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by akeck 2y ago
Relearned drawing as an adult. The critical thing I did was daily practice - about 15 min a day. There's something about daily practice, even just a little bit, that makes learning move really fast. I'm getting the same effect wit
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by akeck 2y ago
Okinawa has a 400km ultra marathon that goes around the entire island. It takes about three days. I thought that was crazy, but my coworker recently ran an ultra marathon where they dropped a van load of runners at a mystery location on the
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Chat Oriented Programming (Chop) in Action Video with Steve Yegge(youtube.com)
2 points by akeck 2y ago|0 comments
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by akeck 2y ago
Obligatory reference to patio11's write up on banks: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/seeing-like-a-bank/
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by akeck 2y ago
Is it any of these? https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...
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by akeck 2y ago
Rek went overboard in a Pacific storm north of Japan. ("Busy Doing Nothing" book)
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by akeck 2y ago
A lot of companies are MS O365/Teams shops.
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by akeck 2y ago
My "favorite" behavior on the new post-DarkSky Weather app is that each of the phones in the house give different info re the weather directly outside. The worst is my child's phone which has its language set to Mandarin (the
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by akeck 2y ago
Yup. I agree.
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by akeck 2y ago
Note that CNCF's Distribution (formerly Docker's Registry) includes support for backing a registry with Cloudfront signed URLs that pull from S3. [1] https://distribution.github.io/distribution/storage-drivers
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by akeck 2y ago
I use Firefox bookmarks and use FF sync to make them available on all platforms. For organization, I keep them in a weird, organically grown folder structure that makes sense to me. If I really can't find something I use bookmark searc
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by akeck 2y ago
Roujin Z is really fun.
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by akeck 2y ago
I hope this doesn't become a more widely used repo attack vector: Abuse repo maintainers until one or more fold. Fork the repo and become the New Maintainer That Saves The Day. At a later time, insert attack code.
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by akeck 2y ago
I'm going to say "downish" but not "burst". I and a lot of other people I know are getting a lot of benefit from using LLMS to sketch and refine code more quickly.
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Accurate 3D-printed Mac Plus built in these 29 painstaking steps(arstechnica.com)
1 points by akeck 3y ago|0 comments
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Programmers will be among the first ones obsoleted by their own revolution(2017)(web.archive.org)
10 points by akeck 3y ago|2 comments
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by akeck 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20170428055909/http://abstrusego...
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by akeck 3y ago
Also, for joint investment accounts, look into a JTROS account (Joint Tenancy with Right of Survivorship)
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'We definitely messed up': why did Google's AI make offensive historical images?(theguardian.com)
6 points by akeck 3y ago|1 comments
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by akeck 3y ago
My pet theory is that outside of the recent tech salary bubble decade, anyone with a "normal" salary in the US can't really get ahead without at least investing in market index funds/ETFs. Otherwise, all an employee gets
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by akeck 3y ago
This is like Luxottica owning optometrists offices, eyewear providers like Lenscrafters, and Eyemed vision insurance.
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by akeck 3y ago
Unfortunately, modern office buildings are proving difficult to convert to housing because of how they're constructed combined with code standards for housing (like required windows). Re Fed bailout, I suppose the Feds could fund teari
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by akeck 3y ago
Also try lifting weights. Done carefully to avoid injury, it can produce fairly quick body fitness changes that usually help during job interviews. Having usually done long distance rowing, I was surprised how fast my muscles tightened up a
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AI 'resurrects' long dead dictator in murky new era of deepfake electioneering(cnn.com)
1 points by akeck 3y ago|0 comments
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The bidirectional relationship between exercise and sleep (2015)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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Deep Learning Algorithms as Information Content Providers Under Sect. 230 (2022)(papers.ssrn.com)
1 points by akeck 3y ago|0 comments
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by akeck 3y ago
Technically, I think replacing NY with Delaware may be a better comparison - specifically with respect to the Delaware Court of Chancery in which most large US companies litigate business issues.
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by akeck 3y ago
Marketplace's "How We Survive" did an episode on the Salton Sea. https://www.marketplace.org/shows/how-we-survive/gnarly-brin... The whole podcast is excellent.
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Dutch designer drives his car on the plastic waste he collects(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
72 points by akeck 3y ago|89 comments
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by akeck 3y ago
This may end up pushing Amazon into a pay-to-play model for publishing. :-/

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