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by racer-v 8y ago
It depends on the startup. If it's well run, you aren't working late every night and every weekend. If it's run by sociopaths who want to keep their employees in a state of perpetual crisis in order to maximize the value of t
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by racer-v 8y ago
I keep all my passwords in a text file. I can't imagine remembering them all. I suppose I should keep that file encrypted and synced to multiple devices with rsync or so. Would a password manager give me any advantage over this scheme?
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by racer-v 8y ago
Thanks for this correction! I had hurriedly checked Wikipedia bios for each participant and completely missed the main point of Heisenberg's wartime activities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg#1945:
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by racer-v 8y ago
Actually this conference was largely from a previous generation of scientific thinkers. According to their Wikipedia bios, Niels Bohr was the only one of those 10 names involved in the Manhattan Project. Einstein wrote a letter alerting Pre
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by racer-v 8y ago
Try the 1927 Solvay Conference on Electrons and Photons: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/87a8ea/1927_group_pho... Schrödinger, Pauli, Heisenberg, Dirac, de Broglie, Bohr, Planck, Curie, Lorentz, E
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by racer-v 8y ago
Some people at the time felt that C and Unix were a setback to computing compared with Lisp, in the same way that Microsoft Windows was a setback compared to Unix. Bell Labs is the canonical example of "Worse is Better", also call
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by racer-v 8y ago
Yes, and specifically in the case of Premier League it seemed to cause problems with needing extra stoppage time. There was a recent match experimenting with video replay, and one side's manager complained that more extra minutes shoul
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by racer-v 8y ago
Absolutely buy an external USB webcam if this is the case.
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by racer-v 8y ago
Yeah, experiencing a lot of "little deaths" makes it easier. These can be the death of a relative, a near-death experience, or a serious trauma that means you will never realize your previous dreams (e.g. a football player losing
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by racer-v 8y ago
Thank you, I can't even keep track of the option names for long enough to properly curse them. I wonder if there could be a kind of POSIX schema for similar options across utilities, such as -o fieldseparator=, -o fieldkeys=2,1,3 which
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by racer-v 8y ago
To me the difference between a script and an alias is too trivial to quibble over. I'm fine putting all of my aliases into one-line scripts, if that would really make them easier to manage across systems. My basic philosophical disagre
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by racer-v 8y ago
Why do you think it's good to put a long command in a script, but bad to make it an alias? It sounds like you think shell dotfiles can't be managed across machines just like script files.
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by racer-v 8y ago
Yep, that's why I am promoting custom filters. There are so many folks on Twitter who post awesome content but I have to unsubscribe so I don't get inundated with their politics.
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by racer-v 8y ago
Point taken, but I feel all those languages had good runs. Modula-2 might have had less commercial success but still holds some intellectual interest. I sort of got sick of the web treadmill in 2013 as it felt like "learn a new toolkit
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by racer-v 8y ago
I think the massive amount of churn in the web world is the exception rather than the rule. If you learned C programming 40 years ago it would still be relevant today. Even Android is almost 10 years old now.
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by racer-v 8y ago
I feel like the missing step is "until you need the ability to create custom filters to see what you want".
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by racer-v 8y ago
People commonly think of cheese as tasting good but not particularly beautiful to look at.
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by racer-v 8y ago
There's a tendency for too much money to ruin things. I agree that excluding all non-government and non-university participants from the Internet would be a bad thing. But there were some wonderful qualities to the Internet in the days
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by racer-v 8y ago
I would love to see some tools for decentralized mass moderation of RSS feeds.
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by racer-v 8y ago
> what if on some level, there is a motivation to hurt these people who they feel are inferior? I think this insightful, and I suggest there is a motivation to hurt other people in general - but it's only feasible to do so when th
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by racer-v 8y ago
It seems more likely that the lower classes can easily empathize with the rich because they want to be the rich, while the converse is not normally true.
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by racer-v 8y ago
This comment is pretty wide of the mark. The article points out that consumers made a mistake in trusting Facebook and rejecting a decentralized Internet. It's valid to make that criticism without inferring that all software of the pas
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by racer-v 8y ago
> And it’s that hope that Cambridge Analytica has shattered. Seems more accurate to say, that hope was shattered when people gave up on decentralized infrastructure like RSS and email in favor of Facebook's walled garden. Now there&
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by racer-v 9y ago
if a given group has significant power to prevent another group from pursuing life, lib, and happiness. Viewed from that angle, it becomes clear why antidiscrimination laws favoring AA in traditionally Cauc challenges are legal I'm n
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by racer-v 9y ago
The idea is that if you don't get good service, you don't have to pay the tip. People whose incomes consist mainly of tips can make absolutely crazy amounts of money if they're good at their jobs and work hard. It's not
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by racer-v 9y ago
I'm sure there are too, I just can't think of any.
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by racer-v 9y ago
foreign money deciding their leaders Again you assume that money directly decides who our leaders are. The best evidence says it works at least partially the other way around: the leaders most likely to win attract the most money. And as
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by racer-v 9y ago
We have to backtrack on Citizens United vs the FEC decision or else foreign countries and oligarchs will be deciding every election. You are saying that the dollar amount spent decides every election. Do you really believe that democracy
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by racer-v 9y ago
Yes exactly. The direction he takes his line of thought in the postscript - expelling individual members of the engineering profession for unethical behavior - is fatuous. The big trends are driven by big money: which business models and te
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by racer-v 9y ago
Many computer scientists are working in the nascent field of home automation. Surely this technology, with its myriad Internet-connected sensors and voracious logging, has the potential to implement a perfect surveillance state - especially

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