Arubis

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by Arubis 5y ago
I had many moments of thinking “is there a product here?” Most things that help aren’t products. We nibble around the logistic edges with buying our time back: a front-door laundry service, a lot of delivery meals when we had a newborn duri
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by Arubis 5y ago
I can relate; that said, a confounding factor I’ve been unable to disambiguate is raising young kids _during a pandemic_. How much of the challenge was typical parenting? How much was doing it in a world on fire when it was unsafe for the k
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by Arubis 5y ago
That lines up with other studies I’ve seen elsewhere; for better or for worse, this entire proposed curve does (dip when the kids arrive, then slow but steady rise in happiness till self-reported values exceed childless couples). That makes
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by Arubis 5y ago
Dark patterns are evil, not illegal (usually). And virtually anyone with sufficient political influence to do anything about this uses an actual accountant rather than DIY.
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by Arubis 5y ago
Without arguing over content, why the quotes? Applebaum is well documented as existing.
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by Arubis 5y ago
It’s next-order effects over time. In and of itself, someone having more resources than you or I doesn’t affect our lifestyle, happiness, etc. But wealth in our society leads to concentration of power, and fear of loss (among others, some s
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by Arubis 5y ago
> Nix (the language, not to be confused with NixOS, the operating system) I do wish the documentation made this division clearer. Currently they’re a bit muddled together.
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by Arubis 5y ago
Nix is indeed a great idea. I do hope that idea’s time has come. But, oh, man, that config syntax. I’d love to see some alternative, human-friendlier interface; am thinking here of how Elixir really induced a significant pickup in usage of
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by Arubis 5y ago
Neat! Hadn’t used Mermaid before today, and it was easy enough to pick up to do a same-day turnaround for a client-facing PR with an embedded flow diagram to support a needed discussion. I’ll be interested to see if/how visual diffs wo
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by Arubis 5y ago
It sounds like you want to have a thing built, and don’t want to spend time/effort on code. Have you considered hiring someone to build it for you?
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by Arubis 5y ago
Fabulous news. This has been a long time coming.
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by Arubis 5y ago
This was also my first thought! Everything old is new again.
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Tangentially, that’d be a cool model for copyright.
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by Arubis 5y ago
Climate-wise, this applies to hot places as well. I spent a few years in upcountry subsaharan Africa. Sleeping indoors was suggested and encouraged because it made it easier to set up anti-mosquito bed nets, but actually doing so was a chal
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by Arubis 5y ago
Work remotely from coworking space at my option; prefer my ability to make my own decisions.
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Time to Upgrade your Monitor (high-refresh 4K on Mac)(tonsky.me)
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by Arubis 5y ago
Maybe tangential, but would most folks be likely to discern the difference vs. a glass French press? Most drip coffeemakers I’ve used are both more expensive and make worse coffee (not to mention harder to clean), so I’ve largely given up o
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by Arubis 5y ago
Of course they do. They know the equation: we have to win every time; they only have to win once.
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by Arubis 5y ago
Pinboard is great! It works everywhere, it’s super simple, and it means I can find stuff later. For anyone looking for a “Read Later” option, [Paperback]( https://readpaperback.com/ ) is lovely as well, like Instapaper before
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by Arubis 5y ago
Absent regulation or other incentives to nudge the market otherwise, the overwhelming majority of software is and will be written to use existing input methods--i.e. adding a new input method isn't the core competency of a team creatin
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by Arubis 5y ago
Tl;dr: author dislikes using Linux on the desktop.
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by Arubis 5y ago
I mean, yes, you're being flippant, but this is _not a bad idea_
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by Arubis 5y ago
This feels like a good balance to me--you're giving people a heads-up that there's an open block that they can book, without doing the "value add" of blocking it off and then scalping the slot. More power to you.
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by Arubis 5y ago
Jupiter’s moon Io would disagree.
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by Arubis 5y ago
Removing humans from the cockpit frees designers up to do a lot more than save weight. The big restriction with human pilots is a ceiling for how much G you can pull before your precious human cargo blacks out. Silicon has no such restricti
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by Arubis 5y ago
Hades will help train you to be persistent and care for yourself in the face of adversity. And it’s a bloody computer game! Cheaper than (though not a replacement for) therapy.
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by Arubis 5y ago
I honest-to-goodness will frequently print out code to review or revise on paper. Being able to mark it up with pen freehand doesn’t let me do anything I couldn’t in a good editor, but it works better in my head.
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by Arubis 5y ago
Finding your first client is without doubt the hardest part. After that you’ll have more confidence, a reference, and possibly some word of mouth running ahead of you. A frequent recommendation I’ve heard is to make your current employer yo
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by Arubis 5y ago
While not strictly zero-sum, my understanding is that in order to have upward mobility, you must also have some downward mobility.
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YearCompass: Close 2021, Plan 2022(yearcompass.com)
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