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by kixiQu 4y ago
So... I tend to think that social media deserves to be ranted about and that teh corporations are, in fact, Actually Bad, so I'm pretty forgiving of those parts. (And, in fact, I like that it gets duplicated in people's own litt
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My charitable read of the comment here might be: the only culturally acknowledged web presence today is that of the Platform -- and when the platforms are so monopoly-adjacent, the skills necessary to build a planet scale platform really ar
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"high value" in this case isn't about the numeric value, but has to do with how often the number comes up on a pair of dice. Particularly, 6 and 8 are the most prized.
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I think it was around first -- my university CS department used to have one (cheers to whomever at WSUV made that a thing).
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It's useful to see what happens when this isn't possible: https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/essays-culture/how-to-...
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You mean how much better would I perform for an extra million dollars? How much better could I perform with a team of assistants each making six figures? Why on earth should one accept a percent-based framing of these ludicrous numbers?
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But it isn't, either -- the main function of the software is to make printed zines. It also has some more limited functionality to enable browser export, but then those aren't interactive (e: https://catfishstudios.itch
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Can you explain what you mean by "advanced"?
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I mean, that kind of is what we're talking about here -- at any time you can switch between saving your stuff locally vs. self hosting with the Node server vs. a hosted option like this.
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You can also host a Tiddlywiki on Glitch and I think it's the smoothest way to let someone try it, bar none. I put together a project there with some scripts to automatically load in a theme, plugins, etc.: https://glitch.co
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It isn't browser-based -- it's cool as hell and worth every speck of attention it can get, but it's not browser-based. Title needs correction. The creator, Nathalie Lawhead, has blogged about a lot of aspects of it and it&#x2
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Thanks for sharing this: I'd never even heard of riving knives. Wild to think of how many technological improvements like that have made the world safer/better without schmucks like me having any idea.
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"So riders wearing helmets take greater risks, and those driving around them take greater risks too. " https://psyarxiv.com/nxw2k
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Table saws are no joke, even in the best of circumstances! There definitely is still risk even when you're managing that risk well. (And it doesn't matter how many videos of it I watch, that SawStop stuff still feels like a miracl
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by kixiQu 4y ago
Oof, the flaky radar of regulatory agencies... I wonder if it's the same in other comparable countries -- not just OSHA, but all DOL enforcement broadly is just such a joke in the US that it seems reasonable to expect almost any random
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I've only heard the, you know, missing-finger classic table saw horror stories very indirectly, honestly. My parents both spoke of OSHA rules like they were the gospel of the earth below, and the union had the power to ruin the company
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by kixiQu 4y ago
My parents met when they were both working construction. My mom was a surveyor and a laborer at various times; she helped get my dad into the union (Philly) and he was a carpenter. My mom stopped it to raise me and my sibling; my dad did it
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A lot of the time, the "build" involves soldering. I don't talk about having "built" my keyboards because I got boards with pre-soldered hotswap sockets -- but even in defense of that, "building a PC" is j
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There are tons of people who tweak their layouts a bunch -- but because it's free to switch that up and do your own experimentation, writing about your layout isn't as useful to other people as reviewing things they are considerin
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Since they say "a home for article notifications and more " (emphasis mine), if you're looking to not miss the "and more", let me plug that Mastodon has its own RSS feeds built in for public posts: https:/&#x
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by kixiQu 4y ago
I really hope this works out well for the Glitch userbase. I'm always nudging people towards it because I don't know anything else that makes it as easy to get started with a flexible web project without having to learn The Boring
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by kixiQu 4y ago
> All of them haven't scratched my itch for offline and synced notes. Hard to discuss this without being more specific about what kind of offline/synced behavior you think would be good. Some people don't want to have to t
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https://www.wickeditor.com/#/ <-- I give these folks some money on Patreon because I feel like they're trying for the right thing
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This is also my experience -- but I'll also note that it was very subjectively different depending on how stable/appropriately-treated my mental health was at the time. That feeling of the deficit hit very, very different when I w
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People are responding pointing out that there are lots of places where it's too hot for this -- but actually, I do live somewhere this would work, except that the condo I live in has tiny slivers of barely-openable windows (I think i
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I promise you that someone thirty pounds down from their max knows all the "easy first steps". Please consider why you are choosing to be that guy.
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> So if you eat less, your body eventually adjusts so that you're satiated earlier. I have heard anecdotes from people who say this is true and anecdotes from people who say it is very much not true. It is certainly more comforting
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I've felt guilty about the fact I have to AC down to 68-69 to sleep. I cannot imagine having it set to anything close to 64 during the day. It'd be interesting to see survey data of how people configure these things.
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This was one of the things I loved about my community college / transfer-to-a-commuter-state-school experience: once you got through about a year of the program, 90% of the people left were pretty serious about improving their lives
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Irritated, because my comp was set a long time ago and involves RSUs? Otherwise, my feeling is that this entire industry is ridiculously bubbly and "the stock market is just a graph of rich guys' feelings", money isn't

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