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The global purl resolver for persistent URLs is throwing 500s this morning. All pURLs are down. Internet meta just broke entirely unless you run your own purl resolver and change a…

highly recommend this as well.

Notes from Fr. Foster's course (First and Third experience only, because the second was an immersion speaking experience I believe) have for some time been available at this site: …

Words matter and so do PsyOps and confirmation bias. Companies are savvy at marketing so they should tailor their apologies to trigger good will confirmation bias in their customer…

I agree testing and automation are good. I think they need to go beyond this to formal verification, for something on this scale and reliability. NASA doesn't make these sorts of m…

as long as you are going to experiment, why not use a smart contract to implement your license? If someone meets your reserve price, it goes open source earlier. You can have a sal…

You are correct. 'Social Justice Warrior' is dogwhistling. Anyone who wants to be taken seriously calls them Jews.

True. I think Kurt Vonnegut had a short story that dealt with that aspect of the plan. A search for "Handicapper General" should dredge it up.

Isn't that what rot13 is for? A think a special compiler switch, along the lines of -Drot13, would work just fine for people who have special needs like that.

Yes, one of life's harsher lessons is just how vicious Unitarians can be.

That's true now but not in all historical periods. In the original system, m. was an abbreviation for mille, and not a composable component of the numeral at all. In effect, it ser…

Who will guard the people themselves?

every social community I've seen eventually has to give up the downvote as a tool and just have upvotes or likes, or else they peak when the downvoting gets out of hand. I think HN…

That's good to hear and I see why those would be popular. I'm a bit surprised that a kanban board is so important. I'll put in my vote for replacing Wekan with Jupyter -- it's more…

Almost certainly -- and therein lies a problem for you. There is an ambiguity between who owns the tab -- you or Jupyter app? The user of course will think of you and the app as th…

Not sure why this was downvoted. I'm professional QA and this was a very straight forward feedback review.

I saw this last night and signed up for oasis on my chromebook. I created a Jupyter notebook and entered an expression in it. Nice. Then I closed the lid to my chromebook for the e…

The companies involved have specified a protocol for communicating your chosen password to them. Namely, the well known "spelling protocol" whereby you repeat your choice, letter b…

Perhaps the companies involved have been told by their lawyers that choosing a password is a legal action, like an electronic signature, that must be performed by a human, letter b…

"r strategy privacy" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory

You might think so, but the Commerce clause has been interpreted to mean that raising food for your own consumption is restraint of trade between the several states: https://en.wik…

Discussions would be more focused if participants were aware of the AFC test -- Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction-Filtration-Compari... Wi…

One of the first American novels was about Timbuktu (though fictional, as novels often are) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Algerine_Captive

It also has the interesting property that all the programs are quines except those that print themselves. In other words, the programs are quines if and only if they aren't. Androi…