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by jancsika 3y ago
> But she has also considered marrying, then being a stay at home mom or working under the table jobs so that she can default without getting her wages garnished. The denial of emotional toll here is shocking. She has limited her options
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by jancsika 3y ago
The best low-end Frigidaire you can get today is around $750. For $5k you could buy 6.7 of them. Lowe's extended warranty appears to be 5 years, so I'm guessing these things are designed to last 6 years. 6 * 6.7 = 40.2 years. My
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by jancsika 3y ago
A few things need to align. The author has already explicitly stated how big a problem this is for them. That's a really good start. It sounds like the author is making these realizations all after the fact. The next step would be to n
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by jancsika 3y ago
Cloning tech may help. II could stand to wait a century or so if it means a slow, reflective tour of the Sistine Chapel. If group rates apply, maybe III and IV will tag along. :)
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by jancsika 3y ago
> This immersive daydreaming often pulls me out of reality's context. Rankly speculating-- there's some extremely painful emotion the author is avoiding by opting for daydream over engaging with whatever is going on in realit
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by jancsika 3y ago
> I feel like tabs on browsers were invented because no desktop environment or GUI toolkit ever came up with a decent solution for multiple instances/documents. This has improved but I suspect there is more that could be done. Alter
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by jancsika 3y ago
Hm, I can almost see the standard HN response here. I'm thinking specifically of the non-programming posts of a regular HN'er programmer[1]. Something like: Unions work on their own behalf and distort the market. Both in terms
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by jancsika 3y ago
The first link is solo groove-based, and in the 2nd the harpist is playing what sounds like a written out accompaniment to their own melody. (Or even if it's improvised it's a kind of ostinato pattern.) Ok, that third link is a ha
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by jancsika 3y ago
There are hundreds of them. Here's one. Level 1-- learn the bass notes for Heart and Soul Level 2-- now learn the bass notes in broken thirds Level 3-- play those bass notes in left hand and root position triads an octave above in righ
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by jancsika 3y ago
> Sometimes this would include a vibraphone (Gary Burton could really comp), or even a jazz harp. Citation needed for the jazz harpist comping chords. (No points for solo jazz harping-- only for jazz harping from inside the rhythm sectio
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by jancsika 3y ago
Any player could start trolling the others at any time: clarinetist-- play loud, continuous lyrical lines that noodle around whatever register the trumpet happens to be playing in trumpet-- play continuous arpeggios trombone-- play ska-styl
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by jancsika 3y ago
> You can find an overview of those challenges at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_management Not a big deal when physical security is provided at the broader level. For example, for any failed access attempt jus
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by jancsika 3y ago
> People are just inured to the omnipresent stupidity of drivers. Tell me at least a little about the ideology that starts with omnipresent human stupidity and improves safety by adding a new class of proprietary, intractable-decision-
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by jancsika 3y ago
I absolutely agree we need to discuss the topic of their dilapidated public transit system. But shouldn't we first solve the problem of how to deal with Richard Stallman's oversized influence on the FSF? Until we have a truly well
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by jancsika 3y ago
So if Linux users actually pay you a dollar (or greater) for the download, what do they get? Is it an app image? Edit: added "(or greater)" :)
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by jancsika 3y ago
That is surprisingly readable and makes me want to go learn COBOL. Could I now get you to criticize eating healthy, please? :)
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by jancsika 3y ago
What's the fastest way to deliver the bitmap to the canvas?
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by jancsika 3y ago
Honest question-- why weren't the tools glued together or perhaps replaced entirely with the lisp inside Emacs? What was it missing?
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by jancsika 3y ago
36k before taxes - 2.2k (FICA) - 4k (Health Insurance) - 4.3k (Income Tax) - 1k (3% matching Simple IRA) but ignoring 3.8k into HSA and 6k going to Roth IRA because we are probably too poor to do that = whopping 24.5k If you spend less th
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by jancsika 3y ago
> In other words, code that is more heavily commented is better. It could also be that understanding code in any non-trivial project is likely to back the developer into a corner where they become frustrated and swear at the computer. Mo
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by jancsika 3y ago
> There is no story here. If funding suddenly materializes for this developer as a result of this email, will you search for a bug in your worldview?
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by jancsika 3y ago
I misunderstood title as "Modeling a Film Camera inside a Blender that is Plugged In and Running." Somehow the actual video was more interesting than that. :) Still, I need a UML diagram to understand what is meant by "fake c
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by jancsika 3y ago
I've never witnessed a github issue where the comments are unanimous like this one. So far there isn't a single naysayer. Could probably build fairly successful political party off of this once-in-a-lifetime momentum. :)
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by jancsika 3y ago
> As, it is basically that, but in binary. And with an exponent bias which isn't part of what anyone learns as basic scientific notation. Used for reasons of efficiency that don't have anything to do with the efficiency humans
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by jancsika 3y ago
> That's way more dystopion. The example I gave had adherents who broke into the U.S. Capitol Building and got in close physical proximity to members of Congress, some of whom hid in offices. Some number of these same adherents were
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by jancsika 3y ago
Also Americans: relentlessly, publicly proclaim in large numbers that the president is a fake and a pedophile, all while rightly being extended credit, voting, renewing drivers licenses, traveling internationally, and making (apparently l
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by jancsika 3y ago
> Unless of course we also say, that climbing with a rope is a certain path to death, because of all the things you cited and that will eventually happen to you, if you do it long enough. Climbing with a rope is a certain path to fallin
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by jancsika 3y ago
Unfortunately, human communication is extremely complex. Researchers are only beginning to scratch its surface. The current approach is to fit them with helmets that project sounds and images of boats for the humans to sail in. Then it&#x27
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by jancsika 3y ago
I rankly speculate you have no dogs.
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by jancsika 3y ago
> lot of promoting their alarm clock (whatever) Maybe we should back up before smartphones. Even back up before desktops. Could 2023 be the year of the Linux alarm clock?

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