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by doodaddy 2mo ago
Look, I am in no position to seriously critique the author’s writing. He clearly has linguistic chops. But what kind of bunk is this? We get it, the flowery, overdrawn language of yore is more expressive. But that kind of writing gets in it
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by doodaddy 2mo ago
The frequencies are alive with music in Brazil. Among the broad (and excellent) variety of local music are three stations that play an eclectic variety of foreign music from around the world. One station features a lot of rare or more unusu
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by doodaddy 3mo ago
I know that some think this is just some cold hard straight talk but this style of individualistic thinking lacks empathy. And more practically, it’s a trap. In context, the “doing things” and “opportunities” that we’re talking about are jo
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by doodaddy 5mo ago
It seems like no one else is bothered by the fact that more and more we are being forced to interact with third party companies - companies with which the consumer has no direct relationship - as a precondition for doing things in daily lif
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by doodaddy 7mo ago
There’s a cold reality that we in this profession have yet to accept: nobody cares about our code. Nobody cares whether it’s pretty or clever or elegant. Sometimes, rarely, they care whether it’s maintainable. We are only craftsmen to ours
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by doodaddy 7mo ago
I’ve supported the EFF for a long time. I think what they do and stand for is important. But I can’t help but feel utterly disillusioned with all of it now. Each press release just reads as naïve to me. At one point it felt like there was a
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by doodaddy 7mo ago
This goes beyond just web design. In Japan, UIs in general steer toward being information dense. At first glance they look positively ancient. And while they take some time to become familiar they seem to be first and foremost, functional.
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by doodaddy 7mo ago
These comments kill me. It sounds a lot like the “job creators” argument. If only these pesky regulations would go away I could create jobs and everyone would be rich. It’s a bogus argument either way. Now for the more reasonable point: ins
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by doodaddy 8mo ago
I wouldn’t suggest anyone take this piece serious; you would be doing yourself a disservice. A strange thing I’ve noticed about street view. Whenever I show up to a new place that I’ve viewed on street view I remark on how different it feel
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by doodaddy 10mo ago
Aside from just plain bad luck, the things you list don't happen in isolation. Humans have fought bloody wars over land for as long as we've stood upright. Do you think we'll all neatly organize into the remaining habitable l
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by doodaddy 10mo ago
I’m inclined to agree. The goalposts will move once the time is right. I’ve already personally witnessed it happening; a company sells their AI-whatever strictly along the lines of staff augmentation and a force multiplier for employees. No
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by doodaddy 11mo ago
I think there is too much associating taste with quality. We can see it in many of these comments and in the post as well: > And what I mean by taste here is simply the honed ability to distinguish mediocrity from excellence. And I say,
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by doodaddy 11mo ago
He also has a record label, Luaka Bop, that is a great source of discovery for anyone with diverse and eclectic music tastes. https://www.luakabop.com/
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by doodaddy 11mo ago
Is this supposed to be sailor rage bait? Running ALL the lights. Sleeping three hours at a time. Not even a mention of checking the weather?
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by doodaddy 11mo ago
I love this car already. It has character, a personality. It’s the friend who’s kind of a pain in the ass but someone you usually have a good time with. Reminds me of the car I learned to drive manual on. It would only start when the driver
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by doodaddy 1y ago
> There are no guardrails, no warning signs, and definitely no liability waivers - just you, the weather, and whatever route the sheep decided made sense. I absolutely love places like this; places that treat you as a discerning, rationa
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by doodaddy 1y ago
You realize that a sentence can be both factual and misleading, right? “Unfortunately, Senators have not agreed on the terms to pass HR 5371 leading to a lapse in appropriations.” Wouldn’t something like this still be factual, informative,
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by doodaddy 1y ago
Even as a jaded person I’m surprised how many people read this and immediately go to statements about hypocrisy, having no integrity, or bad leadership. Get a grip! Real life doesn’t always let you be a crusader. It’s called choosing your b
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by doodaddy 1y ago
> Instead of the clear, itemized pricing system that passengers currently rely on, airlines could hide fees until later in the booking process… They call what we have now “clear”? Where when looking at a page of flights I don’t know how
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by doodaddy 1y ago
As an Olympus shooter this is good to know. But good gravy that troubleshooting path got expensive real fast. Replacing the laptop and the camera? Why not start by trying something other than Photos? It doesn’t even need to be a paid prod
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by doodaddy 1y ago
You’re only looking at the most recent couple of years. Going over the entire set and Tokyo shows up toward the top frequently. Having lived there for a short while I would agree - Tokyo is very livable. I think it’s because the city is com
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Cryptocurrency exchanges begin offering tokenized securities(apnews.com)
38 points by doodaddy 1y ago|64 comments
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by doodaddy 1y ago
Zero trust states that you don’t implicitly trust an entity even if they were previously authenticated. So is this a critique of zero trust? More productive might be to say that we shouldn’t blindly force reauth if our risk profile doesn’t
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by doodaddy 1y ago
For all the writing there is about writing, Orwell’s six rules have yet to do me wrong: 1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. 2. Never use a long word where a short one will do. (T
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by doodaddy 1y ago
Very strange. Not only do I never see people using a phone being used to pay at full service restaurants but what happened to the lowest-tech solution of all - wave at the nearest person to come over and settle the bill.
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by doodaddy 2y ago
Is this where we’re at? The goalpost is now at eating human meat?
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by doodaddy 2y ago
> CIC was to notify Lieutenant Commander Stanton if the Essex deviated more than 10 nautical miles (nm) from the planned track. Pretty impressive! USS Essex would cover 10nm in about half an hour, so not much tolerance for going off-cour
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by doodaddy 2y ago
I agree that there seems to be, on the whole, a downward trend of educated, critically thinking populace. The statistics and anecdotes align to make this clear. But I struggle to pick the cause. Certainly I don’t buy into the idea that ther
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by doodaddy 2y ago
Though, couldn’t you say that the boom and bust cycle is the equilibrium; it’s just charted on a longer timeframe? But when the booms get bigger and bigger each time, there’s no longer equilibrium but an all-consuming upward trend.
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by doodaddy 2y ago
There is some truth to this crippling power and I don’t doubt that there are examples of it. But social media has been the vector for massive amounts of propaganda. Sorry to say I’d rather just have the commercialized editorial boards. At l

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