mayormcmatt

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by mayormcmatt 5y ago
It's like someone else has inhabited my brain and written precisely what I'm feeling now...
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by mayormcmatt 5y ago
Fresh Air recently aired an interview with former gun industry marketing exec Ryan Busse, about their responsibility in the American culture wars. I can't remember off the top, though, whether he claim they are only fanning it or are t
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by mayormcmatt 5y ago
This reminds me of a situation I saw with another autonomous car company's vehicle in SF a couple weeks back. I truly didn't know what the correct move by the vehicle should have been. The situation: The vehicle was on Vallejo cro
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by mayormcmatt 5y ago
> And, you can't get away with just saying "sure, CRISPR and mRNA and AI and solar energy and smartphones are cool, but if you ignore examples like that, there really hasn't been much innovation." What have the Romans
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by mayormcmatt 5y ago
This is something I've been interested in for a good while now, and tried a similar LSD microdosing regimen without any exciting results. However, I also didn't pair the practice with meditation or regular exercise (some, not a lo
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by mayormcmatt 5y ago
Good points, thank you. Language is something I would relish learning in the actual setting of Sweden. Having learned Japanese for three years in Japan, it was (and remains) a difficult thing to master and I suspect conversational Swedish w
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by mayormcmatt 5y ago
If I had to choose one, it'd be Stockholm (or perhaps any Swedish city with water access). A couple years back I did take a two-week trip there consisting of one week sightseeing, one week remotely working for a West Coast agency. My w
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by mayormcmatt 5y ago
A bug net backpacking hammock! I love to backpack, but have never, ever found a good solution for comfortable sleep, so I dread the nights. A hammock setup changed all that. Sleep better out there than at home, in some cases. The model I ha
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by mayormcmatt 5y ago
This is a virtual mirror of my history with Japan: three years (except I was in the rural 'burbs for 2/3 of it), have returned to visit friends a couple times, but it's always bittersweet. In fact, almost everyone I know who
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by mayormcmatt 5y ago
As a fellow ADHD-er, completely agree about reading conditions, like the environment and how well the book is suited to your tastes/mood, rather than an organizational system. The one place I've been able to read a book cover-to-c
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by mayormcmatt 6y ago
It distresses me that many of the comments here lament this UBI program because it targets POC and I think, perhaps, they are looking at this situation as if it were somewhere else in the country/world, or they don't live/hav
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by mayormcmatt 6y ago
To my great regret, I never saw either Jupiter model at Arlanda, despite being there those years, because I always arrive last-minute to the airport. Next time...
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by mayormcmatt 6y ago
Two years ago I visited Stockholm and rode a borrowed bike from the Sun (Globen) out to Mars (Mörby Centrum) and visited all the planets along the way. Life goal is to do the entire thing. Trip only took a few hours and there are plentiful
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by mayormcmatt 6y ago
The authors clearly never had a bad night playing Tarkov...
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by mayormcmatt 6y ago
My coworker and I got laid off, so we decided to play around with React and the Mapbox GL JS API to generate this map of restaurants open for take-out in the SF East Bay (from static data scraped from our local alt-weekly paper). It was rea
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by mayormcmatt 7y ago
Two years ago I attended a friend's wedding near Uppsala, Sweden and had the chance to speak with a retired man who was now volunteering time on Viking archaeology digs in the country and a little in some other Baltic nations. He said
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by mayormcmatt 7y ago
Kumite! Kumite! Kumite!
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by mayormcmatt 7y ago
Not sure where you live, but I was able to volunteer two years with the Code Nation organization, helping underserved students learn the basics of web development. https://codenation.org/ Some of the students were first-gen
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by mayormcmatt 7y ago
You take it all and then you have...
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by mayormcmatt 7y ago
"[I]n engineering, the “success” of a technology often has less to do with solving problems than rendering them opaque or distant from our imagination. Like an endless game of whack-a-mole, the problems never truly go away—they come ba
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by mayormcmatt 7y ago
Lots of great material here to check out after work! My contribution is a vintage stuff restoration channel called My Mechanics. No verbal explanations of what he's doing, just some subtitles where necessary, and I find this really hel
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by mayormcmatt 7y ago
This reminds me of an apartment complex I saw last year, also in Sweden (north of Stockholm, in Norrtälje). Hard to see inside, but it's practically tropical, with palm trees and flowering plants, and all doors of resident's apart
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by mayormcmatt 7y ago
I didn't know this CEO was the same as from Bluegogo. When that bike share company entered the Bay Area market, they helped push out artists from a West Oakland warehouse studio called Lo-bot and were occupying it for maybe six months
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by mayormcmatt 8y ago
Dude, I gotta go see that coconut tree...
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by mayormcmatt 12y ago
Live about a quarter mile from here and see these small homes growing in number and intricacy every few weeks. Though I'm just riding by on my bike it feels like there's a community amongst the camps inhabitants. We'll see if