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by handrous 5y ago
> I’m still a Linux server enthusiast Ditto for about two decades, but I'm working on becoming a FreeBSD server enthusiast instead. Between being the "native" platform for ZFS, which is a huge deal all on its own, and my d
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by handrous 5y ago
> Like I get that PulseAudio was unreliable for many years that fostered hate Unreliable, and a shocking resource hog. Did that part ever get better, or did we just stop caring because memory sizes and core counts kept going op?
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by handrous 5y ago
Jellyfin user, this looks very much like something I've wanted. How's Jellyfin do with finding metadata for these sorts of files? Getting the full title, date published, grouping by creator, anything like that? I'm pretty s
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by handrous 5y ago
Not a Plex user but I switched from Kodi because I've always hated Kodi's UI, and just suffered it for lack of anything better (no, alternative skins don't help, both because most of them are half-broken, and because most o
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by handrous 5y ago
You are already using Github. Someone tells you you need to publish exactly the source code that your company's deploying. The repo containing that code is not on Github. The easiest way to get ahold of that code, with any certainty
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by handrous 5y ago
> I just think many people think Macbook good, PC bad. Because they ARE willing to spend 2500$ on a Mac but their last PC they spend 1000$, and then they to compare. FWIW we've never spent more than ~$1300 on a personal MacBook (old
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by handrous 5y ago
The place I worked when the all-usb-c Macs rolled out, I do recall a lot of "that monitor doesn't work no matter what", and "that one works but only with this cable and dongle, swap either and it won't work", a
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by handrous 5y ago
What's really crazy is that Apple can screw up several times in a row (abrupt removal of all ports; Touch Bar; flawed keyboard design), even such that the screwups overlap and are occurring all at once, and... there's not really
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by handrous 5y ago
Edge-gluing's one technique you'll find in woodworking books, for making large surfaces. Desktops or table tops made out of a single piece of lumber are wicked expensive, or practically impossible once you reach a certain size,
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by handrous 5y ago
So are country clubs, and social clubs that organize fundraising galas and such. Joining them to make useful business contacts very probably works pretty well (I've not tried, but I've done some looking—note that the social clubs
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by handrous 5y ago
I love command line tools that provide hints or "command palettes". Typical CLI stuff is great for things I use at least once a week, and usually only in a couple ways. It's terrible at presenting me stuff I could be doing
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by handrous 5y ago
> I also do this regularly, but on my terminal. I don't feel like I'm fighting the git tools. Is this a common experience? My big hang-up with interactive rebases is that I do them just infrequently enough that what exactly a
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by handrous 5y ago
- Fat rolodex full of rich people they know well enough that they might say yes to chatting over golf, and who aren't risk-averse (I have zero such people in mine, so this would be a must). - Domain knowledge—but, very specifically, kn
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by handrous 5y ago
This messed me up so bad when I finally hit material I needed to work at even a little . Years and years and years of getting things instantly, with no effort whatsoever. Lecturing about the same thing again for the fifth day in a row, but
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by handrous 5y ago
> What do people bored out their minds at work/life think about? Host: What's the most complex thing you do in your kitchen? David Mitchel: thinks for a fraction of a second Worry about death.
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by handrous 5y ago
> I've watched them succeed while I didn't finish college due to ADHD driving me to distraction. Luckily I have the computer skills requisite to be a successful network architect- but I'm quite aware I could have been a su
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by handrous 5y ago
> "There but for the grace of god go I" I love this sentiment, and it's one of a few I try to keep at the ready. I think it's underrated, as simple lanes to guide one's thinking go. I'm all-around much bet
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by handrous 5y ago
> For lack of a better metric, how many IQ points would you be willing to trade per new idea? It feels likely that environmental factors and luck have a much higher impact on happiness and other outcomes for individuals within whatever d
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by handrous 5y ago
> Smart is multi-dimensional for me anyway. Strongly agreed about "smart" not being just one thing. Somewhere there's someone who's normal at the things I'm good at, and excellent at the things I'm so-so or
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by handrous 5y ago
I see it as a trade-off between "glory" and having an otherwise very nice life, as framed—trading "being smart" for "having some really good ideas", which is a rather odd trade, but I'm addressing the text
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by handrous 5y ago
A lot of the biggest Web-related tech money-makers and success stories are things it wouldn't have occurred to me to try, because I'd have assumed they were illegal or otherwise so awful that people'd tar and feather me if I
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by handrous 5y ago
Being even a little clever—and that's the best I can claim—is living life on easy mode. It's so great. Once I realized that the other people in the room weren't not-saying the obvious thing because they'd already dismiss
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by handrous 5y ago
It's the Internet. One of the things baked into the Internet is the abuse. It's been there from very early on, and it's never been substantially curbed. Some would probably rank it as a defining characteristic of the Intern
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by handrous 5y ago
OK, I've got what you meant now. Makes sense. > I apologize if I came off slightly gatekeepey; I should be clear that I don't particularly care if you know the name of these methods. I'm just saying that these methods are
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by handrous 5y ago
> Nobody can predict what will confuse or annoy their audience. Perfectly? No. Good writers manage to do it most of the time, nonetheless. "Do whatever's most-normal" is a good rule to follow, absent anything else. If that
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by handrous 5y ago
> A mark of 'good' English is a lack of unnecessary detail - or so I've heard. Good English is largely about making choices least likely to confuse or annoy one's audience.
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by handrous 5y ago
> As a side note, I question the author's appeal to Marx as an authority. Natural reference to make if you're writing about alienation from the product of one's labor.
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by handrous 5y ago
That's so obvious it wouldn't have occurred to me that it had a name. And it still looks 100% within "5th grade math" to me. [edit] Wikipediaing "Euler integration", which redirects to "Euler method",
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by handrous 5y ago
> It's a tract surrounded by soundwalls and has few exits from the development, whereas in normal developments you have intersections with all streets. I'm not sure any development built after about 1975 in my midwestern metro
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by handrous 5y ago
IIRC a lot of Eurasian diseases were a result of long-term close contact with domesticated animals. Guess which side of the Atlantic didn't really have domesticated animals....

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