arch_deluxe

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by arch_deluxe 1mo ago
A book I highly recommend, but personally found distressing to read, especially the chapter on the strategy of targeting civilian populations, which continues to haunt me.
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by arch_deluxe 3mo ago
A corporation is a single legal entity with distinct rights and obligations, that’s the entire point of incorporating, so you don’t have to create a fully connected graph of agreements between people, you can group them into entities that c
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by arch_deluxe 3mo ago
Don’t forget wantonly destructive.
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by arch_deluxe 3mo ago
I don’t think the neologism “dark patterns” is necessary or adds any clarity; it’s almost a euphemism. Can’t we just call this “dishonest design”? I would personally find that a lot clearer.
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by arch_deluxe 6mo ago
One of the greats. Invented quicksort and concurrent sequential processes. I always looked up to him because he also seemed very humble.
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Speaking at the Site of a Murder(eternallyradicalidea.com)
1 points by arch_deluxe 10mo ago|0 comments
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I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens(sethpurcell.com)
1185 points by arch_deluxe 1y ago|392 comments
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by arch_deluxe 1y ago
For a long time I've been wanting a private, E2EE social media app for sharing pics/videos of my son with friends and family, but haven't found anything fitting that description. Like most people, we've just been using g
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by arch_deluxe 1y ago
This seems like a good time to mention that FreeFollow.org is looking for private beta testers for our app that combines the pub/sub model and slick UX of social media (posts, comments, following) with the economic model of webhosting
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by arch_deluxe 1y ago
Thanks for letting us know. Unfortunately we haven't been able to reproduce that with the current version of Firefox, but if you'd like to email us at hello@freefollow.org we'll add you to the list manually.
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by arch_deluxe 1y ago
Nope.
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by arch_deluxe 1y ago
You might be interested in FreeFollow.org [full disclosure, I'm one of the engineers working on it]. It combines the economic model of web hosting (users pay to host spaces, reading is free, and writing in someone else's space is
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A new Microsoft chip could lead to more stable quantum computers(technologyreview.com)
2 points by arch_deluxe 2y ago|0 comments
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by arch_deluxe 2y ago
I totally agree. Is there a community of like-minded folks out there somewhere? I'd love to see someone give this a try.
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Stock Prices Can Rally When the Economy and Corporate Earnings Aren't(seekingalpha.com)
10 points by arch_deluxe 6y ago|0 comments
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by arch_deluxe 7y ago
Thanks very much for the feedback and bug report, which I have reproduced on Ubuntu. I'll fix the bug shortly and put the feature requests on the list. Edit: fixed in 0.5.20
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by arch_deluxe 7y ago
Author's note: Everyone uses spreadsheets to manage small-scale tabular data because unlike a database they're usable by humans and let users immediately start entering data, but they’re not great at “staying out of your way”, in
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Show HN: TablePad, a notepad app for structured data(tablepad.app)
4 points by arch_deluxe 7y ago|3 comments