greenie_beans

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The low-tech brilliance of Iranian design(thelastfarm.substack.com)
64 points by greenie_beans 7mo ago|8 comments
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by greenie_beans 7mo ago
ooo what plugins does a forester need? (just curious cuz forestry is an interest of mine)
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by greenie_beans 8mo ago
love this!! thanks for sharing. this might help me a lot.
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by greenie_beans 8mo ago
he adds an insane amount of signal. some folks just can't look at the light and that's ok!
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by greenie_beans 8mo ago
i very much appreciate your reporting on AI, please don't stop
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by greenie_beans 8mo ago
ooo you must be special. which app store did you use to download bitwarden?
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by greenie_beans 8mo ago
wish my yubikey would work with bitwarden
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by greenie_beans 8mo ago
wavy hands
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by greenie_beans 8mo ago
i can't move across the street because there is no vacancy because it's a superior spot and the landlord is charging a premium because they know that even though there is one hundred strip malls within a few mile radius thanks to
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by greenie_beans 8mo ago
whatever you do, don't quit your job to start a business thinking that will give you freedom and autonomy. if you believe you are called to make art, in whatever form, you have a moral obligation to make that art. aka find a boring cor
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by greenie_beans 8mo ago
imagine finding this painful to read because it doesn't describe your world
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by greenie_beans 8mo ago
can't stand not seeing what exactly an ai agent is doing on my machine
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by greenie_beans 8mo ago
idk maybe you should try curiously reading about the experiences of other people rather than belittling them/projecting your insecurities onto them. these people are earnestly sharing their experiences, including anecdotes about how th
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by greenie_beans 8mo ago
lol i just bought this same clock cuz it was cheap and had no tech except the clock
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by greenie_beans 8mo ago
*worth the agent's time
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by greenie_beans 8mo ago
i encourage you to go out in the world with a notebook or camera with the express goal of writing/photoing observations. it might make you see the world in a slightly new way.
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by greenie_beans 8mo ago
my comment was based on what i heard directly from a literary agent in november (also an anecdote). as a debut, my book needs to be 15k words longer in order for it to be worth the publicists time. because it needs to sell for enough so the
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by greenie_beans 8mo ago
i've written a novel's worth of words. yikes! ps, game of thrones is not a good comparison. a literary agent is more likely to take your novel seriously if you have more than 50k words
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by greenie_beans 8mo ago
i did this and it made for a horrible travel UX. leaving the house and you have to pack up an entire bag in case you might need to take a picture, write an observation, record an interesting noise, wayfind with a gps, etc
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by greenie_beans 9mo ago
it's only an example for a rhetorical question
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by greenie_beans 9mo ago
dunno where you're located, but 32k for sewage and water doesn't seem that terribly expensive if you compare what it would cost for each house to dig a well and install a septic system.
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by greenie_beans 9mo ago
> This is all wonderful and all but what happens when these tools aren't available - you lose internet connection or the agent is misconfigured or you simply ran out of credits. i would work on the hundreds of non-coding tasks that
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by greenie_beans 9mo ago
malware is about to become unstoppable
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by greenie_beans 9mo ago
makes sense if you are a data scientist where people need to be boxed into tidy little categories. but some people probably fall into both categories.
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by greenie_beans 9mo ago
read about what gordon lish has to say about opening a story: https://www.tetmancallis.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/The-...
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by greenie_beans 9mo ago
for real. read one single american history book and you'll realize this is bad
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by greenie_beans 9mo ago
> finding who is funding the paid rioters prolly the FBI
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by greenie_beans 9mo ago
> So is this what the South teaches in school? no. i went to public school in mississippi (both high school and undergrad) and learned the real reason behind the civil war. there are definitely some teachers and textbooks who emphasize t
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by greenie_beans 9mo ago
> I legitimately do not understand these takes connecting everything to slavery. It's been more than a hundred years at this point. The trope is getting old. read "forever free" by eric foner if you are interested in a bet
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by greenie_beans 9mo ago
also not complicated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46647791

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