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by jnovek 4y ago
I can’t speak for others, but I have limited, volatile income and subscriptions aren’t a realistic option for me. One-time purchases are much more realistic. I don’t care for subscriptions because they lock out those of us with limited mea
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by jnovek 4y ago
I think he’s really dedicated to making a specific thing and gets frustrated when users ask for “Swiss Army knife” features. I have empathy for that situation. That said, being unkind to otherwise civil users is never OK.
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by jnovek 4y ago
“…voted against an incumbent…” I did every year — even the odd years — during the decade I lived in Texas. None of my candidates ever won! …Of course my district was so heavily gerrymandered that it looked like some weird, vestigial organ
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by jnovek 4y ago
For those of us who don’t get so deep into modding that we follow a Patreon, having a straightforward way to pay modders for their time seems nice. Unfortunately when these things become marketplaces it seems like incentives shift and they
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by jnovek 4y ago
I understand your perspective and think it’s a totally valid response. I actually found the out-of-placeness sort of charming — it reminded me of being an adolescent and having opinions and feelings about music for the first time… while co
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by jnovek 4y ago
When we write software as part of a job, we have all kinds of staff who support the project —- project managers, product managers, QA, marketing and sales, security etc etc. It really seems that, for open source projects, the author is expe
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by jnovek 4y ago
I think a lot of people are hung up on the fact that 2FA was your example because 2FA is widely regarded as a good idea. My takeaway from your article is: if I create an open source project and it becomes popular, I’ll have a bunch of respo
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by jnovek 4y ago
Yeah, no. I would see a pickup basketball game as “pissing my time away”. I don’t like basketball and loathe playing competitive sports. Further, I really enjoy doing things by myself. I often play video games to challenge myself — it’s m
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by jnovek 4y ago
I don’t, yet I am still not anonymous. If someone at the supermarket asked me my name I would tell them.
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by jnovek 4y ago
From subjective experience, it seems like the natural turnaround for “this isn’t my Austin anymore!” is about 10 years. I lived there for 10 years. I left because I couldn’t afford it any more. :-/
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by jnovek 4y ago
Yet… 2/3 of black people have reported to being treated with suspicion in a retail setting. What’s the disconnect? You, someone who ostensibly works in the loss prevention industry claim that racism is not a factor; but black people,
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by jnovek 4y ago
I just became a Pinboard customer a few months ago! I picked Pinboard because the UI is simple but functional. No 30mb blob of JavaScript. It pairs well with todo.txt… now I just need a simple Dropbox-based notes app to complete the trio.
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by jnovek 4y ago
I have no idea why you were downvoted for this. “Loss prevention” is just private security and it’s definitely problematic. Through profiling it reinforces racism and classism. Can you imagine how unpleasant it must be to be treated with
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by jnovek 4y ago
"This stifling of competing ideas, say a growing number of scholars, is a big reason why there is no treatment for Alzheimer’s." Question for those who know: is this a problem in general with the culture of academic science? I a
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by jnovek 4y ago
I believe your perspective is limited by your experience. As someone who is (a) a millennial and (b) has a chronic medical condition, I need medical care WAY MORE than I need to own a house. Or even rent a house. A crappy apartment will d
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by jnovek 4y ago
I think you are correct, and that behavior is to the patients’ detriment. Personally, I worked myself into the ground trying to both advance my career and to manage increasingly alarming health issues. I would have benefitted from some “rea
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by jnovek 4y ago
“The most false thing about opioids is that they are any one thing.” That’s fair. A better way to say what I mean might be “our opioid therapy protocols aren’t very good” or “we’ve relied on opioids in ways that cause more harm than good”.
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by jnovek 4y ago
Oh my goodness, yes. I’ve traded chronic pain stories with women who have endometriosis and I am convinced that it would just be beyond my capacity to cope. Many women (I’m not sure how many because, of course, it’s not well studied) with e
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by jnovek 4y ago
Yes. To make matters worse, the opioid epidemic is real; regardless of the cause, it’s not just war on drugs hysteria. It ends up that opioids are terrible drugs. Aside from the obvious habit forming stuff, there’s things like hyperalgesia
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by jnovek 4y ago
“Babies feeling pain is something that should be self-evident, shouldn't it?” I have yet to understand the historical underpinnings of this phenomenon, but as someone who deals with chronic pain, doctors don’t seem to be aware that peo
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by jnovek 4y ago
I think the point is that it’s just a change of venue for making consensus; the roles don’t change. A small number of people with lots of resources choose whether a large number of people with few resources fight each other to the death. GG
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by jnovek 4y ago
“Get rid of the social media apps.” A middle road I’ve used is to restrict myself to the browser versions of social media. The user experience is so frustrating that I don’t want to stick around, I just check on what people are up to once
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by jnovek 4y ago
Procreate my well be the best value per dollar of anything I’ve purchased in my entire life measured in hours of joy and self-improvement it has provided.
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I’ve been stuck in bed due to medical stuff quite a bit over the last year. My iPhone has essentially preserved my sanity. Like any powerful tool, the user can can choose to make it good or bad. I learned quite a bit about music theory an
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by jnovek 4y ago
Just to make this thread a bit more aggravating, I have two pre-Mariko switches — at least they both have the Nvidia Tegra vulnerability, anyway — and I have yet to see either fail to charge on random USB-C cables and chargers. As another p
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by jnovek 4y ago
Perhaps. I still plays Diablo 2 and 3 quite a bit. I don’t think I’d call myself a “hardcore” player — I’m not very good — but I’m definitely in the Diablo 4 launch demographic. I’ve been keeping an eye on Diablo Immortal as sort of a canar
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by jnovek 4y ago
“… in an era in which people can’t eat a sandwich, let alone invent Calculus, without tweeting about it. I tweet, therefore I am.” This is just a bias towards people who make themselves visible. I suspect that self-promoters have existed t
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by jnovek 4y ago
I’m currently not working due to disability. I’m applying for SSDI right now which is a bummer process. It’s hard: I’ve been essentially out of work for a few years as well and I feel like my life has fallen out of sync with the rest of re
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by jnovek 4y ago
Everything in this conversation is dancing around the same thing: core competency. Something I saw in action building a startup is that the fewer people you have on your team, the more efficient they are. As you grow, it’s wise to focus you
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by jnovek 4y ago
“Might I suggest you be honest with yourself and say you like the new car feel? Maybe even like it as a status symbol? Don't want to think about what tires to buy to replace worn-out ones?” Dead wrong. I lease the cheapest car that is

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