lcall

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   by lcall 3y ago

   > converting gendered restrooms to all-gender restrooms (with or without permission) I believe, for a long list of reasons, that families with stably married mother/father are the best way to preserve humanity and that they are most
2. 62.▲
   by lcall 3y ago

   Finding ways to do something useful despite health challenges. Learning to have the right attitudes and have peace & happiness, & stay pointed in the right direction, despite whatever. It's a good learning process, and my bel
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   by lcall 3y ago

   Late to this, but I do it by: - thinking top-down: PVSGEERRRR which stands for purpose, vision, strategy, goals, empowerment, execution, report, review, revise, repeat. Those are carefully considered and solidified but open to new learning
4. 64.▲
   by lcall 3y ago

   I like having to install the things I really want, which gives me a chance to consider the security implications of them, instead of having many things pre-installed and I don't know what the total risks are. And nothing else I know o
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   by lcall 3y ago

   Here is another list: https://www.openbsd.org/innovations.html
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   by lcall 3y ago

   I have really liked pair.com (pair networks) for domains, email, and hosting. They have been reliable and no-nonsense and reasonably priced, for a long time. Based in Pittsburgh, PA, I believe.
7. 67.▲
   by lcall 3y ago

   FWIW, a free site for finding and preserving info about your ancestors, near and distant, is at https://www.familysearch.org . I used to work there; they have put a lot of resources into making this available and preserving the
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   by lcall 3y ago

   FWIW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_(programming_language)...
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   by lcall 3y ago

   Another recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35775646
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    by lcall 3y ago

    I didn't read very far, but: Is this actively maintained? I really enjoyed Clipper and FoxPro back when, but would prefer sqlite or postgresql storage over .dbf files now. Wait, I see postgres mentioned in the README (off documents
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    by lcall 3y ago

    pps: Wikipedia reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberts_Rules Another interesting wikipedia page is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus ...which discusses other methods that might b
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    by lcall 3y ago

    Based on experience, I suggesting finding your local missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist ) and ask them to put you in contact with your current
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    by lcall 3y ago

    There is a freely older readable older version, and some helpful books on Robert's Rules, at archive.org. Also there is a web site (findable with a search) that has an html version ( https://robertsrules.com/ ). ps: In
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    by lcall 3y ago

    https://www.onemodel.org aka OM: available and in daily use, but progress is slow until health improves. A highly effective (desktop) knowledge manager, text UI, Free (AGPL), using Scala and PostgreSQL (working to move to Rust)
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    by lcall 3y ago

    Based on experience, I suggesting finding your local missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/comeuntochrist ) and ask them to put you in contact with your current
16. 76.▲
    by lcall 3y ago

    I'm no expert on all the details, but I found you can use (at least with tokio) runtime.block_on() to call async (sqlx) code from non-async (my) code. Ctrl-F to see my other comment about block_on, here.
17. 77.▲
    by lcall 3y ago

    I think this is not true. I found a way (in the async book or tokio documentation, somewhere near the end of the docs or end of a quick-start guide or such) to just call it and not have to make the calling function async, using runtime.blo
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    by lcall 3y ago

    Maybe (as the article hints) we sometimes use attractiveness as a proxy for health, youth, intelligence, competence, and/or wealth (or fun). Maybe mass media have distorted our expectations beyond reasonableness. If instead we consid
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    by lcall 3y ago

    Some other universities with really interesting/useful approaches are (both accredited): WGU: fully online, you can go faster and thus reduce total tuition costs, targeted to those whose work experience can justify college credit (comp
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    by lcall 3y ago

    Another git-compatible, simpler VCS is "got" (about which I don't know enough to compare well). It's targeted to OpenBSD devs but ported to various *nix platforms. https://gameoftrees.org/
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    by lcall 3y ago

    We certainly should, after all they did and do for us, unselfishly, and despite challenges.
22. 82.▲
    by lcall 3y ago

    FWIW, another with similar perspective: https://www.ksl.com/article/50646052/opinion-whats-behind-am...
23. 83.▲
    by lcall 3y ago

    Here is a historical perspective that explains why the Church's savings make so much sense. Basically, the Church has had financial problems in the past due to spending more (on things like construction) than it received from tithing,
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    AI can now help direct your career path(foxbusiness.com)

    1 points by lcall 3y ago|1 comments
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    by lcall 3y ago

    "Artificial intelligence-powered app Audo provides personalized skill paths that could replace some college degrees". It says they sell courses for the recommended career path(s), but I thought it was at least an interesting conc
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    by lcall 4y ago

    And there is so much more. We believe there are records for Christianity going back to Adam. But to believe that, one has to find out whether some other things are true. I have learned that one can do so. It puts many things into perspe
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    by lcall 4y ago

    (I posted a better answer at the other, similar reply to my comment.)
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    by lcall 4y ago

    Given some things going on in the world, I can almost see why you would say this. However, I have learned some things for myself, and cannot deny what I know is true. As noted before, there is much more detail, including how I have determi
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    by lcall 4y ago

    You need to know that you are a child of a loving (just and merciful) God, a Heavenly Father who has a plan, that there is a reason we live in a world where things can be very hard, that this life is not the end, and that eventually, it wil
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    by lcall 4y ago

    As am I. I guess it is related to having "Sensory Processing Sensitivity", a newer name for "Highly Sensitive Person", which basically means that one thinks deeply about everything all the time, whether they want to or