joshklein

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by joshklein 4y ago
My "never again" story was around a decade ago. Thoughtworks had me interview with roughly a dozen people over half a dozen or more interviews, lasting ~20 hours (if you include the proctored Wunderlic test they administered to me
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by joshklein 5y ago
> it’s a bit sad that we don’t have more passion projects like this Check out UnReal World, which Tarn cites as a source for his own inspiration (and is itself still under active development and also now available on Steam): https:&#x2F
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by joshklein 5y ago
The reason there is no safe dose is because even background levels of radiation will cause eventual health consequences, just not before another cause of death.
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by joshklein 5y ago
Configuring sudo is such a footgun that it was deemed necessary to fork a text editor purpose-built for only modifying sudo configurations (visudo). So, that’s why not sudo. As for why doas, see: * https://flak.tedunangst.com&#
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by joshklein 5y ago
You can find some interesting starting points at kaggle.com if you want e.g. a large set of photos of agricultural plants labeled as healthy or diseased (allowing you to immediately start in on building a classification model without all t
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by joshklein 6y ago
You are observing the video of the crab playing over an SSH connection inside PuTTY, a terminal emulator.
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by joshklein 6y ago
I haven’t written about it or made results publicly available yet, but I do intend to. I can make a note of the email in your profile and ping you with a link when it is available if you’d like.
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by joshklein 6y ago
I want to personally thank you for your work, and let you know I couldn’t have done an important project of mine if spaCy didn’t exist, and if it were not a free resource. Your project was 1 of the 2 instrumental tools in my project to stru
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by joshklein 6y ago
I suppose it would depend on what one takes “open source project” to actually mean. You’d have to reject contributions from your community if they weren’t interested in giving them back upstream in a way compatible with your commercial lice
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by joshklein 6y ago
I agree that X is the odd duck out in its attempt to follow the Unix philosophy. Wayland further pursues the “GNU is Not Unix” principle by introducing a modern desktop paradigm to pair with its modern application busses and other modern fe
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by joshklein 6y ago
Fair. The point I’m trying to convey - without burdening the reader with too many specifics - is that there isn’t really any problem with Wayland on non-Linux systems per se, but rather fundamental philosophical and design differences that
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by joshklein 6y ago
> Windows & Mac are already on exclusively Wayland-style compositors Only in a narrow sense; nearly all of the features one might reasonably consider fundamental parts of Windows/Mac are “out of scope” for Wayland. Wayland relie
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by joshklein 6y ago
OpenBSD uses and actively supports a customized (not forked) X called Xenocara, which takes the opposite philosophical route from Wayland by putting a wider part of the ecosystem of X features into one coherent project so it can be maintain
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by joshklein 7y ago
On the other hand, 98% of their domestic electricity is renewable (95% hydroelectric). If other nations followed Norway's lead by nationalizing their respective oil sectors, it could be an important step towards curbing consumption.
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by joshklein 7y ago
Hmm, that seems unlikely but I honestly don’t know. Possibly free for US citizens but a small fee for visitors? I can’t imagine it would be closed to visitors, though you should be able to contact them to find out. The talk I so enjoyed is
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by joshklein 7y ago
It may be the only way to find some of thing things preserved via citizen archives. I enjoyed the talk Ian MacKaye gave there about archiving the live performances of Minor Threat & Fugazi. Here [1] is a post on the subject. [1] https:
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by joshklein 7y ago
I recommend “Procrastination” by Burka & Yuen. For the kind of person who frequents this site and endures suffering due to procrastination, even seeing their clinical definition of maladaptive perfectionism (and learning why procrastina
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by joshklein 7y ago
I recommend “Procrastination” by Burka & Yuen. For the kind of person who frequents this site and endures suffering due to procrastination, even seeing their clinical definition of maladaptive perfectionism (and learning why procrastina
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by joshklein 7y ago
> they serve two different purposes I agree, but I'm also painfully aware of man page incompleteness every time I'm on a non-OpenBSD system. I'd be grateful to anyone who chipped away at proper tagging for any GNU software
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by joshklein 7y ago
I agree on the substance of your comment re: interfaces, but let’s not put too much stock in a random tweet. He might not mean any of that. In any case, this release of Elementary isn’t any more paired down than the latest GNOME shell. They
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by joshklein 7y ago
It does have global menu. Figuring out what things are called in the new language of plasma and plasmoids takes some reading to figure, but that particular part of the UI is fine on KDE once you configure it to your liking.
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by joshklein 7y ago
Replying to myself with more info: This is proving exceptionally hard to search the web for, so apologies if this is out of date, but it seems the answer was “no, and it never will be, so stop asking” as of 2018: https://twitter.
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by joshklein 7y ago
Is global menu possible on Elementary yet? Searches only turn up old links for the now-dead unity style, but nothing based on libdbusmenu. Still seems to me that Plasma with libdbusmenu-qt5 is the closest interface paradigm to MacOS for peo
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by joshklein 7y ago
Inflation IS a tax on wealth. When done intentionally (by printing money), it’s called seigniorage.
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by joshklein 7y ago
There’s too much to untangle for a brief explanation, but if this really happened when you tried writing Python on Linux for the first time, or using a program written in Python you installed through your distribution’s package manager, fil
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by joshklein 7y ago
Between this and the challenges around OpenMP (now generally solved), setting up a Linux workstation just for experimenting was easier than getting it working on my “pro” Apple hardware.
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by joshklein 7y ago
You raise a fair general point about Python dependencies, but that issue is usually related to poorly considered use of third-party dependencies or the need to distribute binaries and leverage C bindings. But here we have exactly the kind
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by joshklein 7y ago
This article is about a suit from The California Trucking Association, a trade group and industry lobbyist representing corporate management, not truckers. You can learn about them on their website if you're curious. The only source pr
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by joshklein 7y ago
I’m not sure you understand. Shouldn’t the people who want to plug their new iPhone into their new laptop be less inconvenienced when those products are all from Apple, not more inconvenienced? People with modern Thinkpads could use their i
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by joshklein 7y ago
If Apple had provided me the cables to connect the current generation of their two products to each other, I would use them.

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