swampangel

> Maybe for some internal usages. but imagine someone from a country using different language and characters gives me a card with their email. It's now far less portable for me to use it. Those days, I surely could picture it and find the email most likely getting it right.

It would be more portable for use with their peers who speak the same language, rather than requiring that everyone they want to communicate with in their own language and alphabet understands a second alphabet just for the addressing scheme.

Here's a good intro to the topic (not that I personally have put it into practice) https://runyourown.social/

It focuses on Mastodon but that's probably an artifact of when it was written.

> Well - the point of involving the AI is that very often it explains my intuitions way better than I can. It instantiates them and fills in all the details

> I like to think that I can recognise good arguments, but if I am wrong here - then why would you prefer my writing from an LLM generated one?

Because the AI will happily argue either side of a debate, in both cases the meaningful/useful/reliable information in the post is constrained by the limits of _your_ knowledge. The LLM-based one will merely be longer.

Can you think of a time when you asked AI to support your point, and upon reviewing its argument, decided it was unconvincing after all and changed your mind?

If 10 people on the internet tell you they want to kill you, how do you tell if 1 of them is serious and is actually going to show up physically?

The answer is that you can't, and there isn't a firm line where all trolling is on one side and harassing/violent behaviour is something different.

Many of us can heuristically decide that trollish behaviour aimed at us won't extend to our person/home/workplace, and doesn't need to be taken seriously. That doesn't mean it's a rule for everyone or an excuse for that behaviour.

Sounds like:

https://boroughmarket.org.uk/articles/the-spice-series-cinna...

https://books.google.ca/books?id=SpmdDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT75&lpg=PT...

I have some frustrations with browsh's docs too, but the readme in the github repo does link to a build guide[1], and the build steps are also reproduced in the Dockerfile.

[1] https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/blob/master/contrib/set...

There are "low profile mechanical" switches now that are more chiclet-like, but I'm not sure if they've been put into an ergo design yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lAokeiYbzo

I personally like Matias Quiet Click switches for a good feeling, quiet switch. But the keys and keyboards from Matias have a deserved reputation for being finicky.

I have a Matias Ergo Pro - which I otherwise like - but once in a while keys on the left half will chatter until the board is unplugged. https://matias.ca/ergopro/pc/

I think this expression would be familiar to most native English speakers, but it is idiomatic.

It's using "near" as a synonym to "close" -- as in "a close shave" (actually close) rather than as a synonym for "close to" as it is in the expression "near death" (almost, but not quite dead).

The second sense is definitely more common.

This post suggests "near miss" became common as a military phrase to mean "missed, but still damaged the target" but changed as it entered the vernacular:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-nea1.htm

While fictional, the Canterbury Tales portrays pilgrimages as a kind of extended carnival, where some of society's normal rules are suspended. You can argue that tourism was born out of catering to pilgrims: http://blog.museumoflondon.org.uk/pilgrim-badges-birth-touri...

Of course there are more serious traditions of pilgrimage, but people are people, and for every one with a deep connection to their faith, there are others who will use the excuse of pilgrimage for a break from the routine.

It is a physical problem with the key. You can fix it by disassembling the key and cleaning the contacts:

Original guide - https://imgur.com/a/elAFF#0

Thread with context - https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/2hjct6...

However, this is really Matias's problem to resolve. Supposedly the switch or the assembly process has been redesigned to prevent this problem in the newest batch, but I don't know if it's a proven success.

There's an in-browser quantum computer simulator called Quirk https://hackaday.com/2018/01/24/quantum-weirdness-in-your-br... and the author's blog explores related problems http://algassert.com/

I might agree if the author hadn't clearly listed their (very reasonable) objections to HackerRank near the start of the email.

I wish I had more teammates who could write as effectively.

If this analogy is accurate, isn't it absurd that many/most of us live right next to a "live firing range" with no safety barriers?

We know that kids are unpredictable, adults get distracted, and reducing vehicle speed reduces the chance of a collision being fatal: http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/publications/r...

We don't need to accept that roads are deadly places for non-drivers. We should strive to make our environment more liveable - by changing road design, vehicle safety features and driver attitudes - and this includes enforcement.

"dotnet publish" should have you covered for restoring from nuget, compiling and producing a deployable package. Is there something it's missing for your use case?

Noda Time might have what you need in a datetime library.

It was never particularly true with respect to minority rights. It's just become more difficult to pretend that it's broadly true.

First, tweeting the anti-CoC article was only one of the issues listed, but some of them were on the private issue tracker so I can't speak to those.

The article was definitely what brought it to a head because it prompted some people to say publicly they had bad interactions with Rod Vagg.

There were also a number of thoughtful responses to Rod's tweet where people spelled out why they thought his attitude towards CoCs was unhelpful. As far as I know he didn't engage any of these authors, which makes me suspect he was not actually looking for "interesting discussion".

Overall it was inflammatory in the same way another article complaining about missing generics in golang would be inflammatory here. The article doesn't seem to respect existing work and doesn't bring a new or evidence based perspective.

I agree it would be nice if all the complaints, responses, etc were laid out plainly. But I can also understand why this is not the case, given tweets like https://twitter.com/ag_dubs/status/887785046320480256 and the understanding that there's little benefit for the women involved to gain by re-litigate these interactions in public.

What are the other benefits from your perspective?

To me, they are:

- license cost (a small hurdle if you're buying $60 games)

- open source (mainly a moral/ideological advantage rather than a practical one)

- developer tooling (minimized if you use tools like Docker or Vagrant)

You made a good choice, because the current version of those switches has a problem with repeated keystrokes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/4t08br...

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/5qjsbn...

However, they are very nice to type on, and Matias is supposedly producing a new version of the switch.

The keyboards they're copying are based on the IBM 4704 rather than the PC AT keyboard http://kishy.ca/?p=894

It's more desirable because its layouts are a bit closer to modern 60/80% keyboards, but it doesn't have an AT interface.

Steam accepts bitcoin.

Quite a few domain/web hosting/VPS companies accept it, like Namecheap and Namesilo.

Online gambling sites accept it for obvious reasons.

It's hardly ubiquitous, but for some things it's fairly practical.

1. The purpose was to illustrate the difference between white-only discrimination (the origin of our current discrimination laws) and modern exclusive group events.

2. There are lots of people who lived through the Civil Rights movement alive today, and segregation and the associated attitudes didn't disappear overnight. Do you think 70 year old politicians carry no baggage from their upbringing and early adulthood?

Each of your sources says there is still a gender wage gap in the range of 5-9% after controlling for education, etc.

You could say "the myth that women earn 77% of what men earn", but it is not correct to call the gender wage gap a myth.

There is a recent study where they saw the opposite, that quotas caused less-capable in-group members to be pushed out:

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2017/04/05/gender-quotas-a...

I haven't seen a lot of discussion around this - it may be bunk. But there are a lot of intuitive ideas about hiring that don't hold up.

If you were white in 60's America, you didn't have to check ahead of time if a given restaurant would serve you food. If you're white now, you still don't have to check.

If you're not white, things are different.

Can you think of some examples of when you were unexpectedly forbidden from participating in an event/group/etc? Did you have access to alternatives?

Since you can't really eliminate backroom dealing, male only social clubs can have the practical effect of excluding women from equal participation/opportunity, at least as long as groups like "C level exec" are disproportionately male.

You asked how there could be "consensus" on the existence of ACC when some scientists dispute its existence.

The parent post gave an example of a case where some credentialed scientists continued to dispute the HIV-AIDS link well after the balance of evidence was against them.

Many people would say there was a "consensus" on the HIV-AIDS link despite the continued skepticism of some scientists, and that this scenario has parallels with climate science.

Can you offer a counter example, where a holdout group of scientists who disagreed with consensus in their field were proved right?

To know you're talking to the domain owner, I think you'd have to use the contact info from the whois info. I don't believe that's especially consistent across tlds.

The http or dns challenge/response is more reliable and pretty easy to automate and scale to many domains.

The linked report makes the distinction a little clearer:

> For the most part, we focus on the labor supply of poorer workers, who are more likely to reduce their labor supply as a result of a modest increase in unearned income. Our results do not indicate a negative labor supply effect for either hours worked or the probability of participation in market work, either for all workers or those in the bottom 40% of the income distribution. We do find a negative labor supply effect for workers 20-29 years old for their hours worked.

Programs for women in trades:

http://www.careersinconstruction.ca/en/why-construction/oppo...

Programs/orgs for men in nursing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14165427

Tech is not unique, but for some of us in the industry it seems logical to focus our attention here.