jlkuester7

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by jlkuester7 3y ago
+1 for FairEmail! Really powerful and configurable, but also just works like you expect and otherwise stays out of your way. On the Desktop I have been using Mailspring for awhile and am also super happy with it!
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
My general advice to new folks entering the workforce for the first time is that they remember "the company" (especially big public cooperations) does not care about them. The company's only real priority is to provide value
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
Ah that is poor wording on my part! By "flavor of the month", I was referring to the many VS Code variants (e.g. VSCodium, GitHub Codespaces, etc). For better or worse VS Code has become the Chrome of the IDE world with a staggeri
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
It was this philosophy that kept me away from JetBrains IDE's for years. Eventually, someone talked me into giving it a try and there was no going back for me! Basically ALL the other software I run, from the OS on up, is FLOSS, but
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
If only we lived in a market economy that made things more expensive in places that were harder/more expensive to get to. Oh wait.... I guess you have never had the pleasure of paying $5 for a frozen cheeseburger that you had to heat u
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
Shoot, yeah, had not thought of that. Let me just load up my farm real quick and move it somewhere with better connectivity....
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
> Also, if you think a $500 one-time fee is bad, try asking Comcast how much they'll charge for pulling 20 miles of fiber to your farm. Made me laugh out loud! :) Closest wired internet to my place is 6mi South. Also have a big hil
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
My dev machine is sufficiently beefy (32G of RAM). I recently tried https://lapce.dev/ and was very surprised that it was noticeably more snappy than VSC. (I am not super sensitive to that kind of thing after years spent i
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
Interesting to note the number of YouTube channels and such that are making millions of dollars shooting their videos with iPhones, GoPros, and consumer drones. The price gap between that equipment and true professional grade gear is astro
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
> if it's the first of a particular kind of equipment, buy the cheapest version you can get. Use that, and you'll learn if it's actually helpful to you and, if it is, what qualities are really important. Only then go out a
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
In WWI, shooting down an observation balloon was considerably more difficult (and prestigious) than another plane. In this case, though, I imagine the difficulty (and associated prestige) is considerable less... :)
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
The Catholic Church has never claimed the Bible is the sole source of religious revelation. Sacred Tradition is regarded and an additional (and not contradictory) source of revelation of the mysteries of God. I am by no means well versed in
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
When my brother and I were in college, I worked as a farm hand the same summer he was working a computer engineering internship. His hours were capped at 39/wk and he still made more money per week than I did working 80/wk. I lov
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
Came here hoping for a guide to scaling CouchDB. Was dissapointed....
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
You guys have money in your bank accounts?
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
Exactly! If security is your highest priority, buy a new Pixel and put GrapheneOS on it. But if you have an EOL device, DivestOS seems to be an amazing alternative to just staying on the stock firmware that is not going to get any updates a
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
I ended up self-hosting all my music via https://funkwhale.audio/ . I use S3-style object storage to store the music files so large libraries are no problem!
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
> they are supposed to be pristine and wise, when the evidence is to the contrary on both counts. The brain elasticity of an 80yo might not always be up to learning the JS framework of the week (though perhaps that is a wisdom in itself.
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
> private messages aren't always necessary, as long as the platform is crystal clear about this When sending a DM on Mastodon, there is literally a message that pops up saying: "Posts on Mastodon are not end-to-end encrypted. D
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
I like it! I know the goal is to move beyond plain text, but I wonder if you plan to ever support exporting the data to plain text files (e.g. Markdown)? That is a hard requirement for me to consider a note-taking app. I need data portab
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
I am curious what Twitter features you are missing in Mastodon? The only thing I can think of that I feel like many people expect is some kind if "curated" recommendations system (e.g. I only want to see content that is relevant
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
As a white person from Kansas I am offended by all the negative stereotyping in this thread... /s
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
I have no idea of specific numbers but this does not seem to fit the anecdotal experience of my city. :/ It is a complex multifaceted situation that might differ based on region, but in my moderately large mid-west city, the differenc
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
> Just admit it. You enjoy your racism and have zero desire to help anyone. Please refrain from senseless personal attacks as per HN commenting guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsgu idelines.html I cannot help
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
Side point, but I wonder if how many people who are opposed to AA are actually in favor of "legacy admits". Both smell very fishy to me. (No clear academic motive for either....)
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
I don't see how you could eliminate the bottleneck in prestigious universities since if they are widely accessible, by definition they would no longer be prestigious. IMHO, the best way forwards is for folks to push for the expansion o
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
> They are the only reason you were allowed into the US and could become naturalized. I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume this is meant as hyperbole. Still I feel like this comment falls into the same rut that has lead t
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
I hope that the techs give an extra tug on the wrench "just to be sure" when they are tightening those two bolts back on like I do when putting the lug nuts back on my car wheel...
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
Apparently no one told that to Elon.... It may have been German mad-scientists who pioneered sending rockets to space, but I think you actually have to be more crazy to think you can bring them back down again and land them in one piece! (N
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by jlkuester7 4y ago
+1 to this. The aerodynamic lift from the F-15 wings/body also increases its maneuverability as well since the pilot will roll the plane into the turn.

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