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by daltont 4y ago
It is fascinating when someone does a deep dive into movies and flesh out potentially deeper meaning. For example this YouTube video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MALVhzMcJ1k ) does something similar for the Vader-Luke du
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by daltont 4y ago
It was a long time ago, but I remember reading Larry Niven's "Tales of Known Space - Safe at Any Speed" about a future society where aging is stopped. All I remember was that safety became very important even to the point whe
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by daltont 4y ago
Very popular suggestion on Reddit. I'm looking to read the an unabridged translation.
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by daltont 4y ago
Funny that I never heard of the idea of a device being a "potato" until my rather non-technical son (21 yro) used the term about whatever device took a low quality digital photo.
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by daltont 4y ago
Saner politics -> ranked choice voting.
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by daltont 4y ago
Ffmpeg and pretty much any free IDE.
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by daltont 4y ago
I recently listened to a podcast about that same concept: https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/nietzsche-te...
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Ask HN: Quixotic Side Projects
12 points by daltont 4y ago|8 comments
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by daltont 4y ago
Link to get past paywall: https://scribe.rip/@bellmar/all-the-best-engineering-advice-...
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by daltont 4y ago
With the normalization of crazy in the U.S. it is getting more difficult to discern parody from things that people actually say or do. Poe's Law and reddit /r/atetheonion are things for a reason.
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by daltont 4y ago
I'm sure they are eager to report problems in what they deem progressive areas of the country?
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by daltont 4y ago
I remember watching the "The Farmer's Wife" on PBS and it having a similar effect on me as Hoop Dreams. It gave me a glimpse into the realities faced by those not as privileged as me and my upper middle class suburban upbring
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by daltont 4y ago
Twenty or thirty years ago it was always a bad sign when someone is assigned to something with a name like "Special Projects". It meant the company didn't know what to do with you, but didn't want to fire/layoff jus
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by daltont 4y ago
I was really into Scala from 2007-2011. I even presented at conferences. Still like it, but after a while it become apparent that is will always be a niche language and Java 8 and Kotlin (which I think of as kind of a 'Scala--') w
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by daltont 4y ago
For those of us who are now parents, think about how easily you could travel to your school, nearest park, grocery store, etc. at the house you grew up in and compare that to where you are living now. For me: 1> My kindergarten was adjac
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by daltont 4y ago
I like the idea of splitting FUNC and PROC, but still like the idea of enforcing some level purity on FUNCs at least not allowing them to invoke PROCs, but able to invoke other FUNCs.
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by daltont 4y ago
Black Mirror "Nosedive" is worth a watch here.
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by daltont 4y ago
I remember seeing bits of an old movie when I was young that used this has a plot device: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059065/
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by daltont 4y ago
I have two Pi Zero/W with hard drives connected to them. I scp video files to them. I wrote https://github.com/daltontf/omxserver to allow those files to be played back via a web interface.
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by daltont 4y ago
I live in medium size metropolitan area (big enough to have a MLB and a NHL franchise). There are plenty of tech jobs.
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by daltont 4y ago
I have an interest in converting a set of interdependent Google Sheets that do lookups on each other into a deployable application where myself and not Google owns the data.
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by daltont 4y ago
I had that same thought. I was really into racquetball in the late '80s into the early '90s. Pickleball doesn't require an expensive indoor court. (No one I knew played racquetball on those partially enclosed outdoor handball
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by daltont 4y ago
I worked at a place in the '90s with a call center where legal caught wind of the desired demographic being young attractive females. It was said people got fired over it. Also, I like "Trying to stretch the formula to cover compl
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by daltont 4y ago
I'm 55 in the middle of the US and I am like "where are all the junior devs that are coming for my job?". Where I am, there is not enough of them. I have one kid in college an another going into her senior year of high school
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by daltont 4y ago
I wish found a domain outside of programming that I could have studied and now be able to leverage technical skills to develop niche products and have some competitive advantage. That, and more cardio ;)
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by daltont 4y ago
"Make the world a better place" is an primary element of Ikigai: https://www.mindtools.com/blog/whats-your-ikigai/ but, not the only one.
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by daltont 4y ago
I've always been intrigued by the idea of a language that enforces a separation of queries and command. Functions (queries) return values and have no side-effects, where procedures (commands) that can have side-effects and don't r
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by daltont 4y ago
Hyperbolic headlines plus the fact the people tend to not read anything except the headline (a form Lem's law IMO) is part of the disinformation problem.
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by daltont 4y ago
Tricky thing about side-projects to me is they often start as "itches" that I scratch by developing something for my use. The something may be useful to others. However, to make it useful to others requires 10x the amount of effor
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by daltont 4y ago
My teen daughter has an IPad-Mini that she no longer uses, I use it as an e-reader mostly.

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