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by georgeoliver 4y ago
I was also somewhat surprised to hear there weren't any grocery co-ops in Eastern/Central Mass (notwithstanding the chain that closed), but it could be the co-op niche (small store, high-quality groceries) is already filled in the
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
A minor detail, but I really enjoyed when he wrote "spaceship".
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
It was interesting to me the author seems to use 'old-school' Clojure, for lack of a better phrase, with lein as the build tool, etc., rather than more recent tools/stacks; I don't use Clojure myself, is my impression of
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
> Depending on the context, one of these particular forms may be more useful than the others. You may want to toggle the verbosity of names on the fly with a keybinding, perhaps. A neat idea! Like semantic folding. Has anyone seen an edi
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
> I'm fine with using React for my personal projects, and I'd be fine with contributing to it, despite the fact that I think Facebook (the product, and the company formerly known as) has done orders of magnitude more harm to th
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
An ecosystem, not a Superfund site.
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NanoFORTH(github.com)
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You can help the Linux mobile ecosystem(connolly.tech)
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
I couldn't agree more. If it's true that most in-person communication is non-verbal, I wonder if people then try to over-compensate with their prose. Maybe technical documents need more emoticons.
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
This does make me curious about the pattern of upvoting. It seems likely that usually people upvote without clicking on the referral link first, but I wonder what the percentage is. For the record I have macwright.com as well as the top upv
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
I remember the first web browser pentatonic scale music toy I found (can't remember the name, but the one with the 8x8ish grid where you click squares to play them on the beat), and just how amazingly fun it was! I feel like we still h
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
Perhaps an economist can enlighten me: consider two scenarios, one where an owner keeps 90% of the revenue and pays 10% as wages, and a second where they keep 10% of revenue and pay 90%. Under what conditions is it more advantageous (to soc
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
Wow, if you've been working on interactive narrative and you don't know about Inform and (I assume) interactive fiction (IF)...you are in for a treat. Probably a reasonable overview of the community is the IF forum, intfiction.org
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
It's not necessarily open source hardware, but there's the option of getting a used or new old stock phone that works with a distro like postmarketOS, or /e/ phone, etc.
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
I don't read it as damage control at all. He wrote a blog post on this topic 6 months ago questioning Pine64's future.
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
The Pinephone is only usable because multiple communities of volunteers have created software for it. Pine64 encouraged this effort with the first wave of phone releases as "community editions". Now it appears that they are abando
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
Manjaro is the distribution I switched to from Windows, which was my daily driver for 20+ years. I've heard many people complaining about Manjaro updates breaking their system, but to be honest I've never had a problem. It's
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
> if you quit your job and focus on only chess from 30 to 50 To add to this, I think most people don't understand how incredibly exhausting, mentally (in the sense of mental strain) and physically, high level chess is. A 40 year old
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Reflections on Excalidraw (2020)(blog.excalidraw.com)
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
The problem I find is that there are two kinds of hard things in tech, things that are actually hard, and things that people make hard, and you have to figure out which is which.
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
What if energy companies also invest in "free" energy?
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
> “Because the Tranquillitatis pit is the closest to the lunar equator, the illuminated floor at noon is probably the hottest place on the entire moon,” said Horvath. With the daily big temperature swings, is this a viable source of powe
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
I really like my Pinephone, but after reading this well-reasoned article (and the one linked at the end, some time ago), I'm on the lookout for a good counter-perspective, if there is one. Maybe given the relatively small scale of Pine
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
>If we used interop for everything mundane, Clojure would really just be an S-expression shaped husk over Java code. Not a very good solution. IMO some programmers pursue purity (no pun intended) over pragmatism, at their own expense. I
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
This thread went into the weeds, but I think this core idea is great. Usually I skim recipes for three things, the title, picture, and the main ideas, it'd be interesting to have recipes presented at that high level of abstraction. Jac
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The Beth Harmon that almost was(en.chessbase.com)
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
> I strongly believe the reason we see so many problems with construction is simply that the wages today are so skewed and that greatly impacts the availability of talent I guess that explains why the majority of software is so performan
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
There are a few commenters here (out of 120+ currently) noting that lots of EE work has moved to Asia. How much of this article is accurate and how much of it represents a huge blindspot in the USA/Euro market perspective?
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
I wonder what percentage of RSS users read all their articles in their reader (if possible). I use RSS the same way you do but I've assumed I'm in the minority.
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by georgeoliver 4y ago
Nice to see the Alternatives section of the documentation! Talking plainly about options and tradeoffs is so useful.

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