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by dorkwood 6y ago
You're not alone. To me, side projects aren't a means to an end -- they are the end. They are the entire point. They're what I'd spend all my time on if I wasn't forced to work a day job, because the act of creating
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I understand what the article is getting at, but to me side projects are not a means to an end, they are the entire point. They are the thing I would work on full time if I didn't need a day job to survive.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Why would people in the same room match the sound of the hum to different frequencies? And why would no one be able to record the hum, even with "sophisticated audio equipment"? It seems like these two things would rule out nearby
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Basically arranging objects on a surface at right angles to each other, and ordering them into groups based on similarity. https://www.curbed.com/2016/7/18/12215158/always-be-knolling...
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by dorkwood 6y ago
One weird trick I use is to listen to a particular kind of music. The genre isn't important. Neither is the content. What's important is that I've listened to that same music while experiencing a flow state in the past. Just
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by dorkwood 6y ago
“Colourisation does not bring us closer to the past; it increases the gap between now and then. It does not enable immediacy; it creates difference.” I don't buy this argument. I feel like the reason these upscaled videos are going vir
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by dorkwood 6y ago
The worst hold music I've heard was an advertising jingle for the company I was calling. Listening to that over and over will drive you insane and make you hate the company for putting you through it.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I once read some advice that was something along the lines of "don't provide them with instruction, just provide them with the materials". I can remember being an extremely curious kid, but there were no materials in my house
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I agree. I think if you're going to use "disharmonious" as your benchmark, you should be comparing it with "pulchritudinous" instead.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I thought the same thing about a month ago, but then it went away.
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It is a pretty rare word to come across in modern writing. "And a sea of pulchritudinous models would have served as a lesson on how not to choose words: the ugly pulchritude sounds like the opposite of what it means, and it is one of
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by dorkwood 6y ago
My bike was free! For anyone reading this who needs a bike, people sometimes give away free bikes on Craigslist.
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"My suspicion is that this interplay between engineering manager and engineer is nothing but a game. Either to the manager, or to the company. Either it is a show of power by the manager, or it is a strategy for increasing the company&
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by dorkwood 6y ago
You're not far off, to be honest. Just replace 'conspiracy theories' with 'extreme political YouTube channels'. It's not all bad, though. He invites his friends over and shows them how you can find all sorts of
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I feel the same. I'm not earning quite as much you are, but still doing better than most of my peers. None of the millennial spending tropes apply to me, either, since I don't buy anything outside of the usual bag of groceries onc
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by dorkwood 6y ago
That's basically how I taught my father to use a computer. It came down to two things: 1. He was terrified of breaking it, so I told him that there was nothing he could possibly do to it that I couldn't fix. I made sure to sound o
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by dorkwood 6y ago
This is interesting! What sort of shows are you watching, and why is it important to you that you get through them quickly?
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I'm not usually one to point out typos, but the name "Austin Kleon" is misspelled three times in a row.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
> There used to be a script that would turn the telementary data off in Windows 10. I forgot the link to it and didn't save it. O&O Shutup10 https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Wow, so he's a grifter?
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Follow your curiosity. Don't listen to people who say you're spreading yourself too thin. In time, you'll find you've out-paced your detractors, because while they were forcing themselves to focus and be disciplined, you
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I agree. She answers questions like she's being tested. I wouldn't be surprised if she needed to get approval from her boss before emailing her responses back to Vice. "Do you feel nervous when you’re doing these covert opera
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by dorkwood 6y ago
> scope constantly added, never time for anything I thought I could solve this problem at my last job by finding enough efficiencies in our workflow to make all our jobs easier. I accomplished my goal, but it didn't have the intende
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by dorkwood 6y ago
"By doing so, we are able to leverage our economies of scale and pass along those savings to our customers." So it sounds like the reason behind it is that they can save money by eliminating the 5400rpm production line.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
The thing that makes YouTube a bit crap for learning is that content creators are incentivized to make their videos longer than they need to be, so something that should take less than a minute to explain now takes 10 minutes. I stumbled ac
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I agree. I personally feel that if you're either unwilling or unable to handle the responses you might receive, then you shouldn't send the email in the first place.
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I got a good one the other day. I searched "does freezing kill bacteria", and the featured answer came back "freezing food kills harmful bacteria that can cause food poisoning". I was curious, so I clicked through to rea
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I believe this trick doesn't work with iPhones, since the lens has a filter that blocks infrared light.
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It doesn't have a close button, either.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
The same way pedestrians are discouraged from walking on the road, we may see people discouraged from walking outside in general. If you want to go for a walk, you can take your flying car to the designated walking park on the other side of

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