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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Funny you should mention it -- my doctor [who earns something like $600k annually] and I discussed this very topic recently; I was talking about "working class" people in a context that obviously excluded individuals like him, and
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Ten years' durability* for non-underwear garments is what I shoot for as well. It's possible to get considerably more than that with a little extra care [for example, line drying rather than putting in the dryer machine] -- I&#x2
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
When I first started getting back into chess a few years ago, I absolutely _could not play_ blitz or bullet -- after the opening, I'd squander all my time in a few moves. After a few months of practicing, though, I really started to en
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
+1 for tubeless -- I switched a few weeks ago after getting sick of weekly punctures in Phoenix -- already saved me a boatload of time and trouble. Currently running WTB Venture 47c [changed from Horizons] on a 650b 'gravel bike',
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
yep -- first time I heard it was on Dj Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince's "I'm All That" circa 1991. "...set my sights on making a record that people thought was a hype jawn." I was living in New England at
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Fuji are among the best "keepers" in the industry -- they'll last a year in marketable condition if kept in proper controlled-atmosphere storage. Kind of like the modern Ben Davis, except they taste good!
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
For what it's worth, apple size is largely a function of how hard the grower 'thins' the developing crop. If they remove most of the fruitlets early on such that there is fewer than one apple left on the tree per blossom clu
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Apple [Malus pumila, not the tech company] fanatic here. I've been following the development and pre-launch activities for Cosmic Crisp for a couple years now, mainly through "Good Fruit Grower" magazine. [I've also tr
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Excellent article by the creator of the equally-excellent postgREST. Especially the neato historical material - I didn't know that Vi was directly derived from the ex [and by extension, ed] editor.
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Yep -- I remember reading a review of "Plant-Thinking" around the time it was published that said something like "The critics who deride [the notion of plant-consciousness as expressed in the book] do so in language that demo
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Vegan here -- naturally, there are as many philosophical approaches to vegan practice as there are vegans, but for me and others I know, it definitely is oriented toward 'harm-reduction' [or as I like to say, minimizing exploitati
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Those interested in this topic may wish to check out Michael Marder's "Plant-Thinking" [2013] -- on the philsophical rather than scientific end of the spectrum, but thought-provoking.
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
I work for a "flat" company. I've certainly observed some of the troubling characteristics of this organizational approach described above and elsewhere in comments. There are some positive characteristics [in our implementa
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Julian Barbour has what I consider to be a pretty well-reasoned notion a timeless universe composed of a large number of mathematical configuration spaces he calls "nows" -- i.e., it contains many states, but no objective notion o
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Lee Smolin makes an intriguing suggestion with regard to how the universe reproduces in his book "The Life of the Cosmos" -- I can't say I was persuaded, but I think it's worth reading
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Yep! Another good example: the pretty nifty Postgres API interface postgREST is implemented in Haskell
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
yeah indeed - the potential to weaponize gene editing is tremendous. "Brave New World" may look like an egalitarian utopia if that potential is realized.
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
In Marijn Haverbeke's "Eloquent Javascript," there's a compelling discussion of how crows build resilient telecommunications networks using termite mounds. Crows are smart as hell -- as a gardener, I've seen their d
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Yeah, but what if he then tells all his crow buddies that there's a certain human who'll give a biscuit and all you have to do is attack! [edit : didn't see below comment already referring to 'protection racket']
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
This phenomenon exists in Phoenix / Tempe as well. Most likely due to weather [as noted below] and relatively high population
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Indeed -- look at the popular street "con" known as "Three-Card Monte" -- a fraudulent card game which seems to be run by a single person, but in fact also involves several [or all] people in what appears to be 'the
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Yep. I resisted FB for years, but finally gave in in ~2009 due to pressure from old school pals, after what I thought was a thorough risk/benefit analysis. Turns out that I _vastly_ underestimated the risk. I quit FB in ~2012, but
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Makes me think of that classic scene between Jude Law and Dustin Hoffman in "I [Heart] Huckabees" -- Hoffman: ... are you being yourself? Law [increduluous]: How am I not myself?! Hoffman : "How am I not myself." Law: _H
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Reading the above list made me feel genuinely queasy. I'm no stranger to the warped side of politics, but this is really just ugly from a "balance of public and private interest in governance" standpoint.
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Plus -- git! I'm a confirmed Linux user [switched from macOS], but to me it's clear that git dwarfs Linux in terms of sheer _significance_. Sure, Linux is what runs most big systems and that is really cool, but if Linux hadn'
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Yep! I went to the "Art of Armor" exhibition when it came to Phoenix Art Museum - saw this stuff up close and bought the catalog, which confirms that many of the fancier pieces were ceremonial in nature -- especially the ones wit
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by MisterOctober 7y ago
Yep, this is exactly how I use it at my office. Slack isn't where 'deep work' happens, it's one of the things that allows me to accomplish 'deep work' by reducing interruption and distraction.
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by MisterOctober 8y ago
Just installed it; love it. Will save me time by avoiding the need to switch from terminal to browser to use ddg [and sidesteps the less-than-optimal UI of Lynx, which I still use pretty frequently but dislike for search]. Big up!
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by MisterOctober 8y ago
Yep! System board part number 38HRF and equivalents -- if I never see another one of those doggone things, it'll be too soon!
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by MisterOctober 8y ago
Totally - Mint was my bridge from OSX to Linux. Great stuff. My impression is that the "cool kids" like to dis Mint because it's popular and easy to use. I found that its ease of use allowed me to get comfortable with the

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