astrostl

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1. 211.▲
   by astrostl 9y ago

   Had never heard of this. Walk (and podcast) all the time for light exercise. Just ordered a GoRuck GR1, Field Pocket, and 20 LB plate. Thanks!
2. 212.▲
   by astrostl 10y ago

   Come for the performance promises, stay for the configuration.
3. 213.▲
   by astrostl 10y ago

   Yes, but only for regularly-visited things. The rest is on Pinboard.
4. 214.▲
   by astrostl 10y ago

   My entire family dies of strokes, and 23&M identified me as having a blood clotting disorder. This is extremely valuable to know in terms of basic lifestyle modification (e.g. being even more sensitive to deep vein thrombosis on long fl
5. 215.▲
   by astrostl 10y ago

   I'm a fan of being customizable. I'm not a fan of practically needing customizations. My main editors are Vim and VS Code, both of which I find perfectly usable OOTB.
6. 216.▲
   by astrostl 10y ago

   When I want/need to customize this much, I tend to think poorly of the tool.
7. 217.▲
   by astrostl 10y ago

   > It's like C+ That's perfect.
8. 218.▲
   by astrostl 10y ago

   I do this for "not get annoyed while stracing" reasons, not perf!
9. 219.▲
   by astrostl 10y ago

   From TFA: "I was enrolled in a Stanford CS graduate program, sponsored by Uber, and Uber only sponsored employees who had high performance scores."
10. 220.▲
    by astrostl 10y ago

    Graph with citations at http://www.unbiasedamerica.com/media/say-goodbye-to-small-ba...
11. 221.▲
    by astrostl 10y ago

    > It should be made clear that this functionality is not equivalent to the Postgres JSON support I found that pretty clear by way of it being SQLite :P
12. 222.▲
    by astrostl 10y ago

    Python and CloudFormation here. Others swear by the Golang support.
13. 223.▲
    by astrostl 10y ago

    > memory usage was slashed A lot of this has to do with another unmentioned, terrifically annoying property of the JVM: pre-launch min/max heap allocation. Standard operating procedure is to go with the default, and overbump it if y
14. 224.▲
    by astrostl 10y ago

    I see this play out with regularity in the board game hobby. Manufacturer A: perfect product. Manufacturer B: omits some pieces, expedites replacements. People will love and extol the amazing service virtues of B, not A.
15. 225.▲
    by astrostl 10y ago

    Jan 23, 2018: "Curved screens were never really universally embraced in the industry for home use, and it's just not a key buying factor when selecting a new TV"
16. 226.▲
    by astrostl 10y ago

    Requiring to have them on your person for use is a gigantic "yadda yadda"
17. 227.▲
    by astrostl 10y ago

    Is education the only way around this? Sounds disastrous enough to warrant active policing.
18. 228.▲
    by astrostl 10y ago

    Productivity is also stopped cold by SELinux :P
19. 229.▲
    by astrostl 10y ago

    Income in a vacuum isn't all that useful a metric. What matters more is what you can do with it, leading to what matters most: your actual quality of life. Without feeling compelled to do a deep analysis, taking a 20% hit in exchange f
20. 230.▲
    by astrostl 10y ago

    In sports, "less successful" athletes tend to dominate coaching and management. Maybe there's something to it.
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    by astrostl 10y ago

    > Why should the version of a lib in one part of the software somehow pose existential threat to the infrastructure? Because that's how software developers wrote every dominant packaging system :P There are tradeoffs to self-contain
22. 232.▲
    by astrostl 10y ago

    Pro event photography.
23. 233.▲
    by astrostl 10y ago

    Nice rule of thumb!
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    by astrostl 10y ago

    I <3 VSC because it isn't a bloated IDE. I worry that it will eventually be a bloated IDE.
25. 235.▲
    by astrostl 10y ago

    That's it, thanks :)
26. 236.▲
    by astrostl 10y ago

    What is that quote about how every application will eventually implement user-to-user messaging? Can't find it out there :P
27. 237.▲
    by astrostl 10y ago

    I almost never use this service, but I'm happy to throw $5/month at it.
28. 238.▲
    by astrostl 10y ago

    Hm, what do you mean specifically? Not seeing an export option in Overcast for iOS.
29. 239.▲
    by astrostl 10y ago

    My ALWAYS playlist in Overcast: - 99% Invisible - The Changelog * - Dan Carlin's Hardcore History * - EconPop Podcast - Engineers & Coffee - Freakonomics Radio * - The James Altucher Show - The Joe Rogan Experience - The Journal by
30. 240.▲
    by astrostl 10y ago

    Bitbar rules. Currently use it to monitor CloudFormation runs on Amazon Web Services, and active turns on two different play-by-web board game sites.