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by asoneth 6y ago
Thanks, I've found the Standard Ebooks (both kepubs and epubs) quite good and would recommend them if you're looking for something in the public domain. The downside is that their kepubs did not play well with Calibre. By default
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by asoneth 6y ago
Calibre is great once you get the hang of the interface. The one thing I haven't yet figured out is how to stop it from butchering Kobo (kepub) ebooks downloaded from Standard Ebooks: "Important: Don’t use Calibre to transfer the
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by asoneth 6y ago
I stand corrected. I'd attribute my false confidence to the fact that even the previous version (macOS 10.4 Mojave) is still supported. But now that I think about it that'll likely change at the Apple WWDC in June. Still, decently
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by asoneth 6y ago
In talking with fellow parents of young children the biggest variable seems to be whether there is a stay-at-home parent, live-in relative, or nanny who can help with the recurring labor required to run a household like cleaning, cooking, s
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by asoneth 6y ago
Or in my case, a 2012 MacBook Air. I hope they'll support Catalina for another three or four years or at which point it's more than a decade old and can finally mature into a laptop's final stage of life as a Linux machine.
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by asoneth 6y ago
> A human and Autopilot working together is safer than just a human driving This is not my understanding from colleagues who studied the human factors of what is now called level 2/3 automation many years ago. Partial automation fel
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by asoneth 6y ago
I don't think many people consider nuclear "clean", certainly no conversation I've ever seen has ignored the waste or the other immense lifecycle costs, and if we had enough time left I'd be all for focusing on tran
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by asoneth 6y ago
Specifically in the case of employment I'm all for erring on the side of asking employers to be as accommodating as possible. But there are cases where someone's disabilities/attributes reasonably restrict what roles they can
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by asoneth 6y ago
Interesting, I hadn't know that about Teslas. On a Prius you can mount a ~$50 12V solar trickle charger on your dashboard, possibly with some rewiring [1] to keep one of your 12v sockets live, and it's even easier on older trucks.
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by asoneth 6y ago
> Using a car for a 2 mile "commute" sounds very US. Definitely. > That's a 10 minute bike ride tops. Perhaps, though it may not be possible cover that 2 mile commute by bike and survive. At one point I was staying in a
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by asoneth 6y ago
I agree that in many cases an extra dollar of battery capacity provides more utility than an extra dollar of solar charging. But I did have one of those niche applications a while ago: I used to travel for work and often left my car parked
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by asoneth 6y ago
I agree with you that allowing each organization to make their own seasonal shifts requires less coordination and is simpler in many ways. Just to be clear, I was responding to the parent poster who suggested we "just legislate that th
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by asoneth 6y ago
I would actually like a solar roof for just this reason: when I have no choice but to park in the sun, it would be convenient if it could produce enough energy to maintain a reasonable temperature without impacting the remaining range.
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by asoneth 6y ago
> a better starting spot is the roofs of bus shelters or even the buses themselves I agree that buses and bus shelters are a good opportunity for solar, but this is a strange comparison. First, if the panels really are as cheap as they c
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by asoneth 6y ago
That seems like it solves the problem in the reverse direction. I want an app that allows me to shift my schedule to the sun, not sync an artificial sun to my schedule.
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by asoneth 6y ago
Coordinating a mass schedule change at a specific point in time is just a different method of implementing daylight-savings time. Between the two, changing wall clocks seems like the simpler of the two options, but either is fine.
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by asoneth 6y ago
Good point. It's too bad that this would be hard to use for anything besides sunrise and sunset, e.g. "breakfast served daily from sunrise+1h to sunrise+6h".
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by asoneth 6y ago
I think you may be right about the web. It is not my experience that novices think to look in right-click context menus on the web, with the exception of text operations like copying text that you mention, and sometimes link actions. (I&#x2
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by asoneth 6y ago
Exactly. [To clarify: I am not qualified to judge the general healthiness of any particular diet -- any sufficiently popular diet seems to have conflicting studies showing it is "healthy" and others showing it is "unhealthy&
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by asoneth 6y ago
I found similar results when I tried a vegan diet. Like you, I suspect that I could have made it work if I spent the effort to figure out what was missing. If I actually lived my life according to my personal ethics that's what I'
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by asoneth 6y ago
There is an advocacy* movie called The Game Changers which highlights several vegan athletes and makes the case that their plant-based diet contributes to their success. https://gamechangersmovie.com/ * I would not consider
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by asoneth 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised, though I would be similarly skeptical that other healing-related issues would sway people one way or the other either since (at least the vegans I know) don't adopt the lifestyle for health reasons. Very l
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by asoneth 6y ago
I'm not sure any of the vegans I know would give up veganism in order to minimize their scars any more than the meat-eaters I know would give up meat based on studies that show it can be mildly unhealthy.
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by asoneth 6y ago
It's a persuasive argument, and one I've used myself. One danger is if the affordance is triggered accidentally. For example, my kids like pushing buttons and swiping when I wouldn't think to do those things and accidentally
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by asoneth 6y ago
Interesting. I've worked in design orgs since the iPhone came out and in my experience it's always hovered around 50/50. Maybe it's an East Coast, West Coast thing? I will say that when it first came out the direct manip
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by asoneth 6y ago
This mirrors my experience as a UX designer coming from the usability side. Many graphic design refugees are interested in learning about usability, user research, heuristics, Fitts' Law, GOMS/KLM, etc. But it takes time and energ
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by asoneth 6y ago
> simpler for the regular users to provide input regarding the features they need changed Don't get me wrong, a good interface needs to take user feedback into account. But trying to accommodate the union of all features needed by a
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by asoneth 6y ago
A few of these books are only incidentally racist so I hope Dr. Seuss Enterprises sees fit to tweak and re-release them similarly to the Richard Scarry classics[1] others have mentioned. Cultures have been bowlderizing kids books for as lon
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by asoneth 6y ago
Yes, though salaries are a factor as well. When I ran the numbers on some offers years ago my estimate was that moving to Silicon Valley would be a financially sound decision if I lived frugally because I'd be less exposed to the high
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by asoneth 6y ago
Of more than a dozen friends who moved to Silicon Valley for work/education, all but one left California around the time they started their families. The impression I get is that they're happy they had a chance to work there for a

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