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by dave333 3y ago
Article was long so I only skimmed most of it and I'm thinking 30 is young for a midlife crisis. I quit involuntarily during the dot com bust and became self unemployed running my own "business" for a few years. It coincided
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So if a starship needs to rendezvous with the cycler to transfer passengers/cargo, it could simply be added to the cycler, at least during an initial cycler buildup phase. Linking starships shoulder to shoulder in a ring with noses poi
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As a married introvert dad for 2 girls and now 2 granddaughters I would say you can find tons of things to do with them that everyone enjoys and doesn't feel like you are losing your personal time. E.g. reading bedtime stories, making
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20% more years for 50% less comfort doesn't seem like such a great trade.
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For those in the US unfamiliar with Bristol UK, the drivers there are just as mercilessly aggressive as the ones near Boston MA.
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Looking back jquery was probably the only frontend framework that wasn't obsolete in 18 months. There is also value in keeping things the same over a decade or more so the old farts can still be productive without having to relearn eve
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Obviously would like to be able to enter my zip/postcode and get a list of links to tool/thing libraries local to me. Does this exist already? Googling it seems like these are few and far between except some hardware/auto par
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Many severance packages preclude filing such lawsuits as part of accepting the package. Also at another large tech company I have seen statistics including age published by the company when they make layoffs that would tend to refute any po
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Has anyone used Tcl for LLM prompt control?
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Before there was javascript for UI, embedding Tcl in an application to control a C/Motif GUI seemed like a powerful thing in the mid 1990s, but that project went away and never came back. In retrospect I wish I had kept a Tcl layer for
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by dave333 3y ago
I've always thought that accounting is arithmetic made difficult, but this helps a lot.
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Wondering if it would be easier to insert a motor into the driveshaft between the clutch and the transaxle on a RWD vehicle.
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Conceptually, the easiest way to think of this is as an "anti brake." A disc brake rotates with the wheel and a fixed caliper provides friction to slow the wheel. Similarly this device has an electric motor commutator disk that ro
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Yes, but I would say a few parks have been sold for condo development not many. Makes it important to choose a park where either the residents own the land collectively, or the municipality supports lower cost housing and has rent control o
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As things turned out it is obviously both, although the investment side was not guaranteed and most people start out just having a place to live. Some people who were first time buyers at the peak of the subprime crisis in 2007 lost out whe
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For the bay area California aka silicon valley which has some of the most expensive housing the solutions are mobile home parks with space rent control and tiny houses that can now be located in the backyard of existing houses. These homes
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I can see the book title now "Naked Programming" LOL
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Due to having to share a small number of refrigerator size computers amongst all the programmers I started out writing assembler on coding forms by hand. The natural unit of what you can get done in 30 or 40 lines of assembler on one page w
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by dave333 3y ago
As co-owner of a mildly profitable bootstrapped software enterprise it seems to me the common major weakness is lack of sales and marketing expertise to make it go bigger. However for many software people this is a feature not a bug.
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Doing some fun projects with an eclectic mix of current tech SBCs, a language like Python, web technologies - pick a lightweight framework, AI, some big data sourced from the web. Plus have old laptops to disassemble and modify etc.
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Agree - you need a book that shows you how to get started and do a bunch of fun projects - there are some available as Kindle unlimited books: https://www.amazon.com/Fun-projects-Raspberry-Pi-everything-...
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Cities and towns should give these out to the homeless at places they want to direct the homeless to. Better than nothing. I hear naysayers saying this would be sweeping the problem under the rug and or enabling homelessness, but it will ha
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The last startup I worked for as a UI dev the marketing manager wanted me to make a purely cosmetic change to the UI that at the time was quite difficult to do and half jokingly I told her if she insisted, I would quit. She immediately rela
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by dave333 3y ago
Prof Steve Keen has developed a free tool called Minsky for economic modeling as well as many models: https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen
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Regex vs loops and splits sounds like a classic case for a divide and conquer pattern. Use simple maybe trivial regexes for everything you can, but split the entire whole into simple bits using loops and splits. But there's no way I&#x
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Spielberg should sue for copyright infringement.
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Speaking as an entitled boomer raised by and with the ethos of a mother who went through food rationing in WWII this article is a lot of hot air about nothing important.
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My brother in law died last year and left about $2M in his will. He and my sister who died earlier spent their entire married life in a small house they paid $4000 for in 1970. They had no children and ended up with no way to spend the mone
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I too like Kaiser HMO. I have had PPO plans for 20 years before Kaiser but I prefer Kaiser because their routine stuff is very quick and well organized in my opinion and paperwork was nil. Now I have medicare, they send me an online bill fo
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second thought - I guess in Japan that is the norm

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