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by japhyr 7y ago
I wonder how much the load will change once schools close for the summer. All of these attempts at remote teaching and learning will stop over a period of several weeks, and I imagine a large amount of capacity will be available again for a
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It's hard to imagine anything other than a flood of used cars at some point in the near future. It sure feels like a lot of people are going to be cash-poor, and need to sell whatever they can. I have no idea how lenders approach repos
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by japhyr 7y ago
UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan is excellent. It traces the history of Unix from the early days at Bell Labs through the period where it reached widespread use in the rest of the world. It's a fascinating history of peo
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Yes! And it's so much fun to watch. Those are my go-to videos when testing audiovisual setups. Every time I hear his voice I want to get more efficient with emacs.
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by japhyr 7y ago
Does anyone have any recommendations for configuring emacs so it's easy to use with a standard MacBook keyboard and a full external keyboard? I used emacs for a couple years on a linux laptop with a full keyboard, and I loved it. Then
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by japhyr 7y ago
Are you asking this in the context of schools being closed right now? I'll answer it that way, since that's the reality for most of us. I spent 25 years teaching math and science from 5th grade through high school. I taught many c
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I'm sorry to hear that. From a distance, it seemed like there was some interesting revitalization work going on in the downtown area. I remember going to a barbershop off Main Street as a kid with my dad every couple of weeks. Back the
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I love Alaska. I live in Sitka, which is a small town on the side of an island. We have about 10k people, but our town is a 14-mile by 1/2 mile strip of land on a 100-mile long island that's almost entirely wilderness. I like that
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by japhyr 7y ago
Here's how I tell people how my experience of Nashua has changed: "When I was young, we used to tell people how to get to our house by saying at one point, 'Turn right where the cows are. You'll go over an old stone brid
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> I prefer not to talk about my future dreams for a project. I feel this way as well, but my reasoning is different. I do much better work when I feel like I don't have to do something, but I can choose to do something. I've al
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I grew up in Nashua, and when I looked at your posts about restoring your home it made me nostalgic for New Hampshire. I live in Alaska now and hope to spend the rest of my life here, but NH has the feeling of home that you can only get fro
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by japhyr 7y ago
Do you have any reason to think we're not going to see the situation in NYC play out in numerous other US cities over the coming weeks and months?
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+1 UNIX: A History and a Memoir I read it after seeing a recommendation here, and I've been recommending it ever since. I loved reading the early history of the development of UNIX and all the command line tools we use on a regular bas
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If this pushes the US to finally separate health care from employment, that would be a very good thing.
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> I would walk away gladly if I could do it without affecting my team and my employer. If this is really the case, and you can survive without this job, you should consider walking. Your employer has demonstrated that they do not care ab
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> I read some advice that said, only check the news on e.g. 2 set moments in the day. This is really healthy advice. My approach has been to establish some routine for checking news. At first it was whenever possible, to figure out what
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by japhyr 7y ago
I am not seeing much social distancing. People are talking about it, but I don't think people are really doing it. I see pictures of other countries where people are visibly standing 3-6 feet apart, everywhere. Here people are standing
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by japhyr 7y ago
So then you'd want to know if the cause of a false positive is random, or specific to the individual, right? If it's random, then how much would a retest change your certainty that an initial positive was a true positive? ie, if s
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by japhyr 7y ago
Being confined in an unhealthy space is a very bad place to be right now. This would be a great time to release nonviolent offenders.
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It's popular because everybody gets a check each fall that's been around $1500. One year the dividend was higher, just over $2k. There was also an "energy rebate" of $1200 that year, so every qualifying person in the sta
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The dividend is not particularly large as far as basic income goes, but it's an inflation-proof setup. The principal is currently somewhere around $67b. With about 700k residents in AK, that's about $90k per citizen. Now that the
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> Parents – children playing in the water make noise. When they get quiet, you get to them and find out why. If you're a new parent and haven't heard this advice before, this is one of the key takeaways. It also applies any tim
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I do not, but as a consumer I appreciate the option to choose between an alert and a cap, or some combination of the two. There are some projects where I'd want the cap to know I might get an interruption but will never get a large bil
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Yes, and those caps and alerts should be seen as beneficial to the service provider as well as to the customer. I wouldn't want my customers to have surprise high costs. A well-designed cap or alert should help avoid any major surprise
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I came here to recommend magna-tiles. My son is 9 now, and he still plays with them on a regular basis, and his friends do as well when they come over. He knows what a cube looks like spread out in two dimensions, and a number of other shap
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Jargonaut looks pretty interesting. I was on a team once where the lack of a shared glossary really slowed down development of the process. It's easy to make a glossary in a shared document, or as part of a larger project-management ap
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That is a great idea! I've been wanting to go back to Linux as my main OS for a long time, but I was in a Windows world when I was teaching and then I had to have a mac. Thanks!
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I was feeling pulled back towards non-mac laptops for a variety of reasons, but I think I just came up with a good strategy looking forward. If I were just doing my own dev work, I'd probably have a well-specced thinkpad running some v
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What's everyone's favorite bird sighting? I'm from southeast Alaska. We have a lot of interesting birds, but they tend to be fairly drab at this latitude. My favorite sighting happened on an early morning run in southwest Col
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I just got into birding more seriously in the last year, and I absolutely second this. I got a decent pair of binoculars that I keep around the house and on short walks [0], and a smaller pair of travel binoculars [1] that go pretty much ev

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