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by downut 4y ago
We try hard to eat at the table together for all dinners and weekend breakfasts. Screens are strictly prohibited, even for guests. Some guests... hahaha, think this is quite the sacrifice. So what? My daughter has brought the convention
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by downut 4y ago
My wife is an expert gardener, able to do wonders in Arizona at 5500'. She's been working the same plot of land for 25 years. The advance in the last frost day has been quite noticeable. For our plot (up on a ridge, so lows are
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by downut 4y ago
Yes, I agree completely. I once structured a month's unpaid leave in the early '90s around a camping tour partially as an "eye's on the ground" of Mark Reisners "Cadillac Desert"[1]. It was, erm, eye ope
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by downut 4y ago
When eating lunch, I look for a place with big windows and then I put my bike where I can see it from the inside. Also, attach your helmet with the strap through the front wheel and the fork. If I wanted to go on a hike, I would start the
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by downut 4y ago
I have never ridden a recumbent. But for 7 years I had a regular cycling partner who rode one, for similar reasons. He was also an ultra cyclist (think 300 miles or more a ride). We did many centuries in the mountain West. Very hard to
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by downut 4y ago
It is a weird thing to me that a minimal impact lifestyle[0] requires a very constrained and expensive computer ecosystem to facilitate unrealized happiness. [0] ...but with frequent travel?
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by downut 4y ago
Yeah, given the sheer cpu/ram/m.2 power of what even a tiny NUC provides, with modular, replaceable monitor(s)/keyboard/mouse/USB(3/C/Thunderbolt)/HDMI etc, for less than a Mac, I am unable to underst
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by downut 4y ago
Alrighty. I am a geezer. FVWM for 25 years, mas o menos. I just upgraded to fvwm git, package or local, on both Debian and FreeBSD. Partly because of fvwm I know way too much about HiDPI, and I was very happily using j4-menu-desktop as
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by downut 4y ago
I am literally dressed and ready to head out for a 3000' training ride with tight twisty descents and IMHO it is quite suicidal to look down at a map when anything like you describe might happen. If I was a riding with you and I noti
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by downut 4y ago
Ok so I am laughing because of course the spicing is important, but the important thing to understand here is that there is no correct spicing: it can go in many different ways. That's part of the beauty of these sorts of dishes, yo
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by downut 4y ago
Lettuce is not a very good value for the buck in terms of either nutrition or satiating qualities. Neither is an apple, but at least you can make a pork and apple stewed dish that is delicious, scales and will freeze amazingly well. US So
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by downut 4y ago
If you cooked your own food from fundamentals, it would be difficult to eat worse than DoorDash, it would be immensely cheaper, and you could send the difference to WFC. Big win win. But it's too hard! It takes too much time! Well,
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by downut 4y ago
Proximity to the US border. Medicare, particularly. I am no expert even though I have spent a lot of time on it. It seems a double cancer survivor with partner much the same is going to have a hard time getting insured any other way.
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by downut 4y ago
"Maybe it's hopping curbs?" Can't see how that would affect the shifting, but if you are graceless you can beat up the wheels enough to cause them to get out of true. If you have my wheelsets, 32 spoke 3x on HED Belgium
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by downut 4y ago
Basically quite a few places in Mexico. La Ciudad de México or Ensenada for me. I intensely love Mexico City but Ensenada is where I'm moving to. Entirely for health insurance reasons. I will be there tomorrow hooray. There's
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by downut 4y ago
Check out the expenses for Montpellier. Cheaper than any US city you could stand to live in. The food is immensely better too.
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by downut 4y ago
(I am attempting my first "as much as possible make the database do the work" app right now, after 35 years in the business. Yeah I started out on the scientific side, and then the sort of things SQLite is obviously great for.) I
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by downut 4y ago
Wait till you find out about Red and Blue teams submitting bids from the same corporation. I sure loved being a small part of that.
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by downut 4y ago
Could be; I'm not an evangelist for meson and if it doesn't work for cross compilation I'd use something else, likely cmake. I don't cross compile very often, so for me it works great. I have run into sadness with meso
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by downut 4y ago
In the build directory, "ccmake ." Note the "." I need to do this in almost every cmake project I don't know well. Also toggle on the advanced options listing. Occasionally you'll see stuff in the CMakeLis
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by downut 4y ago
I build a lot of cmake and meson projects. I was an expert at cmake for quite some time (bleh), but now I use meson for everything I can. The end user experience is in every aspect superior to autotools. There is a small downside for cmak
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by downut 5y ago
So... I was raised for a while on a 3 generation compound with quite the animal menagerie, including chickens. I can imagine a situation where the chickens are entirely confined. Ok, we never did that. For us, the roosters flew to the hig
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by downut 5y ago
"For us getting rid of the extras turned out to be difficult." But for millenia, for most, it has not been difficult. You start with chickens, maybe for chicken tractors. Then you have roosters. And then you realize your agraria
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by downut 5y ago
I made latkes last night, fried in (my) confit fat. The wife sez when the fat was heating up, "smells great already!". And yeah, we scarfed them down.
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by downut 5y ago
This is a baby step into charcuterie, congratulations. It's a fabulous world. It is actually quite straightforward to make hams, bacon, pastrami, corned beef, cured salmon, and a thousand more delicious things. Main ingredient and t
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by downut 5y ago
I think LAPACK and later work were much more important than his work in the 80s. But those were intensely collaborative and required enormous amounts of collective work. Well deserving of the Turing, but how can it be attributed to one pe
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by downut 5y ago
I want to respond to this because I have encountered the same thing, multiple times, during my 40 years of cycling. The implied "locked eyes therefor I am safe" is NOT a thing. I apologize to the inexperienced if I implied that.
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by downut 5y ago
Avid bicyclist here. If I'm approaching an intersection with the possibility of conflicting with a motor vehicle even though I have clear right of way I stare at the driver's eyes. If he's not looking at me, I prepare for e
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by downut 5y ago
I self hosted with 0 problems for 25 years, until 6 months ago when I switched to one of the main imap/smtp for your domain providers[1]. It's fantastic the amount of stuff I now don't need to know. For instance, I'm n
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by downut 5y ago
In 30 years of c++ I've never seen error checking + throw in a tight numeric intensive loop like this. Sure, somebody could do it. I'd have a chat with a coworker who wrote something like that. I only use exceptions for cleanly

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