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by haroldp 2y ago
That was the first real laugh after. It was just perfect.
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by haroldp 3y ago
That's exactly right. Only works for small pieces. My drawer is a pull-out tray type drawer that I am adding to a big cabinet.
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by haroldp 3y ago
I actually built the frame from crappy construction 2x4s milled down to 3/4 x 3 because this is mostly a proof of concept and learning project. You can use a table saw to do a decent approximation of what a planer or a jointer does by
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by haroldp 3y ago
Covered in sawdust right now from building a pull-out drawer for a kitchen cabinet. It came out square and the joints were tight enough to hold it together for the dry fit. Very satisfying. I am still mostly terrible at this. > It&#x2
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by haroldp 3y ago
I was once asked to code a people-matching function where participants had long "don't match me with her" lists and coded a very naive brute force solver that absolutely pegged the CPU on my dev box until I wised up that it w
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by haroldp 3y ago
For sure: a traveling salesman route under length L, for instance. But what is good enough when combining incompatible people? Less than three vendettas per table? :)
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by haroldp 3y ago
It's not perfectly isometric, but neither is it a stretch to call it orwellian.
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by haroldp 3y ago
Isn't "Keep people either together or apart" an NP-Hard problem, and basically unsolvable for more than a couple preferences?
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by haroldp 3y ago
"Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
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by haroldp 3y ago
> And for things like the ringer (is that what you call it? the orange ball thing at the bottom of the bell that strikes the bell to make the sound) The "clapper". I am still on the steep end of the SVG learning curve, but also
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by haroldp 3y ago
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1594035229
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by haroldp 3y ago
We can't turn on web server logging? PHP logging? We don't take DB backups? We can't revert to the previous image version? The crazy AIO NextCloud Docker image doesn't store your documents as plain files in a data&#x
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by haroldp 3y ago
> couldn't get the containers to start after that, couldn't figure out how to debug it Docker monoculture and it's consequences.
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by haroldp 3y ago
Jobber looks like it is more in the "project management" space. All of my processes are post-sales. We're not inventing new projects that we need to organize. We have a short list of services we sell and each of them has a
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by haroldp 3y ago
Thank you for the detailed reply.
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by haroldp 3y ago
Is this what I need? We have ad hoc business processes like: 1. Sell service to client 2. Email client with scheduling info 3. Agree to scheduling date with client 4. Send client email with documentation and request their data 5. Remind cl
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by haroldp 3y ago
That example was terrible. The ivory example was terrible. The housing market example is stupendously bad. Not a great article.
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by haroldp 3y ago
You can't copyright a dress. You have presented a bunch of articles (that you didn't even read yourself) where artwork associated with a garment such as logos and textile prints may be subject to copyright in certain circumstance
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by haroldp 3y ago
> That seems highly unlikely to me. I mean, I provided a reference for my claim.
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by haroldp 3y ago
> https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/14/business/shein-rico-lawsuit/i... These are graphic designers alleging that someone copied their exact fabric print design. > https://gouchevlaw.com&
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by haroldp 3y ago
You can't copyright a dress, but there's still a fashion industry: https://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashi...
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by haroldp 3y ago
> Do keep in mind that the US did have a strong abolitionist movement as part of their culture. To be sure. The 18th Amendment was passed by a majority of Americans. However it outlawed, "intoxicating liquors". It was the Vo
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by haroldp 3y ago
For sure. Lots of people have developed a chemical dependance on coffee/caffeine, and might suffer certain ill effects of withdrawal if they stopped drinking it. Yet most would not be considered addicts, per se because almost all of
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by haroldp 3y ago
> You sure can rock a concert while being high, not so much in withdrawal, and you wouldn't want you bus driver, nurse, teacher or pretty much anyone else around you be in either. These are problem behaviors with or without prohibit
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by haroldp 3y ago
Banning something is not the main problem, per se. It's banning something the people want. You could ban durians in the US and maybe a couple would get smuggled into an Indonesian neighborhood, but it would never turn into a gang war
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by haroldp 3y ago
> Those anecdotes are more the exception rather than the rule. That is false. Most addicts are nicotine and alcohol addicts and they function ok, in general, without special support. They have plenty of problems, to be sure, but prohib
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by haroldp 3y ago
> I doubt banning alcohol would decrease problems on net This has been thoroughly tested. It was a bloodbath.
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by haroldp 3y ago
Strategically? Perhaps. Morally and practically? I support broad legalization.
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by haroldp 3y ago
This is very silly. Highly dependent alcoholics are all around us every day, and very few of them are living on the streets. They will shorten their lives, on average, but cirrhosis isn't an assassin that comes in the night after 10
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by haroldp 3y ago
> Making all consensual acts legal may maximize personal freedom at the detriment of stability. From a practical standpoint, this depends on the notion that prohibitions actually increase stability. No place that drugs have been legaliz

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