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by yason 7y ago
I have remapped capslock to be an additional ctrl so I hit C-z easily with my pinky + ring fingers. C-a (like in screen) would be even better but as others have pointed out it masks going to the beginning of line which is very common. C-z i
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by yason 7y ago
In the opposing vein, as an Emacs user the best configuration I ever made was to rebind C-x C-c to execute-extended-command instead of kill-emacs. It was way too easy to (even accidentally!) kill emacs with a sweep of a finger. And I prob
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by yason 7y ago
If I mail you a letter doesn't that remain private and protected unless law enforcement has a warrant to explicitly intercept my mail?
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by yason 7y ago
pedestrians do cross the street when it's red for them You have to think what pedestrian lights are for. They exist solely to improve the flow of car traffic. Pedestrian lights are in gross contrast to the rights and benefits of pede
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by yason 7y ago
Surely kids should limit themselves to only crossing on green (well, until they grow out of it) but I've taught my children to watch the cars first, not the lights. A green pedestrian light doesn't mean there are no stray cars run
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by yason 7y ago
pedestrian always has the right away at cross walks Isn't that the very point of a crosswalk?
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by yason 7y ago
This is roughly how people should behave in a city centre, and Oslo has been working on nudging towards that. Hence, driving is not fun in the centre as it shouldn't be and speed limits should minimise pedestrian injuries. The differen
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by yason 7y ago
I have to pay with cash... What's the deal with this? Admittedly "cash only" sounds more like how the illegal market works...
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by yason 7y ago
Not quite. I don't think you all realize how stupendously expensive certifying a new type is. Boeing and the airlines wouldn't be prepared to absorb the extra costs just to have a slightly more efficient 737 at the other end of i
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by yason 7y ago
The only credible way from here is to: - remove the hack that is MCAS for the purpose of being able to piggyback on the old 737 type certificate; - start the process of type-certifying 737-MAX as the individual design that it is without MCA
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by yason 7y ago
I am in perfect control of my reading experience when I have a magazine in my hand. I can either look at the ads or skip them, or I can just glance at one and decide which way to go. This is in contrast to web where I'll have to start
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by yason 7y ago
YouTube could have good ads but their interface is horrible. The ad interrupts the video, and I don't just mean it cuts in the middle of something. The problem is two timelines, the video and the ad. The ads make jumping around difficu
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by yason 7y ago
I thought of the same but realised that I have contradicting examples from myself alone. I sometimes go to a magazine to read about something specific yet I might eyeball the ads while I'm around the target content. If it's a long
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by yason 7y ago
This suggests that there's a huge void in the market for websites and magazines who would go the length to curate their advertisements to make them relevant and not annoying.
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by yason 7y ago
It's fun to see the contrast to paper magazines. Advertisements in magazines are often somewhat interesting, well-made to be entertaining, or even useful. I used to read ads in magazines and I still sometimes do. It doesn't give m
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by yason 7y ago
This is what I call real engineering. Of course, being a mere software engineer (or so they tell me) I can't but point to the recursive version: https://cdn2.kontraband.com/uploads/image/2019/2/22&
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by yason 7y ago
None of my friends here have Alexa. I've heard of its quirks as some of my US colleagues do but based on their stories I've consistently failed to gather why would I ever want one myself.
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by yason 7y ago
Patents have suffered a fate similar to something like metrics that have succumbed to Goodhart's law. Patents could've worked somewhat originally, at least in principle, but soon people started gaming the system, rendering the pat
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by yason 7y ago
Doesn't sound like an "upgrade" to me, and indeed I wasn't thinking of a downgrade to a cheap motel. There are obviously several schemes/incentives that can be set up to make sure the traveler will get "similar
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by yason 7y ago
The late cancellation by host without no specific penalties seems to be one of the most prevalent yet disturbing elements in this. The one who's travelling has the weakest odds of all. The traveler will be in a foreign place with no pl
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by yason 7y ago
Something like this would be the right way to do social media and networks, and it would never be allowed to work. Ideally, I would own my data and I could just bid the social media providers I want to host my data. I could pick one, or sev
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by yason 7y ago
For architecture, this exploration is fine but they mostly shouldn't have been allowed to use existing city centres as the playground for their explorations and in doing so ruin the social and architectural fabric that had been breathi
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by yason 7y ago
Productivity depends on the phase of work. Simplisticly put there are two phases of mental work such as programming: i/o bound and brain bound. If you're in the i/o bound phase remoting is often hard. You need to talk to peop
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by yason 7y ago
I like schemes where positive behaviour is directly linked to counter negative behaviour. Let's first introduce a soft cap and hard cap. If you have fines accrued it doesn't prevent you from borrowing books but the fines are still
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by yason 7y ago
But in that case IBM can license the invention from you, which is also the idea of a patent. And instead of negotiating a selling price you would negotiate a licensing price.
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by yason 7y ago
The combo of mosh+tmux (and earlier, screen) really is something powerful that most non-command-line people can't ever begin to fathom. I've been mostly working through a terminal multiplexer for a couple of decades for work and p
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by yason 7y ago
Backtick is a bit far away, isn't it? I literally have to stretch my left ring finger to hit it, so doing this for each tmux key command does add up I suppose? I've been using C-z for the prefix for ages. It's conveniently ne
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by yason 7y ago
The "margin notes" are usually ten times more interesting to read than "discussion threads" where few people try to convey their points back and forth. That sort of argumentation is generally just boring to read, lacks v
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by yason 7y ago
This is a very real threat albeit generally rare, of course. As long as an electrical circuit has power it can begin to heat up wires or connectors due to bad contacts or worn threads, for example, even if the car is cold and has been sitti
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by yason 7y ago
Surely you can find various ways to reason or calculate these unit conversions. But for practical purposes adding a half goes a long way. And it's even easier to add the missing 0.1, if you really need to.

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