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by japhyr 6y ago
What machine did you get, if you don't mind my asking? I haven't been able to find one that I'm confident is worth investing time into, as well as the financial investment.
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Lawmakers are trying to create a database with free access to court records(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by japhyr 6y ago|0 comments
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What did you get? I went through five different keyboards before ending up with a Durgod Taurus K320 with silent red switches. It was recommended as a good shared-space mechanical keyboard, and I ended up liking it better than all my louder
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Ask HN: Good eplanation of AI for curious 10yo?
1 points by japhyr 6y ago|1 comments
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Yes, I first read those as (null=True, blank=True) because I've never written out those arguments when their default is False. So for me writing them out explicitly with their defaults is an anti-pattern.
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What size iPad are people using for technical books and documents? My son has a 6th gen (9.7"), and it seems like it might be a little smaller than I'd like. But, a full-size iPad looks giant after being around his device. I'
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I've heard that technical books and pdfs don't always render well on e-ink devices. Is that just for kindles which do their own conversion on pdfs, or is that true of most e-ink devices?
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No. It's a simple way of saying I'd love to live longer than a human lifetime, but would never want to be immortal.
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Here in southeast Alaska, I usually hear people say "drive". For example if people are talking about a somewhat sketchy or tense return from a trip, you might ask them "Who was driving?" I never hear anyone say "Who
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When I finished undergrad I started teaching middle school, and after two years of teaching I finally had a summer off with zero obligations. I had read A Walk Across America , about a guy who walked across the US. It sounded fascinating b
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I've always thought it's important to learn something significant in each decade of life. In my 20s I started teaching and doing long-distance bicycling trips. In my 30s I moved from NYC to Alaska, and started doing mountain rescu
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I've been a volunteer on our local mountain rescue team for almost 20 years, and a couple times a year I get to fly with a USCG helo crew to help people in the mountains. It is such a privilege as a civilian to get to fly with USCG cre
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The article said the area he normally anchors in was expected to get rough, so he headed for what should have been a more protected area. He was anchored in that area, and his boat didn't right itself in the wind like it always had bef
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Where did you grow up? I've been in Sitka since 2002.
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I have a technical question related to this post. On the front page of the site there's a prominent announcement that the site will be offline for 48 hours for a database migration. Is this fairly common, and is this reasonable? I&#x27
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I put 40k miles on a CBR 600 in the early 2000s. I lived in NYC at the time, and I rode most weekends and took annual trips to Florida, and rode it all the way to the Pacific once. I sold it when I moved to an island in Alaska with few road
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That's interesting, I had never considered an iMac because I always thought they were designed as lower-spec family workstations. These look like the middle ground I was hoping to find. I'm still not sure I like the form factor, b
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by japhyr 6y ago
Does anyone have any recommendations if I want to keep using macOS, but I'm not tied to a MacBook? I realized I hadn't taken my main MacBook off the dock in 9 months. When I go out, I have an older one that I'm happy to use a
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Simplifying Django deployments on Heroku(ehmatthes.com)
1 points by japhyr 6y ago|0 comments
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Is there any code in the book? If so, are they fairly short snippets, or do you build up longer scripts and projects over the course of a chapter or more?
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Did I understand this right, that they stopped your servers because you spun up some dedicated CPU instances? Isn't that what you're supposed to do?
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I committed to living without an alarm clock in college, 20+ years ago. I fought long battles with my snooze button, and realized I was spending hours each morning hitting the snooze button. I realized if I just didn't set an alarm I&#
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by japhyr 6y ago
Multi-pane windows are great thermally, but they need to be replaced when the seal breaks and they get filled with condensation. If this material addressed that issue, it might make longer-lasting multi-pane windows?
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Thank you, and to others as well who have mentioned --incremental! I can't believe I never thought to look at the documentation for `jekyll serve`. This will make my life much easier. Another note on using Hugo. I have really enjoyed w
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I have used Jekyll for years on a GitHub pages site. I like working with Jekyll overall, but the site has grown to a moderate size and now it takes about 8 seconds to render changes locally. When I started a new personal site last year I we
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I tried some cheaper, smaller hubs for my ~2018 macbook pro 13", and nothing worked well. They either didn't work with an external monitor, or they did but they interfered with wifi. I finally bought a CalDigit TS3 Plus. It was wa
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I'm only 47, but I have a couple guiding principles that have been helpful so far. The first is to stay flexible. I've been a runner, hiker, bicyclist, climber, kayaker etc all my life. I've gone in and out of shape depending
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When I was in my 20s I lived on a bicycle for a year, going around the lower 48 and Canada, and then up to Alaska. I lived for two weeks in Joshua Tree with a guy named Tom, who slept in a cave the whole time. One morning we were sorting ou
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For anyone interested in the history of UNIX development, Brian Kernhigan's "UNIX: A History and a Memoir" is a quick and enlightening read. I loved the history, and I came away with a better understanding of today's cli
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Cleaning up a messy, exploratory Python project(ehmatthes.com)
1 points by japhyr 6y ago|0 comments

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