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by 205guy 7y ago
Gaston is one of my favorites, laugh-out-loud funny as a kid and adult. Such great set-ups, visual gags, and word-play. For adventure, sci-fi, and incredible art, Yoko Tsuno was another great one that has stood the test of time. Oddly, I do
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by 205guy 7y ago
It didn't just gently mock the grown-up world, some of the characters were straight-up caricatures of political figures and other famous people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asterix_characters#Car...
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Fun fact: the best and most recent navigational charts for some islands in the Pacific Ocean were made by Captain Cook in the late 1700’s.
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The trick to writing that works for me is to combine tips 2 and 3 iteratively. I don’t write concisely at first (and I think that’s the case for most people), so I just write down everything I can think of related to the topic, even all the
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by 205guy 7y ago
I do agree that writing is a moving target. Different people learn in different ways, some people learn best from the style and content in the original submission. I’ve often thought that all docs should have a mirror video tutorial to give
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Those are the trees I was talking about. Actually, 1) is subsumed by “what the reader wants to do,” and 2) is unknowable and you’ll write a hard-to-use doc covering all the cases (kinda like the original submission). In my experience, all s
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by 205guy 7y ago
Your reference 1 is a deep-link that skips the intro. The intro says: > The course designers believe that you are probably comfortable with mathematics. Therefore, this unit begins with an equation: > good documentation = knowledge an
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I found that turning my tablet sideways revealed a sidebar with links to each section of the courses. Sometimes responsive UI is not better.
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This is why “nobody reads documentation.” These courses are typical tech-writer overkill, missing the forest for the trees, then getting lost in the weeds (if I may mix a few metaphors). There is too much introduction and setup, then it jum
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by 205guy 7y ago
Under certain conditions, can eclipse the the Sun. "Eclipse" ... now there is a name I haven't heard in a long time. But can you make a cool logo out of "Moon"?
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by 205guy 7y ago
As I get older (late 40’s) I find myself much more prone to speaking to people about incivilities such as this or littering, etc. Maybe I’m just starting to be a grumpy old man (get off my lawn), but I try to be polite and appeal to the gre
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by 205guy 7y ago
I will point out that the city or town officials (mayor or health inspectors) are in the same boat. Do they wait and see how things progress, or do they issue that declaration and forego lots of event revenue and business. Except their deci
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I think nature's growth will be like 1% or less, certainly not the stock market growth people are used to. To me, it is obvious there is a tight coupling: energy does work instead of humans/animals, thus allowing more productivity
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It's also half the reason behind the Jones Act. Shipping between US ports must be done with US-made ships with US crews. If it weren't for this, US shipyards wouldn't have enough orders or expertise to stay open, and thus wou
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by 205guy 7y ago
Conceptually, a taxi is a regulated industry. The regulation created by the government sets the work conditions, and the taxi medallion is the contract between the taxi provider and the government. In a way, it's different from both th
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by 205guy 7y ago
This is the key. When the drivers lack the ability to freely decline rides every time every time without consequences, they are not contractors anymore. By the way, the take-it-or-leave-it offer with dictated pricing is a really inefficient
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by 205guy 7y ago
Kudos to the article for having 2 clear maps that show exactly the various migrations that they are hypothesizing, including the different time frames. One sad note: the maps show the present reduced state of the Aral sea, whereas historica
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BTW, I think there was a land bridge to Australia for a time, though not all the way to the Asian continent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallacea It is perhaps unknowable whether someone went of exploring for years,
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by 205guy 7y ago
Upvoted you because I got turned off his channel by a similar but different issue last year: firearms. He was doing a lot of episodes involving rifles, such as viewing the bullet's turbulence with polarization (iirc) and slo-mo. It was
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I believe it's the beginning of the Great Plains and generally lacks water. It's not dry like a desert, but compared to the temperate forests and rivers of the East, South, and Mid-West, it is. It is intensively farmed now, using
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Yeah, but isn't that just a necessary step in learning? It takes knowledge off-course for a while, but then who knows at the time what the right course will be? Personally, I'm happy to see more theories and results around gravity
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That intrigued me as well, so I went to read some Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead ). Day of the Dead is a southern Mexican celebration that evolved from the assimilation of native culture (Maya
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> And this disagreement between those two groups sums up like 95% of all social media posts right now. Seeing the ensuing discussion: QED
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When I saw the last thread about people's guesses about where this is going (the one about the Tokyo Olympics possible cancellation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22420148 ), I thought the next one should be: Ask
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by 205guy 7y ago
In the Bay Area, my wife was also concerned about the brominated fire-retardants and found a manufacturer in Marin that use latex foam and wool toppers to make mattresses. We ordered one for us (custom dimensions for a European bed) and one
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by 205guy 7y ago
It's poorly phrased such that it sounds disconnected from the GP (about the lack of care in the US leading to both the needy and scammers on the street), but your quote leaves off the key word: > we know that a normal citizen would
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I see what you did there: "for content marketing [...] now we do longer, more comprehensive guides, and we cross-launch those to Product Hunt and Hacker News"
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Yeah, no. That TCJA (aka Trump's tax cut), moved me from solidly in deductions to just under standard deductions. I guess financially it's slightly better, but it doesn't simplify my taxes. Because now I'm just on the li
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by 205guy 7y ago
You can buy one from an artist in Maine. He makes them out of reused slate tiles, chipping them down to size for the right resonance. It looks a bit like a xylophone, and sounds very pretty. Looking at his website, he also has rough stone o
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by 205guy 7y ago
With renewable energy and local batteries, it would make sense to have DC wiring. It used to only be that off-grid systems had batteries (usually lead-acid), and they always just use an inverter. But now with battery packs such as the Tesla

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