Is it bad that I am using Urban Dictionary even when I need a regular dictionary?
I feel like I am not using my time very well but I also feel too tired to be productive or even just present
Next on my watch list of horror films is US
@prologic@prologic.github.io I will probably check out twtxt.net later. Can we use it without registering for an account?
Are employees paid a proportional amount to the value they bring to their organization? I would say no. I do not believe every talented European is 40% as capable as the average developer in the US. I do not believe that the same software engineer that made $10k in India, suddenly brings 10x as much value due to a 1 year masters, once they move to the US. Ask HN: Should a remote employee’s salary be tied to their physical location? | Hacker News
New repository: aquilax/renamed - Renamed - use your favorite text editor to mass rename files
When I read this I see a a niche, super premium hardware company that managed to acquire tens of thousands of customers by word of mouth. Not only that, their customers are all in-effect self employed or small businesses with huge average revenue per employee. They manage global supply chains, intense competition, all while taking on and managing huge legal/compliance risk. How is is that supposedly “dumb,” criminals can do this, and yet many of us are stretching our intellectual capacities to learn new technologies and maths, developing our nth stupid app, trying to achieve a fraction of the customer traction and revenue that street thugs manage to do every day. Are these people much smarter than average, or does it mean that if you sell something people actually want, literally nothing else matters about your intelligence, education, character, background, or anything at all. When I read these drug stories, it just reinforces for me that growth solves everything. You can succeed with a crew of violent, drug addicted idiots whose only reliable characteristic is short term thinking, and who spend half their time in prison if you have product market fit. What I’m beginning to think is that the “smarter,” people are in a company, the less anyone will want their product. It’s like the success of a venture is inversely proportional to the number of ostensible geniuses it employs. reply How Police Secretly Took over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime | Hacker News
All infra teams eventually become platforms. All product teams eventually become experiences. When viewed negatively this is called scope creep. I don’t know what it’s called when viewed positively but I expect the word “holistic” to be used unironically. The Rise of Platform Engineering | Hacker News
I believe trauma instills scientific-type knowledge that is factually false but locally adaptive. False beliefs need more protection to be maintained than true beliefs, so the belief both calcifies, making it unresponsive to new information, and lays a bunch of emotional landmines around itself to punish you for getting too close to it. This cascades into punishing you for learning at all, because you might learn something that corrects your false-but-useful model. Emotional Blocks as Obstacles to Learning | Hacker News
7 helpful tips on how to be miserable: 1. Stay still. 2. Screw with your sleep. 3. Maximize your screentime. 4. Use your screen to stoke your negative emotions. 5. Set vapid goals. 6. Pursue happiness directly. 7. Follow your instincts. this isn’t happiness™ (7 helpful tips on how to be miserable, Brandon…), Peteski
Honestly never realized before Beakerbrowser that peer-to-peer could be used to share markdown, JavaScript and html files.
If powerful forces consistently push us toward premature exploitation, we should almost always be biased towards exploring more. The Embarrassing Problem of Premature Exploitation - LessWrong 2.0
Why is programming fun? What delights may its practitioner expect as his reward? First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design. I think this delight must be an image of God’s delight in making things, a delight shown in the distinctness and newness of each leaf and each snowflake. Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful. In this respect the programming system is not essentially different from the child’s first clay pencil holder “for Daddy’s office.” Third is the fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching them work in subtle cycles, playing out the consequences of principles built in from the beginning. The programmed computer has all the fascination of the pinball machine or the jukebox mechanism, carried to the ultimate. Fourth is the joy of always learning, which springs from the nonrepeating nature of the task. In one way or another the problem is ever new, and its solver learns something: sometimes practical, sometimes theoretical, and sometimes both. Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly re- moved from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. (As we shall see later, this very tractability has its own problems.) Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming? | Hacker News
Games that use standard GUI widgets — https://dbohdan.com/gui-games
While not disagreeing with your point, it is also worth noting that in some contexts developers are regarded as unemployable if they don’t have experience with whatever the latest technology is so it is hardly surprising that people use every opportunity they can to get exposure to the latest tools. Overthinking it and the value of simple solutions (2019) | Hacker News
Use dhall for package.json #idea
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. (Brian Kernighan) dwmkerr/hacker-laws: 💻📖 Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful. #hackerlaws
Join subs using infra sound from master’s device #idea #spotify-family
Finally creating PHP programs using Composer and Twig templates
@kas@enotty.dk Thanks for the suggestion using Keybase. Playing around with the authenticity idea.
Now and then I become fascinated by M4, try using it, and then give up.
@kas@enotty.dk [re: gopher client] If you happen to be on Windows, then Gopher Browser for Windows by Matt Owen is pretty nice, otherwise I use Lynx indeed for gopher.
Anyone still using Skype actually? Seems like the service completely lost to WhatsApp.
@kas@enotty.dk Good stuff kas++ What command or script did you use to split by year?
@kas@enotty.dk The IndieWeb.org twtxt article is only a stub - me copy-pasting content from other sites - could use some more sections - @t himself found it an interesting concept
Seems useful to have a set of consistent lexical conventions. # for comments; . for lookup; / for metadata. e.g cat ~.conf.git.core.pager
Thinking about https://zge.us.to/dirconf.html; what if cating a directory rendered its contents as a structured file?
I’ve always loved the idea of twtxt, but had no idea so many people are using it.
I can’t abide Python, so I’m writing these messages using ‘echo’, for now..
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org if you like Amazon for used books, try Alibris.
Special counsel calls ‘dibs’: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/18/michael-cohen-robert-mueller-responds-lying-congress-buzzfeed-report
New repository: aquilax/colorcount - Command line tool to count colors used in image
📚 Finished reading How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
Using termux on a 5-inch screen with a graffitti keyboard is a trip. A slow one.
@micaelwidell I’ve heard good things about toggl, but haven’t used it myself.
Does experimenting with LaTeX lead to hardcore PostScript use, or is it the other way around?
📚 Finished reading How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life by Massimo Pigliucci
📚 Finished reading How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life by Massimo Pigliucci
Successfully used xargs today… to prune my twtxt follow list :(
@micaelwidell Dropbox, Backblaze, Tarsnap, Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier all serve different use cases
Over the course of my life up to this point, I’ve not spent as much time using and thinking about gopher as I have today.
Is it just me or do plist files used by launchctl look like they are not really XML?
@Merenlin There is Audible for books but I use Smart AudioBook Player on android
“US-International with with AltGr dead key” does does wonders for my Swedish typing: http://t.co/gGZVd7fiYZ, pr/ty close to Polish Kashubian
@ve4ernik sounds promising to me. Trying to imagine paralel nervous system array and how it may be of use
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