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by devnull255 5y ago
Wow. Build a beautiful, long piano and they will come!
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by devnull255 5y ago
This is so awesome. It almost made me cry. I think it's a brilliant way to introduce a complex technology because we have all grown up to absorb lessons through stories, especially stories about cute animals. And you know what? we re
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by devnull255 5y ago
Living eventually leads to death I've heard.
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by devnull255 5y ago
Wow! How did I miss this structure in Python in all the years I've worked with Python? Oh. I remember. Because it took so long for me move from Python 2 to Python 3. So I'm catching up. Anyway, I enjoyed this article mostly be
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by devnull255 5y ago
I love this story because the story has a an unwritten and deeper title "Do what you love and love what you do". True, while the unwritten title may not have grabbed most of those here who really appreciated it (myself included),
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by devnull255 5y ago
While completely unplugging from social or mainstream media for a while is one strategy to keep outrage levels at bay, you can also choose a strategy of quality over quantity for consuming information about the world. This is also a strateg
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by devnull255 6y ago
If you dig a little deeper you might find your brain does make that kind of connection subconsciously. This article gives a nice introduction into the work of cognitive linguists George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. https://theconver
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by devnull255 6y ago
I've found the importance of remembering a book you've read depends on why you're reading the book in the first place. If you're reading to entertain, remembering what you've read isn't nearly as important as
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by devnull255 6y ago
It inspired perhaps the greatest modern work of all time! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_Was_Here_(album) Domo arigato!
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by devnull255 6y ago
As someone tasked with supporting build and release automation in a large company using Gradle, it's never been enough to learn just enough Gradle and Groovy to build any project, because I learned in a relatively short time that there
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by devnull255 6y ago
I've had two colonoscopies 5 years apart because in the first procedure they found and removed polyps, which put me on the side 5-year plan (every 5 years). In the last procedure polyps were also found and removed. Since at least one
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by devnull255 6y ago
It looks a lot like the author of this article formed an opinion about Python based on a frustrating experience with a poorly-documented library, a fondness for other languages and maybe some misconceptions or lack of knowledge, not just ab
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by devnull255 6y ago
As referenced in the comment with the Foucault quote, the modern school and prison are both structures designed in a way that makes it easier for their authorities (wardens, guards, principals and teachers) to contain and control their capt
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by devnull255 6y ago
As it was in 2007, it is only "mostly dead". I am reminded of this every time I start work on my Dell machine running Windows 10, which is also maybe mostly dead, but not dead enough? Microsoft seems to still occupy living space
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by devnull255 6y ago
Has it really though? Or is it more the case that most modern humans are being flooded with unprecedented loads of data about the world and have not been sufficiently educated in systems thinking to recognize the world as interlocking syst
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by devnull255 6y ago
I definitely miss having the option to work from the office. I miss the commute time ( never more than an hour and a half on the busiest of commutes ) and the transition from home to work and work to home again. I don't think I cared f
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by devnull255 6y ago
vi/vim is my editor of choice because the shell (ksh or bash) is my primary IDE. The last 20 years or so has required me to develop mostly scripting (ksh, sh or bash) that is executed by some sort of automation. The shell is where I sp
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by devnull255 6y ago
In Linux, processes scheduled in cron, systemd or other schedulers don't require and may sometimes have issues with the customizations in login scripts for interactive sessions. Login scripts may expect input from the user keyboard, or
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by devnull255 6y ago
"Alexa, do not disturb." I use this feature regularly to prevent drop-ins when I don't want them.
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by devnull255 6y ago
Well, one particular grievance among them, that a person passing off a counterfeit 20-dollar bill doesn't deserve death at the hands of police, probably is legitimate. Choosing to remediate that injustice is not capitulation to the mob
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by devnull255 6y ago
At the company I currently work for, Jira has become yet another opportunity to engage in metrics abuse. Probably because Jira makes it easy to create reports and dashboards that are more useful for managers than for delivering software. Th
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by devnull255 6y ago
This is a fantastic article and reading list. I'm disappointed at how so much of the discussion around the most recent rioting has devolved to being pro-protest vs anti-rioting. The riots, like the spread of the pandemic are symptoms
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by devnull255 6y ago
To playfully tease, this is exactly what a Flatlander might say. But while you describe the behavior of consciousness, the article describes its other aspects: its shapes, how neurons collaboratively make it and how it is unmade. This not
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by devnull255 6y ago
Afghanistan was never burgeoning power in recent history. However it was a strategic land-locked asset to other great and super powers throughout history. In the late, Cold War period Afghanistan, once an asset of the Soviet Union, was con
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by devnull255 6y ago
For some of us at least. Life continues though...
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by devnull255 6y ago
MOVE 'Y' TO NAILED-IT.
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by devnull255 6y ago
The statements the article object to look like informal fallacies: hasty generalization, straw man, availability bias.
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by devnull255 7y ago
I understand what the author is getting at. I myself have read links about new tools and frameworks and might think afterward, "that's pretty cool". Then I'll read the comments section where often I might fall into the
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by devnull255 9y ago
Evolution happens because of natural selection. It is the narrative of natural selection and does not always have a happy ending. The subtitle of the article is just plain wrong. Of course natural selection explains "the too sexy bird
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by devnull255 10y ago
Well, according to info about the new MacBook, news of the the function keys' death has been greatly exaggerated. "Access the function keys by holding down the FN key on the keyboard." -- http://www.apple.com&#x2F

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