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by dixego 4y ago
Key takeaway from this I think is: technology alone cannot solve problems engendered by policy.
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by dixego 4y ago
From the "Why build Carbon?" section: > The best way to address these problems is to avoid inheriting the legacy of C or C++ directly, and instead start with solid language foundations like a modern generics system, modular cod
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by dixego 4y ago
Who mentioned left wing news sources?
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by dixego 4y ago
If you don't think "Breitbart is not a credible news source" is not a valid point then oof, yikes, etc.
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by dixego 4y ago
Some people have already mentioned several problems with the article, but there's a thing that's not really discussed that I'd like to know more about: how many of the people on the "creation" side of the Long Tail
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by dixego 4y ago
Opus Magnum is very fun and doesn't use too much of the Programming parts of the brain!
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by dixego 4y ago
Gotta love a several-hundred word essay about swords posted on reddit by user "IPostSwords".
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by dixego 4y ago
What is the specification problem? I don't think I've heard the term before.
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by dixego 4y ago
Franz Ferdinand's "Always Ascending" is a fun rock song featuring a Shepard Tone in the background. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crjugtkXZN4
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by dixego 4y ago
And of course, don't forget "The Painting Goblin", in which you make an inescapeable, fully equipped basement home and lock one of your sims in there. Then you force them to get _extremely_ good at painting, such that one of
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by dixego 4y ago
Sometimes I wonder how much time humanity as a species has collectively spent first inventing and then trying to solve the problem of "making a website".
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by dixego 4y ago
Isn't making your own tool to satisfy your own needs the most "Our tools should adapt to us" possible, though?
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by dixego 4y ago
Programmers, much like compilers, read things until they reach a point they disagree with and then stop there to write a comment.
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by dixego 4y ago
You could start with wage theft — unpaid overtime, not respecting break times, things of that nature.
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by dixego 4y ago
Fiction is a tool used by humans to elicit, experience and process feelings under (mostly) safe circumstances. The details (such as how much the sea level would have to rise for this to be accurate) are not quite relevant; the point is to m
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by dixego 4y ago
> Just wanted to follow up on my note from a few days ago in case it got buried under all of those e-mails about the flood. I’m concerned about how the Eastern Seaboard being swallowed by the Atlantic Ocean is going to affect our Q4 numb
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by dixego 4y ago
What would be a good place to post your misgivings about a general research area?
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by dixego 4y ago
From what I can tell, the cause of this is that "number of papers published per unit of time" is the only metric institutions seem to care about when it comes to evaluating researchers' work.
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by dixego 4y ago
I just don't like Apple, what's the problem?
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by dixego 4y ago
Google is an advertising company. It has been for a good while.
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by dixego 4y ago
I was just thinking the other day about how I wish there was a social network with the rhythm/vibes of email and hey look, fraidycat turns whatever into basically that!
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by dixego 4y ago
The purpose of a business is making money. Fulfilling a legitimate need is at best a fortunate side effect to that end That is to say, I find it hard to think of how this problem could be avoided as long as companies are rules by profit mot
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by dixego 5y ago
But then how are we going to serve you ads
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by dixego 5y ago
Nim does/can indeed compile to C.
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by dixego 6y ago
A thought just occurred to me: is there an upper limit to how much computing power (and energy) cryptocurrency mining can reasonably use? Or could all computer hardware be repurposed to mine crypto and there would still be demand for more h
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by dixego 6y ago
If maintaining the infrastructure for something a miniscule percentage of the world's population benefit from requires more energy than entire countries, surely it's worth interrogating whether the benefits outweigh the costs?
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by dixego 6y ago
Perhaps this is proof regulations on the market should be stricter, then. After all, if a bunch of barely coordinated randos on the internet can do this through the power of 'meme magic', imagine what people with real resources an
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ClockWorkPi DevTerm – An Open Source Portable Terminal for Every Dev(clockworkpi.com)
10 points by dixego 6y ago|2 comments
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by dixego 7y ago
Having had it's 1.0 release a day ago might have something to do with it.
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by dixego 7y ago
The Tarahumara are also known for being able to hunt deer and turkeys by running after them until the animal collapses due to exhaustion!

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