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by floren 5y ago
> I wish there were more shows today about rural communities, it might help us understand one another better. You'd have to get TV writers that want to understand rural communities first, instead of painting dumb-shit broad strokes
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by floren 6y ago
True, but there are plenty of wilderness areas, and the Forest Service needs effective tools for maintaining them. This means crosscut saws and pack mules, sometimes.
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by floren 6y ago
It's also straight-up illegal to operate any sort of vehicle in US wilderness areas (horses are OK). I think they also ban gas motors and maybe even things like electric chainsaws.
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by floren 6y ago
nmh: https://www.nongnu.org/nmh/ Heirloom troff: http://n-t-roff.github.io/heirloom/doctools.html Plan 9 Port: https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/
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by floren 6y ago
I drank very little soda as a kid. Once I got to college, though, I felt like I needed to be a cool hacker dude, and that included lots and lots of Mountain Dew. I'm on to Coke Zero these days, and cutting that out too, but I've g
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Analyzing San Francisco 311 Cases with Gravwell(jfloren.net)
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by floren 6y ago
I was trying to remember the exact details of how that worked when I wrote my post... thanks for the clarification!
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by floren 6y ago
No health insurance sucks, but you're in your 20s and you didn't mention any chronic illnesses. You need a year's worth of experience in one job--any job, so long as it's the same job--more than you need health insurance
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by floren 6y ago
I was going to say "I'd skip all the traditional web-dev stuff and just make a little Go application that serves a web endpoint with something neat in it"... and then I stopped myself and thought about how much boiler-plate a
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by floren 6y ago
I agree that undirected learning is huge. I don't know how I'd go about reproducing it... you need both availability of resources (software and hardware), and you need plenty of relaxed time spent with those resources to find the
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by floren 6y ago
As a fan of film photography, I smile at a future in which a roll of developed negatives is valuable evidence because it's a lot harder to fake.
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by floren 6y ago
This sounds, well, extremely California. Do you remember which proposition it was? I'd like to check it out in more detail, see if anything's actually happened.
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by floren 6y ago
Personally, I just can't "handle" when the narrator does voices for characters. Overly-developed fremdschämen on my part, I guess. The only fiction audiobook I've listened to all the way through is The Lord of the Rings
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by floren 6y ago
I drop in and out of frequent reading. I find that using my Kindle really helps bring me back into the habit, because I can read in any lighting and it always keeps my place (for some reason I never use bookmarks in real books). Once I&#x27
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by floren 6y ago
Well, I scored 760 on the verbal because I read constantly and voraciously. I didn't "study" for it except in the sense that I'd spent the last decade with my face in a book on the bus, during lunch, as I walked from cla
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by floren 6y ago
I did well on the SAT and ACT, but one problem is that it's just not enough. Parents who shove their kids into piano and tennis lessons since age 4, push them to run for student government and take petitions to the city council, whatev
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by floren 6y ago
Good call, this definitely looks like the same guy: https://komonews.com/station/people/keith-eldridge
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by floren 6y ago
I'd really like a map . Here in the Bay Area, for instance, I could pretty reasonably get to games in San Francisco, Daly City, South San Francisco, San Bruno, Millbrae, Colma, Brisbane, Pacifica, Burlingame, San Mateo, Hillsborough..
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by floren 6y ago
But this is all in the context of Switzerland, where guns are also commonplace and therefore available for use in other types of violence.
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by floren 6y ago
Well, I'd sure hate if I was walking out with a low-powered rifle--I'd feel like I hadn't got my money's worth if the bullets just sorta dripped out the end of the barrel. So if they have forced conscription, where does
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by floren 6y ago
And you're saying that because Americans want to defend themselves from the government, that's why Americans kill each other so much? I don't see "Swiss trust their government" as a solid reason for their lower murd
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by floren 6y ago
> NFTs - either people are doing it for the giggles or they're betting on greater fool theory Give a little more credit--they're also great for money laundering.
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by floren 6y ago
We use it. Gorilla mux ( https://github.com/gorilla/mux ) to route requests plus some in-house handler chains that log, check JWT tokens, etc. We have a Go client library which accesses the web API, so we can do testing
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by floren 6y ago
Go to a car show and get a whiff of some pre-1970s cars driving around. Now imagine if every car on the road was like that. I can't imagine the stench of a city before the introduction of catalytic converters.
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by floren 6y ago
In my work , there's not much which requires updating a full HD screen at 30 fps... video calls, I suppose. Everything else updates small portions of the screen at lower rates. There's a program called drawterm which implements P
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by floren 6y ago
Years back, I tweaked the Plan 9 kernel source so it could compile with Go's C toolchain. After a day or two it was booting, but we decided not to use it... I think the end conclusion was that the Go team was (reasonably) only interest
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by floren 6y ago
> Look at how many “businesses” promoted here have no meaningful revenue and no real ideals for how to monetize. They all know how to monetize, it just doesn't sound good to say it out loud: get a bunch of users by offering a free s
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by floren 6y ago
Certainly not a new thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pissoir It will not be implemented in SF because it's only suitable for men. Switzerland appears to have created a solution for women by providing disposabl
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by floren 6y ago
> I'm pretty sure dairy farmers don't shoot cows in the head if they get sick, with the same carefree shrug I do when I terminate Kubernetes pods and nodes, but maybe they do? Dairy farmers tend to be very practical about putti
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by floren 6y ago
How big is the herd? How far away did you end up having to go--are you near a big city still, or far out in the boonies? I think a lot of people in tech have pastoral dreams that may not be solidly based in reality, but as someone who grew

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