fooblitzky

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X Corp loses court challenge over fine for child abuse material notice(abc.net.au)
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by fooblitzky 3y ago
That's the point of the new legislation. If the business discriminates against you because you're not willing to work outside of your scheduled hours, the business faces penalties. It's the same principle as not requiring unp
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by fooblitzky 5y ago
Sure makes me glad cryptocurrencies were invented to set us free from the totalitarian nightmare of everyone using cryptocurrency.
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by fooblitzky 5y ago
I'm a mid-30's white male. While I agree that large numbers of males unemployed, failing in education, not going to college etc is bad for society, it's uncomfortable to read a call for more funding for the purpose of helping
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by fooblitzky 5y ago
I switched back to a flip phone, CDs, point and shoot digital camera, and I love it. It's not always as convenient in the moment, but I find it has a positive effect on my relationships and mental health, and it saves me a bunch of mon
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by fooblitzky 5y ago
As software's been eating the world, I've started to feel like we're losing out on the benefits of paper, in both personal and business settings: * Fairly durable * A security violation requires physical access to the paper
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by fooblitzky 5y ago
For me, an interesting language development would be finding ways to make managing dependencies more... manageable. We've seen a rise in systems for packaging, distributing and consuming code written by others. However, still a signifi
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by fooblitzky 5y ago
The kids teach themselves. They are surprisingly good at listening to sounds and observing correlated effects.
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by fooblitzky 5y ago
Maybe a self-evolving computer virus, that continually propagates itself to new systems, with its only function to serve some personal web pages?
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by fooblitzky 5y ago
I'm never buying another Google device after the customer support horror I went through for my Pixel C tablet. I guess the customer support horror I went through when they canceled my phone number out of the blue in Google Fi is also f
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by fooblitzky 5y ago
Can you please explain what differentiates your product from previous attempts to realize the dream? E.g. 4GL, Visual Programming Languages, business rules engines, Access, SharePoint, low-code or no-code platforms, etc.
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by fooblitzky 5y ago
Many companies large enough to have HR and/or legal departments have rules specifically against providing feedback to candidates on why they were rejected.
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by fooblitzky 7y ago
The Evenflo Tribute LX is a very reasonably priced car seat (~$60), that has very high safety ratings, is parent friendly, and doesn't take up too much space. I regretted buying a much more expensive Nuna after we bought an Evenflo for
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by fooblitzky 7y ago
I use it, mostly for toy stuff (work is 80% Java). Once you get used to it, Smalltalk is really the most amazing development environment. It's hard to describe how it feels to work with live objects - it's an incredible speed boos
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by fooblitzky 7y ago
I buy toilet paper from Who Gives A Crap: https://us.whogivesacrap.org/ The toilet paper is made from bamboo, and comes wrapped in paper in a cardboard box. They operate in USA, Australia, and the UK.
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by fooblitzky 7y ago
That's not entirely true - if it were, most food would be grown in the tropics. Some climates suit some plants better than others. You might get some benefits from a suitable climate moving into a fertile area, but equally you could ge
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by fooblitzky 7y ago
Le Corbusier's clusters of towering skyscrapers aren't really a good solutuion either. They were implemented in Glasgow with disastrous results[1]. My (limited) opinion, is that auto-centric opponents want dense, walkable, cyclabl
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by fooblitzky 7y ago
It's not all historical accident. The US also bought into a vision of an auto-centric future that featured multi-lane highways right through downtown neighborhoods. This vision was pushed by specific people, notably Robert Moses[1], wh
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by fooblitzky 7y ago
It's not irrational at all. Car crashes are the leading cause of death for people aged 5-29 [1]. Even if there are other, larger, causes of death, that still doesn't make it irrational to want a city where one major cause of death
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by fooblitzky 7y ago
To put it into perspective, about 1% of the bushfires in Australia this season were caused by arson: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-11/australias-fires-reve...
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by fooblitzky 7y ago
In 2019 I bought an electric cargo bike. I've been able to replace a number of car trips, even while toting kids (record so far: taking a 3-year-old to a birthday party 17 miles away, without using the car). We've also started bri
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by fooblitzky 7y ago
+1 Clean Code is a fantastic resource. Uncle Bob also has a video series that provides a good introduction to a bunch of design issues in an understandable format (but it's not cheap at $14/video): https://cleancoders.c
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by fooblitzky 7y ago
When I saw the name I thought of towel.blinkenlights.nl
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by fooblitzky 7y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding of the GPL is that the purpose isn't to retain ownership, it's to use ownership (granted under copyright laws) to ensure that the ideas can continue to spread. The GPL doesn't preve
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by fooblitzky 7y ago
The Inform Designer's Manual[1] has to be one of the most enjoyable books on a programming language ever written. [1] http://inform-fiction.org/manual/DM4.pdf
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by fooblitzky 7y ago
The difference in time scale is crucial though. For the past 2000 years, sea level hadn't changed much at all[1]. If the city has to move to adapt to changing coastlines, it can probably manage the move over millennia. With climate cha
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by fooblitzky 7y ago
Venice should sue the fossil fuel companies for damages, like Hawaii: https://www.civilbeat.org/2019/11/honolulu-to-fossil-fuel-co...
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by fooblitzky 7y ago
Those poor people are going to be the ones most affected by climate change. Accelerating oil extraction will literally take bread away from the mouths of the Global South.
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by fooblitzky 7y ago
My understanding is that social activities are even more important than mentally stimulating activities.
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by fooblitzky 7y ago
It's not all or nothing. There are still cars, they just don't have to be the default mode of transportation. For some circumstances cars can be useful tools, e.g. emergencies or rural living. Having cities that require a car to p

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