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I agree! I use ^3 etc for the notation: https://saul.pw/mag

No, they give you 10k options that vest in 12 months, and then next year you get 5k options that vest in 12 months, and then 2.5k, and then 1.25k (if stock price doubles every year…

Agreed that the government at the highest level should pay a huge amount of money. Though I think he should get $10^7 and the rest of the $10^8 should become an endowment for a cri…

So either the process is overlong or the vaccines are not verifiably safe.

> Religion has emphasized surrender as a way to find peace but I don't personally see how those words do anything Surrender is not resignation, it is acceptance. You have to acknow…

It's the combination of defaults that's problematic. If the site requires https, because it's e.g. a bank, then sure, require non-expired cert. But my static sites which have no au…

I was a half-pack-a-day smoker for about 10 years, quit several times (once for several months), and the only thing that "worked" ultimately was realizing that I simply could never…

And the person they don't steal from to get the money to get their fix?

But the hard disks are general purpose storage devices, right? Any chance they will become custom ASIC storage that can't be repurposed too?

It's a meme for Long Now members showing that they intend/expect civilization to continue past the year 9999. It's an effective signal to other members and a great "Ask me" button.…

Yeah just don't accidentally paste your password into a terminal and press Enter.

And millions of animal species occupying thousands of ecological niches are being replaced by 10 species across the planet: humans, the animals that humans eat, and the animals hum…

> holding out on us They're doing the fun part (coding) for free. It's well-known that developers don't like writing documentation (esp "properly" which is ill-defined and for some…

> people could make money from those who didn't like free. Does GPL ever work this way? In practice, GPL discourages corporate (=widespread) adoption, driving down the quality of o…

wait until you hear about the cloaca

Generally these rules are institutional policy which are there for legal or security reasons. In a 1000-person organization, preventing 990 of them from installing malware is more …

Wage inflation lags price inflation, sometimes by years.

...can we build houses with them?

Human psychology is a thing. If you point a team at a growing pile of bugs that no one has wrapped their head around, then the team will feel demoralized, overwhelmed, and unmotiva…

No, it's like raising a baby using advice your parents wrote down for you because they were parenting remotely. "Peer review" is your stepdad quickly skimming through your mom's PR…

As long as they are paying decent prices for those creative successes (so the creators can have a comfortable retirement with healthcare in the US), this is not the worst outcome.

NB: tmate.io is a great tool for multiplayer tmux.

When I was younger, I would run as fast as I could straight into brick walls. I deliberately go more slowly now, and make wiser decisions. The value of my experience has taught me …

tmate.io these days, but yeah.

I'm actively working on a VisiData-based drawing tool that a) uses unicode (including full-width chars), b) supports 256-colors, c) supports animations, and d) works in the termina…