mattbk1

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by mattbk1 6y ago
I was pushed into it because they needed a supervisor in that position. I might be a decent leader from a technical standpoint, but not a good manager after a year into it.
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by mattbk1 6y ago
Bats eat mosquitos, which can carry other diseases. Whether yo u see any value in the species doesn't really have a bearing on protecting biodiversity.
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by mattbk1 6y ago
To save anyone a click, these are from a Joe Rogan interview.
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by mattbk1 6y ago
If he can continue to both pay his rent and continue [his habits that you disagree with], is there a problem? Is the problem that Steve won't pay you back, or that he won't pay you back because he spent money on [habits that you d
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by mattbk1 6y ago
It seems like you got it. I'm trying to parse how you choose to blame people on bicycles for disrupting traffic but not people in cars.
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by mattbk1 6y ago
Journalism doesn't necessarily have to attract talented writers, just people who can write well enough to get the facts right. (This sounds like I'm bashing journalists, but I'm not.)
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by mattbk1 6y ago
I'm not even sure how to respond to this type of lumping. > Good drivers and reckless drivers are both traffic. Doesn't mean they are both automatically justified.
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by mattbk1 6y ago
To add to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26307485 , the government may be in a position to turn that $100 directly into food or housing for Steve.
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by mattbk1 6y ago
They aren't disrupting traffic, they are traffic.
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by mattbk1 6y ago
Our kids aren't in K-12 yet, but we're already seeing how the elementary school relies on tablets and laptops. It's probably going to push one of us to run for school board.
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by mattbk1 6y ago
Is there evidence that the way people "learn in the workplace" is better than the way they learn in college? Is there evidence that the way people "learn in the workkplace" is always the same?
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by mattbk1 6y ago
FWIW, it's rare these days that I need to go "beyond R" for anything. If there were a Python IDE that worked as well as RStudio, I might explore it.
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by mattbk1 6y ago
We used to do this by calling the house number, hanging up, and picking up both ends on the ring.
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by mattbk1 6y ago
*and people on foot or bicycles
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For an Anarchist Radio Relay League [pdf](anarchistrrl.blackblogs.org)
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by mattbk1 6y ago
What do you do for a living, if I may ask?
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by mattbk1 6y ago
Recycling into roads sort of sucks for people who live near roads already (among all the other stuff they have to breathe in from car exhaust).
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by mattbk1 6y ago
They have to start somewhere. I'm sure we'll see more papers in the future.
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by mattbk1 6y ago
For those interested in learning more about this, the formal term is "packet radio" in amateur radio (ham) circles. See APRS for a standardized tactical implementation.
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by mattbk1 6y ago
Mr. Money Mustache once suggested "slow news" as a way to keep up but not be involved in every little thing. His suggestion was The Economist. Any source that doesn't publish on a daily schedule should be able to provide more
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by mattbk1 6y ago
What's a good framework for building lightweight websites? Or am I better off just writing HTML?
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by mattbk1 6y ago
Your page looks very nice, I almost want to duplicate my own website into a format that's just a list of links and titles.
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by mattbk1 6y ago
This is ahem something I am not good at. Currently I use DigiKam[1] for general photos, but I don't include extensive metadata on files themselves. All my resources are kept in a single directory, with subfolders generally using &quo
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by mattbk1 6y ago
I read words incorrectly when I'm tired. Is this abnormal?
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by mattbk1 6y ago
I live across the river from North Dakota, I'm not discounting wind :-) My comment wasn't necessarily to suggest that everyone eat outside all the time, just that "bad weather" can depend a lot on your mindset.
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by mattbk1 6y ago
You don't have to put your tree in Ancestry and pay monthly, especially if you have hosting somewhere. Webtrees is good software. If you are associated with a university, you may have access to an Ancestry subscription for free through
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by mattbk1 6y ago
A good book that emphasizes how life doesn't need to stop when it gets cold is "There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather" by Linda Akeson McGurk. It focuses on parenting/kids, but some parts apply to pretty much everyon
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by mattbk1 6y ago
My hope is that masks become much more socially acceptable for regular cold/flu after all this.
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by mattbk1 6y ago
I can recommend Navidrome on yunohost; Airsonic install kept breaking for me.
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by mattbk1 6y ago
And cargo (bakfiets) ebikes are even closer to a total car replacement. Even half of a $7,500 tax credit on a $5000 cargo ebike would be huge.

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