kmtrowbr

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by kmtrowbr 5y ago
The brain is wired with language. Our inner monologues are most commonly speaking to ourselves using words. Reading is similar to meditation in that it's about YOU controlling your thoughts, putting focus into what you're reading.
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by kmtrowbr 5y ago
One thing I've noticed is that, there is some value in stepping away from your work, and then coming back. Something like a "palate cleanser" for your mind. I agree that mindless web browsing is mostly a waste of time, but th
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by kmtrowbr 5y ago
I've lived in San Francisco for 16 years. Yes, I have experienced the homeless problem. I had my car broken into once when I left my backpack inside. I have never been mugged or robbed or had any physical violence occur, or be threaten
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by kmtrowbr 5y ago
Note: the graphs seem to be mislabeled / misordered. The initials in the upper left hand corner are accurate: CT: Comprehensive Technology, SW: Stabilized World, BAU2: Business As Usual.
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by kmtrowbr 5y ago
This is definitely a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioenergy_with_carbon_capture_... In theory it's energy positive: burning the crop can produce energy.
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by kmtrowbr 5y ago
Qwoted | Designer | Remote | https://www.qwoted.com https://fullyvestedllc.recruiterbox.com/jobs/fk0ukzv?source=... Qwoted improves the quality of news by quickly connecting reporters with the right experts
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by kmtrowbr 5y ago
You should pull the PR you're reviewing down into your IDE and you should spend like, an hour reviewing it carefully and trying to break it. Have a mental checklist: say they renamed a function ... is the file named the same as the fun
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by kmtrowbr 5y ago
You should attack it. You should pick it apart and try to break it in as many ways as possible. Of course you should meter your effort depending on how critical the changes are. It amazes me the lackadaisical attitude towards code review. &
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by kmtrowbr 5y ago
Thank you for this. It is much easier for me to imagine that a relatively small expert team, well funded for the task (which is still virtually zero money in comparison to the cost of changing the world economy) could accomplish some feat o
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by kmtrowbr 5y ago
From the review: "The Story About Ping has earned a place on my bookshelf, right between Stevens' Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment, and my dog-eared copy of Dante's seminal work on MS Windows, Inferno. Who can rea
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by kmtrowbr 6y ago
Each minute that you read per day, equals about 1 book per year. So if you read 20 minutes per day, you will read around 20 books per year. A bookstand such as https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MVBDIPU/ref
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by kmtrowbr 6y ago
Possession of the private key also allows you to create signatures which prove your ownership, while not revealing your private key. Artworks could be encrypted and only decryptable by such signatures. Client applications could be built t
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by kmtrowbr 6y ago
I agree with you. I have lived in SF since 2005. In my opinion, the problem is that the tech workers are not engaged with the city. They are here for the jobs, and resent the city. The high prices chased the old SFers away, the artists and
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by kmtrowbr 6y ago
I use Apple's parental features to block news websites, because I constantly find myself spending too much time reading junk news on my phone. The AMP feature allowed me to get around this, so instead of going to politico.com (which I
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by kmtrowbr 6y ago
Proposition L is not enough tax to take away the economic prosperity. I am all for building more and more dense housing. I'm not sure how to accomplish it. The way I see it, SF either becomes more dense, or it becomes even more of &quo
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by kmtrowbr 6y ago
> the kind of problem that multitudes of cities and regions in the world are desperately trying to recreate I always tell people that, "it is a nice problem to have." Totally agree with you. But it is still a problem nonetheles
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by kmtrowbr 6y ago
I have lived in San Francisco since 2005. Over the time I've lived here, we've had the opposite problem: lots of highly paid tech firms moving into SF. This has changed the nature of San Francisco in a way that many dislike, incl
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by kmtrowbr 6y ago
There are some evergreen computer topics, like SQL, and bash, design patterns. I focus on those rather than the latest Javascript library. But otherwise, I really want to focus on things which help me give back, communicate, or understand t
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by kmtrowbr 6y ago
Set time aside: for example when eating breakfast, or before bed. Use a timer, set it to at least 20 minutes. Each minute you read per day, equals about 1 book per year. So if you read 20 minutes per day, you will read 20 books per year.
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by kmtrowbr 6y ago
The rest of the U.S., munching on almonds and avocados, doesn't see the interconnectedness of it all. There's only one earth. California isn't on Mars. There's not really anyone who isn't affected, or anyplace to
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by kmtrowbr 6y ago
I have wanted an app like this for so long -- I love it just hooking into a local folder of markdown files, and making editing and navigating those files better. Little touches like, prepending the date in, sort order format, e.g. 2020-05-
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by kmtrowbr 6y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/new-coronavirus-mutates-slow... Thanks for sharing -- great link, I learned something, thank you.
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by kmtrowbr 6y ago
It seems like you know more than I do -- that's good news, thank you for correcting me! I was wrong about coronavirus causing all forms of the common cold. They only cause 15%, whereas rhinoviruses as you say, cause 30–80%. Still, &q
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by kmtrowbr 6y ago
common cold = caused by coronaviruses, COVID-19 = an uncommonly deadly coronavirus RNA viruses have a faster mutation rate than DNA viruses. Chickenpox = DNA virus, Coronavirus = RNA virus. That Chickenpox is a DNA virus is why, like HIV, i
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by kmtrowbr 7y ago
I have to believe the aim of these features was to make it easier for Zoom to be installed and to "just work." I'm inclined to give them the benefit of a doubt right now.
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by kmtrowbr 7y ago
December 2019: 10M daily participants. March 2020: 200M daily participants. A sustained 20x spike in usage. And it’s still working! I think that’s amazing. Think through this situation — 90,000 schools suddenly using Zoom, children doin
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by kmtrowbr 7y ago
I have used OfficeTime https://www.officetime.net/ for the past 10 years. I use the OSX version. You can sync between multiple clients on different devices, but I don't use this. For me, it's just a very simple
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Coronavirus: An at Risk Person Lives Here – Poster(github.com)
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by kmtrowbr 7y ago
I found the article to be really meaningful. Me too, after the 2016 election I found I had to withdraw, because it became more obvious to me that there's something deeply sick about the relationship between the news media, "scari
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by kmtrowbr 9y ago
I speak French and Spanish both fairly well. I learned them both, over the past 20 years. Studied them in college, then lived in Lausanne, Switzerland for a year, then lived in Mexico for a year. It all started off when I had a giant cru

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