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by jaw 10d ago
When visiting Delft in the Netherlands I was extremely jealous that the library there not only had a cafe, but that the cafe served wine and the whole place was open until like 11pm. Haven’t encountered anything like that in the US.
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by jaw 9mo ago
https://brokensandals.net/
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by jaw 2y ago
I use a sort of intermediate approach for my personal site. It's just stored as html files in a git repo, and I do write the html by hand for pages that I want to put extra love into (e.g. an annual year-in-review post to share with fa
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by jaw 2y ago
For me personally, the effort of 'polishing' a post makes it drastically more valuable to myself in the end: I think harder about the material; I notice problems with my thinking that I would have glossed over otherwise; I explain
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by jaw 3y ago
I do this too—every post has a footer telling people they can email me with feedback, along with a mailto link. I maybe see one piece of spam every few months because of it. And once in a while I get feedback that I really enjoy. As the top
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by jaw 3y ago
As a fellow fan of effective altruism, I really don't want people to think of it as the group that shows up whenever someone is asking for help and says "Don't help them! You should be helping these other people instead!&quot
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by jaw 3y ago
I have a blog, but I mostly assume people _don't_ care what I'm doing or thinking. Some of my posts have probably never been read by anybody. I still personally find it worthwhile for a few reasons: - The mere possibility that som
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by jaw 5y ago
At several points in my life I've been so discontent that I felt I had no choice but to try something that felt (at least to me at the time) drastic and risky. This has included: - pursuing romantic interests that I knew could get comp
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by jaw 5y ago
> you can't treat depression by hanging out with other depressed people I disagree, a sense of shared suffering can be really helpful in building close and meaningful friendships. Connecting with another miserable person who underst
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by jaw 5y ago
It sounds like you've been able to consistently land dev jobs, produce working software (it's not your responsibility to ensure the thing you've been asked to build is commercially viable), and build a good reputation (you me
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by jaw 5y ago
Reminds me of the tale in this podcast [1] where the guy's desire to avoid a difficult conversation spiraled into totally ghosting his employer for two weeks. It's a really tough tendency to fight. One thing I think is helpful is
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by jaw 5y ago
I and many people I’ve met irl through book clubs etc use it; I find reading my friends’ reviews interesting and I’ve gotten good recommendations through it. If you’re just looking at the top reviews for a book it’s more questionable; they
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by jaw 5y ago
> no one actually interacts with people selling you things like this There's a whole successful social network (Goodreads) built on people's desire to talk about books, frequently in the form of effusive praise. I think being a
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by jaw 6y ago
I've used this service for a few years and really appreciate it. Mostly I use their app, which works perfectly fine, but it's nice to be able to download the DRM-free files so I know I'm not locked in.
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by jaw 6y ago
Articulating your flaws isn't the same as fixing them. If you just tell people what your love language is, but don't learn to show love in their love language, they still won't feel cared for. You may even be reinforcing the
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Show HN: View Markdown files as kanban boards via VS Code plugin(marketplace.visualstudio.com)
3 points by jaw 6y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Note management without editor lock-in(github.com)
5 points by jaw 6y ago|1 comments
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by jaw 6y ago
I recently stopped using a static site generator for my personal site [1] in favor of just manually maintaining a bunch of HTML files, for similar reasons. The last straw for me was a nonpassive change to the site generator mysteriously bre
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by jaw 6y ago
Right. Aside from 'files' and 'bytes', the metrics are just the result of running shell commands specified in a config file. In this case it's `jq '.items | length' $PARCEL_PATH`, i.e., parse the file and
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by jaw 6y ago
> Scrolling through thumbnails is better than nothing, sure. "Better than nothing" is pretty much what I'm going for here. Almost all my personal data stored in cloud services falls into this "corner case": I onl
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by jaw 6y ago
I keep multiple versions as well, and also use third-party backup software on all these files. These techniques are meant to be part of something analogous to a 'defense in depth' against errors in the backup process, not thorough
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by jaw 6y ago
I replied to a similar point about hashing here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23032633 You're correct that the methods I described are a far cry from actually guaranteeing that the backup has no errors. In the
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by jaw 6y ago
I'm mostly trying to address cases where there is no original file that I fully trust. If I'm exporting my data from some web app/service, I can't get a hash of the data as it is in the actual source of truth on their se
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Making Backup Validation Easier(brokensandals.net)
41 points by jaw 6y ago|17 comments
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Show HN: CLI tool for testing personal backups(github.com)
1 points by jaw 6y ago|0 comments
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by jaw 6y ago
Focus has been an issue for me too. I think it helps to view yourself as having a limited number of focus 'slots', but to view each focus as just a medium-term commitment (a few months or years). So e.g. you're not choosing a
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by jaw 6y ago
Location: Seattle, WA Remote: Yes (preferred) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, Ruby, Rails (8+ years); JS, React; would be happy to learn more Rust, Go, or whatever for the right project Résumé/CV: https://brokens
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by jaw 7y ago
Location: Seattle, WA Remote: Yes (preferred) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, Ruby, Rails (8+ years); JS, React; would be happy to learn more Rust, Go, or whatever for the right project Résumé/CV: https://brokens
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by jaw 7y ago
I'm not sure the concept of "truth" is reducible. Any argument about the question "what does truth mean?" implicitly requires that participants can already make some sense of the idea that some answers would be true
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by jaw 7y ago
I think that's a potentially misleading way of summarizing it. Facts are true beliefs; not all beliefs are true. The trilemma only implies that there's no way for me to step outside of my own head and know, beyond the possibility

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