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by Zippogriff 6y ago
My new rule after my last job search is that I don't interview if I don't know enough about the interview process to be more than 50% certain I'll come off OK in it. Not that I'll get the job, but more than 50% certain I
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
Is this true in practice, for most practitioners? It's sometimes hard to tell how ideals match up to reality when it comes to this stuff, for those without first-hand experience. For my part I've read a fair amount about Buddhism
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
The quality of lumber in early 20th century houses is incredible. You'd go broke trying to build a modern house out of lumber that good, assuming you could source it in the first place.
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
Anything that operates on proof-of-work like Bitcoin does will need a valuable operation that 1) can have its difficulty tuned up or down, 2) has a result that's quick to precisely verify, and (I suppose) 3) the result of which is less
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
There's always a limit. You either define and manage it yourself or it'll be done for you when some part of your system breaks. In the end if you actually need performance and reliability everything will have a bound (if not fix
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
1491 covers "Indian fire" quite a bit. Seems that much of North America was under some form of active management by native peoples before Europeans arrived, and one of the main ways, and probably the main way, by area, was ver
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
USB CD+DVD burners are nearly disposable-cheap and very convenient to use, now. The "good" ones are under $30 and crappy ones as low as $15. They're barely larger than a CD jewel case, weigh ~nothing, and are powered entirely
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
WordPress has an official REST API. It's pretty easy to rip post/page content out of it either on a schedule (cron) or dynamically, in either case rendering finished pages from templates or similar, and serve it without involving
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
Oh it's much worse. It's all mixed up together, no sorting. I doubt any of it actual gets recycled, except maybe the metal. It's such an obviously terrible program that surely it only exists to funnel money to someone's
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
Regular trash costs extra money after a couple bags, here, so we're encouraged to put anything in recycling that can go there. Our city has us put recycling out at the curb, unbagged and uncovered, in plastic bins. Meanwhile, wind exis
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
Sure, will do.
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
We just found this the other day! It seems great and my kid's really into it! But I tried to give you money to access more than the demo lessons and couldn't. Hit the 3-month sub on my kid's ipad, sent request to parent ipad
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
Whatever its faults, most of the works in Bloom's list at the end of The Western Canon are probably very much worthwhile, yet appreciating them could occupy more than a lifetime for anyone whose job is not reading literature, even
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
Yeah, I've been in contact with the kind of people who might attract the label "redneck" or even "white trash" all my life (I'm from such stock) and when I think of people I've heard express and witnessed
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by Zippogriff 6y ago
It's true enough that in the early 2000s one of my poli-sci professors devoted most of a course to the book War Before Civilization and kept hammering on the idea of prehistoric war being widespread and common as some kind of huge re