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by cgh 5y ago
He reproduced the entire PRG and User’s Guide by hand. I’m always amazed by the incredible things people get up to. The PRG is such a great book and flipping through his version of it brought back some happy memories of my roughly 11 year o
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by cgh 5y ago
The Commodore 64 Programmers Reference Guide The Transactor magazine Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
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by cgh 5y ago
My mother was diagnosed with bone cancer and died a week later. She had been living with it for some time and just dealt with the pain until my sister made her go to a doctor. I’m not sure what the lesson is here or even if there is one but
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by cgh 5y ago
Yes, the 1970s. Even the uncompromising Pauline Kael recognized what was essentially the United Artists/auteur era as a sort of magical time. But it was relatively brief.
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by cgh 5y ago
> You can get structural screws, but they're uncommon, expensive Agreed that eg GRK R4 structural screws are pricey, but they are widely available. You can buy them at Home Depot, for example. I do like them better than nails for sm
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by cgh 5y ago
I’ll go with Piranesi by Susanna Clarke and Prussian Blue by Philip Kerr.
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by cgh 5y ago
I’m reading his Outer Dark for the second time. That epic, almost Biblical style of his early books is unsurpassed.
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by cgh 5y ago
Here’s a good media bias chart: https://adfontesmedia.com/static-mbc/?utm_source=HomePage_St... Try choosing sources near the top middle, eg the Associated Press, Reuters, etc.
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by cgh 5y ago
Stephen Diehl to the rescue: https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/web3-bullshit.html
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by cgh 5y ago
Thanks. The new emphasis on stats and probability is so important and is something I wish I’d had before taking my first university stats courses. There’s probably no branch of math more important to everyday life and maintaining an educate
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by cgh 5y ago
La Sportiva Miura VS climbing shoes.
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by cgh 5y ago
I had a friend who worked in IT in a major Canadian bank some years back. He said they’d lost the source code (Cobol, I would imagine) for certain jobs and had taken to editing the binaries directly with a hex editor.
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by cgh 5y ago
There’s a strong probabilistic argument that says otherwise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument Note that the argument is not dependent on any sort of cause, such as climate change or whatever. It is entir
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by cgh 5y ago
It’s not just Kelowna, it’s the entire Okanagan valley. My mother-in-law lives in Summerland and she swears by Castanet as the one true news source.
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by cgh 5y ago
Little-known fact: Jobs was a serious electronics hobbyist throughout high school and his early 20s. It’s safe to say he did a lot of soldering.
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by cgh 5y ago
JavaScript more or less limits you to front-end web programming (I know there are exceptions but realistically this is what most JS positions are after). Not great if this person’s internet is eg embedded, machine learning or, in keeping wi
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by cgh 5y ago
This is a common fallacy. Public bathhouses were common in medieval Europe, a legacy of Rome, and by the 18th century, “therapeutic bathing” was a thing.
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by cgh 5y ago
Just to add to this, System 76 have released a Gnome extension that gives Gnome a nice tiling implementation that I find quite productive. The usual distros have it packaged in their repos. More info: https://github.com/pop-
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by cgh 5y ago
Ugh, you are right, I misread. Thanks.
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by cgh 5y ago
Yeah, I agree on all points (I’m a proponent of legalization and live in a country with legal pot). I’ve witnessed first-hand the effects of prolonged meth addiction and it is not pretty. Your point of making it available by prescription is
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by cgh 5y ago
My guess is supply would be constrained because of how addictive it is. You’d still end up with street-level dealers selling it. I could be wrong but it’s hard to see how cheap, legal, easily-available meth can lead to anything but an addic
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by cgh 5y ago
Very difficult to legalize and tax meth, which is what this guy mostly sold. It’s hugely addictive and harmful, and you can make it in a home lab. I was shocked to read in the article that one in seven Australians have tried it. Is that tru
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by cgh 5y ago
Yeah true. I’m Canadian and the situation here is different, ie worse.
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by cgh 5y ago
It is if you own a house mortgage-free. Dividend income on let’s say $1.5 million would be around $60,000/year. That’s pretty comfortable if your expenses don’t include shelter. That’s why my advice to young people is always to do what
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by cgh 5y ago
Bland, soul-deadening consumerism is one of his major themes so what you noticed is intentional.
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by cgh 5y ago
Look into BPC-157.
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by cgh 5y ago
In men, there are complications with your body’s natural testosterone production. If you inject test (the most basic anabolic steroid) then in order to maintain a sort of homeostasis, your body will lower its natural test production. The sa
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by cgh 5y ago
According to the article, some of ASML’s hugely complex supply chain is located in the US so I suspect that plays at least as much of a role.
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by cgh 5y ago
For context, the author is a student with little real-world work experience producing software for a paycheque. To put it mildly, there’s a lot more to writing software in a modern work environment than your choice of editor or whatever.
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by cgh 5y ago
Was this in the front-end web development world? Because it’s not the case in the rest of the software industry. Tell some 35 year old embedded programmer that they are “too old” to write CAN bus code and they’ll look at you like you have t

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