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by fisk 11y ago
I can see it's a hard problem for lobste.rs to keep the level of discourse high if they let in everyone, but then, yeah, it generally sucks if you would like to add to a conversation and their attitude is "Well, get an invite from
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by fisk 11y ago
I'm falling for a bit of forum bikeshedding here of commenting on something very important :) but...it's one thing to say "I imagined it was like this, but it was like that. And here's what my friends imagined" and
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by fisk 11y ago
To be fair, delusions about a magic sky monster are infantile.
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by fisk 11y ago
I could be wrong because what do I know about guns, but when I see these I-made-a-gun stories, I'm really irritated because 1. it seems like the action of someone who began with "What is the easiest thing that I could do that woul
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by fisk 11y ago
Maybe the confusion here is that prices are sometimes spoken of as 'a [currency unit] a [item]' which can be understood as 'one [currency unit] per [item]'.
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by fisk 11y ago
Stable/lego-brick phenotypes: Is this about coming up with something akin to 0 and 1 and then building from the ground up? Or is this about something that's closer to familiar biology but with some fiendishly clever compartmentali
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by fisk 11y ago
I tried 10.0, and I had a few really irritating problems. My connection didn't stay up well with freebsd, and freebsd-update was not behaving robustly in the face of that. And pkg was frequently having problems with upgrades to itself
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by fisk 11y ago
If it's a friendly lunch, I would advise to treat it mostly as a friendly lunch and not too much as an interview.
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by fisk 11y ago
So his way to take care of the hen is to track its efficiency, give it a book telling it to be humble, and to fire it? Well, possibly that was the semi-subtle point of the article -- that he says one thing, but here's a read-between-th
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by fisk 11y ago
I've sometimes wondered what would happen if a very careful and serious look were taken at what biological systems do for homeostasis. We might still be at the point where we don't feel--don't recognize the value yet--that we
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by fisk 11y ago
'"This is something that someone in their early 20s or late 20s or early 30s can go do with their friends," Ressel says.' I get that everyone still goes after the 'cool' demographic narrowly like sheep, but I h
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by fisk 11y ago
Thank you. The New Yorker and The Atlantic can be interesting, but with the rise of the web and not so much empty time to try to fill, one sees how they expand a little bit of information to fill all of the empty space between the ads.
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by fisk 11y ago
I don't know how widely accepted this interpretation of events is, but seeing how incredibly slow progress can be, progress that looks simple and 'obvious' from the far side, is always amazing.
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by fisk 11y ago
I don't know about "write like you talk", precisely, but I've noticed that some very good writing on technical subjects reads like you could give it as a talk, so there's something there about clarity.
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by fisk 11y ago
I'm going to have to see how close I can get to doing without youtube anymore. There's a lot of useless timesink to it, multiplied by so many of us humans who could be doing something more fulfilling, more gratifying, healthier.