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by handrous 5y ago
It's less the cable than the connector, so, similar trouble with nvme ports (and ram slots, for that matter). I've barely had exposure to supporting laptop hardware, and have seen "thing shimmied loose" or "contac
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by handrous 5y ago
I dunno about "canonical", but, as others have mentioned, Stephen Mitchell's version is good. It reads very easily without, as I understand it, taking too many liberties with the text. I'm sure there are retellings that
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by handrous 5y ago
Oh, that's absolutely a big part of it. There was no "reading public". Very few people could read and write. I assume all the repetition has to do with making the stories better-suited to memorization and oral retelling. I
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by handrous 5y ago
Ah, I misread that your son had claimed dialog-heavy things might be unfilmable and that you'd disagreed based on all the successful dialog-heavy filmed media the exists. The "nah" was a result of that misunderstanding, but w
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by handrous 5y ago
> When he came back to write Foundation sequels his characters and dialog hadn't improved. OK, great, it's not just me. I was about to respond, "wait, did he ever get good at characters and dialog? I've read a lot o
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by handrous 5y ago
> Also, my son made a point about the "unfilmable" books, which are a lot of dialogue: aren't most cop and lawyer shows mostly a lot of talk, usually in just a few common settings? Nah, consisting mostly of dialogue doesn&
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by handrous 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_Wenamun Looks like some people think it is complete, in which case, it's just not particularly good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tale_of_the_Doomed_P
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by handrous 5y ago
I like how it shows people've been worried about that, and working on the problem, for about as long as we've had writing, at least. Seems we've pretty much never not worried about death, which makes sense, but it's co
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by handrous 5y ago
AFAIK there's no reason to favor English translations of the Old Testament (or anything else) that use now-archaic English, except maybe for passages which are themselves written, in the original, in a kind of archaic or very formal
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by handrous 5y ago
Yeah, that's why I specified "Near East". I know there's supposed to be some really good, very early material from India, but I've not gotten to it yet, so I can't say whether Gilgamesh stands up to the best of
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by handrous 5y ago
The ending feels complete, and ever-relevant, to me. I think of it every time rich people freezing their heads or getting blood transfusions from kids or talking about brain-to-computer transfers comes up, which is pretty often on this site
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by handrous 5y ago
I'm not an expert but I've probably read a whole lot more Near East literature than, considered over a population of billions, nearly everyone. In English translation, but still. A half dozen volumes, I think, cover to cover? Mayb
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by handrous 5y ago
The thing is, you also shouldn't be using apt or whatever for managing project dependencies, unless you and all your fellow devs match Prod exactly, both with distro and exact versions of everything. People do it anyway, but it&#x2
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by handrous 5y ago
> - A simplified, modern UI. It's fair to argue about specifics here like "tabs as buttons", but not about simplification overall. This may frustrate power users, but power users are the vast minority. 1) Being amazing for
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by handrous 5y ago
Brew's package selection is unmatched and it works great for a particular purpose . Keep using it, but stop using your dev machine's system package manager to manage project dependencies. There are a bunch of good reasons not to
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by handrous 5y ago
Homebrew needs to do a better job of communicating that you shouldn't use it for project dependencies, because every time there's a Brew thread on here, a bunch of people come out complaining about this kind of thing. "Homebr
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by handrous 5y ago
> Part of what bothers me is that he lumps together all "reading" (in his defense, often defenders of reading do the same). If you're reading and not thinking, not asking questions, hell even just not vividly visualizing f
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by handrous 5y ago
Sure, dictionary databases replace the primary reference-focused use case of huge—the really good ones are multi-volume, and cost a lot more than $400—dictionaries, much as desktop reference books of facts & figures, books of field-sp
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by handrous 5y ago
Nah. They'll remember that you paid their way through college, could afford to make their childhoods and path to "the good life" easy in general, and left them a pile of cash when you died.
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by handrous 5y ago
> Are we just gonna implement everything on top of PostreSQL? On top of PostgreSQL? Which project keeps incorporating other database paradigms at a good clip, and includes a Foreign Data Wrapper feature? Yeah, looks like it.
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by handrous 5y ago
Like many things, it's largely practice. Adler's How to Read a Book is an accessible and well-regarded work on the topic, and its "three readings" framework, if not to be taken as an exhaustive gospel on the ways of re
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by handrous 5y ago
It's... at least the official doctrine of most Christian churches, yeah, and that's usually held as a particularly important point. Catholics, certainly, and they're rather numerous. It is possible that many, or even most, Ch
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by handrous 5y ago
Same explanation's used in the novel, too.
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by handrous 5y ago
I don't get how idle power use is still so bad on competing products. I understand Android, at least, has improved somewhat, but it spent years being laughably bad compared to iOS, even on tablet hardware with no cell radio to worry
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by handrous 5y ago
I live about halfway down the US, and we have at least a month and a half in which the only sunlight an 8/8:30-5 worker (nobody actually works 9-5) is going to get is the sun blinding them while rising during their morning commute, and
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by handrous 5y ago
> Isn't everything on the web nowadays? > No it's not. So maybe this is a worthwhile article after all. Shit, not even all written material is on the web. Nowhere close! Records and books alike. It's typical to hit a
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by handrous 5y ago
It doesn't help that "reading" is a whole bunch of things (some of which may be performed in the absence of written words!) most of which build on elementary levels and continue upwards, like most any skill or field. I don&#x
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by handrous 5y ago
> It's amusing when I say that 'I hate books'. But usually I read more (books) than my peers, I just don't like the form factor of the book. It's heavy, making notes is clunky compared to Kindle or any other erea
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by handrous 5y ago
The situation with government data in the US is extremely frustrating. Between the government themselves and quasi-governmental private companies (the credit bureaus) they know practically everything about us—but we refuse to let them use t
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by handrous 5y ago
> If you make a movie out of e.g. any of the Call of Duty games, you'd mostly end up with a generic action movie without having to change the script. This is kind of a funny comparison, because the first Call of Duty game was practi

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