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by asark 7y ago
I think cell phones, not streaming, replaced cable, as far as monthly bills. Home Internet replaced the home phone bill, cell phones replaced the cable bill. I bet lots of households are north of $200/mo between the two, which is proba
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by asark 7y ago
It may still be too expensive for devs in ( very ) developing countries or whatever, but I'm pretty sure there are (paid) remote desktop solutions for this. Also you can snag an old mac mini for well under $600, where I am. Like $200-3
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by asark 7y ago
I think (some of them) may think that's true, but their internal reward structures and top-down priorities are clearly set up such that it's not, in practice. There's no other reason it could be so bad.
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by asark 7y ago
A small percentage of kids are probably hard to deal with when it comes to sleep no matter what you do, but most of the parents I've seen with kids who still often wake them up past the 4-6mo range are training their kids to do it. T
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by asark 7y ago
My experience is that most people in business are 1) terrible at constructing trials, tests, or experiments, of any sort whatsoever, 2) terrible at interpreting the results of same, and 3) have a very limited tolerance for discussion of h
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by asark 7y ago
> Personally, I made money for years using Microsoft products, find Amazon quite useful (living in small towns) and just see Google as irritating. But then, if the internet were reduced to USENET, email, and maybe a curated list of serio
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by asark 7y ago
The US is strangled by responsibility-avoidance everywhere, public and private sector. Layers and layers of consultants and bureaucrats to make sure no-one ever makes a decision without being able to point a finger elsewhere, repeat recursi
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by asark 8y ago
What they could have done was have an entirely different business model. Guy sets up super-projector pointed at the moon, lets people submit videos to a website and vote on which ones get projected on the moon. Pretty soon it's playing
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by asark 8y ago
> exactly once delivery > done > SQS is at least once delivery > And I posted above how you can ensure “at most” once So, uh, what happened to exactly once?
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by asark 8y ago
Not sure what the exact complaint is here, though using said or sounds to refer to something written can be considered a defect. Comes up often in speech, too. One would substitute "read" or "reads" or something like
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by asark 8y ago
The Martian Chronicles is more like a concept album, but with short stories instead of songs, than a novel. There are some connections here and there but the vibe is always more important than the details or any broader narrative, as far
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by asark 8y ago
Eh, it's just like having a song from an old NES game start playing in my head while I'm cleaning the dishes. Except dumber and more annoying. It's not like it's constant or anything. Usually it's one of their songs
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by asark 8y ago
Fundamentally, there's no narrative , in the sense of a story or an emotional journey, without conflict. Luke may blow up the Death Star, but Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru got BBQ'd, Obi Wan died, and a lot of friendly pilots were vap
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by asark 8y ago
Blindsight was great. The Martian Chronicles and The City and the Stars both reliably produce a kind of satisfying melancholy, if that makes sense, at least for me. Not unlike To the Lighthouse , actually. Might not quite be what you&#
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by asark 8y ago
I started out in the "it's just a bunch of prudes!" group and have, years later, come around to "maybe the old fogies had a point about trash entertainment and being careful about what you expose yourself to". Aside
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by asark 8y ago
On the one hand, cruft hanging around sucks. On the other hand, leaving stuff alone if you can is safer. Meanwhile dist-upgrade on my vanilla, boring Ubuntu MATE box rendered it unbootable just yesterday.
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by asark 8y ago
Cheap, ubiquitous wireless Internet, dirt-cheap bit storage, and low-power miniaturized electronics (computers, cameras) have ruined us. I truly don't see a way to a future that isn't pretty damn dystopic, though it may be a relat
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by asark 8y ago
Freedom of travel and inability to restrict cross(-state)-border commerce mean that whole classes of potentially-very-nice policies can't be part of those "experiments", though, or can be but only at much higher cost than the
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by asark 8y ago
Actual political scientists use the term to describe the US. Everyone knows what it means as a blanket, general term for a class of governmental systems. Unless there's a good reason to split that hair, they don't, and you shouldn
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by asark 8y ago
BINGO! It's been taken as a given that more voting is always a better idea. In fact limiting the voter pool for more distant offices (Senators chosen by state legislatures, President elected by... electors) as was originally done in th
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by asark 8y ago
Stone and peel with a normal 550-degree-max oven, bread-machine-prepped dough using ordinary bread flour, cheese one notch above Kraft, and fresh veggies, will leave all the chains in the dust. You can get even better busting out the standi
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by asark 8y ago
Good to know. This is exciting—last time I looked into these sorts of things the selection was far more limited, and priced in the "enthusiast" range. Never got why they'd be so much more expensive than cheap grills or smok
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by asark 8y ago
I assume it's pretty good for flatbread, too? If I could get meaningful contribution to at least one other thing (naan, say) out of this it starts to get really tempting. ...oooh, how about tandoori-style meat? Any other high-temp cook
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by asark 8y ago
Extremely unlikely. Gluten's what makes pizza dough stretchy, and holds it together. Usually you want very high gluten flours for pizza. Wikipedia confirms that the Neapolitan style calls for (ideally) 0 or 00 flour, which is to say,
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by asark 8y ago
If you want something chewier you can make a pretty damn good pan pizza with just a... well, a pan. A cast-iron skillet, specifically. Electric heat gun or small butane torch optional but recommended to start the surface cooking while you h
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by asark 8y ago
IIRC Graeber wrote quite a bit about how a kind of fuzzily-accounted, low-level, shifting, mutual debt can be a big part of close human relationships (relatives, friends) in his Debt: The First 5,000 Years . I recall in particular his usin
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by asark 8y ago
Olive Garden in particular's worse than middle-high tier frozen Italian food in a bag, which comes out to the same price or cheaper. Certain dishes are worse than budget frozen Italian food that can be prepped in its container, a mic
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by asark 8y ago
I'm worried about this outcome for my 4-year-old. He needs several hours a day to run himself tired or he acts like a crazy person. I don't think that means he is a crazy person, or has ADHD, or whatever. I think it just means h
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by asark 8y ago
Yeah, software development's not a little more money than the other things I'd like to do, it's a lot , and also easier, and also less demanding of my time than some of them, and I can find a job almost anywhere (remote, e
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by asark 8y ago
There's this one at Les Invalides in Paris (site not mine): https://frompariswithlove-becky.blogspot.com/2015/03/les-inv... Cmd/ctrl+f, "dragon". It's not quite half way down. Picture&#x27

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