0x10c0fe11ce | 4 years ago | on: BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite
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0x10c0fe11ce | 4 years ago | on: Stupidity is a specific cognitive failing
Usually I recommend the book as my friends don’t like summaries. But thanks anyway.
0x10c0fe11ce | 4 years ago | on: Stupidity is a specific cognitive failing
The OP lost me on a bunch of bad analogies. I’ll keep recommending to my friends The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity by Carlo Cipolla.
[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49348225-the-basic-laws-...
0x10c0fe11ce | 4 years ago | on: The May 18 Gwangju Uprising
> Critical to this essay is Joseph and Buchenau’s interpretation of the post-1940 period vis-à-vis the other works under review. Using a term coined by Mario Vargas Llosa in 1990, they describe a “perfect dictatorship” between 1940 and 1968: a one-party system with the appearance of democracy that sustained regular elections and avoided military coups and social upheavals. In the reorganization that became the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) in 1946, the party removed the army from formal political power. The state/party emphasized securing dominance with loyalty, order, and representation of PRI sectors in local elections. The latter required central government reliance on local strongmen and their minions, effective political and cultural brokers. [0]
> The public split encouraged voices from the right and left. Add to this political contention the increasingly visible contradictions: uneven benefits of economic growth, population explosion creating pressure on the land and migration to cities, growing unemployment and inflation. For Buchenau and Joseph, the students rebelling in Mexico City in 1968 represent a coming-together of these critical contradictions: they demanded the rule of law, freedom from repression, and social justice. [0]
I’m definitely not an expert in Mexican history. But that to me sounds an awful lot like a typical dictatorship, and a bad one at that. Otherwise, people wouldn’t push back.
0x10c0fe11ce | 4 years ago | on: The May 18 Gwangju Uprising
Ironically you just loosely described a dictatorship, a democratically “elected” single party government.
0x10c0fe11ce | 4 years ago | on: Space Debris Has Hit and Damaged the International Space Station
Little humans in good shape can sustain for several seconds bursts of 1000W+ on a bike. Not so little after all.
0x10c0fe11ce | 4 years ago | on: Why are there no return statements in Objective-S?
Write that method in a category of NSObject and you’ll have it now. Objetive-C is a very extensible language with lots of syntactic sugar to help us out. Also, meta programming is lots of fun, but impossible without diving into the runtime guts which is part of the fun.
0x10c0fe11ce | 4 years ago | on: Woke at Work: Why tech firms are trying to run away from politics and failing
Imagine a society similar to the internet where people roam hiding their identities while doing whatever comes to their head. We have great times ahead, in Mars. I’m seriously starting to consider buying those tickets after all.
0x10c0fe11ce | 4 years ago | on: CSS Container Queries in Web Components
I’ve been there. The truth is that css media print doesn’t work with anything complex. After spending a week at it back in January, it felt very much like IE6 whac-a-mole. Long story short, I ended up fixing it in python using rst2pdf. Brilliant library.
0x10c0fe11ce | 4 years ago | on: I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress
Thanks for your link, but I will start here -> https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02282
0x10c0fe11ce | 4 years ago | on: I mailed an AirTag and tracked its progress
There’s no such a thing as small price to pay attached to privacy. You either have it or you don’t.
0x10c0fe11ce | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Has anyone cured their RSI/carpal tunnel without an ergonomic keyboard?
What did the trick for me was a decent chair, a trackpad with tap to click enabled, and most importantly I worked a bit on my triceps.
0x10c0fe11ce | 4 years ago | on: Chrome extension recommends local businesses while shopping on Amazon or eBay
It’ll keep being a piece of cake until you buy something from a scammer amazon merchant with no one to appeal.
One of the best things I like about my local small businesses is that I don’t need to worry about choices. I just show up with a problem and they will always solve it for me costing me way less than I had budgeted.
That’s why some of those have been operating for almost 100 years.
0x10c0fe11ce | 4 years ago | on: Longest pedestrian suspension bridge opens in Portugal
In case you want to just have a look at the bridge without going nuts.
https://i.cbc.ca/1.6007355.1619716182!/fileImage/httpImage/i...
0x10c0fe11ce | 4 years ago | on: A Product Engineer’s Guide to Platform Engineers (2019)
I’d say you’re still in a somewhat decent position. I miss those times. The real worries start when you realize you’re spending the other half of your time fixing bugs that would have never come to existence if you wrote it the first time.
0x10c0fe11ce | 5 years ago | on: Illegal CFC emissions have stopped since scientists raised alarm
Step 4: accuse others of doing the same thing you’re being accused.
0x10c0fe11ce | 5 years ago | on: Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals replacing police officers
Health professionals are no different than cops or any other worker. There are good and bad professionals working in pretty much any domain. Good luck generalizing and classifying people into groups. That has always worked great throughout human history.
0x10c0fe11ce | 5 years ago | on: Zero arrests in 6 months of health care professionals replacing police officers
There are more ways to harm a life than there are guns in the world. Just because a health professional gets a diploma and makes a promise doesn’t mean that worker will take good care of you or your loved one. There are plenty of cases all around the world where some health professionals killed tens of innocent people.
0x10c0fe11ce | 5 years ago | on: Element (Matrix chat app) suspended from the Google Play Store
I’m seriously considering ditching my iPhones for any Nokia dumb phone. But what we really need is a mobile OS that is really free with no marketing BS, ideally BSD derived.
0x10c0fe11ce | 5 years ago | on: Tesla’s charging stations left other manufacturers in the dust
It’s not just the Leaf, all electric cars have a terrible resale value problem. People think that preowned EVs suck because these cars have depleted batteries, and they’ve heard car batteries are just like their other devices batteries. More than any other car, EVs should never be outright bought.
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Though, it comes with a somewhat steep learning curve.
But, in the end you can throw away that pesky search foo hat, and have some deserved peace of mind.