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Practical Wisdom: The Master Virtue(artofmanliness.com)
1 points by sedev 3y ago|1 comments
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by sedev 3y ago
There is no right to advertise, is how I see it, any more than there is a right to use asbestos, lead, and mercury any way you please. There is societal permission to use those substances in strictly controlled ways, requiring that serious
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by sedev 3y ago
My experience is that the content of those arguments often doesn't matter. This sticks out to me particularly in music discussions because those discussions have always had room for endless sanctimonious opinions. One of the most valua
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How to Compete with Patreon(siderea.dreamwidth.org)
5 points by sedev 3y ago|1 comments
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by sedev 3y ago
Since they've done it before — https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/04/24/306592297... — I would consider it highly realistic.
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What Software Is Made of (2015)(siderea.dreamwidth.org)
2 points by sedev 3y ago|1 comments
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Software Development Worst Practices(siderea.dreamwidth.org)
1 points by sedev 3y ago|0 comments
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by sedev 3y ago
You are factually wrong and also your news sources are factually wrong. If you find that insulting, that's a you problem.
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by sedev 3y ago
The news is wrong. Especially about the CHAZ. Source: live here.
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by sedev 3y ago
Concurrence: the ability of the code to be self-documenting ends at the borders of the code itself. Factors outside of the code that impose requirements on the code must be documented more conventionally. The "sleep 10 seconds to (hope
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Review of an N=1 Potassium Weight Loss Experiment(slimemoldtimemold.com)
2 points by sedev 3y ago|0 comments
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How Professional Ethics Work(siderea.dreamwidth.org)
4 points by sedev 3y ago|0 comments
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by sedev 3y ago
What immediately comes to mind for me is the comparison to third-party Twitter clients mentioned here: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-tweetbot-de... > Amir Shevat, Twitter’s former head of product
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by sedev 4y ago
Unfortunately this heuristic, while often good, can sometimes lead you wildly astray — for examples see the article on Beyoncé and the article about the plant _Zea mays._ Good articles, but you want a hazmat suit for the talk pages.
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by sedev 4y ago
The link rot problem is real but Wikipedia editors have _diligently_ institutionalized automated use of the Internet Archive and other snapshotting sites (but the IA is the best one & deserves donation support). So compared to the avera
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by sedev 4y ago
There's also the niche use case of vertically arranged English letters — you see this once in a while on signage, but my favorite example is from _Street Fighter 3,_ where the character DeeJay has pants with "MAXIMUM" written
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by sedev 4y ago
Even if you're right — I don't think you are, but even if you are — you're derailing your own point to indulge in petty sniping targeted at another profession. The aside makes the piece weaker because it detracts from the foc
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by sedev 4y ago
There's a Blood Knife article https://bloodknife.com/inadequacy-of-inspirational-scifi/ critiquing Stephenson that makes an interesting companion read to this. I have enjoyed Stephenson's novels tremendously,
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by sedev 4y ago
Short version: no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_use_policy#Fai...
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by sedev 4y ago
This would be a great time to reread the classic "Better Than Free" essay. https://kk.org/thetechnium/better-than-fre/ By my count, the average OnlyFans account absolutely nails 5 out of the 8 "gene
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by sedev 5y ago
Digging down a couple layers of links from this, the underlying paper, "Partial State in Dataflow-Based Materialized Views" https://jon.thesquareplanet.com/papers/phd-thesis.pdf is pretty intriguing. It sound
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by sedev 5y ago
Please clarify as to whether you are speaking sarcastically or earnestly in this post.
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by sedev 5y ago
Title should probably have a [2013] marker.
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by sedev 5y ago
"Laches" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laches_(equity) is probably a relevant concept here. In a scenario like the one you're describing, the delay is likely to be taken into account, but it's unlik
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by sedev 5y ago
One of the better things Apple does with their position as a middleman is give customers more control over their relationship with app creators of all kinds. If the customer is unhappy about their experience, iOS gives them what amounts to
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by sedev 6y ago
The archive has it: https://archive.is/BBAsb
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by sedev 6y ago
That's also available with emacs, though, it has its own extension ecosystem that's about as easy to access as VSCode's.
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by sedev 6y ago
From a recent HN discussion, I learned that emacs has had a sampling profiler built in — not on MELPA or something, first-party! — since about 2013. How many widely-used applications these days contain a facility for asking "why is the
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by sedev 6y ago
Now that you mention it, I _did_ fail to explain why I brought up Telegram. My bad, thank you for calling me on that. I mentioned Telegram particularly because in my social circles, Telegram is number one by a long shot in terms of "pe
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by sedev 6y ago
The claim I'm making is "they are not, in fact, 'just another Parler.'" You are pointing out many correct things about their potential liability and problems with holding that data! However, those things are, at mos

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