MarsAscendant

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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Quoting parent comment: > Has helped me travel from Bali to Jakarta, through Thailand, Namibia, and with the TransSib. "TransSib" here is the Trans-Siberian Railway, travelled via the eponymous train. You may know: Siberia is i
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Quite a spike in 2011. What happened that year?
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
I find it interesting that some well-developed countries see their scores fall slightly over the last few years. I wonder if it's because there's an actual increase in corruption, or because people have gotten more disenchanted. I
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
You know what I never expect to do? Use a VPN just to access the websites my Internet provider is too slow to reach. Tried to do that with the link you posted, still to no avail. Could you repost your image to, say, Imgur? I'd like to
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Your writing reminds me a lot of a certain veteran of online conversations, kleinbl00. Have you heard of him? He's not much of a "hacker", but his various comments on Reddit and Hubski are on a similar wavelength to yours.
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
> In the corporate space many of the younger people I have worked with feel, to me, extraordinarily fragile. This reminds me of a piece I've read on Habr, a Russian platform in a format similar to HN. An older dev was talking about
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
It's deeply unfair to compare a wilful, meaningful calorie intake reduction with a pathological anxiety over any sort of consumption of food. If you didn't know the difference "back then", it was due to ignorance, not
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Guardian on “life Online in China, Cuba, India and Russia” (2019)(theguardian.com)
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
I'm not a programmer. I'm a writer and a designer. Coding is what I do when I don't do either – less as a hobby and more a way to vent my creative frustration. Aesthetics is important to me. Being in an ugly environment bring
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
When do you need to tell discrete characters apart? Is it personal, rather than professional – something about the way things ought to be , from your perspective?
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
> Leisure time is very much part of the daily plan. I put tasks like jogging, workout, reading, going out in all my plans. This kind of discipline sounds impressive. (I don't think I can follow something quite so meticulous: it&#x27
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
> It took months one time for me to add 5# to my dead lift. Holy cow! I would've quit after a few days of no progress. Thank you for this reply. The workout felt good . I did a little bit of push-ups, squats, and plank, and it was
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
I was impressed with IBM Plex Sans at first, too. It was going to be my website's main font. I switched it for Inter UI, because it spoke to me more. (Also, thanks for reminding me of it. I think I've just found the font for a red
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Thanks a lot for the answer. Do you have a routine to (re)visit your plans and see if you're on the right track? Do you even have a concept of the wrong track under this system? How does your work time, according to the `todo`, fare ag
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Fira Code's author says Hasklig was the inspiration behind his work.
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
I've looked at it just now. Found it too... skrawny? The lines are too thin and too jagged – the latter probably a consequence of the former. You can see how it differs from other proposed fonts in this thread.
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
> but it feels way too wide It seems the weirdest thing to me that fonts – especially monospaced fonts – vary by width. I'm working on a forum redesign at the moment. Picking a font took a surprising while, because the font the fo
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Yet to find something that suits me better than Fira Code. It's a decently good-looking font with ligatures . I'm a sucker for ligatures.
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Was this a natural progression of your system, or did you have to try it to see that it works?
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
This [ https://gittobook.org/books/57/You-Dont-Know-JS ] may be what you need. It seems to be the whole six books on one page, with .EPUB and .MOBI available for download.
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
To be fair, it's difficult to not see yourself as having <something> when <something> is everpresent in many aspects of your daily life. I want to socialize, but it's difficult. I want to work out, but it's re
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
You've hit the nail on the head for me with the last paragraph. Thank you for verbalizing it.
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
> When the alarm goes off every morning to go to the gym, it sucks. But I do it anyway. The first step is accepting it is not easy and it will suck at times. This is a major problem for me right now. The depression doesn't help, but
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
The tiering of goals in the way you've done it is brilliant. Do you consult upper-tier lists when making lower-tier assignments?
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
I find a different project on the website, Drapery FM [ http://www.ireneposch.net/drapery-fm/ ], even more interesting. It's a wool installation that transmits its own creation story over the radio. To me, it feels
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
Could you explain to me, a newbie, what Beaker promotes and what its advantage is against browsers that use HTTP?
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
You might enjoy Hubski.
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
I believe you're exaggerating the threat a laugh at the "fake-newsness" of a scientific study about fake news can bring. One can't account for everyone, but there's no conversation to be had ever , about *anything,
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
You can be cheeky and still take the matter seriously. Just 'cause the paper describes (or, used to describe?) a serious problem, doesn't mean one has to tread carefully around such an obvious foundation for situational humor.
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by MarsAscendant 8y ago
On the topic of web design rather than bookprinting: I would suggest not to use element-heavy background designs for as simple a case as this website's. I have a low-grade, student-level laptop, and it makes scrolling noticably lag, by

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