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by acabal 3y ago
I've considered running a campaign to finance a print run of some of our (SE's) books. But the fact is that it's just so easy to find super cheap paper copies of these books almost anywhere. As long as you buy a copy that was
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by acabal 3y ago
Editor-in-Chief here, happy to answer any questions! Of interest might be my blog post on how SE runs on a small VPS using classic web tech: https://alexcabal.com/posts/standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-... (This post is
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by acabal 3y ago
I'm not referring to the plastic bags that you put your own vegetables in, I mean that at many groceries, including the one near me, these vegetables come prepackaged by the store/distributor and you don't have a choice to bu
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by acabal 3y ago
I agree with Kellogg that individual change is both near-impossible and pointless. For most Americans it's not possible to live a day to day life without involving single use plastics and plastic packaging. For example I can't eve
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by acabal 3y ago
Playgrounds require you to have children with you - for example I don't think it would be socially acceptable for a group of unaccompanied adults to show up to a playground and sip some beers while they chat amongst themselves, like yo
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by acabal 3y ago
I think most people in the suburban US have no idea what a public, car-free, communal space where people can casually gather without buying something even is . At this point, entire generations have grown up in unwalkable suburban life, us
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by acabal 3y ago
Definitely a singular and fascinating work. I produced a free ebook edition for Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ludwig-wittgenstein/tracta...
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by acabal 3y ago
This is what the CC0 license is for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_license#Zero_...
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by acabal 3y ago
It's not our (SE's) choice to use XHTML in ebooks, it's part of the epub spec. So we merely expect valid XHTML per the epub spec, and valid XHTML requires self-closing tags.
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by acabal 3y ago
That's a great idea. I've gone ahead and implemented it!
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by acabal 3y ago
This is very cool and I explored doing this with our feeds at Standard Ebooks.[0] But there's a gotcha: This works fine if you serve the feed with `content-type: text/xml`, because with that content type the browser typically rend
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by acabal 3y ago
Oh I definitely do anyways, though I don't work in a typical programmer job.
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by acabal 3y ago
I think it's important to leave room for beauty and aesthetics in men's dress, but that doesn't necessarily need to mean a suit and tie. Only very recently in history - say since around 1980 - has society decided that men&#x2
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by acabal 3y ago
Just because suits are going out of fashion, doesn't mean there isn't a dress code anymore. A programmer at a typical startup has a dress code that's just as strict as a suit and tie ever was - except that now it's unspo
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by acabal 3y ago
This is a really excellent app, I use it all the time in my garden. I planted native plants, and as they sprout every year it's very hard to tell them apart from weeds at first. But Flora Incognito does a great job of identifying most
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by acabal 3y ago
That, and her characterization of Marcus Aurelius as a "misanthropic, warmongering emperor" and his Meditations as having been written "for his own edification" as if it were some kind of selfish or self-aggrandizing w
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by acabal 3y ago
> Like, what's the alternative? This is, of course, the inability to visualize a different life that I referred to in my original post. There are many alternatives to car-oriented life, as cities that grew before cars plainly eviden
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by acabal 3y ago
The point is that driving should not be required to live a full life, and in fact it's much more pleasant to live without cars everywhere. The goal of driving is to get from point A to point B. But when point A and point B are a 5 minu
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by acabal 3y ago
For those who live in such cities (and not just visit), everything they want to do is a 3-15 minute walk , not a drive . You can get groceries, stop at a cafe, go to a doctor's appointment, and pick up your kids from school (or bet
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by acabal 3y ago
I've been railing against cars in the US for years and years. The thing is that today most people in the US under the age of 60 grew up in cars, usually in a suburban environment, and it's actually impossible for them to imagine w
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by acabal 3y ago
I think it's important to note that they're luxuries in the modern society we've built for ourselves in the West. Long, long ago, small communities without access to high-speed travel provided social support; no cars and litt
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by acabal 4y ago
While both are good fits for their specific use cases, I think JSON won as an medium of exchange because unlike XML, JSON is dead simple to parse and ingest programmatically. What makes XML so unergonomic to ingest is 1) attributes, which d
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by acabal 4y ago
Historically, that is what it meant to be middle class. Before there was an established middle class, there was only the upper class - aristocracy who inherited wealth and land - and the poor. You might find a rich merchant from time to t
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by acabal 4y ago
Indeed, and the article is right in saying there isn't really a way out. Humanity paints itself into these kinds of corners fairly frequently over the course of history: entrenched systems where many suffer, but where too many powerful
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by acabal 4y ago
Planting native plants is very rewarding, and you don't need a lot of space to do it, either. The only space for greenery in our condo, located in a major urban center, is a small strip of mud at the side of the building. A few years a
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by acabal 4y ago
Angry Video Game Nerd has a great video on Chex Quest, in which he concedes that it's actually a surprisingly good game for its time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg0y9i5E7nY
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by acabal 4y ago
I've been using TB for over 15 years now, and in that whole time Local Folders has been 100% useless for me. Just visual clutter. I even created an addon to hide it permanently, which got fairly popular and existed until they changed t
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by acabal 4y ago
Yes, they sent a prepaid label to return the bad drives. I did a secure erase both via Linux command line and via their proprietary software and it seemed to work. The whole process took about 3 weeks per drive.
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by acabal 4y ago
Indeed! Fortunately the RAID was also backed-up offsite. But, the entire process was shocking in several ways. At least Samsung was fairly speedy with the RMAs and it was basically no-questions-asked... because I imagine they're gettin
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by acabal 4y ago
Yes, this bit me just last month. Around October 2022 I purchased 3 Samsung 870 EVO 2TBs for use in a RAID array. By January 2023, all three of them failed within a week of each other! Fortunately they failed one by one, so I was barely w

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