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by gpanders 7y ago
> Sometimes used sarcastically when referring to a negative event happening to an unpleasant person. Interesting! I've never heard this used in a sarcastic way. My mistake.
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by gpanders 7y ago
> but this couldn't have happened to a nicer person. I think maybe you meant "couldn't have happened to a more deserving person"? The way you phrased it implies you think ESR is actually quite a nice person who didn&#
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by gpanders 7y ago
Maybe I'm naive or overly optimistic, but I suspect that COVID-19 presents a big enough scare to motivate legislators and voters to fix these problems in the near future.
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by gpanders 7y ago
We all have Social Security Numbers too (in the US). Doesn’t mean we should share them with anyone who asks.
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by gpanders 7y ago
If you have a domain name registered, sometimes your registrar will offer built in email. For example, I have a domain registered with Gandi and they provide a free email service.
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by gpanders 7y ago
There is a gym very near my office. I do a short strength training circuit that takes me between 30-45 minutes. My commute is 15-20 minutes (medium size city and I live within 10 miles from work) and I shower at home. Obviously very specifi
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by gpanders 7y ago
I work from 7-5 each day, so even when I go to the gym or run a quick errand after work I can be home by 6, which strikes me as a "decent hour", although I suppose that's subjective. Waking up at 6am takes getting used to but
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by gpanders 7y ago
This type of schedule is called a 9/80 and you work 80 hours every 2 work weeks. Your Fridays "on" you work 8 hours instead of 9. And you get every other Friday off. At my company, we have the option between the standard 5x8,
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by gpanders 7y ago
Riot[1] can communicate with Freenode IRC channels and has a decent mobile app. [1]: https://riot.im
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by gpanders 7y ago
Hours of TV watched also correlates with violent/bullying behavior in adolescence and adulthood: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/... https://science.sciencemag.org&
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by gpanders 7y ago
One possible explanation is that the market rate for a developer in two different cities is different, so said company has no choice but to pay those two developers different salaries if they want to hire them at all. It's simply suppl
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by gpanders 7y ago
I think awk is better than any of the alternatives if the problem you're solving matches a pattern-expression paradigm and, as others have said, you have no external dependencies. Granted, this is quite a constraint and perhaps there a
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by gpanders 7y ago
I'd not heard of NextDNS until I read your comment, but it looks really promising! I already have a PiHole set up but I'm always looking to simplify and eliminate "maintenance" from my life (although the Pihole is extrem
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by gpanders 7y ago
That's pretty good. May I ask what part of Asia? I rent a ~1600 sq. ft. house in the southwestern US for about $1400/month including utilities. It blows my mind what people pay for a quarter of that on the coasts.
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by gpanders 7y ago
Is Bing any better (as far as user privacy and tracking) than Google? Genuine question. Bing is still owned by MS right?
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by gpanders 7y ago
I didn’t think DDG claims to be ad-free, merely tracking free. They still have to keep the lights on, after all.
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by gpanders 7y ago
For _actually_ comma separated values, just use awk -F , '...' Is this not what you mean? Edit: This comment might be helpful to you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22110036
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by gpanders 7y ago
If you own a domain through Gandi (possibly others) you get email included for free. This is what I use. I don’t know why I don’t see this recommended more often?
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by gpanders 7y ago
This thread is so enlightening. I too switched to DDG a while ago and occasionally I have to use Google for a search and your description is exactly how I felt: the Google results felt “spammy”. I had assumed I had simply adjusted to DDG an
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by gpanders 7y ago
I implemented my own Zettelkasten tool as a simple bash script. I use the shell as my interface into my notes (create a new note, list notes, open a note, etc.), Vim to write new notes, and grep to search contents and tags. If, for any reas
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by gpanders 7y ago
I also loved 7 Habits -- before reading it I had kind of brushed it off as just another wishy-washy self help book, but it exceeded all expectations. However, what I took away from it was nothing about productivity, but rather how to live a
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by gpanders 7y ago
Factfulness and Enlightenment Now utterly transformed my outlook on life and the state of the world. These two books turned me from a cynical complainer into an optimist. Cannot recommend them highly enough.
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by gpanders 7y ago
I found their “Out of scope” list very interesting. In particular, they list signing and “anything to do with emails” as non-goals. From my fairly limited understanding of cryptography, isn’t signing almost identical to encrypting (at least
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by gpanders 7y ago
> Most people working in offices today effectively wouldn't have to commute but they still do because employers require them to do so, basically because "that's the way it's always been". It is not just the emplo
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by gpanders 7y ago
The companies that do exhibit social and environmental responsibility rarely make it into the news, since they don’t support the daily need for outrage or the narrative that Corporations Are Evil. It’s mere selection bias.
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by gpanders 7y ago
It absolutely does matter, particularly for owners of debt (bonds). Inflation will eviscerate returns on bonds and all other fixed-income investments.
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by gpanders 7y ago
I find the mental model of "circle of concern vs. circle of control" immensely helpful. The only appropriate things to worry about are things within your circle of control. Otherwise, let it go.
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by gpanders 7y ago
Agreed. Repeating your anecdotal disclaimer, I too have completely severed from social media (and almost all "infotainment" sites, such as Reddit) and have only been the happier for it. Obviously this depends wildly on each person
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by gpanders 7y ago
I agree this attitude does come from privilege, but so what? If someone is fortunate enough to enjoy the privilege of not having to burden themselves with worry about things they can't control, why should they? Also, there are many way
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by gpanders 7y ago
Indeed, particularly if one eschews chasing after some ephemeral and meaningless concept of "status". The article repeatedly frames the professional class' decision making and motivation as pursuing status or in joining the r

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