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by stakkur 6y ago
I really like System76, and what they're trying to do. But their mediocre laptop keyboards are always the deal breaker for me--it's the chief human interface, and the one component I don't want to compromise on.
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by stakkur 6y ago
As an Emacs user, I just have no use for this, and I get the feeling most Emacs users won’t either.
333.
by stakkur 6y ago
Should’ve renamed it Sosumi.
334.
by stakkur 6y ago
Nobody can guarantee anything beyond their own lifetime, and it would be a silly and unverifiable thing to guarantee anyway. Especially for data.
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by stakkur 6y ago
Excellent. I think the author should at least add a donation option to the download page; I would've donated.
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by stakkur 6y ago
If you only know there are 10 heads and 30 feet, how many chickens are there, and how many pigs? As algebra students learn, there’s a set procedure for figuring it out If there are 30 feet, then there are 15 chickens. Because pigs don&#x2
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by stakkur 6y ago
No. A thousand times no. Free the web.
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by stakkur 6y ago
Hell yes.
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by stakkur 6y ago
At a certain point, empires play chess and tell their people that it's a checker game.
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by stakkur 6y ago
As if the only purpose to play a game were to win it.
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by stakkur 6y ago
That storm was the Microsoft and the GUI storm that would eventually bring us to the computing model we are using today Huh? I'm wondering if the writer knew there Macintoshes (and Amigas!) with GUIs over a half-dozen years before 19
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by stakkur 6y ago
Amazon's tactics eerily resemble early coal mining union busters: disinformation, veiled threats, Pinkerton agents, etc.
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Hypnagogic Naps(psychologytoday.com)
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by stakkur 6y ago
one candidate just got bumped to the next stage based solely on the fact that in they had a “Making awesome pancakes” in the CV, which made me laugh. And there you have it--the hiring algorithm in a nutshell.
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by stakkur 6y ago
There should be an Irish version of this, called 'I Miss My Pub'. There would be sliders for trad music, yelling, cursing, arguing, laughter, glass breaking, and people falling.
346.
by stakkur 6y ago
Half a million in Oregon, many now for going on a week. News? Silence.
347.
by stakkur 6y ago
Another step away from the beautiful clarity that Python embodies. Yes, I get what it does, but mostly I see the consequences. The past few years of Python language 'development' have been somewhat alarming to me.
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by stakkur 6y ago
Whenever this topic arises, I always find myself returning to the idea of 'hire lightly, fire lightly'. That you can 'measure talent' by arbitrary nonsense like whiteboarding or regurgitation of CS curriculum has been de
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by stakkur 6y ago
Yes; beyond a (very) small in-group of people we are part of, larger groups of people relate mainly through shared stories, not 'facts'. Hence religion, nation myths, etc. Likewise, they fight over conflicting stories. Yuval Harar
350.
by stakkur 6y ago
'Before Google', it seemed to go something like this: * Ask coworkers * Look at documentation * Try things out Things don't seem way different today; we've just replaced the first two items with a search engine. There is
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by stakkur 6y ago
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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by stakkur 6y ago
I noticed a change--philosophically and in perspective--when 'usability' was slowly replaced by 'user experience'. With the advent of the Web, this idea of 'the experience' has mostly supplanted much of the res
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by stakkur 6y ago
This would seem to be a lagging indicator, not a predictor.
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by stakkur 6y ago
I want affordable drugs. But not sure I want to rely on the goodwill of a single private enterprise billionaire to get them.
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by stakkur 6y ago
I'm embarrassed to say that “It’s shit. But it worked" is a fair assessment of many web projects I've worked on over the years.
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by stakkur 6y ago
Oy. Another company wanting a piece of the 'newsletter' pie, and access to your mailing list.
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by stakkur 6y ago
The Web.
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by stakkur 6y ago
Relentless use of Pomodoro timer.
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by stakkur 6y ago
Less than the embarrassment of being the only person on your block without one.
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by stakkur 6y ago
Arresting data scientists for doing their job was...definitely not on my bingo card for the 21st century.

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