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by tslug 8y ago
Agreed. In a gig last year, I needed to improve the build turnaround times on a Jenkins system. After learning everything I could about Jenkins, I realized the correct answer was to delete it and rewrite my own version that ran on the loca
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by tslug 8y ago
I hope this works out, but it's easy to see how it can be abused. When those abuses are addressed, the fix will undoubtedly lean on the usual fundamentals behind investing in both non-profit and for-profit ventures: due diligence on t
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by tslug 8y ago
I've been playing for almost 30 years, and I think I've ascended about 40-50 times total. My latest 3.6 install, I've ascended 11 times so far, as Wizard, Monk, Knight, Archeologist, and Samurai. Pretty sure I ascended in t
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by tslug 8y ago
Agreed. Switching to vegan brought my TP use way down. Becoming gluten-free, however, was so transformative down there that I'm still having trouble adjusting. I usually tear off the sheets before I'm done, so that if I go multi
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Functional language implemented in bash(github.com)
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by tslug 9y ago
I find a great substitute is olive oil where I'd use butter for non-cooking (eg. instead of butter on pasta or instead of butter on bread). It's not quite as tasty but still a huge improvement over dry, and it's healthier. F
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by tslug 9y ago
Totally agreed with this. Faces have further to go. We're not out of the uncanny valley yet. We're also unable to create emergent materials right now, because we don't right now (and may never) have the horsepower to do mol
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by tslug 9y ago
Wont replace monitors, but you can do that now if you like. The main limitations are battery life and minimum font size (really pixel density on your retina).
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by tslug 9y ago
Holy crap, xelxebar. Thank you! This is a game-changer. I've been wading through the bash man pages like a fool.
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by tslug 9y ago
I learned when writing bash scripts for cygwin under Windows that Windows doesn't support copy-on-write fork()'s. This means that any new process is extremely expensive to fork, because it copies the memory from the process it wa
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by tslug 9y ago
Capitalism is a an extremely old game design, an MMO created to solve the complex barter chain problem. One of the game's many exploits is that sociopaths (and anyone they train through reward to override their sense of empathy) have
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by tslug 9y ago
What I don't recommend is going through programming exercises on the web, which seems to be a popular path that usually ends in stall-out. Whether young or old, I think it's important that the person start by asking themselves wha
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by tslug 9y ago
Agreed. Please add this to Spotify, Linus!
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by tslug 9y ago
Since becoming vegan, I learned you really have to focus on nutrition, because there are important nutrients in eggs, dairy, and meat that aren't in all kinds of vegetables/fruits. If you don't stay on top of this, it's
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by tslug 9y ago
"The flu destroyed her organs. She didn't even know it." Wait, what kind of flu was this, Ebola Zaire? Since when does influenza destroy organs? Taking the flu seriously is definitely advisable, but something sounds amiss he
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by tslug 10y ago
Yes, in general, available work will decline significantly as will pay. That said, there will be an ever-narrowing niche for work that requires extremely high skill and that pays unprecedentedly and increasingly high returns. This is beca
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by tslug 10y ago
I'm not overly focused on the concerns of a small minority of the population. The elite have their own challenges, but they have enormous resources with which to tackle them, and while some of them would not be thrilled about high tra
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by tslug 10y ago
I'm no less skeptical than you as to our natural inclinations, but I do think it helps people be more respectful of others when they know the world is watching. They've seen this with police officers wearing body cameras. They re
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by tslug 10y ago
If you had dinner at a restaurant, the restaurant knows, and if you used a credit card to pay for it, the payment processing company can figure it out by correlating the menu prices with the total bill. If you cooked dinner at home, you us
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by tslug 10y ago
Yes, it's harder to make something more private than it is to make it more transparent. Absolutely. You can go nuts trying to make your life as private as humanly possible, and then all it takes is one exception to the rules, like su
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by tslug 10y ago
Yes, I mean everyone, including the dictator you would have abusing the system, so that he could be seen doing it and thus would not be above society's agreements himself. Replacing capitalism is a fine idea too. Even Trump, the origi
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by tslug 10y ago
What you're describing removes the ability of government employees to use privacy. This just incentivizes them when privacy is helpful (like in sensitive negotiations) to do that private work away from the office in their private live
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by tslug 10y ago
We're on a progression curve, right? Privacy is melting away over time with more sensors and advances in big data analysis techniques. We'll never get to where everything is 100% transparent. Too many photons. But I believe we&
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by tslug 10y ago
Could you offer up a specific example of privacy and transparency not being opposites? My imagination is failing me. I find when "transparency" is used in conversation these days, it tends to mean, "These guys over here shou
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by tslug 10y ago
Not at all. I think how everyone wants to be shown respect is quite different. This would be an enormous problem if we didn't all have cell phones in our pockets and the ability to specify how we want to be treated. For instance, if
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by tslug 10y ago
Ya, I was wondering the same thing. It seems like uneven ablating on the outside surface is the most obvious reason for the thrust. Why didn't they do a careful analysis of the cavity mass before and afterwards? Or electron microscop
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by tslug 10y ago
I don't know where you get the Utopian / changing-everyone conclusion from. I don't see any Utopian solutions, but I do see the potential for dramatic improvement. Improvement requires more information, not less. Democracy
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by tslug 10y ago
You haven't been reading the news if you don't understand what's happening with privacy and big data right now. I can say with conviction that we don't have privacy. What I can't point to is exactly who has this i
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by tslug 10y ago
If I understand your question, the two options you've presented are: 1. Make a law to force governments and corporations to be more open, a la the Freedom of Information Act but turned into its live-casting modern equivalent, and 2. No
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by tslug 10y ago
It already is possible to algorithmically deduce who people are voting for. I am not benefiting from surveillance. I am a game developer and engineer. I see things from that perspective. We can't make compelling multiplayer games by

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