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by jkmcf 8y ago
After just finishing my dessert, Jeri Westerson's latest Crispin Guest Mystery, I'm on to more serious matter in The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday.
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by jkmcf 8y ago
I came here to say something similar. My creativity will be fairly good when I'm engaged with others. OTOH, if I need to be more than just creative, i.e. thoughtful, I need to be offline.
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by jkmcf 8y ago
I'm still working on getting her to sit still long enough to eat dinner in a timely fashion. :)
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by jkmcf 8y ago
Ignored this when it first showed up, but Hacker Newsletter resurfaced it for me. Given a sub-40 hour week, and my own penchant to follow the path of least resistance, I think a happy medium between employer/employee would be making su
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by jkmcf 8y ago
This is one of my favorites, especially if the chore has been ignored for a while.
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by jkmcf 8y ago
The site’s ‘marketing’ material is worth the click!
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by jkmcf 8y ago
Vaguely related: "EINSTEIN DIDN'T WIN the Nobel Prize for the theory of relativity. He won it for showing that you don't need to worry about radiation from your cell phone." - https://www.sfgate.com/opini
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by jkmcf 8y ago
While I agree that sentence is a dishonest summary, one has to be careful when claiming “rewriting history”. As history is written by the victors, parts are ignored, misrepresented, or plain fabricated. Eg, every American child is brought
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by jkmcf 8y ago
SMBC has a book called Soonish[1]. Space elevators is one of the topics covered. The biggest problem, IIRC, is the longest carbon nanotube we can build is only a half meter long. [1] https://smbc-comics.com/soonish/
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by jkmcf 8y ago
FWIW, even better is Ian MacDonald's Luna.
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I’ve always sorta felt they solved the problem backwards, focusing on the infrastructure and not on running applications. Now we have all these competitors/confusion around orchestrating running an app. They could have just copied Her
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by jkmcf 8y ago
I like this merger, but the companies use different cellular tech. How long and how much cost to convert Sprint to CDMA? I would expect Verizon to be affected both positively (short term) and negatively (long term) since some (most?) devic
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by jkmcf 9y ago
I'd upvote this comment more if I could. Since the 90s, my first test with any new design was to resize the browser and see how the page reacts. Most of the time they failed.
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by jkmcf 9y ago
Sun DevGuide Beating a dead horse and outing myself to anyone that knows me!
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by jkmcf 9y ago
Replace the surface with a 2015 (wife's primary) and 2009 MBP (my non-work backup), and I'm the same as you. The 2015 MBP is almost perfect, and the 2017 would be extra perfect if they hadn't changed the keyboard (it's l
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by jkmcf 9y ago
The general consensus about writing, IMO, is "just do it" and "your first draft isn't your final draft" -- similar to software's "make it work, make it right, make it fast" It can't hurt to follo
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by jkmcf 9y ago
Not sure if you missed it, or I'm misunderstanding you, but he wrote: > Give them homework and "grade it" to give them feedback which addresses your main point.
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Physicist Proposes Alternative to Black Holes(skyandtelescope.com)
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by jkmcf 9y ago
Flavoie's comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16593355 ) are really good. Some questions you might ask yourself: 1. Do you live in the CLI? 2. Is your desired software available for Linux? 3. How much do you
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by jkmcf 9y ago
Look to the Native Americans. Or, at least some of them. Give thanks to things the world gives to you.
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by jkmcf 9y ago
So much better in Mark Hammil's voice, especially the last sentence!
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by jkmcf 9y ago
PSA: The first thing to realize is that psychiatrists, and regular practitioners, have no clue what will work for you. In my case, it took 8+ years of trying, giving up, and trying again. E.g., Prozac didn't affect me at all, but the
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by jkmcf 9y ago
*Before taxes?
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by jkmcf 9y ago
If you never comment on each other's posts, then you aren't interacting. However, it is a great way to "keep appraised" of how people are doing. There are a ton of people I've met throughout my life and around the
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by jkmcf 9y ago
Not so much "masculine" as juvenile.
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by jkmcf 9y ago
Here's a brand new one, from a famous history podcaster, Mike Duncan of The History of Rome fame. The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic It would have been great if everyone had read this in the 80s,
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by jkmcf 9y ago
I don't recall the domain, but circa 1994 "what's new" was a succinct, daily list of new websites. Like, almost all of them :) I distinctly remember the original website for the Twinkie torture test...
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by jkmcf 9y ago
I personally find the Apple TV UI fine, not great but easy enough. However, discoverability is still horrible. It constantly shows the same recommendations over and over, including things I've just watched. You need to know what you
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The main gist is whatever you add to the company stack, the company is now responsible to maintain, possibly forever. My current situation is basically this times 10 since the people who did exciting tech left. If the team and managers agr
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by jkmcf 9y ago
You mean the property rights humans appropriated from the natives, be they native humans or animals? Might makes right and all that BS? I respect animals since they are generally honest about their intentions. Humans not so much.

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