wickawic

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by wickawic 9y ago
I was going to reply that zooming in on pictures is a path that leads only to madness, but you’re right; that is messed up.
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by wickawic 9y ago
GP said they own a M4/3 camera, which is mirrorless.
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by wickawic 9y ago
For a simple example, any music that “grooves” (makes you want to tap your feet) tends to not be perfectly sub-divided into 4 beats. Different players in the same band may be intentionally (and/or subconsciously) hitting their notes on
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by wickawic 9y ago
But then who would deliver the ads?? /s I completely agree, but with the arts as my object of fixation. I could never live the swanky life I lead without my current job, but damn I would have been a good potter. Luckily, there is still
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by wickawic 9y ago
I actually like LinkedIn because hey know they are the internet’s Rolodex and (more importantly) people on the site mostly use it that way. If I were pressured by society/peers to be “active” on LinkedIn in the same way we are pressure
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by wickawic 9y ago
For better or worse I index the opposite way. My CV is a markdown doc wrapped in the absolute minimum html/js to render it as a web page. If viewed as text it is perfectly readable sans a single line of css gobldeygook, if viewed as a
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by wickawic 9y ago
Amazon gives loans to sellers; they have more info on their suppliers’ businesses than a bank could ever dream of.
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by wickawic 9y ago
Ageeed. Also seeing as LED bulbs are ~10x more efficient per lumen than incandescent, people are not installing 10x as much brightness in their homes
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by wickawic 9y ago
To bolster your other response: in college chemistry classes are split into two kinds: “organic chemistry”, and “everything else”. But he term “organic” in this context means “compounds with carbon atoms”. There are so many ways that carbon
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by wickawic 9y ago
With apple mucic 100% of the money goes to the label. The label then has a contract with the artist for how much online sales get sent their way. This contract may be very complicated so it isn’t necessarily “I pay $1, artist gets $.20”. Ar
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by wickawic 9y ago
Explaining is usually more difficult than understanding, as well.
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by wickawic 9y ago
This is the exact same reason that it always seems like you are in “the slow lane” in congested traffic. You spend considerably more time going slow than going fast, and while your lane is slow you have to watch all the other sporadically f
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by wickawic 9y ago
It is funny in a sense because TBL really invented the 'internet' as people know it, Vint Cerf just created that pesky TCP/IP thing nerds talk about.
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by wickawic 9y ago
I would guess that in 50 years people will look at current tech trends in the same way. “They had to have known the apps and content were being created to induce maximal stress and addictive behavior!”
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by wickawic 9y ago
I assumed they meant “natural” (I.e. ineffective) solutions.
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by wickawic 9y ago
I found bedbugs to be more mentally exhausting than anything. I have never felt more sure that I might have a mental breakdown than when I had bedbugs. They are almost impossible to find, they invade your personal space only when you are as
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by wickawic 9y ago
For totally unrelated tinfoil-hat reasons I started using fastmail yesterday. Now I feel very vindicated in my choice, but it makes me wonder; since Gmail is so pervasive, will this action by them end up f-ing up email for everyone, the sam
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by wickawic 9y ago
I was unaware that zizek called this form of consumerism neoliberalism. I was only aware of the economic definition of the term relating to Keynesian economics and deregulation and the like. The reason I piped up is because that definition
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by wickawic 9y ago
Nit: neoliberalism means different things depending on context, but it really doesn’t mean “new-fangled leftism”.
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by wickawic 9y ago
I think it is reasonable to expect storage to jump dramatically at such a time that we begin storing “3D” data. Not that everything in VR will be voxels or anything, but even if the fractal dimension of our future data is 2.5 it would oblit
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by wickawic 9y ago
Yes they do, and the math works out. About 8k people work in their two belltown towers alone.
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by wickawic 9y ago
One way of thinking of legislation is to encourage/discourage behavior indirectly. Think how putting a ridiculous tax on cigarettes makes people less likely to want to use them. In this sense, the German government (and greater EU) may
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by wickawic 9y ago
You can be a homeowner and also not be a misanthrope at the same time. The min/max attitude of tech workers has always disgusted me in his regard. Edit: I don’t retract my statement, but at the time of posting this my parent comment on
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by wickawic 9y ago
I remember reading an interview with Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits. He mentions how glad he was that he never joined the singer/songwriter scene because leaning picking and rhyhhm guitar gave him the facility to play whatever he wanted
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by wickawic 9y ago
The partially examined life podcast has three whole episodes dedicated to William James’s theories of the mind and the self, for anyone looking for more.
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by wickawic 9y ago
What community is this?
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by wickawic 9y ago
Yes, you can mute an echo and it will glow red.
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by wickawic 9y ago
You should tell that to the majoroty of (my Seattle) Lyft drivers that bought a Prius just so it could be their primary form of employment. From my personal experience it is only in the Bay Area that people use ride share as a supplemental
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by wickawic 9y ago
It is also very different to have a high bar for your self vs for other people. Most people that would self-label as 'perfectionist' are referencing their own behavior, even if it happens to be masking procrastination or indecisio
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by wickawic 9y ago
Put another way; Seinfield was about how people react to a breakdown in social conventions, and really small ones at that. The types of things that happen in Seinfield were the types of things you would go home and talk to your spouse about

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