AnnaPali

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by AnnaPali 10mo ago
Christian healthcare sharers do precisely this. By restricting services and the population addressed (your pastor or priest must sign off on your application), everything's extremely affordable. In particular, as we don't drink, d
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by AnnaPali 10mo ago
I got a used Precision 5540 from my work. I prefer it to my husband's 2024 Dell. The Linux battery life's even quite good, ~10 hours.
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by AnnaPali 10mo ago
Top of the line laptops from e.g. 2019 are very cheap and still competitive with current hardware for realistic use. You can find one with an i9 and 64gb of ram for $5-600, you'll just need to plug it in after a few hours!
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by AnnaPali 10mo ago
I enjoyed working on campus for a bit - because I also lived there, sleeping, eating, showering etc. and saved a lot of money! Of course, you have to hide that and they eventually caught me...
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by AnnaPali 10mo ago
Narraduct | Trust Officers | Remote | Full time & Part time | https://narraduct.com/jobs/trust-officer/ Basically, we're looking for 3 people to document and test access, building and maintenance for many
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by AnnaPali 1y ago
I find it rare to be able to think of things worth typing faster than 10-15 "wpm" equivalent of code. And typically much less, perhaps a few loc per day.
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by AnnaPali 1y ago
> Microtasks for Meatbags — the future: AI gives prompts, humans execute That's close to how many companies, plans etc. work today. We manage big groups of people and systems, as syncretic holes. Sometimes a human, sometimes a compu
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by AnnaPali 1y ago
Narraduct | Multiple Roles | Remote | Full time & Part time | https://narraduct.com/jobs/ Narraduct is a commodities focused consultancy and hedge fund, building tools for mining and energy companies, primarily in
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by AnnaPali 1y ago
Sounds like time to build up a new postgres serverless company and get acquihired/exited!
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by AnnaPali 1y ago
I agree 100%! It's amazing how few people grok this.
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by AnnaPali 3y ago
The plan9 ecosystem is amazing. It's a pity we work with much older abstractions - although they still didn't consider security to be an issue and I can't comprehend how we'd jerry rig it to work without trusting anythin
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by AnnaPali 3y ago
Here it is for $30: https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Assimil-Staff/dp/2700517555 You can also find it online, but be sure to find the audio files also. They are essential. Each of the 100+ lessons are like th
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by AnnaPali 3y ago
So many things like this come out but I've rarely found a way to actually implement any of these things, so they don't become actual learnings or takeaways. Skimming over the paper it just doesn't seem applicable. Perhaps som
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by AnnaPali 3y ago
> ’ve tried to introduce them to science, space, programming, history, math, finance, nature, etc. content and they don’t want to have anything to do with it. How did you try to do this? This sounds like a horror story I'm scared of
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by AnnaPali 3y ago
> Romanian "salut" not French "salut" I always loved the Romanian joke where someone says "mersi" and then you reply "oh, I didn't know you were French" but I suppose that comes up with many w
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by AnnaPali 3y ago
Assimil Dutch is an amazing course! It brings you to B2 in about 45 hours of applied study (just doing as the instructions tell you!) I really like Assimil courses in general but the polyglot community widely believes that the Dutch course