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by embeng4096 1y ago
Note the phrase “sweet and steamy” from the subtitle of the very book you link. Tyrant had sexual content, yes - sweetness, steaminess and romance? Not really Edit: the subtext I’m speaking of is of submission and domination through implici
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by embeng4096 1y ago
It's funny you say that, because the Tyrant of Jupiter series was written by Piers Anthony, whom I understand to be considered nowadays as problematic and misogynistic. The misogyny shows through, especially in a scene where the main m
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by embeng4096 1y ago
+1 to your point about the type of books being popularized. I grew up obsessively rereading Redwall, Pendragon, RA Salvatore’s stuff, Ranger’s Apprentice, Enders Game, Tyrant of Jupiter, Maze Runner. Like you said, the me of now can’t recom
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by embeng4096 1y ago
To me as well, either arrogant or obsequious like a waiter at a restaurant saying “alright folks I’ll be your server tonight”. Edit: or as a sibling comment said, pretentious or inauthentic To GP’s point, “guys” is interesting to me; it fee
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by embeng4096 1y ago
While my feelings are not as strong as yours here, I felt a big relief and resonance reading your closing remarks. I also have sympathy as, if this thread gets bigger, I bet you get more of the same reactions you’ve already described. Feels
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by embeng4096 1y ago
You might be looking for the USB-C version of the Logi Bolt receiver? It's sold out on their website but I'm assuming there's availability on Amazon/Best Buy/eBay, etc. https://www.logitech.com/en-us
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by embeng4096 1y ago
You could try transitioning more gradually by using your full-stack skills to create a website that you send data to via an embedded device (e.g. Pico or bare-metal system), either over Ethernet or WiFi. Even a simple dashboard with a table
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by embeng4096 1y ago
The author very briefly mentions "bigtech employees" and "famous bloggers" - I think that's a small part of something larger which is worth talking more about: the internet creates a giant monoculture. I think it ta
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by embeng4096 1y ago
From CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/us-treasury-yields-investors... > "Perhaps even more alarmingly, U.S. Treasury markets are also experiencing an incredibly aggressive selloff..." > T
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PySimpleGUI shutting down(github.com)
4 points by embeng4096 2y ago|1 comments
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by embeng4096 2y ago
The PySimpleGUI repository has updated their readme to announce that the project is shutting down after 7 years. The commit making this announcement is from a day ago: https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI/com
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by embeng4096 2y ago
I have seen on HN suggestions for raindrop.io which another commenter suggested. You may also be interested in notado.app ( https://notado.app/ ) -- I'm not a user, just have seen other HNers mention it alongside raindro
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by embeng4096 2y ago
I think your university may have fallen short of its goals for the EE or robotics programs. My EE major started with circuit theory, had labs with Arduinos and advanced to digital logic (embedded software) theory along with labs using profe
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by embeng4096 2y ago
Maybe the Prana Brion pants? They look and feel like athleisure to me, and I wear them for hiking or under my ski gear.
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by embeng4096 2y ago
I have a spreadsheet in which I track various habits: time slept, rise/bed time, yes/no for things I want to do every day, screen time, etc. I took a screenshot and pasted it into chatgpt and asked for feedback and suggestions. It
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by embeng4096 2y ago
When I was on Android, I used Markor for text editing and Termux for command line git. For iOS, I now use Working Copy for git commit/push/pull, and Obsidian to edit text, and I like Obsidian's interface a lot for making quic
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by embeng4096 2y ago
Blot.im - you can write your posts in Markdown, Microsoft Word, Pages, Google Docs, OpenOffice. Your documents can be stored in Git, or a folder in Dropbox, or a folder in Google Drive, and the service publishes them from there. $5/mon
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by embeng4096 2y ago
This looks amazingly good. I had a similar idea I wanted to make (since my spreadsheet is getting big and unwieldy) but no idea of where to start and how to collate/present the data, which it seems like you've figured out; much re
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by embeng4096 2y ago
It's not about the social actions, it's the traits they represent. Are you quick-witted? Do you freeze or overreact and lash out, behave erratically? Do you stay calm? Can you think fast enough under pressure to choose to say and
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by embeng4096 2y ago
Vim keybind for jumping to the definition of the symbol under your cursor, I believe
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by embeng4096 2y ago
Relatedly, see Big's Backyard Ultra[0]: runners run a 4-mile loop, on the hour, every hour, 24 hours a day, until only one runner completes a loop that nobody else does. In 2011, when it started, the winner did 18 laps. In 2023, the wi
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by embeng4096 2y ago
I will! I'll try to pare down my customer's code into a minimal example I can post.
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by embeng4096 2y ago
+1 for py-spy. I would love to try out Scalene but the application I have does something funky with pickling for multiprocessing, breaking Scalene in the process (my fault, not Scalene's, I'll be looking into that). Py-spy worked,
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by embeng4096 2y ago
Another hopeful story for you: I was on 75mg, abruptly stopped a few months in, mostly smooth except for an occasional mild brain zap, and those stopped after a couple months.
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by embeng4096 2y ago
Just want to highlight this portion: > or extract value from them "Only costing 7 dental practices' worth of capital to effectively run 10 practices" is the idealized vision for what PE can and wants to do. In practice, wh
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by embeng4096 2y ago
Agreed. I find it interesting that "silence is violence" people are assuming that silence means you agree with the opinions being expressed around you. So if you're in an echo chamber with those same people, while they chant
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by embeng4096 2y ago
Just adding a small correction: you might be thinking of Bitlocker for FDE -- Bitwarden is a password manager. Thanks for the details on the other stuff, I didn't know what Whonix and Heads were
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by embeng4096 2y ago
Adding another rec for Worm, "There Is No Antimemetics Division", Worth the Candle (protag was annoying but overall world building got me invested). Also add "Mother of Learning" to the list!
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by embeng4096 2y ago
> Game development is a lot more than programming. If someone is just making projects on their own, it really doesn't matter much if the code is "good" or not. You just gotta have a game that works. Balatro, a recently-rel
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by embeng4096 2y ago
One trick I've found in Word specifically: press Ctrl+v to paste, then hit Ctrl, then hit 't' -- this is the key sequence for paste->open paste options->use plaintext. You can do the same thing by pasting, then click on

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