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by zachrose 6y ago
It's hilarious to say that an orangutan is "self-medicating." You mean it wasn't prescribed by another orangutan with a medical degree?
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by zachrose 6y ago
How does the company verify that the sender is the customer?
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by zachrose 6y ago
Along with this, I've taken to making the video chat window very small and putting it at the top edge of my screen underneath my webcam. Reasonably good eye contact and lots of screen space for notes or whatever.
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by zachrose 6y ago
I’m also a layperson and also a fan of the 7-X, almost on purely aesthetic grounds. The plasma shape is a beautiful twisted loop, the magnets resemble a French crueler, and with the shielding and instrumentation it has all the charm of a st
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by zachrose 6y ago
There are a lot of different things to be interested in. At one end visual/graphic design is interesting because, like engineering, it's seeking optimum performance among constraints. Neue Hass Grotesk might technically "outp
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by zachrose 6y ago
When you’re tailing logs on a server there’s still a “logging system“ (your ssh connection, tail -f, a disk with finite space) that can still “fail”. Probably in either case you’d work to fix logging and you’d hope that the system is simple
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by zachrose 6y ago
It seems to me as if all the economic criticisms of grant writing and funding committees (it's rent seeking that can destroy value, it distracts people who actually know science, it makes short term bets, it encourages fashions) could
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by zachrose 6y ago
> With a team of ~50, that’s a lot of hours, and I was also working four days a week so each meeting takes up a greater proportion of time. At thirty minutes a pop these meetings come out to 25 hours. That does not strike me as “a lot of
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by zachrose 6y ago
https://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/128266896430954496... I object to using the notion of a "6X difference in murderer density" among Black men as a reason why police are justified in racial profil
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by zachrose 6y ago
Also sometimes stupidity and malice amplify each other.
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by zachrose 6y ago
This post and the above comment prompted me to add alt text for an image on a landing page I’m working on. Whether an image is decorative or not is a complex question that probably hinges on a lot of modernist ideology about the role of orn
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by zachrose 6y ago
One thing that's funny to me about this game is that it the classic "hello world" for the Elm architecture is a button that increments a number[1]. It's not hard to imagine that something like this could've started
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by zachrose 6y ago
A unit value is a value in the unit interval.
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by zachrose 6y ago
Definitely didn't imagine that KVM switches could actually be that good when I asked the question. (I've obviously never used one.) Thanks!
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by zachrose 6y ago
Thanks everyone!
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by zachrose 6y ago
Would somebody like to help me understand why KVM switches are so sophisticated? A DisplayPort cable has 20 pins, so why can't it just be a 20 pole switch? (Or 30 pole for two USBs and a headphone jack, etc.)
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by zachrose 6y ago
> The US incarceration rate is at a 20 year low and keeps falling. Technically true, but man oh man do we have a ways to go before the war on drugs is mitigated[1]. Based on the trend of the last ~10 years, we're due to reach 1980 l
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by zachrose 6y ago
> For example while it talks about employee engagement it never defines the exact meaning. While it quotes some Gallup stats on how said engagement rose for companies initiating some measures it fails to exactly describe the change (befo
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by zachrose 6y ago
Backbone especially because it seemed so obvious to so many people that there needed to be an object-oriented "MVC" framework in the browser, and only over 5-10 years of experiencing the sharp edges and missing pieces did unorthod
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Seven Essential Messages in the Time of Coronavirus(medicinanarrativa.eu)
1 points by zachrose 6y ago|0 comments
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by zachrose 6y ago
I was expecting this to be about object literal setters (and getters): const language = { set current(name) { this.log.push(name); }, log: [] }; Supported by browsers for fifteen years now.
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Alt-Text as Poetry(alt-text-as-poetry.net)
26 points by zachrose 6y ago|3 comments
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by zachrose 6y ago
Alternative perspective: World of Coke sucks. It’s one of those one-way guided museums like the creationist museum in Kentucky, and contains nothing you couldn’t get out of a Wikipedia article or two.
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by zachrose 6y ago
To me that axis seems more legible-illegible than organized-chaotic. The panels on the top of the chart "read" as buttons and levers and things I'm already familiar with. The panels at the bottom have oddly particular layouts
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by zachrose 6y ago
What is it that can't be reached from Twilio? Carrier short codes?
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by zachrose 6y ago
I’ve been developing SMS chatbots and using my T-Mobile phone for testing. They will also drop messages that contain URLs, although the rules for which TLDs are allowed are hard to reverse engineer, much less rationalize. Last I remember, .
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by zachrose 6y ago
Let’s say the company has four databases and 500 technical employees. That could get you to 2k personal development instances. Take your non-development instances and multiple for failover, blue-green deployments, multiple data centers. It
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by zachrose 6y ago
> Does working at bigger companies actually give you experience with this? If you can find someone who needs something for their business or organization, you'll learn a lot of this by working backwards from what they need and build
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by zachrose 6y ago
I sometimes look at small mass-produced plastic items and marvel at how hard it would be to make one from scratch. If you showed me, say, a fluted plastic bottle of wite-out with a screw-on cap, I would have to assume you had a very expensi
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by zachrose 6y ago
Google? It captures me with its convenience and illusion of transparency but is probably also selling a window into my deepest curiosities.

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