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721.
by floren 4y ago
> I realized that though we had come to Cornell from Brooklyn, and from fairly similar Jewish middle-class backgrounds > Her father, who owned a travel agency, among many other companies, provided us with first-class tickets to Athens
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by floren 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_County_Regulators
723.
by floren 4y ago
At least the last time I looked, Usenet spam was so lazy that it was pretty easy to filter: the exact same ads posted again and again (filter the article title), or schizophrenics posting under the same username 100 times a day (filter the
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by floren 4y ago
His shirt wasn't made of celluloid, just his collars and cuffs. At one time, it was common for shirt collars and cuffs to be purchased separately and attached to your (collar-less, cuff-less) shirts: https://en.wikipedia.org
725.
by floren 4y ago
> In the case of a university, I think it's pretty clear that Stanford is a de-facto government over the students attending there. Sure, attendance is technically voluntary and you can leave at any time, but that's also true of
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by floren 4y ago
> social media is so insidious because it is both the sickness and the cure. You feel bad and then you feel better ad nauseum Go to an AA or NA meeting and you can hear the same stories.
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by floren 4y ago
Neat hack! If you look at old issues of Byte you'll see kits for converting a Selectric typewriter (electro-mechanical, no "brains") into a terminal.
728.
by floren 4y ago
Didn't he already do that same sort of thing with his Dresden Files series? I feel like Jim Butcher only writes books on a bet, based on terrible ideas.
729.
by floren 4y ago
I'll cop to the same thing, but neither you nor I would claim that knowing "rosebud was the sled" is equivalent to watching Citizen Kane.
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by floren 4y ago
It's the way the story is told. If it was all about the idea, you'd just read the Wikipedia plot synopsis, say "ah what a great story that was, so glad I read it" and move on.
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by floren 4y ago
The editor dismissed the latter two options because they're kind of challenging for people in other countries. I guess he prefers to have no submissions at all.
732.
by floren 4y ago
> Lots of fear increases this too, with people working too much social skills go down and mental health issues become an issue. And lack of interactions with others increases fear in general. I think fear is an important thing to bring i
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by floren 4y ago
Is that what makes you nervous, or is unexamined social anxiety making you nervous? Because it sounds like you're suggesting that, if you and 10 friends are hanging out down some forest service road in the woods, one of them might trip
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by floren 4y ago
I was calling read. I suspect the real problem is explained by another commenter, who points out that 80 MB of ASCII text will become 240MB of UTF32 in the hands of SBCL, not to mention all the additional words of memory required for cons c
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by floren 4y ago
I think Lisp has a sort of cachet to it, "lost secret of the ancients scorned by foolish mortals," that draws a lot of people to talk about it endlessly and speculate about how important it is instead of just... using it. I used t
736.
by floren 4y ago
I've been digging into Common Lisp again lately. I'm really enjoying some parts: CLIM is weird but interesting, and the fact that I'm basically developing inside a debugger makes testing and iterating on stuff pretty straight
737.
by floren 4y ago
Yeah, the quotes from Moss had me rolling my eyes... shades of the guy at the coffee shop telling you how so-and-so invented a carburetor that ran on water, man, but GM had him killed.
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by floren 4y ago
Well done, shame about the ergo problems! Hopefully with some iteration, it could be more comfortable. My recommendation: don't be afraid to take up more desk space :) I'd try something which put the button caps in an upward-facin
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by floren 4y ago
The "wall of shame" on this site comes pretty directly from the Something Awful forums Leper's Colony: https://forums.somethingawful.com/banlist.php
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by floren 4y ago
Washington state eliminated smog testing a couple years ago. I'm not sure how big the smog test station operator's lobby is, and if the state determines that having smog testing is a net drain on the budget, they'll eventuall
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by floren 4y ago
I expect inspection requirements to be eliminated going forward, rather than tightened, due to the standard government mantra: "This policy may disproportionately impact disadvantaged and minority communities". Personally I'm
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by floren 4y ago
It's something I didn't appreciate as a kid. I had to immerse myself in constant city noise and hostility and filth for almost 2 decades to really start yearning to get back again.
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by floren 4y ago
I grew up on a farm and now I work a tech job & live in the bay area. I'm currently between stages 5 and 6, looking forward to the farm in the middle of nowhere stage.
744.
by floren 4y ago
Well, none of these state broadcasters are actually in the US, so they don't have to worry about the first amendment :) But I do take your meaning.
745.
by floren 4y ago
Thank god.
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by floren 4y ago
I could combine it with the $200+ Twiddler keyboard that's been sitting in the drawer for 5 years, and maybe I'd be on to something!
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by floren 4y ago
> Homes were cheaper, but harder to get good rates, and less appreciation. so you're saying homes were cheaper, but unfortunately they weren't getting less-cheaper fast enough?
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by floren 4y ago
Having caught some Paw Patrol, I don't even know that kids should be watching genuine Paw Patrol. It's just so damn frenetic... Maybe I'm an old man yelling at clouds, but I feel that something slower-paced like Mr Rogers has
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by floren 4y ago
It's been a long time since I set it up, but I believe each cloud sync task will sync one directory. So I've got two tasks: one that syncs /mnt/main/media/Photos in PUSH/COPY mode, and one that syncs &#x2F
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by floren 4y ago
Backblaze B2 would cost you about $10/mo to store 2TB. I've been using them for years for a few tens of gigabytes worth of documents and photos. https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html edit: i

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