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by jfil 2y ago
I second this. Also, I heard that restaurant businesses are always very tight with cash. The kind of service you described sounds like a "nice to have" that they can live without.
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Forsaking Industrialism: The Most Expensive Thing You Didn't Buy(radicalcontributions.substack.com)
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by jfil 2y ago
You mentioned the comic before - it's really different and I like that. I recently went back and read through all the finished No Pizza on Luna panels. Keep doing what you do!
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Achieving Your Dreams(incolumitas.com)
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by jfil 2y ago
Very similar lawlessness here in Canada, with the tax agency making a secret settlement with KPMG for tax evasion ( https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cra-kmpg-settlement-taxes-1... ), the Prime Minister firing the Mi
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by jfil 2y ago
My sibling just moved from Toronto to London, England. "The trains just work - and they refund you if there are delays!". I guess everybody gets fed up with their home city/country eventually.
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The Curse of Xanadu (1995)(wired.com)
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Walking sims and the joy of existing in a virtual space (2019)(nathalielawhead.com)
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Dogcarts(messybeast.com)
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by jfil 2y ago
This reminds me of the Japanese principle of "fuben eki". Sometimes it makes sense to make a task more difficult in order to increase mastery or improve a person's understanding of how the process works.
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If You're So Smart, Why Can't You Die?(desystemize.substack.com)
3 points by jfil 2y ago|1 comments
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The line scan video picture(writing.leafs.quest)
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by jfil 2y ago
Go for it!
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by jfil 2y ago
You could purchase a booth / sponsorship at a retro-computing convention. You could also figure out which specific software from Mac OS 9 people are using, and participate + advertise in their hangouts (the marketing message there woul
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by jfil 2y ago
If you're still recruiting testers, then I'm interested in using this.
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by jfil 2y ago
What made you passionate about documenting stained glass? (I like these types of projects. Check out loc.alize.us as a way of finding stained glass windows in a limited geo area)
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by jfil 2y ago
Your page will convert better if you embed your 2-field form right there, instead of the call-to-action button. Even better if you make it a 1 field form (and ask for the notification-receiving email after submit).
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by jfil 2y ago
Remember that there's strong selection bias in this thread (those who aren't working on something aren't posting a comment). Not to speak of "Dark Matter Developers".
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by jfil 2y ago
I've created a proof-of-concept walkable 3D environment based on John Tallis' 1830s engravings of London streets. Polishing it, and working on the accompanying blog post. I'm also writing a basic introduction to the SQLite EX
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by jfil 2y ago
There are a lot of services that "guess" valid email addresses for a given business contact. (Think: I have a B2B decision maker's LinkedIn contact info, and I want to cold-email them. What could be their email address?) Thin
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Standard Oil Fuels World War II(modernhistoryproject.org)
2 points by jfil 2y ago|0 comments
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by jfil 2y ago
General Motors and Standard Oil, through Ethyl Gasoline Corp. shared critical leaded gasoline / anti engine-knock technology with Germany, in order to enable their blitzkrieg. "In 1935 Ethyl Gasoline Corporation transferred its k
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by jfil 2y ago
Once you zoom into the individual maps, you can see that this is as close to Google Streetview as they could get at the time. It was surprising to realize it's basically the same thing.
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London Street Views (1840)(davidrumsey.com)
172 points by jfil 2y ago|23 comments
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by jfil 2y ago
Working remote (especially if this is your first time) comes with its own set of stresses and challenges. It took me 1-2 years to adapt when I started. Some of the challenges may occur in any wfh position. >>I wonder if every industry
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by jfil 2y ago
I'd like to throw an alternative perspective in here: in olden times it was a clearer us-vs-them. The peasants knew that the lord sucked and would support each other against him. The miners knew that management was awful. There would b
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by jfil 2y ago
Good luck. I hope whatever you do now is different enough that it won't burn you out in the same way.
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by jfil 2y ago
A fun read on failures was "In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters" It taught me the lesson of "people will stop buying v1 of your product as soon as you announce v2... so don't announ
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by jfil 2y ago
This is an interesting perspective on increased supply that I haven't considered before. It is remarkable how similar the Canadian housing situation is to the UK's.
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by jfil 2y ago
Here are lots of photos: https://vintagecomputer.ca/the-burroughs-icon-computer/ It looks like this computer is also known as the Burroughs ICON and the CEMCORP Icon.

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