JackMorgan

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by JackMorgan 1y ago
I've yet to see the solarpunk argument: buying a house lets you generate value with the land/building. For example, perennial fruit and veggie gardens in your backyard let you invest a small amount of time and energy building a lo
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by JackMorgan 1y ago
I wrote up some exercises to help build the muscle memory of advanced vim commands: https://github.com/steveshogren/10-minute-vim-exercises/blob...
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by JackMorgan 1y ago
Ruby feels like a luxury manual hand saw. It fits in the hand perfectly. But it would not be my first choice for every project. Languages like C#, Java, C++, Scala, Kotlin, and Python in 2025 feel like industrial computerized bandsaws with
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by JackMorgan 1y ago
Dota Underlords came out since then, which is a brilliant game that they effectively abandoned / moved on to Deadlock.
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by JackMorgan 1y ago
This feels like whataboutism. "Sure, you're not doing international air travel and avoiding all the incredible waste of a modern car, but whatabout that small amount of resources needed for a bike?!" It encourages helplessnes
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by JackMorgan 1y ago
I wonder how this relates to Sensory Processing Sensitivity? I know some folks with this who experience some of the same attributes but are otherwise very high IQ. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_processing_sens
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by JackMorgan 1y ago
We're heading further into a reality where there just aren't enough jobs. All the money has been hoovered into the stock market. There's just not enough floating around to pay people, it's all going into LLM electricity
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by JackMorgan 1y ago
Having taken all the college level CS coursework for CS degree (I skipped the math and got minors in education and English), I think a lot of folks vastly overestimate how much they learned in a CS degree. Assuming 50 CS credits required fo
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by JackMorgan 1y ago
Fascinating, because as a consultant almost always my clients are either the sort to build a vast mess of microservices with eventually consistent enterprise service buses for an internal tool with two dozen users OR they are trying to figu
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by JackMorgan 1y ago
Not to toot my own horn, but I've been building this free site with space weather and a lot of free data for folks to be able to do their own satellite conjunctions. We've even got a 7 day forecast with covariance so it's eve
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by JackMorgan 1y ago
If you have a destructive dog (no way to know in advance) you either have to crate it or risk destroying a lot of your stuff. Crating a dog is pretty sad and the dog won't like it. So you're basically trapped at home.
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by JackMorgan 1y ago
You've got it backwards, Netflix doesn't want people to just doom-scroll, the users want to doom-scroll. Attention destroying apps reduce the long term focus and reward centers such that doom-scrolling through the catalog probably
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
The whole mythos of running barefoot got me and my wife into running! We did actual barefoot just a little bit before switching to toe shoes. We ran in those until 2021. We only switched to Xeros because of the "grass stuck between the
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
I am a volunteer EMT, so it's worth it for me. But I also understand it's very likely that even if you return the patient to spontaneous circulation, they might still not live or might have serious issues like brain damage. Cardia
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
I recall hearing a lot of assembly engineers not wanting to let their skills rust either. They didn't want to be a "4th gen engineer" and have their skills replaced by proprietary compilers. Same with folks who were used to f
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
In the US, you don't have to do anything. If they are not responsive without a pulse you can legally administer CPR with the "good Samaritan" laws. However it's extremely unlikely to actually work in the best of conditio
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
About ten years ago both my wife and I had to switch to extremely low caffeine coffee because we would get panic attacks. It still happens now, just this week we were accidentally served caffeinated coffee at breakfast diner and both were h
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
I managed to get syncthing working on iOS. It's definitely possible
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
Quick numbers: - Belgium and Netherlands: ~1.5% - 19th century European city dwellers: ~6% - Certain tribes in Namibia with cultural multiple partners: ~48% City dwelling was always higher than rural in Western cultures.
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
What a great story! I've loved the game for some time now, fascinating to see how it was made
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
Two things: - It's dangerous for the manager's career to lose the ability to code. After five years they will have regressed nearly to a Jr engineer's ability and would need significant effort to get back into interviewing sh
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
Writing is perhaps the most profound tool I have for self improvement. It sharpens my mind. It heals my trauma. It expands my creativity.
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
Trough of disillusionment. A lot of folks here their stock portfolio propped up by AI companies but think they've been overhyped (even if only indirectly through a total stock index). Some were saying all along that this has been a bub
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
As someone who takes several long road trips a year, it's wild to hear about only 10 minute breaks every four hours. My wife and I often do at least a ten minute break every 90 minutes! The idea of just grinding on and on for hours fee
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
I've got an Alphagrip that's pretty good but I ended losing my speed with it when Swype touchscreens came out and I was faster with them. https://www.alphagrip.com/
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LLM Pair Programming as a Non-Technical Idea Guy: It's Complicated(benawise.com)
3 points by JackMorgan 2y ago|0 comments
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
I don't understand why you are so negative about this. It's very easy to sign up for Lemmy.world, takes a few minutes. It's not a matter of opinion. Are you opposed to the platform for some reason?
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
I like Lemmy a lot, switched over from Reddit a few years ago and it's so much less toxic. I just filter out all the political stuff and political keywords. Feels like a small Reddit before it was massive and filled with bots and spam.
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
I disagree, the casual user can sign up for lemmy.world and use the Sync app in two minutes. Only later might they care about what server they are on, but that's a great place to start.
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by JackMorgan 2y ago
I went with Bazzite and after a hiccup (installed Nvidia-open when I needed just Nvidia) it is working great! Was able to install and play a few games already! Thanks for the recommendation, hoping it will carry on as well as it did today.

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