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by bm3719 5y ago
This is correct. My current collectables (C&R and antique) are all capable of being fired, but I almost never do due to their value and risk of damaging them. Many are over 100 years old and there's a decent enough chance some ir
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by bm3719 5y ago
Between the two, I might go with the knife in most situations. I can't carry my hunting rifle around with me all day. Mine also has a huge scope on it that makes it useless at the distances you would typically encounter a hostile hum
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by bm3719 5y ago
So we're integrating our market more with China's market, making the relationship less one-sided. Some economists have argued that China is actually more economically free than the West in certain areas (like the overhead involve
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by bm3719 5y ago
Excellent. There's no reason defensive gun buyers should be demographically different from the general population. It's understandable that gun sales for hunting or other activities might show differences, but we all have the sa
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by bm3719 5y ago
When they come for me, I plan to quit. I WFH, live in the middle of nowhere, grow most of my own food, and go weeks without interacting with someone not in the household. I don't need the money so quitting's not a big deal for me
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by bm3719 5y ago
The facial recognition battle is lost. The only power we have is over how we behave as the losing side. Of the few options we have, one is normalizing wearing recognition-scrambling makeup/masks. Another would be to get stickers of e
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by bm3719 5y ago
Minimal only in the code the developer has to write, I guess. Electron: Delivering users nothing we didn't already have, but taking away so much (and sometimes, like here, only on Windows!)
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by bm3719 5y ago
There's a theory in the Free Software community that BigTech sponsorship of Mozilla was intended to bring about the current state of affairs. The idea is that MS, Google, and others really have no reason to donate to a direct competito
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by bm3719 5y ago
I will say I was 100% dialed into the job. I could answer just about any question related to what I was working on and I knew the languages/platforms/domain better than anything I've worked with since. That could be a posit
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by bm3719 5y ago
I've done 84/wk for the better part of a year. With commuting it was well over 90. Didn't bother me too bad at the time, but took a toll on my health and pretty much everything else in life. I wouldn't recommend it ju
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by bm3719 5y ago
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1433470109742518273.html
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by bm3719 5y ago
Noticed the same pretty early here too. My response was to categorize all tech into ephemeral implementations and more persistent concepts. The latter moves a lot slower. New fundamental ideas just don't come around as quickly as pe
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by bm3719 5y ago
As a Clojure developer focused on creating correct/working software, I find the "Simple"-ness of my tooling's internal architecture to be a lower priority than it not leaking additional cognitive load onto my dev experie
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by bm3719 5y ago
Thanks for the reply. While you're here, I'll say that your resources for the CLI stuff made it possible to use those tools at all (for my current Clojure team) several years ago. depstar also is a great resource. We had to scou
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by bm3719 5y ago
Correct.
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by bm3719 5y ago
What pain points are those? Last I checked, doing cljs on Clojure Tools wasn't even possible. If that's still the case, then that's not a valid comparison (complex vs impossible). Also, that's the master version of pro
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by bm3719 5y ago
Hard agree here. As a full time Clojure dev, my experience is that lein "just works". I've also used the Clojure Tools professionally, and have seen the dev team lose countless days of what would be otherwise productive tim
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by bm3719 5y ago
Count me among them. I've been WFH for many years now, and partial WFH before that, and am definitely not going back. That said, one thing I haven't seen mention of in favor of on-site work is regarding skills development. I&#x2
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by bm3719 5y ago
Magit is definitely one of the best addons for Emacs. Nice to see Forge getting some attention. One less reason to ever leave Emacs is always welcome.
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by bm3719 5y ago
I settled on the triune brain model as a good-enough approximation for my needs in relation to this (whether it's factually accurate is another issue). I would then categorize my thoughts and subsequent actions based on that model (ma
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by bm3719 5y ago
At age 20 or so, I read a quote in a book (on day trading, IIRC) that went something like: "Master your emotions, or they will master you." After thinking about it, I realized that despite identifying as a logical-thinking individ
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by bm3719 5y ago
Hello, neighbor. I dropped off a bag of groceries for you (food being essential for life). That'll be $500, by the way. If for some reason you refuse to pay for these basic services, I will then be forced to destroy your livelihood a
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by bm3719 5y ago
"Second Amendment zealot" here. I'm optimistic about the future of civil rights in the area of the 2A in upcoming years. There's a lot wrong with your post, but I'll just say that the right, like others, is written
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by bm3719 6y ago
Mozilla did recently lay off 250 people. At the same time their exec pay is up 400%. https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html They've also had plenty of spare energy to participate in trying to cancel rms in recent weeks.
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by bm3719 6y ago
Interesting how, until around 5 or so years ago, the definition of the word "troll" was someone who deliberately posted content to get a reaction out of others. Now it mainly refers to people that say mean things or have different
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by bm3719 6y ago
Slavic languages, and correspondingly their names, are common in dozens of countries besides Russia. You probably have a sizable minority of them in your own country. The support letter is indeed more international and representative of th
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by bm3719 6y ago
Being in the US and in the industry, deciding to sign it gave me pause. There's already talk on Twitter about what to do with the list of signatories. Like others have said here, my daily life is substantively better thanks to rms. I
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by bm3719 6y ago
A sizeable segment of corporate-backed OSS is against Free Software for business reasons, and that mission currently aligns with the interests of the anti-rms mob. Those corporations see the FSF turning into a copy of the neutered OSI as a
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by bm3719 6y ago
It's been several years of (arguably destructive) culture war; one that shows no signs of abating. Also, being organizationally separate doesn't preclude collaboration on overlapping mission goals. Side benefit: Those who want to
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by bm3719 6y ago
The past few years have made public a lot of the ideological baggage resident in these organizations. One possible positive thing about it is if you're thinking about contributing somewhere (financially or otherwise), it's easier

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