yazboo

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by yazboo 4y ago
It’s a difference of degree not kind. The constant audiovisual stimulus running through the internet is much more powerful than any of those things, and more widely available. Cable TV was close. It was always on in the room, but you had to
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by yazboo 4y ago
This is really going to mess with some highly stressed out, low digital literacy people in my life. I guess I'll need to help them move to something else - is there any other basic SMS app on Android that a) looks like it's from a
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by yazboo 4y ago
How long is your trip? George Guidall reading Don Quixote is good. Also there's this book called Death in Yellowstone, which is just hours of short descriptions of people who have died in various ways in Yellowstone. Something like tha
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by yazboo 4y ago
Not enough Danes? He’s not doing demography, he’s telling a story. Should Nick Cave be playing more ragtime? Where are the Italian neorealist films of Guillermo del Toro? Complaining about Neil Gaiman over representing gay goths is like com
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by yazboo 4y ago
I don't know where the meme came from but I've heard it from two independent Honda Element owners, and it comes up on random SEO-spam blogs as a benefit of the Element if you're searching for "dog-friendly" cars. I
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by yazboo 4y ago
> do you mean not every tests positive for seroconversion months after infection This wasn't your point but I'm trying to see whether this is accounted for in the study. I don't think it is, unless I missed something. The
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by yazboo 4y ago
From their earlier posts it sounds like they're encountering some kind of MySQL performance issue, which in my (horrible) experience can be extremely difficult for your jack of all trades software engineer or SRE to troubleshoot. I wou
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by yazboo 5y ago
This doesn't cohere into an argument, its like a loose pile of grievances and suppositions about...who, exactly? For easier scanning I've extracted this author's ideas as to what constitutes "heresy": - Accusations
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by yazboo 5y ago
These niche groups for enthusiasts, tilde club or mastodon or neocities or aral balkan or whatever can't ever bring the old internet back. It's not coming back, it's really not, you just have to accept that the world you used
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by yazboo 5y ago
I would say it's not just you, 99% of jobs are totally pointless or actively harmful to the world, if you ask me. Like you say, squeezing profit out of people and absolutely nothing else. But it's not really relevant to wanting to
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by yazboo 5y ago
My dream feature would be for an interpreted language: when you start the program the interpreter would randomly choose one of the keywords in the language to be considered "hot lava", meaning when the program encounters that keyw
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The risky resurgence of nuclear power(harpers.org)
3 points by yazboo 5y ago|0 comments
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DoD Picks Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Oracle for Project to Replace Jedi Cloud(federalnewsnetwork.com)
2 points by yazboo 5y ago|0 comments
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by yazboo 5y ago
Freshman year of high school, middle of the country. I was walking to English class in passing period and people going in the opposite direction were chattering with excitement about something. I saw a friend and he said, did you hear? They
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by yazboo 5y ago
Are you unconcerned about asymptomatic transmission? As I understand it, a big reason why there's a pandemic is that you might not necessarily know whether you're infectious. Asymptomatic individuals are indeed less infectious on
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by yazboo 6y ago
I have (had, I guess) a Wordpress site on here. They sent an email about the hack but somebody had already changed my password and recovery email in cPanel. They haven't changed the Wordpress admin credentials though, so I'm expor
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by yazboo 6y ago
I have noticed that many social science articles posted on Hacker News bring out critical comments about study design, doubts about the strength of the study's conclusions, that kind of thing. This submission, on the other hand, is a l
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by yazboo 6y ago
This is just automocking, though. If you need to mock out a component class method you can still provide a manual mock without too much trouble. I might be thinking too narrowly here but if you're needing to mock a component class meth
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by yazboo 6y ago
That _is_ the context. There may be problems with puritanism in our society but this particular complaint is incredibly silly.
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by yazboo 6y ago
So, a person who for years had a nationally published newspaper column, could write whatever they wanted and have it delivered to millions of subscribers, was not able to join a nepotistic social club. This is the censorious Reign of Terror
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by yazboo 6y ago
> it is likewise righteous and just that you, who are fully capable of supporting yourself, should support yourself, rather than burdening others with your support Righteous and just according to who? I would much rather live in a societ
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by yazboo 6y ago
But isn't the issue here that both points of view are fact/information-based?
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by yazboo 6y ago
True. The article has a decent answer though. Incremental builds are necessary because: > [Slow builds] can be annoying if your site has 1,000 pages and one content editor. But if you have say 100,000 pages and a dozen content contributo
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by yazboo 6y ago
Sweden has the highest death rate per capita of all developed nations.
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by yazboo 6y ago
This article makes the point you were apparently making, that Go and Rust are created for very different purposes. The difference is in the framing: this article is not complaining about people posing a question, it's providing useful
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by yazboo 7y ago
The article is recommending against using type=number.
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by yazboo 7y ago
The things I miss about that time have more to do with growing up (versus being grown) than anything to do with internet relay chat.
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by yazboo 7y ago
Can you share any more about the proposal process? Where was the RFP posted? What were the evaluation criteria? I was kind of assuming that this was more of a handshake deal or a cold sell or something, surprised to hear it went through a s
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by yazboo 7y ago
> I always thought Tom Waits was clever to come up with the line "In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is King" but that came from Vonnegut in "Player "Piano. This is a Gaelic proverb at least a couple hundred y
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by yazboo 7y ago
> Superhero movies, and any sort of movie franchise, are about getting to revisit a world that you like. We care less about whether the story represents a "window into our soul" and more about soaking in the environment that br

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