a large extent, I think this is the nigh-inevitable outcome of the corporate world's entire take on open source. Open source has been a hugely successful way of distributing code cost centers, which is how we got here. Yet as many
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by saidajigumi 4y ago
As a software rather than keyboard hack, I've been using and loving the following setup on macOS: * Remap Caps Lock to Ctrl * Then use Hammerspoon[1] to map Ctrl(hold) / Esc (momentary press) This essentially puts both Ctrl and Es
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by saidajigumi 5y ago
Agreed. Thiago's introductory PARA writings do seem to imply a strict deadline, but like the parent, I use a concrete definition of completion ("completability") as the defining characteristic of a project. If I can't do
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by saidajigumi 5y ago
And likewise, this theme shows up in Tom DeMarco's classic book Slack , which contrasts "efficiency" (the rate at which an organization is moveing towards some goal) vs "effectiveness" (the ability of the organiz
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by saidajigumi 5y ago
Inkjet printers are fine, so long as you don't need or buy the terrible low-end consumer offerings. As an occasional-use around the house printer, I agree they're absolutely terrible, even without the scammy behavior of virtually
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by saidajigumi 5y ago
Because the relevant legislation was crafted by those who fundamentally do not understand how the web (or computers) work. The relevant parts of the GDPR should always have described a protocol where the browser acts as an agent on behalf
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by saidajigumi 5y ago
Can you have the skill to come up with a good design if you have no clue how to implement it or how someone else would? This is a straw-man. Real-world designers absolutely do have a sense of implementation constraints for their target pl
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by saidajigumi 6y ago
From the Dec 28 update: The XMLRPC Search endpoint remains disabled due to ongoing request volume. As of this update, there has been no reduction in inbound traffic to the endpoint from abusive IPs and we are unable to re-enable the endpoi
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PyPI Xmlrpc Search Disabled(status.python.org)
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by saidajigumi 6y ago
Washington State has a single-subject rule that affects both bills in legislature and ballot measures[1]. We've regularly had poorly crafted voter initiatives tossed out by the WA State Supreme Court on this basis. [1] https:/&#x
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by saidajigumi 6y ago
AnandTech speculates on a 128-bit DRAM bus[1], but AFAIK Apple hasn't revealed rich details about the memory architecture. It'll be interesting to see what the overall memory bandwidth story looks like as hardware trickles out. [1
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by saidajigumi 6y ago
This article leaves more questions than it answers. Room-elephant number one: access being available after an employee has left is bad. That access remaining five months later is beyond the pale, unless the real story is that the employee
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by saidajigumi 6y ago
This rant feels a bit banal, like it's going up against a straw-man just to be ... a rant. On one hand, I can't think of the last time a developer in an org I've worked with hasn't conspicuously and regularly used text
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by saidajigumi 6y ago
That indeed looks like it, thanks. It also looks like old memory mixed up bits and pieces of it; the interview wasn't in fact set in the machine room shots.
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by saidajigumi 6y ago
Back in the early 90s, my grad AI class referred to AI as the "incredible shrinking field". The class kicked off with a black-and-white newsreel style interview from the 1950's with an MIT professor[1] who says, to eternal br
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by saidajigumi 6y ago
I'd like to offer a recommendation for Zoom Tab Close[1]. It's an extremely simple extension that closes out the leftover tab when a zoom link received by the browser redirects to the desktop app. Just one bit of friction in my da
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by saidajigumi 7y ago
> Maybe ten years ago I would have believed this, but with each macOS release the litany of unforced errors just continues to grow. Apple, of all companies, is not a monolith. There are parts of the company who've been just killi
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by saidajigumi 7y ago
An example of PAPR application: I know of a professional woodturner who uses one, a 3M system IIRC. Beyond potential issues with long-term exposure to wood dust, turners tend to use material with unusual provenance compared to commercial ti
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by saidajigumi 7y ago
True; rent should be suspended due to the crisis. The mechanics are tricky, and much worse, I have no hope of the actual policy leadership required to see this through here in the US. We're like an off-road vehicle with a suspension sy
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by saidajigumi 7y ago
> we’d be figuring out how to temporarily suspend rent, loan payments, and taxes This. Under society-wide crisis, it's madness that the economic impact is supposed to just stop at landlords, moneylenders, etc. There are instances wh
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by saidajigumi 7y ago
To be honest, I hit my tl;dr threshold on the article, and skimmed only the high level. But speaking personally, I've used vim-tmux-navigator[1] and some related setup on the tmux side[2a][2b] for years, and it's really, really n
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by saidajigumi 7y ago
Then there's Warren Buffet's approach, which is to understand the "value" of the asset. He uses an example around a farm he purchased, one of his early investments. He likened the stock market to a (hypothetical) crazy n
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by saidajigumi 7y ago
> Unfortunately, it turned out that i wasn’t just dissatisfied with my job - i was burned out from living and working in two lives. This struggle is very real to me. There's always the tension between the day job, Just Plain Life
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by saidajigumi 7y ago
IMO, your comments belie the entire experience of library developers in "DSL-friendly" languages; those with a system of language features that compose well to create what humans perceive as "sub-languages". Ruby and Has
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by saidajigumi 7y ago
This is a direct corollary of the existence of the internet and the effect that had on the scarcity of information that supported the local newspaper model. Ben Thompson has written a number of great articles diving into this topic at St
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by saidajigumi 7y ago
I think you have a vast disconnect between the reality of advertising today vs. the quaint mid-20th century mental model that you seem to hold. Or you're being entirely disingenuous about what people complaining about "advertising
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by saidajigumi 7y ago
Beyond licensing, there are software design/architectural issues at play, ala: Clang is designed as an API from its inception, allowing it to be reused by source analysis tools, refactoring, IDEs (etc) as well as for code generation.

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