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by johnchristopher 2y ago
I tried to build some hobby stuff with it (mostly worked), planning to use it instead of mongodb @work but I got hit by the limitations of the JS engine version used at the time and it got frustrating too fast for a small hobbyist project.
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
Neither is the relevance of your comment about it and yet here we are.
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
~4 years ago, redesign phase of our 50K a month public facing wordpress NGO website, agency strongly suggests moving to gatsby. We/I thought about it for 5 minutes and said no. I am still happy with that decision and I will push to tak
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
> Capitalism started by putting up fences around land to kick people out and keep sheep in. That's factually wrong. Capitalism is about moving wealth more efficiently: easier to allocate money/wealth to X through the banking sy
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
> Similar in a way to non-dischargable student loans. When lenders are not exposed to the real risk of their loans, someone always ends up holding the bag. Students (people) are more likely to suffer from climate change and will have to
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
Which winamp is it ? Version 2 ? Version 3 with the wasabi (?) engine ? Or version 5 ?
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
Can qt use break lines in cells ? It'd be easier to parse info.
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
> - Nextcloud (aka Collabora) Office is very slow if you want to actually work collaboratively with it (no matter the power of your Collabora server) – unfortunately it's no match for Google Docs or Office 365 What about onlyoffice
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
Thanks !
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
> Yes and no. What a country needs to do to be prosperous is fairly easy - liberal, free market capitalism. No other system has come close to that. That's not enough. You also need to be at war with other countries, win those wars a
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
Hi, we are evaluating at work. Could you shed some light on these questions ? Do you have one NC instance or do you federate (or plan to) ? Do you use the mail app ? Which applications do you use to replace sharepoint features ? Do you use
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
> Many of these things you mention only exist because profit seekers developed and distributed them! You mean governments signaled the creation of a market by printing and lending free money to build those systems ?
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
(oops, I meant Epictetus)
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Silicon Valley selling us Stoicism like they sold yoga:Intvw with AnnaSchriefl(philonomist.com)
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
I almost wrote this: > I disagree. The best thing to do to avoid regrets is to act, to take the step forward. Not to resign ourselves and diminish ourselves hoping to soften the nastiness the world is sending us. > Stoicism is good wh
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
> Fatalism has worked out well for us. Why didn't she stay in China ? Why did you leave that unsafe and disordered environment ?
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
> The movie Challengers this year portrayed the most relatable depiction of regret ive ever seen. Made me feel like the intrusive memories of mistakes i live with daily, and keep to myself, are a universal experience. Knowing that living
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
> Because we are paying for the rest of the world. Allow prescription drug imports from abroad. Pharma companies will be forced to charge more in the rest of the world and less in US. Oh, look, a new cartel that will take 6 months to set
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
The trick or the thing to hobbies and friendship is to do something outside of the hobbies with the people you want to be friends Wythe, otherwise you end up hobby partners and that only lasts for as long as the common hobby lasts.
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
> But over the course of centuries, the opposite was more common. I believe capital investor like parents invest in the shorter term.
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
Joke's on you, I got depression and that counter only goes up to rookie numbers. /meme :)
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
Of course there's more to it but someone taking a picture of the Mona Lisa with their smartphone doesn't add much to it and certainly doesn't commend the same respect as Da Vinci painting it in the first place.
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
There was more to what dropbox was to FTP/CURLFTPFS/etc. then than what this webapp/page is to a Claude API now.
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
> No shit, Sherlock. Short texts get the full snark treatment. Longer ones? Ain't nobody got time for that much sarcasm. Weeeel, at least it's not throwing up Nazi propaganda...
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
But that's the problem with D&D in 2024. Role-playing games have moved far away from the constraints of old school levelling and fighting simulators. I am glad people enjoy D&D but role playing games have so much more to bring
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
I almost got burned out from this, this year. Never again will I use clean and production-ready assets for prototypes submitted to decision makers.
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
Through many births I have wandered on and on, Searching for, but never finding, The builder of this house. is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhammapada ( https://buddhasadvice.wordpress
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
Well, I don't know what to think about this, I don't know where we are going. I should read some scifi from back then about conversational agents maybe ? https://6ammc3n5zzf5ljnz.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/inf2
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
> For humanity and the future of software’s sake we need to go back to users of software owning their software, preferably by being free and open source. That ship has sailed in my opinion. I am under the impression most enterprise and p
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by johnchristopher 2y ago
> Simeone just needs to write some CLI for making really simple timers. That's a post-it or a simple-systemd-timers.txt though. Don't bother Simeone with that :).

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