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by dkarl 4y ago
I have a different take. Cooking for status is a gateway to cooking for other reasons, kind of like how people start working out to look hot and then stick with it for the other benefits. Also, when you start out, it inevitably feels like a
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by dkarl 4y ago
The city limits include a lot of area that I consider suburbs, such as the area around Circle C in the southwest, the areas close to Cedar Park in the northwest, anything west of 360, etc. > Austin has one of the most pro-urbanist city c
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by dkarl 4y ago
I think there's a lot of historical accident involved. Personally, my experience of the two terms was that I heard about "services" aka "SOA" first, and it meant a top-down global architecture where the pieces were
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by dkarl 4y ago
My theory about what turned the tide in favor of local support for transit is that business organizations were loud and clear about broadcasting the message, "We need this for Austin to be competitive." More than 42% of voters her
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by dkarl 4y ago
It's amazing how strong this mental erasure of food is, to the point of overriding individual tendencies. I recently lent my car to a guy who is the epitome of do-it-yourself. He lives in a tiny house that he built himself, complete wi
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by dkarl 4y ago
I agree! I work for a company that makes a product that I think is a positive force in the world rather than a destructive one. I work for less money than I could at Google or Facebook or Amazon and allow myself to get emotionally invested
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Isn't it funny, though, how many people say they can't help working soulless jobs because the capitalist machine controls their lives, but they also say they refuse to feel the least bit invested in their jobs because because they
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That may be true in some areas of Austin, but in most cases, it's about cost and expectations. Austin straddles the border between dry, rocky west Texas and wetter, black soil east Texas, but houses have traditionally been built withou
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by dkarl 4y ago
> But there was only one moment that really ruptured my suspension of disbelief while reading this whole gonzo book: a scene in which a character from “the autonomous city of Austin” remembers pushing his way onto that city’s subway. Obv
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by dkarl 4y ago
> hundreds of miles from any town Not at all. Maybe hundreds of miles from a large city? I'm not even sure about that, but I know you can see the Milky Way fifty miles from a city of tens of thousands.
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by dkarl 4y ago
You're taking flak for being too harsh, but I'm glad you posted, because without your second sentence I don't think I could have figured it out. It's too counterintuitive to select a file, download it, and then upload it
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by dkarl 4y ago
Maybe it sounds better if you look at it this way: if every Framework laptop you buy gets stolen halfway through its useful lifetime, it's still cheaper than owning Macbook Pros.
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by dkarl 4y ago
I hate that my bluetooth headphones glitch when they're connected to multiple devices. Something my phone does at irregular intervals causes audio from other sources to skip, even though the phone isn't actually making a sound. I
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Engagement is eating the world, maybe engagement is now driving these decisions, too. People who listen more, buy more, so optimize for time spent listening. My car and phone achieve a level of randomness that makes me wonder at the complex
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by dkarl 4y ago
For larger companies: if you have active customers around the clock, have employees around the world, so engineers are never on-call outside their normal working hours. I guess that's much easier said than done, since having employees
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by dkarl 4y ago
> it's hard not to occasionally get angry when people keep talking about life-or-death issues as if they're some sort of abstract galaxy brain I think that's the only way we can talk about life and death issues when we d
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by dkarl 4y ago
+1 to investigating user error. It also happens that you have bugs, and it's hard to spot the bugs if you don't have a quick way of filtering out all the cases of user error. > Yeah. As far as a user-facing "Undelete"
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by dkarl 4y ago
Not just the UK. It's been over 100º a lot of days here in Texas, and people from other places in the U.S. keep asking me how it feels, like it's a brand new and shocking experience. But from a perceptual perspective, it's no
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by dkarl 4y ago
"Selling out" still has negative connotations, but "hustle" became a positive word that we use for a lot of behavior that previously would have been labeled "selling out." Basically a bunch of upper-middle-clas
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by dkarl 4y ago
Plus you're targeting people who are not polished and accomplished themselves with the pitch that they can make money at a rate that very few other people are achieving. If the video looks polished and professional it'll be easier
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by dkarl 4y ago
My father was a history professor who specialized in American history. I don't think the author of this post gives sufficient credit to history, historians, and people who teach history. These "shocking" facts, whether they&#
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by dkarl 4y ago
> The day old.reddit.com disappears is the day I stop browsing Reddit on desktop I know threats like this are cliche, especially about UI refreshes of long-loved web sites, but this one rings true for me. Like Facebook, I'll miss so
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by dkarl 4y ago
> Consider this question - look outside at a tree. Where did all the carbon in the tree come from? You may have heard that carbon fixation in plants use a process called "photosynthesis" that involves iron ions. Where did the i
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by dkarl 4y ago
> If you have the problem that your coworkers create unnecessary abstractions, I envy you I'm curious what languages and frameworks you work with. I suspect this is something that varies from one programming subculture to another. I
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by dkarl 4y ago
> In Texas, you can sue anyone who aids and abets a woman who attempts to get an abortion for $10,000, which is enough to get someone to trick someone into installing malware on a phone. Anecdata for people who think this is unlikely: my
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by dkarl 4y ago
I think using math terminology is honest, in that it gives an accurate expectation of how the ideas can be communicated and learned. They are simple ideas that can be communicated in their entirety in just a few symbols, but it takes time,
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by dkarl 4y ago
> how long until they lose their fear of humans and see us as prey? If you're asking about individuals, it already happens that individual animals target humans for predation. If you're asking about genetic change in population
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The way the Domain was explained to me is that there's a mobile cosmopolitan upper class that likes to float around the planet without ever feeling a sense of uncomfortable unfamiliarity. Austin attracted their attention partly by bein
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by dkarl 4y ago
> Parks are now full of beautifully sculpted people playing frisbee where it used to be tie-dye wearing teenie boppeers or big Mexican families grilling. There are plenty of neighborhood parks with people grilling and having birthday par
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by dkarl 4y ago
You are not going to executed, shot, denied an abortion, or otherwise turned into a martyr. I know that with high confidence because you're here, and because you're lightly talking about what major city you'd like to live in.

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