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by js2 1mo ago
> I wrote up my experience building a backyard office because I wish I had come across more articles like this when planning my build. I hope this post helps you on your journey. I don't recall how technical it is[^1] because I read
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by js2 1mo ago
That time Ohio issued a license plate with the Wright Flyer flying backward and then the NC DOT razzed them about it: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/25/1048991822/ohio-reverses-cour...
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Becoming a Writer(hughhowey.com)
2 points by js2 1mo ago|0 comments
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by js2 1mo ago
Hugh Howey on becoming a writer: > Insight #4: The best writers are the best readers. There aren’t any shortcuts around this. Successful writers read. They read a lot. And the best writers read a wide variety of books. It’s impossible to
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Neo: A novel writing tool from Hugh Howey(hughhowey.com)
2 points by js2 2mo ago|0 comments
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by js2 2mo ago
> Google bought itself 100 million emails and 500 million items from Microsoft Teams, 17 million OneDrive files and 20.5 million items from SharePoint. The search giant also now owns over 30 million recorded customer service calls, and m
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by js2 2mo ago
Open Source Storage (OSS), the vendor in question, was around for two decades before going out of business last year. The first and last archived versions of its web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20040628023451&#x2F
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Three Mile Island Accident(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by js2 2mo ago|0 comments
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by js2 2mo ago
Saint Lucia[^1] vs St. Lucie[^2]: > The name "St. Lucie" is originally derived from the name of a settlement near Jupiter Inlet, which was founded on St. Lucia's Day in 1566. Due to numerous errors, the name later came to
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by js2 2mo ago
"I was in the US nuclear navy, now I work in IT."
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by js2 2mo ago
The example above that paragraph shows how words might be chosen using fair dice. Watermarking works by using weighted (unfair) dice. It's saying that you can hide watermarking by weighted the dice, i.e. "lean on how the dice land
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by js2 2mo ago
I recently pulled up my resume from 25 years ago and came across this amusing (by today's standards) tidbit: "Re-located a web-server farm between two data centers with zero downtime. This included migrating over 150GB of data bet
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by js2 2mo ago
https://github.com/Jonty/2026_eclipse_webcams
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Statin use vs. death rate from cardiovascular diseases (2019)(ourworldindata.org)
20 points by js2 2mo ago|5 comments
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by js2 2mo ago
That sea of undecorated concrete sure is ugly. I'll take the painted skate park in Sao Paulo. Different strokes...
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by js2 2mo ago
Do you have a source for this?
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by js2 2mo ago
It's probably slang for "line of work: occupation": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lay See 3b under its noun definition. So: “Why, sir, in a manner of speaking: but some might say more on the
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"Bettering Myself" by Ottessa Moshfegh(electricliterature.com)
6 points by js2 2mo ago|1 comments
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by js2 2mo ago
> This is not a column where I will carp and complain—about air-fryer grilled cheeses, or fancy gourmet grilled cheeses, or Kraft-single grilled cheeses, or the proper application of butter, or the appropriate pan, or the degree and natu
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by js2 2mo ago
Here's a low-voltage wiring installer that wrote his own Vision Pro app to help visualize in-wall studs to make it easer to run wiring: https://old.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/1ut1atj/how_i_ret...
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by js2 2mo ago
> Important: Does this include taxes and the many "regulatory offset fees" or whatever they call them? My numbers do include everything. Yes. Breakdown per line: UNLIMITED PLUS $55 Auto Pay & paper-free discount -
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by js2 2mo ago
Ah, cool, looks like they added that about a year ago. I hadn't looked at Visible recently. But Inner Circle just brings Visible+ down to the same price I'm already paying Verizon ($30/mo/line) since it doesn't stac
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by js2 2mo ago
The 0% financing fine print is as follows: > Financing available to qualified customers, subject to credit approval and credit limit, and requires you to select Citizens One Apple iPhone Payments or Apple Card Monthly Installments (ACMI)
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by js2 2mo ago
I'm on Verizon postpaid, 4 lines on Unlimited Plus for $31/line. That's hard to beat pre-paid for comparable service. Yes, I have to threaten to leave Verizon once a year to get them to add a bunch of customer loyalty discoun
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by js2 2mo ago
It's definitely wrong for macOS. The python.org macOS download has been an installer package that installs Python to /Applications as long as I can remember. (That said, I've rarely used it, preferring either the macOS/X
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by js2 2mo ago
"It's the money."
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by js2 2mo ago
Ditto in NC. I got this WiFi/NTP clock a couple years ago. Works great if you want an analog clock: https://www.amazon.com/OCEST-Wall-Clock-12Inch-Auto/dp/B0DJS...
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by js2 2mo ago
Thanks for digging into this. Somehow I'd never checked. I moved my domains to porkbun since I wasn't otherwise using NFS for anything else.
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by js2 2mo ago
> Who won't adopt enshitification-as-a-business-plan for a few years? I don't have a crystal ball, but NearlyFreeSpeech was recommended to me in 2010 and I've been using it since 2012. I don't think it's changed
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by js2 3mo ago
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/magazine/counterfeit-doll... Archive link: http://archive.today/UyksP

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