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by lbarrett 3y ago
"Kafkaesque" suggests people standing in very long queues. It doesn't seem unreasonable as a name for very long queue software.
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by lbarrett 4y ago
It's possible to host a web app letting you view old Slack messages from an export, e.g. https://github.com/hfaran/slack-export-viewer or https://github.com/srid/Taut . I wonder if that can h
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by lbarrett 4y ago
I get out of sorts when other cyclists break the law. How can we cyclists ask drivers to obey the law, to protect us, if we won't even do it ourselves?
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by lbarrett 5y ago
I'm right handed but I use my left hand to mouse for RSI reasons.
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by lbarrett 5y ago
I learned to knit. It helps keep me from getting distracted during video meetings. (I apparently need to fiddle with my hands a lot, and a fidget spinner or doodling doesn't cut it.) I got a lot of help from my wife, but learning it wa
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by lbarrett 6y ago
If you do the take-home problem, do you get to skip the interview? My understanding was that it might, at most, replace a 1-hour whiteboarding interview. The one time I did a take-home problem for an interview, I spent a whole weekend day o
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by lbarrett 7y ago
This reminds me so much of Vernor Vinge's story "Fast Times at Fairmont High". It's set in the near future, and one plot point is that high school tests cover this skill--to read through the manuals quickly and get thing
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by lbarrett 8y ago
I think they can easily hedge prices (via futures), but hedging production is much harder (because your weather & production might be different from others around, and with insurance the incentives can get bad; see moral hazard). I work
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by lbarrett 8y ago
When I read it, I see that the "The data subject shall have the right to ... erasure of personal data ... where one of the following grounds applies: ... the data subject withdraws consent...." I imagine that HTTP logs associating
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by lbarrett 9y ago
No. I have fast cellular internet but pay $10/GB, and I consider that a pretty good deal (total for me + wife is $45/mo, including cellular and data; in Portland, OR). Your 4G internet is cheaper than most people's wired inte
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by lbarrett 9y ago
If you play the classical guitar, you may receive different advice. Long nails can have practical uses.
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by lbarrett 9y ago
I also let my spouse unlock my phone. It's not so much "being an open book" as it is "I trust her not to snoop, and sometimes it's convenient that she can open a map on my phone." That meets your definition of
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by lbarrett 9y ago
I posted a comment! Hooray for participation in government.
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by lbarrett 10y ago
I think one thing that causes conflict here is that there are a lot of things that aren't blatantly racist, but rather subtly racist. For instance, casually assuming that a minority student is less capable than a white student is the s
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by lbarrett 10y ago
I agree that rational debate is good, but in this case the rational debate has to include judgment because the one side of the debate is arguing that the other side (say, racism), is evil. That prevents it from being a perfectly calm, ratio
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by lbarrett 10y ago
Let's be clear--right now, there is this discussion. Now, when some people promote racism, others explain that they're wrong, and why. This is exactly the thing that the article argues against--the author wants to remove all this
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by lbarrett 10y ago
So, let's talk about the really basic case: calling people out for making racial slurs. If someone uses the n-word on my friend (or "faggot" or "jewed" or "gypped" or what have you), then me saying to that
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by lbarrett 10y ago
The important question about this perspective is, I think, this: How do you fight against harmful, unjust beliefs such as racism without making it socially uncomfortable for people to express them? The author says that racism is a big power
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by lbarrett 10y ago
So, deregulate ISPs, but regulate some sites on the internet? Sure, tha will lead to good outcomes for everyone.
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by lbarrett 10y ago
The overuse of antibiotics in large-scale animal farming is particularly terrible; many are given low doses of antibiotics as part of their food [1]. This gives bacteria lots of time and selective breeding to become resistant, and it's
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by lbarrett 10y ago
One of the complaints is that it runs stock Android, without "enhancements." Personally, having had a Sony Android phone and a Nexus, I think stock Android is way better: stock is a feature, not a bug.
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by lbarrett 10y ago
Moral of the story: we should all wear body cameras, just in case we're involved in some sort of altercation, involving the police or not.
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by lbarrett 11y ago
But satire is covered by fair use, right? So I think the neo-Nazis aren't hampered by the copyright.
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by lbarrett 11y ago
I think that almost none of us will be able to retire comfortably at 62. You should plan for living expenses through your whole life, and you might well live to 100--and you pretty much have to plan for that, because being 90 and running ou
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by lbarrett 11y ago
What a wildly anti-union article. "Deregulation has worked well. ... Before deregulation ICC-regulated truckers paid unionized workers about 50 percent more than comparable workers in other industries." I understand that cheaper t
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by lbarrett 11y ago
I'm confused why "Pay the US tax" is not being seriously considered. I guess no one would even hope that a corporation would do the sensible and legal thing when there are loopholes to be abused.
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by lbarrett 11y ago
He seems like a bad man in many ways, but I'm glad he's working on doing the right thing in this case.
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by lbarrett 11y ago
I'm not an expert, but I think... Your ref can't be unassigned. There are no null pointers.
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by lbarrett 11y ago
Isn't following a policy like that at all a fault?
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by lbarrett 12y ago
Yeah. The irony I see in all of this is that the government did this to themselves. Government overcollection of information led to public need for encryption, which in turn led to the fact that the government can't collect information

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