tardygrad

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by tardygrad 4y ago
Check out the reddit community /r/tressless including their wiki
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The Droste Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
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by tardygrad 8y ago
While pointing fingers at Russia or impeaching Trump may be the options that feel good at the moment, I hope this is an opportunity to make sure something like this never happens again. This is a pipe dream and I'm not sure this is eve
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by tardygrad 8y ago
One of the first things you see on that page (on mobile), even above the headline of the article, is a Facebook share button. Facebook has its claws in deep. De-Facebooking the Web isn't going to be a simple task. Bit of hypocrisy to s
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by tardygrad 9y ago
Funny how it's always only the people who steal millions that go to jail, never those who steal billions. I guess aiming big is the way to go in the finance world.
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by tardygrad 9y ago
I've tried lots of docs tools, but the one I've found works best for me is a self-hosted Dokuwiki. Dokuwiki stores it's output in text files (not in a database) so installation is as simple as unzipping an archive, and a cron
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by tardygrad 9y ago
I found The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester to be a fascinating read about James Murray and how he came to write the OED. It is ironic that the definitive book on the English language was compiled by an American, and that he made
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by tardygrad 9y ago
>This past fall, Facebook snatched up the teen compliment app tbh, and quickly integrated a similar Q&A feature into its social network soon after. This all took place before Tbh had truly established itself as a new social network.
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by tardygrad 9y ago
> Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar suggest that crypto assets have low/negative correlation with traditional asset classes The DJIA and Bitcoin charts seem well correlated, at least over the past month: DJIA: https://www.mar
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by tardygrad 9y ago
Biggest takeaway for me is that the WSJ now uses Gawker level clickbait titles.
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by tardygrad 9y ago
Amazon presumably. Without Amazon they would be making a living wage at a mom&pop store, and we would all be paying more for lower quality products with less choice.
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by tardygrad 9y ago
I doubt this will take off, because developers seem to prefer Javascript as a language. On the server where there is a choice of several languages both interpreted and compiled, Nodejs is still very popular. If there were a war against Java
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by tardygrad 9y ago
I think any vision of an open and equal Internet is going to fail in the long term, not only because it does not work in the interests of governements and major corporations - but also because people don't want it. China explicitly cen
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by tardygrad 9y ago
This is tangential, but I wonder if something like this could be (mis)used to break captcha - by feeding in the disabled-friendly audio captcha and passing the results back to the captcha server. As voice recognition becomes more sophistica
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by tardygrad 9y ago
Or just use Firefox, even if it is slightly slower than Chromium it's at least a browser that works for you not one that treats you as a pawn. A Chrome monoculture is harmful, even if Google has the best intentions which I don't t
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by tardygrad 9y ago
Books and papers are passive - they don't have an agenda (beyond what's in the printed content anyway, but you'd generally have an idea about that beforehand). Digital devices on the other hand push their own agenda - driving
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by tardygrad 9y ago
Maybe, but why do it? I see no possible motive here.
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by tardygrad 9y ago
This article is just idle speculation with some of the vague 'Russia is behind it' rhetoric we've been seeing over the past few years. Even if someone had developed the capability to spoof military grade GPS why would they us
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by tardygrad 9y ago
This was touched upon heavily in the book 'The Righteous Mind' by Jonathan Haidt, an amazing book if you're interested in this sort of thing and part of Bill Gate's reading list where I first found it. This quote (by Ber
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by tardygrad 9y ago
I'm going to give this a go. Self hosted Dokuwiki has been my note taking tool of choice, usable on multiple devices, easy to backup, easy to export notes but markdown sounds good. Is it possible to share notes or make notes public?
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by tardygrad 9y ago
Having frivolous modules (ala left-pad) brings down the quality of the ecosystem as a whole. Even if you don't use them directly one of the modules you do include could include them, and they're pretty much only a source of securi