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by jkmcf 3y ago
I'm hoping he was being sarcastic.
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by jkmcf 3y ago
SMBC has a new book coming out on this topic: http://www.acityonmars.com A City on Mars investigates whether the dream of new worlds won’t create nightmares, both for settlers and the people they leave behind. In the process
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by jkmcf 4y ago
I've love each new release of the Thoughtworks radar. It's a great way to discover emerging tech by respected technologists. Discovering their BYOR feature immediately triggered an idea around understanding your familiarity with p
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by jkmcf 4y ago
Octopuses have demonstrated significantly more intelligence than cows. It's one reason why dolphins and apes aren't generally consumed. - https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/octopuses-keep-surprising-us-... - htt
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by jkmcf 4y ago
They mention using Dyneema for the space elevator tether, a material I hadn't heard about. https://www.gearpatrol.com/outdoors/a462827/everything-you-n...
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by jkmcf 4y ago
Public schools are a recent creation. Historically, few people were educated about anything outside their immediate needs, e.g. reading, writing, history, science, math, philosophy, etc. If you were taught anything extra, it was from a priv
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by jkmcf 4y ago
Pretty cool. While looking around I noticed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34984365 Was flagged as part-time, possible because they mention "PART REMOTE".
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by jkmcf 4y ago
Back in the 90s, Solaris was the big hold out -- IRIX and HPUX both came with at least a subset. First thing I had to do on Solaris was install the GNU tools, and, thankfully, eventually there were packages to manage that installation.
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by jkmcf 4y ago
No one is saving SVB. They are saving the depositors. The mockery will be not holding anyone accountable. Just like they weren't in 2009.
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by jkmcf 4y ago
In retrospect, I agree with you. Between masking --especially promoting masking with inadequate masks--, lockdowns, and anything else tried, they were met with 50% resistance which nullified any potential, positive effect.
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Definitely some of the most beautiful (I blame New Zealand) movies ever made. In general, I thought the movies were amazing in all aspects except the writing. The casting and acting were good, but the writing diminished everything else, bu
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by jkmcf 4y ago
Where loyal means H1B visas...
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by jkmcf 4y ago
Are there other books written in this format? I know _why wrote his books as a conversation between two foxes.
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by jkmcf 4y ago
Every time I look at developing a GUI, I think back to using DevGuide and wonder why the present DX sucks so bad.
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by jkmcf 4y ago
I'm waiting for one good hail storm to finish off my roof as far as the insurance company cares.
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by jkmcf 4y ago
Realizing one needs to move their 401k plans when you leave a job or incur higher fees and potentially stagnant growth. Also, it appears Roth IRAs need you to pick an investment option, but when I created one I don't recall there being
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by jkmcf 4y ago
You forgot Whiske?y. One I don’t understand at all!
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by jkmcf 4y ago
If you look at what Apple has done since, diversifying production out of China, this may have been a trigger. It could also be purely supply chain stability, but Cook appears to be a more noble figure than his peers IMO. The collision of po
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by jkmcf 4y ago
Which cloud mega-corp do you like out of Amazon, Cloudflare, MS, Oracle, IBM, and Google? I like digital ocean, and I’d consider Hetzner, but AWS is pretty top notch outside of cost and their parent’s general biz practices.
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by jkmcf 4y ago
My advice to younger people with ADHD is to force yourself away from the compulsion. Very hard I know. You need to recognize and internalize This is the first part of the Stoic, and habit breaking, approach. The second part is to ig
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by jkmcf 4y ago
Another vote for all the work Mark Forster has done experimenting with different list methods. http://markforster.squarespace.com/ With less introspection, I’ve usually done the long list, scanning for something I either fe
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by jkmcf 4y ago
Unsure if it still is, but if you had a MS office contract it was free, which describes a lot of the defense industry.
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by jkmcf 4y ago
There is no single answer. You search for and decide what makes life meaningful for you. There are a lot of great answers in this thread, I particularly like inphovore and Waterluvian's, but yours might be different. You need some mini
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by jkmcf 4y ago
I know I'm supposed to prefer hard numbers, but for two-pizza teams you kinda know whether things are going well or not without measurement. You may not know exactly why, but Dora doesn't tell you that either (per TFA). There are
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by jkmcf 4y ago
Unconditional seems extreme to me. If you get money/free stuff from the gov't, perhaps the gov't should require something in return, though not a job in the strict sense. I.e., it wouldn't require 40h per week. Perhaps
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by jkmcf 4y ago
Aspirin use can result in serious side effects, such as stomach bleeding, bleeding in the brain, and kidney failure.[1] I was reading something I recall trusting talking about how taking the probabilities of the side effects occurri
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Yes, Rails is a heavy framework. But strapping another framework on top of rails just for authentication smells pretty bad. The reality may be different, but superficially it seems odd.
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I looked at it awhile ago but it appears to require Roda. Which seems a bit heavy dependency on the surface.
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A number of books I've been reading aloud leave out the comma after a prepositional phrase (and friends), and it totally throws off my cadence.
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Obviously, you are doing it correctly and not putting all your logic in the controller. See also: Frontend development that requires running the entire stack in order to test it.

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