Finnucane

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by Finnucane 11y ago
How do you stream a cigar to your iphone? Is there an ad every fifth puff?
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by Finnucane 11y ago
Yeah, this. Spend enough time looking at the computer, having something to do that doesn't involve it is good. For me, it's my photography--vintage mechanical cameras and wet darkroom.
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by Finnucane 11y ago
You might look at Mythlogic as well--I got a laptop from them a couple of years ago and have been pleased by it. Falcon, Mythlogic, and a few of the others are using Clevo shells as the base--not super cutting edge tech, but solid, quality
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by Finnucane 11y ago
Or you could hope your marriage lasts. The reason we gloss over the variables is that if we tried to account for every possible variable in life, we would never get around to doing anything, and there would still be uncertainty. At some poi
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by Finnucane 11y ago
We bought a house in a 'tech hub' (Cambridge) during the crash--it was a little scary at the time, but worked out well for us. Our current costs are about half the going rents in the area. Prices have gone up so much in the last f
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by Finnucane 11y ago
I would expect my upgraded-with-science office to not need PowerPoint slides. Srlsy, should I take advice from someone who thinks PP on the web is a good idea?
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by Finnucane 11y ago
Price?
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by Finnucane 11y ago
Presumably this is for those times when you only need a Volkswagen and not a fleet of trucks.
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by Finnucane 11y ago
SQLAlchemy tries to provide a pythonic wrapper for most database operations, in an implementation-agnostic way, which can be a convenience but also makes it large and complex. It really isn't the thing you want to use if what you want
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by Finnucane 11y ago
Here in the Boston area we got rid rent control 20 years ago. Rents are still pretty high and almost all new construction is high-end luxury units. Cambridge is less affordable now than it was 20 years ago. And construction is proceeding at
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by Finnucane 11y ago
I would not expect Google to recommend using an ad blocker. They still want you to be able to see the 'good' ads.
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by Finnucane 11y ago
I agree with them. I work in an academic setting where accessibility is important, and Bootstrap makes a hash of semantics, which is bad for assisted reading systems that need it for navigation.
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by Finnucane 11y ago
I'm old enough to remember the talk of a 'peace dividend' after the end of the Cold War. Didn't really happen--we still maintain a globe-spanning empire.
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by Finnucane 11y ago
"End notes work… if the software can return back to where I came from. The Kindle can't." The kindle can, if the links exist. If they don't, it's the publisher's fault.
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by Finnucane 11y ago
A 'footnote' at the bottom of the page doesn't work when there's no bottom of a page. Our books normally have endnotes, which can be linked to a numbered callout (I've even written a little QA script to make sure al
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by Finnucane 11y ago
I work in ebook production for an academic publisher, and I think at least part of the reason sales have flattened is technological. The current crop of ebook readers are optimized for mass-market books, and have little or no support for co
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by Finnucane 11y ago
I'm aware of the affect of dpi on the print. Sure, I suppose I could also get a second-hand drum scanner, too; sometimes you can get them for cheap. A Flextight is nice but it still a CCD scanner, it is not going to match a PMT.
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by Finnucane 11y ago
Wet mounting will only help if the scanner focus can be optimized. I've got a Epson V750, and _if_ everything is just right, you can get a very good scan, but still noticeably short of what a drum scan will give you. When I print my MF
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by Finnucane 11y ago
Have you met people? Can you name a topic where ad campaigns and available facts have been 100% persuasive? It just doesn't work like that. For one thing, people are bad at assessing abstract risks--they figure it won't happen to
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by Finnucane 11y ago
Python and Ruby come at problems from different directions, and you have to go with the one that suits you. Python-philosophy says "explicit is better than implicit" and Ruby-philosophy says "convention over configuration.&qu
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by Finnucane 11y ago
In New York, no one has space to keep a bike in their apartment. Okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but it is an issue. It's certainly an issue for many here in Boston, where Hubway bikes are popular. I ride my own bike to wor
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by Finnucane 11y ago
Indeed--we use the dvd service routinely (most of their movies aren't available for streaming), and it is almost always two-day turnaround on disks. (One day in each direction)
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by Finnucane 11y ago
We had this in Mass. It passed by a wide margin in every district. People understand that corporations != people. A corporation is a machine, a golem that we create to do our bidding. There's no need to treat them as anything more than
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by Finnucane 11y ago
The main problem with comparing XML and JSON is that their use cases don't perfectly overlap. I work with complex text documents, typically encoded in TEI schema, and it would be insane to try to do this work in JSON. It's possibl