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by cik 8y ago
Cathy O'Neill wrote a terrific book a couple of years back called 'Weapons of Math Destruction'. It's a must read for those of us in this field - and generally a great eye opener. It would behoove us all to think about t
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by cik 8y ago
I've never had a good System76 experience - over a decade of System76 use. I've repeatedly asked to have them purchased, merely to help the community, and every single one has disappointed. The build quality is such rubbish, and
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by cik 8y ago
You have a major choices in life - conduct yourself the way you'd want people to conduct themselves, or not. This choice dictates the type of person you are, and the type of person you want to be. Whilst I may despise many a situati
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by cik 8y ago
That totally makes sense to me. It's the same reason I hard relied on the air years ago - the 9 hours just about covered the majority of the exact same need. Tradeoffs.
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by cik 8y ago
Correct. On login I run a python script that polls the accelerometer. For the virtual keyboard I equally poll the HIDS devices. Quick bit of python, life went on.
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by cik 8y ago
I get ~5 hours which is beyond more than enough for my needs. I also keep power adapters. Honestly, I've never understood the obsession with long battery life on a laptop. It's significantly lighter to carry the adapter (super li
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by cik 8y ago
Mentioned above. I went with Bodhi (ugs), but since it's an Ubuntu, I quickly added repos and have everything I wanted. Now, it runs i3, rotates.. Heck I even rely on Xournal to edit PDFs by scribbling on them, just like real paper! T
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by cik 8y ago
It's all about the latest kernel. I installed Bodhi (Ubuntu derivative, not a fan). Then I added Ubuntu repos and promptly picked everything else up to latest. Admittedly I have a script to allow screen rotation to be gangster, and to
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by cik 8y ago
I use a Microsoft Surface Pro 2 for all my mobile needs. I bought it on eBay for ~$200 two years ago, and it's now 5 years old. It's light as all get up, runs Linux perfectly out of the box and I bought it to run a browser and
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by cik 8y ago
I back up all my personal data from each associated desktop via SpiderOak. Personal server data I rely on a combination of rsnapshot, rsync, and SpiderOak. I also rsync to an external drive bay that I swap out weekly. At the end of the day,
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by cik 8y ago
I moved my entire world public and private to Gitea about a month ago. I run it somewhere I trust, and even then only when connected through the SSH tunnel (I tunnel both gitea web and gitea ssh, through the existing SSH tunnel). The whole
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Microsoft debuts new low-cost laptops and ‘Classroom Pen’ for schools(geekwire.com)
1 points by cik 8y ago|0 comments
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by cik 8y ago
_dynamic_ssh_creator() { for i in `ls ~/.ssh/keys|grep -v ".pub"|grep -v "id_dsa$"`; do cmd="$i"ssh func="function $cmd {" func="$func ssh -i ~/.ss
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by cik 8y ago
Please, not again. Their server hardware was such crap, and OSX really just isn't a great server OS.
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by cik 8y ago
Your location matters significantly more than your nationality - ultimately it's a tax problem. For example: if you're in Canada and the business is US domiciled (and you own 50%), then decision making for that business and your
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by cik 8y ago
Agreed - it's awesome. More tips - if you have to do payroll (T4s) then try out Payment Evolution. The interface is rubbish but it's cheap, easy, and fairly automatic. Also - we moved to Plooto for paying contractors - they email
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by cik 8y ago
The other thing to remember is that these systems change over time. I'm a productivity nerd - I constantly change what I do and what works for me, because at different times in my life (say every ~2 years) I stumble across a system tha
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by cik 8y ago
In Canada, our doctors already do this - there's a social prescription that's taken root the last year or thereabouts. https://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/opinion/2018/03...
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by cik 8y ago
I deal with multiple folks who have them. This is the real goal, though tongue-in-cheek. Ultimately they want monies to increase as the family logically increases in size.
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In Booming Job Market, Workers Are 'Ghosting' Their Employers(news.slashdot.org)
3 points by cik 8y ago|0 comments
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by cik 8y ago
In addition to the usual suspects of tmux, random window managers + friends, here are the applications I have to install to function rofi - Fast, phenomenally good launcher terminator - Terminal that allows splitting, tabbing, and more impo
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Apple to build $1B Austin campus, add thousands of jobs in US expansion(cnet.com)
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by cik 8y ago
In windfall cases, people tend to change their lives - which ultimately is for the worse. Several people have said the right thing: do nothing. Keep working, but now spend time thinking about you and yours - rather than your career and the
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by cik 8y ago
Temptation bundling - If there's something that I really don't want to do, that' I'm putting off - I bundle it with something I really do want. As an example - I won't allow myself to take that break and grab that s
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by cik 8y ago
Why do we focus on zip code, schools and the like? The help, but they're way less valuable than human relationships. Entrepreneurs put way too little value on non-business friendships, but the reality is that they're what sustain
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by cik 8y ago
There's an old adage that successful people surround themselves with success. It's all about cohort - if you don't have other friends who are pushing themselves the way you are, it will be very, very, hard. It doesn't m
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by cik 8y ago
Definitely a trade off. But I'm willing to accept it. It also means that I never have to play the Purolator/Fedex game where I prove I was home and they didn't ring the bell - because of my camera.
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by cik 8y ago
Actually Canada Post has that service here - Flex Delivery ( https://www.canadapost.ca/cpc/en/personal/receiving/alternat... ). Now if only they weren't on strike and would deliver the mail.
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by cik 8y ago
I still have the 2011 Mac Mini powering my house... and services. We were seriously hoping this might be useful - but it fails to meet our needs. My company buys Kingdels on Amazon, and adds HD and RAM. Same box literally ends up costing 5
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by cik 8y ago
That was the part that made me try it, literally while waiting for Pipenv to resolve.

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