bonaldi

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by bonaldi 5y ago
Apple Photos is no Aperture, but the lack of an alternative listed for Linux is glaring. What’s he managing all these RAWs he’s shooting with?
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by bonaldi 5y ago
This falls uneasily between two stools for me. For a photography-focused space, it doesn't have anything like the wealth of photography tools and data that Flickr does (or even just EXIF). For a community space, it doesn't have bo
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by bonaldi 5y ago
> decentralizing the distribution of quality news This is laudable - but it ignores the reality of aggregators and user behaviour in the attention economy. The audience is centralised, and increasingly so. The question becomes: how can
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by bonaldi 5y ago
you can make it look like TextWrangler too if that helps
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by bonaldi 5y ago
Which makes it all the more impressive that it's quoting Tacitus and such like. There's an important distinction between reading level and intelligence, and I think we conflate the two in modern writing. Simple language doesn&#x27
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by bonaldi 5y ago
Have they made any sort of statement?
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by bonaldi 5y ago
The revamped Sleeper is great, albeit pricey, especially now they've sorted the early issues with the new trains and crews. It's also ideal for getting a full day of work in either London/Glasgow and returning. Doing that by
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by bonaldi 5y ago
Very worth looking at this in the context of https://www.newcomer.co/p/the-unauthorized-story-of-andreess... (Summary: AH doesn't like how the media has become critical of tech, would like to present its own narra
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by bonaldi 5y ago
Getting a clear picture of your recipient's understanding is much harder when you have to back-and-forth async. In discussion it's considerably easier to see when a point hasn't landed, ask questions to check for understandin
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by bonaldi 5y ago
The author has deleted their Twitters and Discord too, and the domain has gone. Seems very scorched earth, I hope they're OK. (Not least because I love to see new publishing platforms and wish them all the best)
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by bonaldi 5y ago
Second link is a 404 fyi
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by bonaldi 5y ago
> It really isn't when it comes to arguments ... not suited for objective discussion Emoji is used for more than arguing or "objective discussion"! Emojis are used for friendship, for flirting, for jokes, for sexting, for
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by bonaldi 5y ago
Why is it important to be able to talk about what colour your skin is? Have you lived through the past year? There is more to language than debate-club argumentation, too. Consider - why is it important what gender someone is? Or age? Shoul
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by bonaldi 5y ago
Frontier is open source now and they're looking for help to port to Linux: http://scripting.com/2021/04/28/154140.html?title=oyTheHuman...
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by bonaldi 5y ago
I'm slightly amazed that nobody sees any value in being able to talk about race using a full range of expression. The wave-hand emoji with a black colour allows you to compactly say "+1 as a black person ", for example. That
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by bonaldi 5y ago
Emojis communicate. Race of the speaker can add important context to the thing being communicated. Adding skin tone to emojis allows them to communicate this. With emoji you can, in one glyph, raise your hand in a conversation to say, eg, &
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by bonaldi 5y ago
Agreed, but culture and mindshare matter. You can be big like node or big like Perl. Losing cachet can be like going out of business: slow then sudden.
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by bonaldi 5y ago
“If you liked “How to build a blog in 15 minutes with Rails,” check out the sequel, ‘How to destroy Rails in 15 minutes with a blog.’”(From https://twitter.com/sandofsky/status/1388174804985868289 )
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by bonaldi 5y ago
Around a third of the company has gone, including the entire iOS team and other key Rails people: https://twitter.com/caseynewton/status/1388212468510380034?s...
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by bonaldi 5y ago
Periods are relevant to a "small handful" of women? Have you discussed your thinking with any women? Is it a "pretty grotesque" sense of entitlement at work when a man looks for a urinal in a public building? Or when a d
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by bonaldi 5y ago
Yes, that is absolutely the implication. These mistakes are so egregious they're almost instantly obvious to people who know to look. For instance, the Health app tracked seemingly everything under the sun, including blood-alcohol leve
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by bonaldi 5y ago
None of my examples needed experts to address — just someone of the affected group on the team and (yes) comfortable enough to speak up. Also, even in your hypothetical, there will still be issues that are difficult to raise internally beca
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by bonaldi 5y ago
There is an absolute wealth of connection between more diversity and better products: it’s not that a monoculture can’t make products for everyone, it’s that it’s easier for a team that has wider representation to do so: it’s a competitiv
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by bonaldi 5y ago
They essentially build communications software –– social software. To try and say that you can do this without ever considering social issues is strange to me, and seems like at worst, it could damage their products. For one thing, there is
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by bonaldi 5y ago
Must be such a relief for them that "project management, team communication, and email software" don’t touch at all on social or political issues, in any ways that their staff might want to discuss.
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by bonaldi 5y ago
Over at Heriot-Watt we had SGIs and Windows boxes aplenty and I still found myself working in a little office on a VT100 hooked up to a Sun 3 (which ran a forgotten line printer). At first just because there was never any demand for the roo
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by bonaldi 5y ago
You went from “I cannot think of any reason for inheritance tax” to ... proposing an inheritance tax (at a very high threshold) in the space of a paragraph. Untaxed inheritance perpetuates inequality. Inequalities are unfair and arguably da
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by bonaldi 5y ago
Impressively lovely. What's the battery life like while running this? I'm guessing better than my old PowerBook 160, but curious to know.
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by bonaldi 5y ago
I think there are other arguments to be made: most likely scenarios include an absolute terror of retribution and a lack of faith in the state to protect them from it. This is a climate where companies lay off entire staffs for daring to un
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by bonaldi 5y ago
Correct - though as designed that's a tooling problem, not a spec problem. Consider the pre-web world: You don't have reusable components in your printer, you manage stylesheets and templates in your word processor. The original a

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