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by mwattsun 5y ago
Absolutely, but I understand ymmv. I live in California where it's legal, so I decided to try it again. What I found is related to another article on HN right now: Step Away from Stack Overflow ( https://news.ycombinator.com&
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I lived through the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake near the epicenter in Aptos California. My house suffered extensive damage. I think 3 people total were killed in Santa Cruz. One was standing next to a brick building and the other was next t
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I'm working on a simple flash card app for learning. People have decided to call those "wisdom cards" and I plan to have a folder of them for my app to bring up once in awhile. The coolest thing about vision board desktop bac
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I side with Jack because he is trying to think about something real that will reduce our dependence on centralized systems. I think it's great to move away from central points of failure and have viable decentralized services. That was
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I've always kept a text file or spreadsheet of things to do, priorities, etc... My biggest problem isn't keeping a list and getting organized, it's remembering to look at my list. I tend to space out for days working on a pro
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The Worst Programming Language Ever (Mark Rendle, 2014) [video](youtube.com)
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Like me, you were probably exposed, like most of us, to the ideas in Carl Sagan's "The Dragons of Eden" and "Broca's Brain" The triune brain hypothesis became familiar to a broad popular audience through Carl
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by mwattsun 5y ago
I've been looking at it lately and the SignalR tech it uses. Very nice. My cursory Google research indicates a server using it can handle about 3000 users, which is not many, but for my purposes is fine. Blazor makes it completely opti
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Agreed. The article is very interesting.
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I used to enjoy Waffle House when I took road trips in the South. I'd trade In N' Out burger for a Waffle House in California any day.
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A non-paywalled link was provided in comments above https://archive.md/sQhtq
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I wondered why and how Edward Teller (inventor of hydrogen bomb) was revealing his secrets. I attended a lecture by him at UC Berkeley. A clearer title would have been "Teller (of Penn and Teller) reveals His Secrets"
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I did a soul buy back after a lot of hard work and I'm my own man now so no hah hah
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It won't be long before someone sells their soul as an NFT
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Thanks! That looks really interesting. It's in my queue (Next up is Ready Player One)
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> some of our junk can become historical gold That's what interests me. For example, there's a cool repository of 12 step speaker meeting talks hosted in Iceland [1] and frankly, some of the talks are junk, but there's a l
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That's a good suggestion I've been following
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I think it's interesting to think about what we have lost because we couldn't keep everything from a 100 years ago and what society 100 years from now will be grateful we preserved. Off the top of my head, we lost a lot of common
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by mwattsun 5y ago
If you're interested in the confluence of psychedelics and the digital age, I can't say enough good things about "What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry" by John Mark
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by mwattsun 5y ago
I was wondering that too. I did some road trips in 2020 and was surprised to run across a functioning RadioShack in Montpelier, Idaho [1] so it's not dead. There's even a Tandy Leather store in Portland [2]. According to Wikipedia
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by mwattsun 5y ago
This is awesome. I built a metronome from a Forest Mims book and parts I bought at RadioShack back in the day, so it's nice to see the timer in all it's glory. One of my biggest surprises when I reported for duty on a submarine in
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by mwattsun 5y ago
I only posted it because it's from Andreessen Horowitz
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The Future of Work Is Not Corporate – It’s DAOs and Crypto Networks(future.a16z.com)
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I always wondered why the creator of Rust switched to Swift and just now found my answer by Graydon Hoare himself: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7qels2/i_wonder_why_g... tl;dr it has nothing to
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by mwattsun 5y ago
My first reaction was the it was DOD skunks works running penetration testing in the field, probably to see how a ship and it's crew responds to an unusual surprise attack of this kind. Better to do it yourself rather than an adversary
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I'm responding to this: The authors blame the change in language towards feelings on the failure of “neo-liberalism” which seems dubious and without plausible mechanism. If anything, I would put the causality the other way. A more pla
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I don't know where you're from, but I'm from California where the 70's were an exciting time of personal exploration, not much of that East Coast despair (Gerald Ford to bankrupt New York City - "Drop Dead"). T
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by mwattsun 5y ago
> Both you and the author of the blog post assume that rationality is better than being able to show our emotions I didn't say this. If it's not clear, I think it was a great thing and I benefited from it. I value both reason a
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I don't think viewing this through today's political lenses is very useful or correct. I remember a shift in the 70's with the sexual revolution and psychological movements like EST at centers like the Esalen Institute. Peopl
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Which confirms my suspicions that NFTs are not enforceable because they have no laws governing them, except by everyone agreeing to the rules of the game. What I don't know, but what I suspect, is that no one is getting arrested for no

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