JakeAl

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by JakeAl 4y ago
Africa as well. No apparent covid in Africa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=222G8VV6hx4
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by JakeAl 4y ago
I don't think it's Twitter, I think it's the weather/rolling blackouts and the Internet. YouTube has been giving me more problems just loading thumbnails for days, and I'm on fiber.
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by JakeAl 4y ago
All I see is people hiring programmers and IT workers. Basically the younger worker bees. Not managers who aren't programming or people with more experience than being a serf. The lesson is you're expected to start your own compan
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by JakeAl 4y ago
If you've never read his "Out of Control" book (for free on the web site) it's a must read. Really great stuff.
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by JakeAl 4y ago
Someone's probing the grid. They only need out take out the right stations to take out the east, west or central grids and if all grids go down getting the them back up becomes exponentially more difficult. https://www.youtu
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by JakeAl 4y ago
The takeaway I got from him was positive. First, start buying real estate and renting. THEN, with that financial security try to build a business of your own if you are motivated. The first part is hard to fail at, and you can do it while w
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by JakeAl 4y ago
I recommend this book, but it's pre-smartphone. Still the best book for telling you what design elements should be used under which circumstances. https://archive.org/details/guidesignhandboo0000fowl
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by JakeAl 4y ago
You're right, it's not user-centered design, it's creator-centered design, like those god-awful lightbox overlays for subscribing to newsletters that are the most horrible interference ever. And no, I don't care that the
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by JakeAl 4y ago
Know your hierarchy of oppression. That's sexist. Clearly it would be code for His Girl Friday.
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by JakeAl 4y ago
The notion that immortality is a good idea fades with age. Youth is more important, because as you age opportunities and options vanish and ailments and limitations arise. If you can give me immortality, health and my youth, I may reconside
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by JakeAl 4y ago
Automata https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1971325/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 and Total Recall 2070 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159920/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_6
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by JakeAl 4y ago
Sure it is. Suing gun manufacturers set a precedent for the misuse of their products.
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by JakeAl 4y ago
Yes, and you can't search your drive without searching the Internet
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by JakeAl 4y ago
If you're not familiar, read up on how things went down in Greece and Italy and dare I say, Argentina with their economic collapses. The concern becomes getting your money out of the bank and prices skyrocketing between the shelf and c
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by JakeAl 4y ago
Maybe the results would have been different if it didn't involve the government or more specifically, trusting the government and anything they say. If anything the Internet and FOIA requests have proven just about every conspiracy the
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by JakeAl 4y ago
We NEED offline apps that only sync when you choose to.
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by JakeAl 4y ago
Scientific American was once like reading well illustrated research journal paper. Today it's the "science" equivalent of People magazine.
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by JakeAl 4y ago
That one thing you tell yourself, "If I was smart, I'd..." Do that and start right away. Become a master of something you know better about today than you did when you started out. Seek out a mentor and ask them what that on
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by JakeAl 4y ago
Excellent book and a must read. It's all about narrative control and how everuthuing is a narrative (because our nervous systems have evolved around storytelling as a framework for communication) in an age when we know companies like G
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by JakeAl 4y ago
Does he realize his life is over?
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by JakeAl 4y ago
MS had a great solution back in the day with their Dynamic HTML. The anti-MS community opted for what we have been left with instead of adopting what MS came up with. DHTML was pretty awesome. https://archive.org/details&#x2
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by JakeAl 4y ago
> imagine if the software decided by itself that it is too old to run or to replace itself with a new version against my wishes Why I will never buy another Apple product. Had a great video editing station I would author DVDs with until
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by JakeAl 4y ago
This week, Gabor Mate's documentary The Wisdom of Trauma.
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by JakeAl 4y ago
I'd add Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect by Jonice Webb to that list as well.
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by JakeAl 4y ago
This is how I started going about managing complex design processes, BEFORE agile and whatever buzzwords they use to describe the same problem discovery, identification, positioning ad solution proposals. You go as deep as you need to THINK
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by JakeAl 4y ago
They use Unity for a wide variety of purposes, including cyber-security and educational training in general. BE glad they are making jobs available for the thousands of kids graduating with Unity certification in an oversaturated game marke
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by JakeAl 4y ago
Had this same problem, I think it's just the web sites. Every now and then you can find pre-builts with all the features you wanted and just the features you wanted so you may just have to order it through a human being. Case in point
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by JakeAl 4y ago
I feel the same way about job boards, but we're the product in both cases.
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by JakeAl 4y ago
I just use Beyond Compare from Scooter Software. Best program ever. Been using it for 20 years now. I swear by it as an evangelist user. Diff images, Excel documents, PDFs, whatever.
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by JakeAl 4y ago
People are also buying up all the inventory of available cars and flipping them at CarMax for a profit. Look on CarMax and you see loads of brand new cars with 3-6K markup. That's who the dealerships are competing with.

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