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by cblum 3y ago
> So I doesn't seem like the more difficult testing actually helps much. Brazil has a higher rate than the US, but you wouldn’t be able to tell based on the testing there. Mine was: - Backup parking - Parallel parking - Drive around
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by cblum 3y ago
He is risen indeed!
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by cblum 3y ago
Happy Easter! Hope you had a day filled with joy and assurance of His and our resurrection!
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by cblum 4y ago
Paying for online dating was the reason I met my wife. I had been using several dating apps and had paid subscriptions to all of them. I was getting burned out by the experience and decided to let my subscriptions expire and take a break fr
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by cblum 4y ago
Overcooked 2 has been a huge relationship builder for my wife and me. If you put your heart in it, you learn to communicate effectively under pressure (especially when trying to conquer those 4th stars), tolerate/move-on from each othe
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by cblum 5y ago
Can you provide a link to that?
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by cblum 5y ago
> I have people I care for and would be there for if they needed That’s my personal definition of friend, as long as it’s mutual :) The level of intimacy may vary, but if the “being there when needed” component is there then I regard a p
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by cblum 5y ago
Gonna plug my own sectorforth here: https://github.com/cesarblum/sectorforth The linked post is really impressive. The author went way beyond what I did. I'm especially impressed by the I/O stuff.
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by cblum 5y ago
> Tell me more about how people hate writing documentation The thing is, I don't this happens in isolation. At least not for me. I hate writing documentation because time is not allotted for it . So I have to rush it, and in the pr
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Ask HN: What's your experience with NATS JetStream?
2 points by cblum 5y ago|0 comments
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by cblum 6y ago
How does one find a job like yours?
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by cblum 6y ago
I share the feeling. You're not alone :)
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by cblum 6y ago
I tried raising awareness about China's bullshit at work once, and was met with awkward silence and was later told in private that I came off as ignorant/immature. All because I said China should be regarded by the West as an enem
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by cblum 6y ago
> with the new Voyager discoveries lately What new discoveries, specifically?
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by cblum 6y ago
That’s surprising. I grew up in Brazil near the border with Uruguay, and we’d always cross the border to buy our electronics at the duty free stores. It was massively cheaper than buying them in Brazil. Are duty free stores only present in
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by cblum 6y ago
I haven't personally, but my ex-wife is a developer at a FAANG and she told me multiple stories of people she phone screened who couldn't actually write a simple for loop.
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by cblum 6y ago
Ecclesiastes was absolutely life-changing for me.
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by cblum 6y ago
You presume to know me. I actually pick up food from local restaurants around me. I (and many other people) continued to pay my gym membership when they had to close due to the lockdown, to support them during that time. And so on. I don&#x
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by cblum 6y ago
> Or make any large scale sacrifice Sacrifice is exactly what people aren't doing and why we're living through this disaster. The sacrifice we should be looking at is not the risk of catching COVID-19. It's that of follo
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by cblum 6y ago
I confront people who think they'll be ok because "the fatality rate for my age is only, like, 0.1%" with this question: You would play the lottery with those odds, wouldn't you? But you don't want to play that lo
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by cblum 6y ago
> reading Chomsky as a teenager, Plato in college and Kant after that were much more significant events in terms of my political views I can relate a lot to this. I'd say my formative reads were: - 1984 and Brave New World. The form
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Ask HN: What sorts of fun things can I do with my raw DNA data?
3 points by cblum 6y ago|2 comments
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by cblum 6y ago
This is satire, right?
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by cblum 6y ago
I’m in Seattle and that’s been my experience as well in the 7 years that I’ve been their customer.
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by cblum 6y ago
Wow, that’s surprising. Seems so backwards.
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by cblum 6y ago
> or switch class brackets. Can you elaborate on that? What does that mean?
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by cblum 6y ago
I've authorized a friend to correct me like that whenever he sees fit (I'm ESL and I really want to be able to speak English like a native speaker), and I've learned a ton since then.
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by cblum 6y ago
raises hand Oh yeah. It's the _one_ thing I can agree with them on.
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by cblum 6y ago
Twice already.
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by cblum 6y ago
Learning how Forth is implemented and then implementing my own totally blew my mind. I've fallen hard in love with Forth. My greatest motivation to learn Forth inside and out is its value in rebuilding civilization if we ever find ours

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