jamestnz

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by jamestnz 1y ago
> what I came to call “the Law of Conservation of Ugly”. In many software problems, there’s a part that just is never going to feel elegant This may be an instance of the Waterbed Principle: in any sufficiently-complex system, suppressin
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by jamestnz 2y ago
The article's author seems to be part of the team behind the Mac disk-cloning/backup utility, SuperDuper. https://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescriptio...
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by jamestnz 2y ago
I think OP is engaging with a remark (possibly[1]) from the futurist and writer William Gibson: "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed". [1] wording and attribution varies
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by jamestnz 3y ago
High infant-mortality rates account for it. If there are 10 births, where 9 of the children die in infancy but 1 lives to be 100 years old, their average life expectancy would be about 10.
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by jamestnz 4y ago
Are labour unions generally done one-off like this in the US? I keep reading stories where individual branches/locations make efforts to unionise, which the company fights off whack-a-mole style. In my country the unions are fairly wel
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by jamestnz 4y ago
I'm sure this does happen sometimes, but I print plenty and can't find any such files on my Monterey-running M1. Neither is it true on my Catalina-running Intel Mac. Also, I keep seeing this claim repeated during the last week or
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by jamestnz 5y ago
>A tax on revenues would kill a lot of high growth businesses And also low-margin businesses. If you tax a business on its total sales rather than profits, a low-margin and high-volume operation cannot survive as easily. Example. A super
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by jamestnz 5y ago
> Citation needed that this was a knowing conspiracy as opposed to bad intelligence Within hours of the planes hitting the towers on 9/11, before any information was in, Rumsfeld's aides were drawing up plans for striking Iraq,
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by jamestnz 5y ago
I stumbled upon an unusual policy when trying to order from B&H the first time. They are not open for business on Shabbat (NYC local time), and this includes their online checkout! I could fill up my cart, but had to come back later to
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by jamestnz 5y ago
You don't accept that different online communities can have sufficiently different cultures that "memes" are more acceptable in one than the other, even if said communities have somewhat of an overlap in audiences?
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by jamestnz 5y ago
> Is this your alter ego on HN? Come now, let's not be obtuse. People naturally behave differently in different social contexts, a thing that is totally normal and expected. For instance, consider how you'd behave in a professi
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by jamestnz 5y ago
HRV describes the steadiness (or not) of the timing between beats, as measured in milliseconds. It sounds like you are describing something else here, like your resting rate and how much/quickly it responds to exercise. For an example
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by jamestnz 5y ago
The Dollop, an American history podcast, also did an interesting episode on The Landlord's Game: https://soundcloud.com/the-dollop/379-the-landlords-game
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by jamestnz 6y ago
This reminds me of a fun story about another unusual failure mode involving some supposedly valid (but highly specific) input content: Where listening to a certain podcast in your Mazda will reliably crash the car's stereo system. &quo
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by jamestnz 6y ago
> Like that paradox for self-help groups: anyone in the forum who was actually successful in self-help wouldn't be on the forum anymore. This is exactly the view of Canadian woman "Alana" who initially coined the respectfu
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by jamestnz 6y ago
I just got through researching this issue for a client. Apparently it is at least somewhat common, and appears to be caused by RF interference/noise radiating from USB 3.0 ports and cables, which stomps over 2.4 GHz band. Popular solut
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by jamestnz 7y ago
>In my country, one of the electronics stores has this thing where you pay about 35 USD per month, each month for 24 months, to have a MacBook Air in your possession, but which you don't own. So I guess in a way it is sort of rent&#
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by jamestnz 7y ago
Interesting comment. > I believe in most other countries jail would have been imminent out of disrespect. Is this part accurate? In the (admittedly few) countries where I have spent a lot of time and have gained any real experience deali
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by jamestnz 8y ago
Very impressive! I must say, writing an entire accounting/bookkeeping package seems like a lot of work, especially as a side project. Can I ask what domain-specific knowledge you had before you decided to embark on it? For example, did
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by jamestnz 9y ago
I agree with you - from a theoretical perspective, it seems pretty crazy to be taking pills that alter the brain chemistry when we don't fully understand the effects those changes might have. But the strange fact is that SSRI therapy
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by jamestnz 9y ago
>The root cause of depression is chemical I wonder if you were speaking generally here, or if you were referring specifically to the Chemical Imbalance theory of depression/anxiety. Often espoused by the marketing departments of Big
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by jamestnz 9y ago
In addition to echoing all the dev-related stories in this thread, I have very fond memories from my childhood of playing a 1988 HyperCard-based game called The Manhole (on our SE/30, and later Power Mac 8100). It was an immersive and
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by jamestnz 9y ago
For those interested in more info on this, it's called Temperature Lag. There's also the related phenomenon of Seasonal Lag, which is where the hottest part of the year comes somewhat after the period of maximum solar radiation,
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by jamestnz 9y ago
The spiral arms are not fixed masses. If they were, they would quickly wind themselves up tighter and tighter, as the inner areas are orbiting faster than the outer parts. Within a short time the spiral arms would be dispersed. Instead, you
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by jamestnz 9y ago
Less weird when you take into consideration the rest of the sentence: "I met the Samsung team ... at TC Disrupt". So "team" in that context would be the folks that Samsung were sending to TC, not the whole company-wide t
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by jamestnz 10y ago
I second this. In NZ most washers are top-loading, and I've never seen one that locks during operation. Instead, if you lift the lid while it is spinning, it engages some kind of emergency-brake and that spinner grinds to a halt in a f
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by jamestnz 10y ago
> Each dollar that goes horizontally between the "lower class" gets to work one step harder within the "lower class" to go before being sucked away by the wealthy This is an interesting point, and reminds me in a way
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by jamestnz 10y ago
>How long something has been around is often a good way to determine how much longer it will be around in the future This mode of (purely statistical) longevity argument is the "Doomsday Argument". The classic version is about
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by jamestnz 10y ago
I think both. Don't take away the need to be a public figure and to verify your identity. Just make them pay in addition to these things. If you're a big enough public figure to want/need the blue tick, you're arguably m
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by jamestnz 10y ago
Last week Github hosted a meeting of tech industry heads to explore such an action, so this may have fallen out of that. News coverage seems to imply that Github invited chosen companies to participate. http://www.reuters.com&#x2

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