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by saulpw 2y ago
Communication is not quite "free", but it is effectively unmetered. Compare with pre-internet communication, where "long-distance" calls (outside your area code) were billed per-minute. An hour-long conversation with y
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by saulpw 2y ago
It is unfortunately hidden under "derivative columns": https://www.visidata.org/docs/columns/ Use = with a Python expression. Not cell-based formula but column-based Python.
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by saulpw 2y ago
> Someone, a rather large amount of "someones", must be making bank from the AI generated content Not true; they merely hope to make money. And anyway, if you can spend $10 to make $11 that's still 10% profit, right? E
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by saulpw 2y ago
Well you are a manager, can you at least change how things are done for your team?
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Periodic Table Elements for Sale(luciteria.com)
1 points by saulpw 2y ago|0 comments
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by saulpw 2y ago
(Author of VisiData here) I don't know what the issue is on your computer, but it definitely doesn't take my computer 500ms to register a key press in VisiData in the general case. That would be an issue I'd have to take ser
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by saulpw 2y ago
For now.
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by saulpw 2y ago
What is the first step? Surely you can't mean the author using open source software (which they might already), or writing new open-source software like they envision? In the face of the societal changes they are talking about, one pe
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by saulpw 2y ago
> And talking on the phone is obviously even safer than talking to other people physically in the car This is not true, because people physically in the car have the context of what's happening on the road, and can be aware enough t
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by saulpw 2y ago
A librarian which can't cite its sources, and whose services are only free while the VC funding is rolling in.
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by saulpw 2y ago
Well, 90% of applications these days are really really bad (LLM-generated spam).
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by saulpw 2y ago
I use a Sansa clip because it has clickable buttons that I can feel for when I can't use a phone screen, like at the dentist or in a sky village with light restrictions. Also I don't ever load my phone with the 2GB of my favorite
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Maker Skill Trees(github.com)
478 points by saulpw 2y ago|104 comments
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by saulpw 2y ago
And you can pay in time and/or $$ for the privilege of having to do do this extra unnecessary work.
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by saulpw 2y ago
WWI was one of the worst things that ever happened in all of history, it destroyed many millions of lives and scarred an entire generation of people across the entire world and led pretty directly to WWII and the Holocaust. I'm not su
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by saulpw 2y ago
Once I had this thought and renamed the root user to my own name. Hilarity ensued.
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by saulpw 2y ago
The days of multiple family members using the same computer are long gone. Do you ever log into anyone else's desktop/laptop, or does anyone else ever log into yours? That's what I'm getting at.
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by saulpw 2y ago
I've been wondering about this for awhile. Do we really need multiple users for desktop unix? I get that you want some division between system and user, to protect the user against themselves. And read-only files are similarly useful
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by saulpw 2y ago
Unicode, primarily.
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by saulpw 2y ago
And now it's here.
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by saulpw 2y ago
How long ago was your dating experience?
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by saulpw 2y ago
I wanted to see your talk on Hacking Gender, but the link on your about page is broken, it seems to have been taken down :(
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by saulpw 2y ago
Their farm[0] has 75 cows (maybe 74 now). That's fewer than I was expecting, but still a lot to keep track of. [0] https://huobhof-ch.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en...
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by saulpw 2y ago
In some ways this seems like it might be very useful. I can easily see an if-statement with true/false/error cases, or less-than/equal-to/greater-than cases.
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by saulpw 2y ago
Certainly there are people more offensive than Terry Davis, I'll allow that items on this scale could be at 11, maybe even 12. It's just that the top of this scale is 10 :)
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by saulpw 2y ago
It happens twice a year, it goes out neighborhood-wide during a storm or an animal chewed through something. Anyway I don't know where you get that "amortized cost" number. They seem a lot closer in price than that to me.
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by saulpw 2y ago
You know what I want for my desktop, is a battery, so my computer doesn't reboot when I lose power for 5 seconds. Yes I know about UPSes, but they're $100+ and unwieldy. I just need 30 seconds grace period to save my work! This
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by saulpw 2y ago
Names matter. Subtle differences in perception change your stance in approaching and interpreting the thing. Like "violin" vs "fiddle", or "assertive" vs "aggressive".
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by saulpw 2y ago
The top of the scale is always 10.
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by saulpw 2y ago
Tim Peters, author of timsort and longtime Python contributer, is a graybeard spaz like Stallman: https://discuss.python.org/t/for-your-consideration-proposed... I know this type, they definitely know how to belabor a

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