duelingjello

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by duelingjello 7y ago
Yes, it’s the epitome of virtue-signaling and zenith of rhetorical bullshit. The aims might be noble or “noble,” but there’s no effective action or commitment behind such empty words.
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by duelingjello 7y ago
There’s nothing magical or sacred about a particular medium, but the internet doesn’t contain all human knowledge, it doesn’t contain much of past human knowledge and it rarely preserves knowledge through archival. This is concerning beca
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by duelingjello 7y ago
Bolide. The area, scale and dispersion of effects in the descriptions is incongruent with a point source explosion of black powder.
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by duelingjello 7y ago
Acute stress causes about 30% of cardiac deaths. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18827773
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by duelingjello 7y ago
This uses GNU-specific extensions. Always use the GNUmakefile filename instead of just Makefile to avoid this sort of confusion. And, to allow for environment variable and CLI overrides, use the ?= operator instead of := for flags and comma
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by duelingjello 7y ago
The Ryzen 9 3950X is about half the price and almost as fast (single core). For sheer performance, there’s not much marginally faster for a reasonable increase in price. (3970X is 2.5% faster at 50% more expensive, the EPYC 7742 is several
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by duelingjello 7y ago
Falling in love with an idea plus ignoring reality is the surest road to hubris and failure. Be religious about results, customer value, profitability and employee welfare, not ideas. Ideas are a dime a dozen; executing and pivoting into wh
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by duelingjello 7y ago
Thomas J. Stanley, a wealth researcher, wrote some books on the subject: Stop Acting Rich The Millionaire Next Door There is a class of people, typically 16-25 who live at home, with minimal expenses and much disposable income he called
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by duelingjello 7y ago
syslog / stderr -> Kafka -> centralized ELK Files / log rotation is completely the wrong approach because log entries are mostly innately structured, rich data that occurs at a specific time. Serializing and then parsing log
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by duelingjello 7y ago
I doubt the veracity of the factoids of this article. For example, more recent studies have shown there is no safe level of alcohol consumption that improves health overall. And, if someone were looking for resveratrol as a rationalization
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by duelingjello 7y ago
I remember Fry’s original, non-tech retail store at Camden & Kooser in San Jose before they opened the first Fry’s Electronics in Sunnyvale. Also, in high school, I worked at Egghead Software which was killed off by CompUSA, NCA Periphe
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by duelingjello 7y ago
Well, caffeine isn’t a “free” or “magical” solution to weight loss and it’s obvious that most stimulants prevent weight gain because they activate the fight-or-flight response by stimulating the SNS, which depresses the feed-and-breed respo
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by duelingjello 7y ago
Meat ag is incredibly dangerous and pollution-causing. 1. Pandemic evolution by cramming zillions of animals in unsanitary conditions, with humans interspersed attempting to clear out rivers of poop and pee. 2. Antibiotic resistance by over
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by duelingjello 7y ago
Step 0. Lots of FAANG veterans discover each other and plot their exits. Step 1. Start a FAANG-competitor worker-owned co-op that is profitable through donations, subscriptions and freemium products / services. No evil allowed. Step 2.
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by duelingjello 7y ago
Yeap, however the PDF works for me. Maybe throw it into a converter? https://ia800400.us.archive.org/31/items/TheConquestOfHappin...
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by duelingjello 7y ago
Intelligence can often be inversely proportional to happiness; or: stupidity promotes bliss.
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by duelingjello 7y ago
A constrictor knot like a boa knot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boa_knot
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by duelingjello 7y ago
I’m curious what this would look like tying dress shoes with a Berluti knot.[0] (I don’t think this knot is in the ABOK, but I could be wrong.[1]) 0. https://www.hangerproject.com/blog/2018/01/12/berluti-
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by duelingjello 7y ago
Noice. I “kicked the tires” on an iPad Pro. LGTM!
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by duelingjello 7y ago
Does anyone think it’s 4chan/8chan-types trolling because they have nothing better to do or malicious competitors/state actors trying to disrupt YT because they want to see it harmed?
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by duelingjello 7y ago
I don’t get it. The iPad Pro is a touch device. I use an old Magic Keyboard with an iPad Pro 10.5 (2017) because the “smart” cover keyboard I got from Logitech with that “magic” connector is flimsy and doesn’t always work right (fails to
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The Brydge Pro+ keyboard adds a trackpad to your iPad Pro(appleinsider.com)
1 points by duelingjello 7y ago|1 comments
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by duelingjello 7y ago
Eureka. https://simplemind.eu/features I found it with DuckDuckGo of all things. The IAP search only found freemium and payware apps that weren’t great. Others tried: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/
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Ask HN: Is there any free/FOSS diagram/mind mapping app iOS that doesn’t suck?
4 points by duelingjello 7y ago|2 comments
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by duelingjello 7y ago
This guy (immigration lawyer) is good at resolving these kinds on SNAFUs. https://www.kuver.com/
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by duelingjello 7y ago
Lolwhut. “High status” women tend to scare away all the men. Strong, successful (and lonely) is the cliché for a reason because most men are too insecure and don’t want competition in bacon-bringing and rationality. I think it’s cool becaus
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by duelingjello 7y ago
Most peopled affiliated with Wall St. brokers, bankers and MBB/Big 4 consulting believe they are masters of the universe and can commit crimes on a massive scale with impunity. The correct and moral response of the people is rise up an
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by duelingjello 7y ago
While removing blatantly-disruptive students from classrooms is vital, suspending them doesn’t solve anything. In fact, I’d say officially “banning” them from school just puts them on a path towards mischief / criminality. These are th
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by duelingjello 7y ago
Nope, nope and nope. This fad is as tone-deaf as Howard Schultz running for POTUS. Unikernels are TERRIBLE for operations. How do you have privilege separation? Separation of concerns? Processes? Users? Groups? Talk to a database or LDAP? H
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by duelingjello 7y ago
I admit to fawning for functional languages like Haskell, Clojure and OCaml for fun, but it seems like they are not more popular because having many additional, higher-order constructs makes code “obsfucated” behind clever features rather t

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