joe_hills

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by joe_hills 4mo ago
I need to re-read Constellation Games soon. Lately I keep coming back to considering the expectations that its alien society has for the caretakers of artificial intelligence. Spinning up AI isn't hard for them from a tech standpoint,
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by joe_hills 8mo ago
I was looking at the in-app purchases list and it doesn't explicitly have a family-sharing plan like Weather Line does. This looks great and I'd definitely consider switching my family Weather Line plan over to an Acme Weather fam
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by joe_hills 8mo ago
You’re mistaken. The Nazi Party in Germany intentionally killed a lot of German citizens.
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by joe_hills 10mo ago
That phrase originated from a story in which a lapsed carpenter stopped an execution. Christ, we need more woodworking classes for kids on the tech path.
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by joe_hills 10mo ago
Executive order itself: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/elim...
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by joe_hills 2y ago
Congrats, Tom! I’m glad to hear there’s more than one moderator here so you can share the workload and hopefully relax well on your time off.
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Drupal Launches Game-Changing CMS Platform(drupal.org)
4 points by joe_hills 2y ago|1 comments
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by joe_hills 2y ago
I've been researching Open Source alternatives to WordPress, and apparently Drupal just today released a new variant with modules pre-loaded to cater to marketers considering a similar jump. Anyone looking at this for their projects?
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by joe_hills 2y ago
What a choice, and what poor timing. Companies that make breaking changes on holiday weekends aren’t going to earn much goodwill from developers.
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by joe_hills 2y ago
Yeah, if it was actual spies or junior enlisted, I doubt we’d hear about it, so this may not be the first time. For a captain not to be able to trust his senior chiefs is what’s most scary here.
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by joe_hills 2y ago
If this was a bunch of junior enlisted, I’d be impressed at their ingenuity, and they’d probably get a slap on the wrist for doing the dumb things that nineteen year olds are expected to get caught for. I can’t imagine the entire senior enl
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by joe_hills 2y ago
Neat! I wonder if demand for DOS computers for industrial control applications was the driving force behind creating these. I’m sure just buying a new DOS machine with parallel and serial ports might be more straightforward than spinning up
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by joe_hills 2y ago
I concur on Affinity. For graphic design, pixel art, layout, and photo work I've switched to the Affinity suite. I used Premiere for about two years but never liked it as much as Final Cut Pro X, so I'm back on FCPX for video now
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by joe_hills 3y ago
Apple ships extra stickers with their logo in the box with a lot of their products, maybe slap one on your computer and see how far it gets you in court?
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by joe_hills 3y ago
Wow, I was wondering at first how good a video had to be for a YouTube engineer to add css like this—and after watching this twice now, I'm deeply startled by how many brilliant and resonant choices were made by the folks who created i
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by joe_hills 3y ago
I’m part of an artist’s collective, and this really captures the spirit of how we sometimes spend our holidays.
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by joe_hills 3y ago
A computer can generate billions of unique seeds, but not billions of relationships with your sales team. Maybe don't allow companies you don't trust to buy ads? If only companies with a relationship with your sales team can buy a
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by joe_hills 3y ago
Local weekly pinball tournaments are an amazing way to meet folks and hang out in a low-pressure social environment. Since the rounds of the tournament are randomized groups of four, every round is a chance to introduce yourself to three ot
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by joe_hills 3y ago
I really enjoyed the Bobiverse books, but could understand why folks who favor authoritarian theocracies as a government structure might feel that the novels don’t convey zealots that start planet-destroying conflicts optimistically.
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by joe_hills 4y ago
I have sixteen of the tumblr Verification checkmarks. I bought some myself as a joke, and then folks gifted me more. They are just the funniest possible UI choice—they look so broken, they become beautiful.
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by joe_hills 4y ago
I second this, AI in the Culture series is the most positive example I've read. It's notable that AI co-exist with humans everywhere in Banks' novels—unlike say Star Trek, where Data is a rare outlier.
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by joe_hills 4y ago
I hope anyone who wants to pursue the arts doesn’t let pessimists like this discourage them from expressing themselves in the ways they love best. I can say from experience that becoming a self-employed artist is possible, but not easy or q
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by joe_hills 4y ago
If you find something that works for you that lets you create artifacts of your interests, go for it! You never know what people will latch on to. I also have a lot of unrelated interests and ideas for projects I lack the depth to get off t
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by joe_hills 5y ago
This was a pain to find on mobile, so for the convenience of LAMP developers curious about the included packages: Apache/httpd: 2.4.52 Mysql: 10.5.13 PHP: 7.4.27 Source: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/sl
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by joe_hills 5y ago
I work in video production and could use an engineer in-studio while I'm broadcasting to deal with tech on the fly. I'm hitting the ceiling on what I can do by myself during a live show.
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by joe_hills 5y ago
I could make the same amount of money anywhere with internet at this point, so there's no obvious place to move in particular. I loved the idea of hitting the West Coast until the smoke of the last few years caused me to reconsider. As
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by joe_hills 5y ago
Relocating before hiring full-time employees is probably my best move. I've got a kid, though, so I'm currently trying to assess where we can afford to move that inspires confidence that we can really build something there. If we
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by joe_hills 5y ago
As someone currently self-employed in Nashville and trying to figure out how to scale up my network of part-time contractors into a real company, my state legislature making decisions like this (and also needlessly harassing trans folks) is
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by joe_hills 5y ago
The difference between their old color and their new color is exactly the same hue shift I've seen on broken screens in the past. Every time I see their icon, I think my phone screen is done.
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by joe_hills 6y ago
Thanks! Before everything locked down, I was lucky to have a lot of day-to-day support from my family, friends, and colleagues. One of the ways I tried to demonstrate appreciation for their help was by actively working to structure my life

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