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by scombridae 4y ago
Google should not be able to impede economic activity Bad producers can only impede as much activity as stupid consumers give them.
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by scombridae 4y ago
Hide the Salami. Google "Jeff Toobin" for how to play.
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by scombridae 4y ago
I don't know how old it is, but I got it for $29. I plan to use it for at least 11 years.
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by scombridae 4y ago
you convince yourself it won't be like this one day In case you're considering a career in software, no, the feeling of groping around in the dark never disappears.
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by scombridae 4y ago
I like vim but emacs won the editor wars It's hard to imagine a definition of "win" that goes from roughly 50% popularity to less than 5%.
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by scombridae 4y ago
System Crafters youtube channel driving me towards Emacs I really don't get how watching a PM-type struggle with emacs for two hours at a spell is compelling or instructive. I can struggle with emacs all by myself.
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by scombridae 4y ago
Sue your employer.
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by scombridae 4y ago
Do: date your superior. Don't: date your subordinate.
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by scombridae 4y ago
Taylor Swift.
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by scombridae 4y ago
You, and millions before you, all ask ("how to support OSS") and answer ("money") the same question, and at 400 words, the time you took is close to average.
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by scombridae 4y ago
Butters knows You won the internet today, sir.
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by scombridae 4y ago
Human pilots were already rapidly being phased out during the era of The Right Stuff (50s and 60s). It's impossible for me to believe manned fighter jets can compete with drones on a financial or tactical level.
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by scombridae 4y ago
I'm with the other poster who expressed incredulity at being "dragged down." If anything, I fear the opposite -- being paled in comparison to an overachiever.
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by scombridae 4y ago
That's not really how engineering works. What ultimately seems whiz-bang (light bulb, aviation, iphone) evolves piecemeal from existing infra and a million false starts. They don't emerge from the thrall of "I, Robot",
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by scombridae 4y ago
Jeff Toobin might have a few ideas.
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by scombridae 4y ago
Has anyone tried to do this? Yes, and everyone who did got served a cease-and-desist. Not everyone however asked for 500k from the aggrieved on top of stealing their IP. That's some next-level ballsiness worthy of a true pioneer.
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by scombridae 4y ago
The fiduciary agreement exists between you and the airline, not other passengers. Recline as much as the aircraft hardware allows. Don't like it? Buy a business class seat.
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by scombridae 4y ago
something I can do with my hands You really teed it up there.
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by scombridae 4y ago
How an office printer manages to pick out a single sheet from the tray.
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by scombridae 4y ago
...especially in tech companies. Substitute any other industry, and your statement is just as valid or speculative. It's unspoken because you mind your own station, and you don't talk shit about your peers.
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by scombridae 4y ago
Google search. How so fast? Google autocomplete. How so accurate? Good job Google!
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by scombridae 4y ago
Most reachers like yourself actively seek situations to be the shark in the guppy pool.
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by scombridae 4y ago
tl;dr The parenthesized NPN (aka s-expressions) turns novices off to Lisp but in fact facilitates side-effect-free, syntax-free versatility. The long-winded code snippets author uses are terrible.
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by scombridae 4y ago
It's not a bribe if you get nothing in return.
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by scombridae 4y ago
I almost lost a wrist trying to twist off a bike pedal the wrong way. Also, toilet handles, but those were more transparently reversed.
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by scombridae 4y ago
Riding on someone else's stroke, even if it means you get tossed later, is often the only way to get a peek and a taste of that sweet nectar.
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by scombridae 4y ago
Most AI during that time revolved around minimax, i.e, the chess move I play should be a response to the move you'd play if you were me, which is the move I'd play if I were you, etc. Lisp's inherent recursiveness lent itsel
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by scombridae 4y ago
Instead of keeping it under your mattress, you can give your cash to a bank with the guarantee of making withdrawals anytime, anywhere. Serverless is like a bank for information, not money.
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by scombridae 4y ago
But this has long been the deal. In order to offer their services gratis, Big Tech makes money on your data, which you've freely provided. Welcome to the last twenty years of the software economy?
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by scombridae 4y ago
It's markdown with Excel's ease of creating buttons (in org-mode's case ascii buttons) to execute arbitrary callbacks, e.g., cross referencing, summarizing, sorting, etc. It primarily appeals to weekly status jockeys (project

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