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by guidoism 6y ago
The books are still DRMd so it's not as crazy as one might expect.
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by guidoism 6y ago
It is for some authors. The bigger problem is that artists or developers or whatever need to pay the rent and buy food while they are in the process of creating. UBI would fully transform that industry.
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by guidoism 7y ago
Early 40s — Weird how different I see this. You used to have to be in a city like Seattle to get good beer or good coffee — Now in small-town Kentucky or Indiana you can get both. Yes, Starbucks sells burnt coffee — Don't go there! Go
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by guidoism 7y ago
I'm starting to put together a new kitchen and this is essentially what I'm planning on. I used to think that gas was the only way to go, but now that I've lived in a house with a good 240V modern electric I see that they are
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by guidoism 7y ago
I think by definition if you have to take a loan out to buy your car then you can't afford it. The only reason I would ever take a loan out on a car would be if it were at 0% interest and even then it would be such a small amount of ga
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by guidoism 7y ago
I interpreted him going to Google as a place to learn a few new things while figuring out what to do next. He’s done some big stuff in the past. But even people like him need time to figure out what to tackle next.
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by guidoism 7y ago
Also, audiobooks are an excellent way to get into reading books, especially for fiction and especially those with awesome narration. Don't let anyone tell you that listening to a book isn't reading it.
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by guidoism 7y ago
I wouldn't say that books are "infinitely" better. Online content can still be good and there are truckloads of books that are garbage. But in general it is easier to find really good books than really good online non-book co
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by guidoism 7y ago
And as one of your first books take a look at How to Read a Book. I've enjoyed my books much more since then. Especially since I got past my prejudice that made me feel like if I started a book I needed to finish it before trying anoth
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by guidoism 7y ago
I'm actually pretty amazed at what the Javascript VM people have done in the past decade. It's way more than I ever expected. As far as the carbon footprint, well, yeah, it depends. At Google I remember a friend talking about how
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by guidoism 7y ago
A good deal of what ends up in my notebooks are just random thoughts I’ve had. Ideas for stuff to make, questions I want answered about everything from some pedantic programming thing to the meaning of life. These little insights help me co
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by guidoism 7y ago
What I miss about the landline is the quality of voice compared to cell phones. The latter always sounded tinny to me. It’s only just now getting better with stuff like FaceTime audio.
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Why does SourceForge still exist?
6 points by guidoism 7y ago|3 comments
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by guidoism 7y ago
If you had a writable control store then yes. But most processors these days don’t expose that API.
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by guidoism 7y ago
Take a look at the world of "unschooling", particularly the work by Peter Gray. We all have different style preferences when it comes to learning, and indeed each subject requires different models, sometimes many to get it right.
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by guidoism 7y ago
Yeah there's no way I could have done this five years out of school. I remember contemplating getting my pilot's license just a few years out of school and after looking at now much I needed to study I was like: Hell no. But 20 ye
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by guidoism 7y ago
Economy editions are nice, but only make up a tiny fraction of what's out there to consume. Again, $4 is great for a relatively rich nation like India, but what about Eritrea? Maybe that was a little flippant, but The Law in a big rich
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by guidoism 7y ago
I’m fairly confident that google books is a huge money loser for google. The only reason it’s still online is because there are people within google willing to stick their necks out to spend the money on it.
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by guidoism 7y ago
A lot of the data is in the djvu format which is very efficient for scanned books.
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by guidoism 7y ago
It’s easy to take this stance in a rich country. But what about the people in countries where one of these books cost the equivalent of a year’s wages. Not so black and white eh?
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by guidoism 7y ago
Let's say for example you work on a team doing identity for a large company that provides lots of services to a lot of the world, including email and chat. What infrastructure to the people who keep the system up use to communicate whi
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by guidoism 7y ago
For important archives like this maybe we need some sort of turn-key solution for the masses? Like a Raspberry Pi image that maintains a partial mirror. Imagine if one could by a RPi and external HD, burn the image, and connect it to some r
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by guidoism 7y ago
There are also multiple petabytes of microfiche scans of old newspapers. And of course nobody cares about it. The problem was shut down 2011ish and the data became "owned" by a team that didn't care for it. There was talk of
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by guidoism 7y ago
Scanning with your phone is getting easier. At a minimum you can take a pic of each of the pages. Software can clean up the images, sorta. It's not ideal but it's better than nothing.
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by guidoism 7y ago
Not sure if you are joking or not. 218% of FPL is $56,135 for a family of four and only $27,228 for a single person. What this means is that you can make up to that amount and get a huge subsidy, basically giving you free insurance.
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by guidoism 7y ago
The situation is absurd. healthcare.gov is supposed to help us figure out what's best but you can't export any of their info. I have to hand-create a spreadsheet every year using information from the that website in html form and
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by guidoism 7y ago
Unfortunately this completely depends on how the state implements the subsidies. For a family of 4 in my state, $50k will get you a $0/month Bronze plan or $1500-2000/month for the Silver or Gold plans. As far as I can tell the on
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by guidoism 7y ago
Begin by aggressively saving your ridiculous income. This sort of compensation can work either as a trap (since few companies will match it) or a tool for freedom. Start doing this now! Everything else can be figured out once you can quit a
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by guidoism 7y ago
At some point going to a restaurant is more of a pain in the ass than just cooking a good meal yourself. There are certain times and for certain meals that I don’t feel this way. But most of the time I loathe going to restaurants.
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by guidoism 7y ago
Ok. I was wrong.

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