indymike

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by indymike 9mo ago
Org mode is great for outline like documents. Markdown is great for paragraph-like documents. I've used both for a long time, and have found markdown to be a poor replacement for org-mode and org-mode to be a bad replacement for markdo
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by indymike 9mo ago
I could have a principle and live in a falling apart money pit in a declining neighborhood or move to a brand spanking new home in a neighborhood on the way up.
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As long as costs are marked up and passed on to the consumer, this is a non starter. Also, government charging more taxes just gets paid by the consumer. Money is fungible. Small landlords have significant advantages in their being able to
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by indymike 9mo ago
Counter notice means I'm ok with defending a lawsuit. There are some big costs there. The problem with the current system is there's no protection for false/bogus DMCA takedowns and those do real economic damage to legitimate
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by indymike 9mo ago
> e never seen big corporations own single-family rentals en masse. I just sold a house to a big corporation that owns about 12,000 homes. There's a whole industry for enabling these buys, opendoor, offerpad, etc... It's usuall
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by indymike 9mo ago
> Additional property tax if you do not live in your home fulltime. In states I've lived in with property tax there is a homestead exemption for the house you live in. In my current state that's about twice the tax. The effect
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by indymike 9mo ago
The 2560x1440 is QHD which is kind of a happy medium: high resolution enough to look really sharp, but not so high resolution that you have to scale it up like Macs do on retina displays. Having had retina Macs (and been very happy with the
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by indymike 9mo ago
Takedown notices need to have a refundable processing fee. The fee should be refunded if the targeted publisher agrees the content shouldn't be online. If the takedown notice gets a counter notice, then the hosting provider/platfo
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by indymike 9mo ago
The GPL forces the offer and provides the remedy if you don't provide source, so I'm not sure why this is so important to you?
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by indymike 9mo ago
> If you did not receive such a written offer, the GPL, in itself, makes no guarantee that you have the right to the source code Wrong. The requirement to provide source code under the GPL is primarily governed by Section 3 of the GNU G
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by indymike 10mo ago
> American companies that innovate and Chinese companies just copies. Let's take Roomba as the example, because "innovate" does not mean what people think it means. Roomba invented the consumer robot floor care machine an
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by indymike 10mo ago
Internal culture changes on budget cycles, and right now, most companies are being pushed by investors to adopt AI. Have your sales team ask about AI budgeting vs. SaaS budgeting. I think you'll find that AI budget is available and con
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by indymike 10mo ago
> No one really wants another Widgetify of DoodlyD.oo.io I keep hearing this and seeing people buying more Widgetify of DoodlyD.oo.io. I think this is more of a defensive sales tactic and cope for SaaS losing market share.
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by indymike 10mo ago
> I believe that agents are a multiplier on existing velocity, not an equalizer. Development tooling improvements usually are a temporary advantage end up being table stakes after a bit of time. I'm more worried that as agentic tool
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by indymike 10mo ago
> I don't make them roll around in poison ivy, either. My parents taught me what poison ivy looks like so I did not roll in it. Likewise teaching your kids what a skinner loop is and how scrolling a feed is putting yourself in a ski
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by indymike 10mo ago
This has been a trick used by "reputation management" people for years.
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I worked in one that had lettuce, tomato and celery in the stack.
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by indymike 10mo ago
Sometimes names have great value at the beginning of the project. In this case it explains exactly what the project is and will be... That said, marketing decisions like naming a product often don't age well.
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by indymike 10mo ago
So... what's the point. Outlawing being an inattentive parent doesn't fix that problem. I'm not sure human beings have found a fix for that that has optimal outcomes for the kids.
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by indymike 10mo ago
If you have kids it is your responsibility. If you have kids and are not interested or present enough, this is literally the problem.
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by indymike 10mo ago
Reminds me of the Postal Service spending billions to change the logo from a stylized eagle to a... stylized eagle.
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by indymike 10mo ago
> That depends on the implementation. Not really. Either you have freedom of speech or you have restricted speech. The more restriction, the less freedom you have. > the site you prove age to gets no information other than that you ar
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by indymike 10mo ago
Not really. You asserted that unknown people are dangerous, while most of the replies to you are is pointing out that there are serious classes of crimes where people your child knows well are the most likely to commit them. I think someti
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by indymike 10mo ago
> I'm not sure why a person would want to let their kids hang out any place where that stuff you report is common, A great percentage of serious crimes (from rape to fraud) are committed by family and friends of the victims. Should
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by indymike 10mo ago
"Everyone must prove their age online now" creates a trail of identity that kills anonymous speech dead. Anonymous speech is very important to maintaining freedoms... such as freedom of speech and freedom of association.
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by indymike 10mo ago
Father of five here, and founder of a social media marketing company (exited). Our kids are up against problems we didn't have during the great expansion of social. The three big things: 1. State level actors and well funded not for
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by indymike 10mo ago
If your presentation requires a custom software installation, give the audience the instructions as a hand out/script so you can focus on the important part. I once did a breakout about a Geo support in Django, but the presenter spent
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More like 15 minutes.
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by indymike 10mo ago
Control, responsibility and accountability have to align. * You should only be accountable for what you are responsible for. * You should only be responsible for what you have control of. Bad managers hate this structure because in makes th
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by indymike 10mo ago
If they didn’t have so many limitations imposed for safety or by permissioning. Hey Google call my wife. 30 seconds later “something has gone wrong”. Or hey Google play _______ on YouTube music. “Playing something else on you tube music”.

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