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by wott 10y ago
I fail to understand how this: > I'm obsessed with minimalism. I want all my possessions to fit inside my backpack. I own one pair of socks. I sleep on the floor. is compatible with that: > I have literally created over 500 ac
782.
by wott 10y ago
> If anything happened, my watch would vibrate, then my phone, then my laptop would ping, as would my iMac and then my tablet went off. That must be like leaving in a Tom & Jerry cartoon!
783.
by wott 10y ago
Thing is, night people are forced to follow morning people schedule almost all life long (school, work, etc.). So they are used to wake up (too) early, and since they are night people, they can't sleep in the evening nevertheless. So t
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by wott 10y ago
The time proximity is not the point of the article, though. It's about large parts of Greenland melting at times where temperatures were not very high and ice cover was so far supposed to have stayed stable.
785.
by wott 10y ago
Please don't put the words 'ethics' and 'MBA' together.
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by wott 10y ago
Oh, I swear it is not inverse for chip documentation (unless it's from a Chinese manufacturer, you have to do with a 2-page leaflet for a 80-pin chip in that case). But it doesn't necessarily mean it is exhaustive high quality doc
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by wott 10y ago
Riches are getting richer.
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by wott 10y ago
It's not even beef. It's industrial beef catering. Around my place, cows are still in the meadows, then for a few winter months they are in the stable but they are fed mostly with grass cut in the same meadows earlier, plus a bit
789.
by wott 10y ago
That's a very personal netiquette :-)
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by wott 10y ago
Yeah, I don't even have a CS degree. I was considering myself below average as long as I was working mostly alone or on specific domains, for I could not compare with others IRL. I could only read people on Usenet or on the Web and the
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by wott 10y ago
And we're not going to buy anything from them, since their products price includes this kind of "cost".
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by wott 10y ago
> Google Groups is a 1990's webmail interface to crappy but federated SMTP. You put the word 'crappy' in the wrong place. Google Groups is a crappy webmail interface to federated SMTP. Hundreds of Googlers, during a doze
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by wott 10y ago
For example, because half of other people's work is bullshit. Or because a third of other people's work output is used to take them from home to work. Or because the amount on the paycheck is totally unrelated to the value a worke
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by wott 10y ago
> I'm sure the on-board systems were designed and developed by people who know what they are doing. I have been working in safety-related domains, where each failure could involve the death of several hundred people. It wasn't
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by wott 10y ago
Also TV series. They have taken over movies (and other activities like reading). In fact, most of them are mostly not series any more: they are serials. That's infinitely more addictive. In a series you can watch a random episode, almo
796.
by wott 10y ago
He did not. He did not propose to reduce young people voting weight.
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by wott 10y ago
Most people here are Muricans, they (you?) cannot easily and massively get rid of a more than century old culture based on individualism, short-term thinking, greediness, "bigger is greater" applied to every single aspect of life
798.
by wott 10y ago
I guess that's why he talks about applications and not functions, so that guarantees there is a single x for each y .
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by wott 10y ago
He obviously runs though the speech he had ready (there is not half a second of a break at any point) whatever the actual assistance response may be. Also note that he inundated the audience with a different formula popping in random places
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by wott 10y ago
They are not helpful at all. Everyone with half a brain knows what he should do, but it doesn't mean he can . So not only it is not helpful, but it is infuriating to be repeatedly lectured about the same old wives' advices he a
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by wott 10y ago
Easy to tell. If people who are hit by burnout could do it, they would have done it and wouldn't have been hit by burnout.
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by wott 10y ago
Except that you may not be able to sleep more than 5 or 6 hours, exactly because of stress / burnout/ depression. I haven't scored a 9 hours night in many years, not because I don't have time for it, not because I would
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by wott 10y ago
Yes, I lived in a place where they commonly put a steel sheet on the window sills (not sure of the terminology), probably to protect the concrete from water infiltration, and it was horrible as soon as it rained. And it rained a lot. Like a
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by wott 10y ago
Where do you see "over 10 years"? It says "by 2020" and we are not in 2010, but in late 2016, so that's only 3 or 4 years.
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by wott 10y ago
> none of these are universally true of course Er... yes, I basically deeply disagree with all of your points :-)
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by wott 10y ago
> Free, global internet access is the next step toward a smarter, more progressive planet. I don't even care about the speed - if the only thing users could access was wikipedia, I'd still personally donate to the project. I c
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by wott 10y ago
There are many people who are completely lost without an IDE, or even without their IDE. Some of them have no idea of what is going on underneath. It is not rare to read such people around here.
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by wott 10y ago
The number of times I have to click a bit everywhere at random in a panic because some shit autoplay sound or video started yelling and I can't figure which one it is and where it is :-[]
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by wott 10y ago
I am not so sure any more, since more and more stuff is calculated on the client, fetched from many different servers by the client and assembled in the client. In fact the web page as we see it never exists on the main server (their office
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by wott 10y ago
> This thing eats everything. I protest! It seems to carefully avoid anything that resembles a crumb, a hair or dust.

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