agentwiggles

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by agentwiggles 6y ago
Approximately, following the advice from the article: _ A frog beeth a small beast with four legs, which liveth both in water and on land. It could be brown or green or yellow, or be it tropical, it may have diverse colors. It hath lungs an
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by agentwiggles 6y ago
I loved my Zune HD, it had one of the best interfaces for dealing with podcasts that was available at the time. Tons of capacity, great on device playlist and queue management too. I love having access to tons of music via Spotify, but I al
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by agentwiggles 7y ago
I love his style parodies best of all, and I totally agree with you. I always bring those songs up if I'm arguing with someone about his musicianship. "Close But No Cigar" is probably my favorite Cake song.
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by agentwiggles 7y ago
I consider sugar to be by far my worst addiction, I can moderate on alcohol and pot with no issue, but with sugar I really need an all or nothing approach.
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by agentwiggles 7y ago
Anecdotally, I've noticed that if I avoid all sweets (and especially soda) I tend to have less of a sweet tooth. If I give myself leeway, and start taking donuts and candy that show up at work, I feel like my resistance to sweets drops
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by agentwiggles 7y ago
> Historically I've been terrible at it, I'm paid incredibly well compared to most of the population, but because I wasn't consciously budgeting I'd end up running down to the last few pounds in my bank account every
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by agentwiggles 7y ago
I switched from Keepass to 1Password recently and couldn't be happier with the decision. I think I could have dealt with Keepass forever if it was just me - but my non technical partner needs access to the family passwords and accounts
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by agentwiggles 7y ago
It's not so much typing that Vim helps with, it's _editing_. It's definitely not about raw text entry - it's about thinking things like "hey I want to move these 3 lines up to this spot" and being able to do th
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by agentwiggles 7y ago
Peter Kenny is the narrator for most of Iain Banks' Culture series. Hearing a different narrator for Matter just felt off, I've come to associate Peter's accent with the setting.
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by agentwiggles 7y ago
When I was a kid, probably from ages 13-18 or so, I always fell asleep to a Harry Potter audiobook. I owned a copy of Half Blood Prince on CD (more accurately on 20 CDs) and I wouldn't bother changing out the disc (at least not that of
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by agentwiggles 7y ago
Can't recommend Unsong enough, it's the perfect marriage of religion nerdiness with computer nerdiness.
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by agentwiggles 7y ago
Man, Doom 2016 is an astonishingly good video game. It's rare to find games that so thoroughly accomplish exactly what they set out to do. I finally got around to playing through it about a month ago and I'm very excited for Doom
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by agentwiggles 7y ago
I'm a VSCode user as of a few weeks ago for the same reason. Trying to get React to play nice in emacs, especially when compared to what I got out of the box in VS Code, was an exercise in frustration. Similar problems with Elixir. I r
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by agentwiggles 7y ago
I'm reminded of a CEO who, when our small consultancy was acquired by the Wal-Mart of our industry, insisted that the acquisition would benefit us all because we'd have "more cool projects." He never said anything like &
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by agentwiggles 7y ago
> Some people are not interested in those pursuits and they are, in comparison, very "pedestrian" in terms of complexity. > Some topics are simple, others are more complex. The parent comment clearly enjoys pursuits that are
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by agentwiggles 7y ago
YES!! I've been trying to remember this for months. I remember seeing ORCA coming across HN a while ago, and I was interested in checking it out, but forgot what it was called. Thanks for jogging my memory, looking forward to playing w
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by agentwiggles 7y ago
Yeah, that's what made it such a fun read to me, like you said it just continually gets more and more out there. It explores some really interesting ideas that I haven't seen touched on in much of the sci-fi I've read. Anothe
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by agentwiggles 7y ago
I found these parts of the book completely fascinating, but also the most "scientifically hand-waved" stuff in the whole series. I've never been a big stickler for "hardness" in my sci-fi, but I'd have liked to
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by agentwiggles 8y ago
Wow, for once I get to be happy about a decision my state's government made.
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by agentwiggles 8y ago
Tooling is definitely at least part of why I don't use org, and I use emacs as my primary editor. I love the concept of org, but getting it synced and using it on mobile were not trivial, and features that I'd expect from any simi
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by agentwiggles 8y ago
That doesn't sound at all impractical, and actually sounds like it would make a lot of things _easier_ in my situation.
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by agentwiggles 8y ago
I'm surprised to see this. The integration of your personal library was totally ruined (for me) several years ago when they removed the ability to "unlink" songs. When you add your own files to Spotify, the files are scanned
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by agentwiggles 8y ago
I would guess that the _vast_ majority of guitarists learn that "G D Em C" sounds good _long_ before they understand that it's an I V vi IV progression. I started off playing guitar with three open string power chords, and I