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by bm3719 3y ago
Since you're a founder, maybe you can shift some of your focus-heavy work to night time. A lot of your noise sources shouldn't be an issue then. If moving is ever an option, you might consider a house with a furnished basement.
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by bm3719 3y ago
It's already possible to do this, though with numerous, onerous restrictions (that I'd advocate against, obviously). For example, if you wanted to own a functional RPG launcher, that would be an NFA-registered DD, and each explos
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by bm3719 3y ago
> I think it is equally ignorant to be universally against gun control measures Someone "universally against gun control measures" here. I'd be interested in knowing how I'm as ignorant as people who want to regulate
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by bm3719 3y ago
People with IQs below 91 walk among us. Not sure why Project 100000 gets so much criticism of the moralizing type. Sure, it turned out to be a bad idea in retrospect and should have been a smaller trial run first, but the idea isn't
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by bm3719 3y ago
I explicitly set aside time for it, and track video games along with other things on my todo list. This may seem counter-productive and like it might ruin the fun, but the opposite turned out to be true. Since free time is finite now (and
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by bm3719 3y ago
Certain points in Kaczynski's manifesto greatly influenced how I view the world, and I feel they have positively influenced my life in many ways (e.g., trying to live life less wastefully, using nature to ground oneself in reality, eva
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by bm3719 3y ago
I think of ambient silence as the most valuable sound of all. Think about what it'd cost you to get freedom from your neighbor's lawnmower, traffic, sirens, construction, dogs barking, and the rest of the mindless noise that invo
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by bm3719 3y ago
> What exactly do you want? A service that will spend their money to deliver arbitrary HD video on demand and lose money? I'd probably want options instead of a singular proprietary garden, antithetical to the open web, where all co
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by bm3719 3y ago
Love Tutanota and been using it for some time. I do wish I could access it using mutt though, like if they supported some kind of bridge. I know they have security concerns with this, but it would actually be more secure for me, since I&#
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by bm3719 3y ago
Just checked and there's at least several on Craigslist at that price right now in his area. He could also move to a different area for even greater savings.
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by bm3719 3y ago
Don't know much about your project, but it seems a long way off from producing income, if ever. I see others have tried to help in the past with little luck, but I'll take a stab at it too, just in case: I'd focus on getting
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by bm3719 3y ago
My only source of internet in undergrad was dialing into my university's modem pool and getting a shell on the main server (a DEC Alpha running OSF/1). Browsing the web was done through lynx. That worked fine but every now and th
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by bm3719 3y ago
> I even tried playing the 'I have another offer elsewhere' lie card, with nothing to show for it. You probably should've actually gotten an offer elsewhere, maybe even had it in hand and quoted the number for them to meet
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by bm3719 3y ago
Is the mobile app required? If I'm already at home, why would I want to try to awkwardly navigate some 3D space with gestures on a tiny phone screen instead of using my desktop computer? Required app installs make the world less acces
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by bm3719 4y ago
I use IELM regularly, so thanks for writing it! Looking at ielm.el, it appears it now defaults to hexl, which is part of the Emacs distribution, as cat might not exist on non-Unix platforms. That's wrapped in a condition-case call tho
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by bm3719 4y ago
Most spies in American intel history are motivated by either money, ideology, or to make their otherwise mundane life more interesting. For the money-motivated, many of those were deeply in debt or addicted to an expensive lifestyle. I wo
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by bm3719 4y ago
> I've read through your website and documentation and are truly inspired by your vision It's probably more practices like this, where the prospective employee has to enthusiastically profess subservient, slavish devotion to a
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by bm3719 4y ago
Google is utterly massive, and companies that get that big tend to never fully die. Like large countries and other entrenched institutions, they can decline, but it's a long way down to zero. As such, Google will likely exist in some
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by bm3719 4y ago
Make a list of everything you want to improve in life and decompose it into atomic facts. Order them by easiest to fix to hardest, then plan and execute actionable steps to rectify one thing at a time. Put everything else on hold and acce
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by bm3719 4y ago
I also think of the games market this way. It's bifurcated between single purchase and on-going, and I'm not interested in constantly paying for stuff or needlessly complicating transactions, so the latter doesn't exist to m
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by bm3719 4y ago
I clicked flag to help the site stay focused on actual tech over Twitter drama. Maybe it's a personal failing on my part, but I used to live in blissful ignorance of what Musk was up to today. Would like to go back to that at some poi
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by bm3719 4y ago
Social security recipients got a +8.7% increase this year. It was +5.9% in 2022. Pretty sure employee wages aren't tracking anywhere near that.
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by bm3719 4y ago
Can't help but notice that we keep wanting to make content that should be flat more 3D (e.g., animated 3D backgrounds, scroll filler on corporate pages, the entire metaverse), and content that could benefit from being 3D more flat (lik
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by bm3719 4y ago
Even if someone wanted all those things, it would still be rational to weigh them against the negatives. That would include both realized downsides, like incompatibilities and conflicting life goals, and potential ones, like all of the neg
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by bm3719 4y ago
> When you finance a car, the vehicle becomes collateral for a loan, but it belongs to you Is it not correct that the lending entity you use to purchase a vehicle is the party that legally owns it? The borrower has possession and right
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by bm3719 4y ago
Currently using a Kyocera DuraXE. It's great and still has a very inconvenient to use subset of the functionality you might miss from a smart phone. I bought it because I needed hotspot tethering for work. However, I've recent
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by bm3719 4y ago
Keep as much local as possible. Do anything involving money or your personal info inside a dedicated VM running a secure OS, or use QubesOS. Use a dumb phone instead of a smart phone. Keep your passwords in a local encrypted text file.
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by bm3719 4y ago
Self-hosted GitLab with a <project-name>.com domain.
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by bm3719 4y ago
Any plausible (and not expensive) recourse in such situations? I've had a game server emulator project DMCA-ed previously, and my team's casual research couldn't come up with any solutions. Despite the takedown's text be
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by bm3719 4y ago
Lived in several of the DC metro area cities (mainly on the Northern VA side) for 12 yrs. Was a good area compared to many other cities I've visited, but I'm glad to not be there anymore and wouldn't have been able to retire

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