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by herghost 4y ago
I think the new owner has certainly been the spark here but there are real benefits to moving too that people are starting to notice. Replies here already cover a bunch of them but I’d like to echo the “algorithm” point too: so far my exper
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by herghost 4y ago
That's not too far from a reductio ad absurdum though really. > life is too short to waste it working with people who don't like to inject heroin into their eyeballs whilst riding dolphins bred in captivity around Seaworld. Jus
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by herghost 4y ago
I never really understood the use case, despite people I know wildly effusing the benefits. I have a google smart speaker thing precisely because it's the only device that I can integrate with my Nest cameras and devices (which I bough
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by herghost 4y ago
Obsidian.md if I'm to take 'personal database' to mean how I store my random, occasionally interlinked information. So I suppose that's effectively the file system with some nice linking in markdown over the top of it.
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by herghost 4y ago
I've heard 'testerical' used as a synonym. Possibly in a tongue-in-cheek way.
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by herghost 4y ago
I've been considering the same - I could add maybe 30%-40% on to my salary based on my career direction over the past 2-3 years but a good friend cautioned that I'd switch out being in an established role that would pay me out if
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by herghost 4y ago
Thank you! After reading the article I was left unsatisfied, but couldn't put my finger on it. I was somewhere around thinking that we hadn't yet established why 4th and 5th intervals were particularly special and so I couldn&#x27
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by herghost 4y ago
Yeah but we risk “perfect” being the enemy of “progress” if we think that way, and people invested in the status quo will surely co-opt and fund this thinking too.
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by herghost 4y ago
I use iOS Reminders to do a basic version of this. Each of the meals on the list are a top level reminder on the Shopping List. All of the ingredients for that meal are an indented sub-item to that reminder list. Each week my wife and I pla
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by herghost 4y ago
Feels both exciting and terrifying in about the same proportions!
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by herghost 4y ago
Agreed - I've seen the same result in my current company. The only real objection raised is from a technical pedant who argues that we're trusting identity and so we shouldn't call in _Zero_ Trust. He's almost deliberate
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by herghost 5y ago
It might have been my failure, but I couldn't get the Podcast app to list and play all my outstanding podcasts in the order that they'd arrived. So I had to be regularly fiddling with it to switch what I was listening to rather th
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by herghost 5y ago
Oh wow. I did not realise this was the case. Thank you!
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by herghost 5y ago
Albums I know really well. I’ll occasionally pick up a beat or a fill, but mostly it’s a comfortable and predictable journey that allows me to zone it out.
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by herghost 5y ago
So they're essentially the TicketMaster of standards. Everyone pretends to hate them, but it's only really the end users who suffer them.
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by herghost 5y ago
I used to really overthink making a phone call. To the point that I'd avoid it if there was any way I could. Professionally though, I couldn't avoid making them, and so I moved into a very strange cycle of rehearsing everything I&
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by herghost 6y ago
I remember doing a bootcamp for it many, many years ago when I was getting started in Infosec. I was already doing boot2root type challenges but this was a "real" cert and I was really nervous. I remember the relief washing over m
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by herghost 6y ago
I was able to get as far as building the half-adder, but then didn't have the means of figuring out the full adder as that seemed massively more complex.
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by herghost 6y ago
For Capitalism to work properly the government needs to be be empowered, and properly able, to enforce rules that prevent any one organisation from becoming so powerful that it corrupts and undermines the whole system. We don't have th
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by herghost 7y ago
Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath - really spoke to me about what 'poverty' means and how it affects people and perceptions of people. Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea - a gorgeous tale that brings to life the beauty of struggle an
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by herghost 7y ago
"we need worth to come for free, and we also need it to be acquirable." The more I think about this single sentence, the more I feel like it's holding so much more than it first appears to be.
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by herghost 7y ago
I've struggled to get very much out of mindfulness (primarily via Sam Harris) but this 'half-life of an emotion' thing is one of the bits that has worked. The best example I've experienced was being in an argument with m
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by herghost 7y ago
Be mindful of the source of this - the quality of content coming out of The Guardian has slipped since its recent change of editorial - it is much more content with click-bait and sensationalism than with anything more substantial. From the
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by herghost 7y ago
The "value" of a "bundle" service like Sky has been under scrutiny for some time - from the mandatory bundling of 300 crapware channels just so you pay for the one channel that shows anything worth seeing that people gre
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by herghost 7y ago
When the call to action in an image macro showing a huge queue of brown people ostensibly coming to your country invites you to google a specific term if you want 'proof' of its assertions and yet actually googling that term furni
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by herghost 7y ago
I think what I mainly worry about is that whilst I’d be happy keeping it pretty small - friends of friends, and family - I know that some of my family believe (and share socially) some abhorrent views, as too do some friends of friends, and
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by herghost 7y ago
I once closed my account only for it to be re-opened 4-5 months later by them with a debt balance assigned. Long story short is that someone I'd previously transacted with owed them money so they determined that they would take it from
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by herghost 7y ago
On the new 'Smart Motorways' there is built in enforcement via cameras. On those, the speed limit signs are actually speed limits, with the red ring around them. The ones I was referring to are advisory and look like this [0]. [0
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by herghost 7y ago
I was curious so I tested the 'on ramp' strategy that seems to be in place on UK motorways at rush hour - namely that they are traffic light controlled, but that they always seem to be Green for ~3 cars, Red for ~6 cars. Always se
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by herghost 7y ago
This gives me a newfound respect for variable speed signs on UK motorways (NB. not the actual speed limit signs, the black signs with the white matrix of bulbs giving advisory speeds). To-date, if you see a sign saying "40", that

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