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by stfwn 8y ago
encrypted.google.com is being deprecated by Google. https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/7631341?p=encryp...
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by stfwn 8y ago
DuckDuckGo. I went back and forth between DDG and Google a number of times before I managed to stick with DDG. I rarely go to Google at this point, only in cases where the search is extremely specific and it really needs Google’s omnipres
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by stfwn 8y ago
> the first question to ask should be "is that result accurate?" not "how do we tune out this problematic result?" That depends on the product that you want to make. If you’re a company that wants to sail on the statu
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by stfwn 9y ago
Hm. Facebook not using algorithmic feeds tuned to your liking is hardly a reason to rule them out entirely. People’s eyeballs keep coming back, so Facebook’s news feed works great for Facebook. It’s an incentive or strategy issue more tha
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by stfwn 9y ago
Another interesting take on exactly this topic, also using Blink to SSH (Mosh) into a VPS: https://jann.is/ipad-pro-for-programming/ I run the set up from that article sometimes, which depends mostly on an app to conne
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by stfwn 9y ago
It may be helpful or even liberating for you to read outside your field a bit, in linguistic anthropology on the topic of language ideologies. For me, I have realized people are often not simply ‘unskilled’, but instead just do not follow t
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by stfwn 9y ago
Wow. Anti Captcha seems like a company that should not exist. I don't want to go full /r/latestagecapitalism, but this seems like a typical economic activity that lures uneducated workers from rural areas to the city for a &#
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by stfwn 9y ago
Cool post! Keep writing this stuff, you’re good at it.
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by stfwn 9y ago
Cool! I made https://www.tones.fm/stfwn/5-min in 5 min! I really like the simplicity. I subscribed and I'm curious to see how you will add more features while sticking with the look and feel that makes this origin
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by stfwn 9y ago
It’s awesome in the most literal sense of the word that someone wrote a 300-page book on this topic and just put it online for anyone to read for free. I hope I can contribute at this level at some point.
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by stfwn 9y ago
Inflation is a very broad trend to adjust for. Maybe a dollar was worth 2% more in some part of the country while it bought you 5% less elsewhere. The ups and downs in local cost of living are probably extreme in SF, so adjusting with a nat
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by stfwn 9y ago
Thank you for your work! Neovim was really the first tool that got me hooked on the CLI. It led me down a path that really paid off in terms of how much I learned: about using nvim, customising it with a dotfile - a skill that turned out
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by stfwn 9y ago
From the IO Spreadsheet Standard document (in /docs): "This document describes the format of the I/O Spreadsheet for iOS Products. (...) The I/O spreadsheet shall be sheet in an Excel workbook." Numbers? Nope, Excel
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by stfwn 9y ago
> Once the music is recorded, they aren't 'working' anymore hours, so how would you figure they need $1160 a month to make minimum wage? I completely agree. The minimum wage figure was just a reference point that aligns wi
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by stfwn 9y ago
> Have you seen Patreon? Patreon, Bandcamp and Tunecore collectively pay out about $25 million per month [1]. That's minimum wage for 21 000 people, assuming each artist gets an equal share (which they obviously don't). This do
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by stfwn 9y ago
> You’d think that the near implosion of the music industry would have been a clue though. Where there is demand and anti-consumer practices, there will be piracy. Is it just that people making these decisions are ignorant, or emotional?
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by stfwn 9y ago
> Let's query all phones with activity showing X among men in this geography and find ourselves a suspect. Afaik this technically impossible with Apple Health at this point. > Many people with limited funds for expensive lawyers
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by stfwn 9y ago
Yet by default Windows 10 opts you into a system-wide advertising ID, a ‘smartscreen filter’ that sends the urls of websites you visit to Microsoft (to check against a database of ‘malicious websites’), sending whatever you type to Microsof
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by stfwn 9y ago
> As long as anyone can setup their own AMP-like cache and build a search engine similar to Google, that also supports preloading... then I'm not sure it so bad. Yes, anyone could build a cache. But can anyone build a cache that can
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by stfwn 9y ago
I would try not to focus on ‘discovering problems’ when ‘going into the field’. Consider what you will get if you ask directly what someone's problems are: only the stuff everyone knows about and no one has solved in 200 years since th
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by stfwn 9y ago
Speaking as an anthropologist: go into the field. I bet very few great ideas came from behind a desk. Ask people with jobs you don’t know much about simple questions that are not directly aimed at finding out what you can sell them. Be ge
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by stfwn 9y ago
Also: > Using flexible SSL, all communications between CloudFlare servers and GitHub ones are not encrypted. Not really secured, even if your domain would be served in HTTPs. [1] [1]: https://www.jonathan-petitcolas.com/2
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by stfwn 9y ago
’Interests’ are more complex and layered than that. Am I interested in going to the gym or is the underlying interest to feel healthy and fit? A brain may be easily misled to believe an expensive colorful drink would satisfy the interest to
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by stfwn 9y ago
What's the difference between self-hosting and self-hosting on bare metal?
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by stfwn 9y ago
> Doesn't sound that great in those terms, but that's exactly what you got. Imho, many solutions don't benefit from a partisan branding. Some things are just good ideas . If research shows it's simply cheaper to hire
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by stfwn 9y ago
> other governments are likely to follow the US path. We differ on gun control, social security, health insurance, representative democracy, a plethora of other subjects and soon, net neutrality. > If it changes, it’s bad for everyone
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by stfwn 9y ago
Which is an excellent way to make sure the incentives of the government and its people are aligned. \s
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by stfwn 9y ago
I have been in music for some time, and this is almost exactly what great musicians do. There is definitely a time for activities that are ‘neccessary’ or ‘good practice’ to spend time on, and then there is a large amount of time they almos
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by stfwn 9y ago
I feel like I must have a misconception about bitcoin. Coins are earned by calculating hashes for transactions. As the amount of coins grow the difficulty of calculating hashes increases. This limits the creation of new coins, which increas
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by stfwn 9y ago
I'd say the learning experience should be to manage your own expectations. In my experience in music many musicians set out to ‘make it’ without defining what that is at all. They don't define success, so they'll always feel

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