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by undoware 5y ago
"Error establishing a database connection"
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by undoware 5y ago
Moreover, dang, look at the vibe you're managing. This is on you, boo: 1. A group of people repeatedly use a euphemism to attack a much smaller and less powerful group 2. When a member of that group points it out, the comment is litera
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by undoware 5y ago
Also, I recommend reading _On Freedom: Four songs of care and constraint_ by Maggie Nelson.
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by undoware 5y ago
On paper, yes, this is how the business works. In practice, I've seen lots of situations where, for want of time and designers, engineers received vague instructions and were mostly left to their own devices. Engineers were making sign
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by undoware 5y ago
[pulls up chair, sits backwards] OK so this is a question I'm arguably qualified to talk about -- I focus on usability and promoting it within a large tech company. The problem that I see a lot is that engineers are not well-versed in
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by undoware 5y ago
1. _The Question Concerning Technology_ by Martin Heidegger. Taught me how clean-room language reinvention can be a tool for clear thinking, and how you cannot add something without taking something away. Truth is "revealing and concea
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by undoware 5y ago
It's honestly like you've never seen that land. Much of Canada -- one of the two big possible breadbaskets you said you were eyeing -- is literally forest. The forest starts where the farmland stops. Even if you cleared the forest
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by undoware 5y ago
rubs face ok so here's the thing. Food grows in topsoil . As an eater of food, you need to know this. It's important: food that does not come from the ocean[1] comes from topsoil. Beef? Cows. Cows graze. Pork? Pigs are calorie
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by undoware 5y ago
This post will not age well. Neither will its author. Aging requires food.
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by undoware 5y ago
clears throat as someone whose country includes the Arctic, I am qualified to inform you that 'total environmental collapse' is accurate. Also, post-ex-facto. You, my friend, are looking at what is colloquially known as a Big Pr
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by undoware 5y ago
This is the first time I've ever felt that Wayland is missing something important
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by undoware 5y ago
I have no idea what this question is asking. 'Engineering,' like 'art,' is one of those hand-wavey words. In fact, I have a feeling you're actually asking: "What are the coolest brands, as perceived by engineer
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by undoware 5y ago
This got downvoted, so it's anecdote time! A former employer once forwarded me a deep-dive article about a guy who was archiving old '90s usenet posts. He explained the process by reference to a sample post, chosen at random, fro
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by undoware 5y ago
Hey all, Quick/friendly reminder that this is a dangerous conversation to be having in public -- there is no telling what will happen to old comments in a few years (or decades,) when the disruption is further along. Quite serious. His
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by undoware 5y ago
There needs to be a '+1, Insight, but I don't like It' upvote feature here, dang
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by undoware 5y ago
Finally, as I get my proteins denatured by a quadruped-mounted face-finding energy weapon in Civil War II, I can go out singing Stallman's song. You will be free, hackers. You will be free
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by undoware 5y ago
my default browser is.... [sunglasses emoji] Arena
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by undoware 5y ago
Now, I don't like to judge the moral character of display positioning, but after carefully considering the .png of the preferred solution of this article's author, I am forced to question the nature of my reality. Excellent work.
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by undoware 5y ago
seeing ImageMagick, of all hoary tools, trending on HN reminds me that I'm so old that the kids are relishing as classics the tools I regard as outdated. This is expectable in music, but in tooling? And with Image -frigging- Magick ?
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by undoware 5y ago
Thanks Wolfram, but I like my freedoms uncurated.
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by undoware 5y ago
I literally just bought your product, thank you very much, I needed this and wondered why no one had made it yet.
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by undoware 5y ago
Former startup CSO here. There is not enough coffee in the world to make this day not terrible for anyone whose job involves worrying about security.
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by undoware 5y ago
The problem with no-code is it is also usually no-ontology . It's always fun to mock 'ideology', but without a strong philosophical principle, every project will eventually morph into a hairball. The underlying ontology behi
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by undoware 5y ago
Surprisingly comfortable, for me, at least. I'm somewhat older, so I had some pre-smartphone habits to dust off and fall back upon
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by undoware 5y ago
Surprisingly, Microsoft is pretty damn good these days.
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by undoware 5y ago
I too have the nixos vs openbsd decision nibbling at me every time I spin something up. Here's what helps me decide: I simulate a disaster. Since I'm just me, I do it on paper (empirical ways are best but are also the most expensi
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by undoware 5y ago
I think "attempting to forestall the emerging ecological catastrophe" is a good-enough placeholder for the next few generations. You can worry about the meaning of life after you have secured its continuity. Prioritize.
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by undoware 5y ago
My advice? Go with OpenBSD. These are the folks that brought you the word 'hackathon', and OpenSSH. (Ever use ssh? Thank OpenBSD.) These are the folks that actually bother to read not just a PR, but actual full codebases, just to
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by undoware 5y ago
thank you <3
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by undoware 5y ago
..or it's sending a clear message that white nationalist groups tend to be violent and militarized? The very fact that this issue presents itself to you as anything other than a damning report on the state of the union is itself tellin

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