patrick_haply

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by patrick_haply 9y ago
It looks bleak, but 99.99% owned by 1000 people is deliberately misleading.
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by patrick_haply 9y ago
> 99,99% of world wealth is held by less than 1000 people. Citation needed.
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by patrick_haply 9y ago
Nice, this is perfect timing for me to see this actually. I've been slowly building out a little cli tool that I use to track .env files (and other files that you don't want to check into source) in a git repository that is parall
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by patrick_haply 9y ago
> I can't explain exactly why I think those factors make it suspicious, however. I think I have an idea of why, though I haven't been able to articulate it properly yet. I've been thinking about it a lot recently because I
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by patrick_haply 9y ago
That's actually a really awesome idea. I wonder what the threshold of adoption would have to be before that signal is widely understood. Maybe that should become a necessary safety feature of driverless cars to replace the "featur
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by patrick_haply 9y ago
Should we stop hurricanes, even if we can? Yes, hurricanes are destructive, especially to human settlements, but I'd be surprised if there aren't massive ecological benefits to hurricanes in spite of (or possibly because of) the d
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by patrick_haply 9y ago
Was? Are you saying you don't hold that opinion anymore, or do you just not use it?
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by patrick_haply 9y ago
Time logging. I use one piece of software to track my time, then fan those time logs out into the various pieces of software that need to know about them.
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by patrick_haply 9y ago
I imagine it's probably a decent way to practice it though, assuming you have enough working knowledge of the language to still get around your phone. Edit: Well, except for the part where they admitted they just started to use their p
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by patrick_haply 9y ago
For anyone else who has never heard of greenwashing like me two minutes ago: > Greenwashing is like whitewashing with a green (environmental) brush: companies and organizations making themselves and their products sound or look like they
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by patrick_haply 9y ago
Out of curiosity, how did Ember and Meteor burn you so hard and why are you so averse to "all-in-one" tools as a result?
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by patrick_haply 9y ago
> i'm fine letting Chrome function simply as a dev tool and actually browse with Firefox, Opera, Servo, etc. w/uBlock Origin & uMatrix I'm definitely in the same boat. That makes me wonder if it would be a bad long-ter
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by patrick_haply 9y ago
You must have a really good internet connection. I pay close to $200 USD/mo for a wireless, 10Mbps max connection, and that's literally the best I can get unless I were to personally invest in running a fiber-optic line to my hous
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by patrick_haply 9y ago
Out of curiosity, does anyone here use tig[1]? I've been wondering if it's worth learning. [1] https://jonas.github.io/tig/
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by patrick_haply 9y ago
Just looking through the Chrome settings, I get linked to this help article: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/173424 > You can set Chrome to show all settings and menus in the language you want. This op
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by patrick_haply 9y ago
> The main roadblock is the current lack of a way to ask the visitor for her language of choice in a way that does not involve words nor country flags The whole point of the blog was that the browser already has asked the user that que
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by patrick_haply 9y ago
Serious question: how do we know for certain that their DB hasn't been stolen yet?
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by patrick_haply 9y ago
That looks similar to the Kenyan Matatu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matatu
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by patrick_haply 10y ago
Or even better, the sticker for a competitor to your actual system.
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by patrick_haply 10y ago
Just because something else was more shit doesn't make it any less shit.
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by patrick_haply 10y ago
> Oh and Wellington is the windiest city in the world. This is not an exaggeration Seriously. I agree that it's a beautiful city in so many ways, but just spending a week there made me wonder if I would want to live in such a windy
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by patrick_haply 10y ago
> You can't write a good blog post without having already written some number of bad ones. To add to this, I'd say: if you don't have a writing habit, the barrier to actually writing something when you do finally have so
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by patrick_haply 10y ago
> If the only way to remain objective about the populace is to remove one's self from public Well, the opposite is true as well, and more likely I think: By removing yourself from public, you lose any true bearing on what it's
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by patrick_haply 10y ago
I started adding serifs to my writing back in engineering school to help me decipher my own equations. I some moments where I couldn't figure out if I had written "+t" or "t+", or "is that a 2 or a z?!", a
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by patrick_haply 10y ago
I use both UO and privacy badger, and the site worked fine for me.
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by patrick_haply 10y ago
To be honest, and not that I ever would, but, if I stole your laptop, the moment I would become interested in your online accounts would be the moment I found your paper with all of your passwords on it.
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by patrick_haply 10y ago
Or my favorite: life forms that have spent millions of years decomposing and transforming into oil are drilled out of the ground, refined, hauled somewhere, turned into plastic, hauled somewhere else to be formed into a spoon shape, hauled
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by patrick_haply 10y ago
This is actually exactly how I do music discovery. I create seed playlists with maybe 5-10 songs and start the radio from that. Any songs that I like from the those stations get added to a separate playlist, unless I explicitly decide that
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by patrick_haply 10y ago
What I often find is that artists will have have everything on Spotify except their latest album, at least for a few months. Fair enough, they want people to buy their albums; it's just one area where I find Spotify consistently incomp
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by patrick_haply 10y ago
The KGB spy from the article itself wasn't even an engineer, but a chemist.

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