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by npsimons 6y ago
I second all of this, and this line from the fine article resonated deeply: > That’s what I want from my products. I want to putter about, feel connected to the process, and have fun doing so. I too have the same "writer's bloc
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by npsimons 6y ago
That's not the post's headline; why did someone cherry pick this subheading? Is this simple clickbaiting?
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> A more enlightened and civilized corner of the internet. Oh, HN is more enlightened and civilized. It's just the bar is incredibly low. In seriousness, I've received a lot of wisdom on HN, it's just I have to approach
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That stuck out to me too: they imply obesity and diabetes are some sort of symptom of a diminished immune system, when it can simply be explained by portion size inflation. To add insult to injury, obesity will cause an inflammation respons
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> The real trick is balancing the two. The way I've found to do this is just do stuff, then have people think it's awesome, then teach them about it. At least that's been my experience, but then I've been a computer n
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> The main question to these type of assertions, what's the alternative? > There are natural patterns You just named the alternative. We don't see people say "Singletons or GTFO!", we have a toolbox that we apply t
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by npsimons 6y ago
> Unfortunately you have been quite lucky. The phenomenon of blindly following whatever some blog post said is all too real. Second this. I have no issues with trying to improve things, and that especially includes meta things like proce
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> If you look at an industry way of doing something and decide it’s wrong, you should have solid reasoning to back it up. I agree! Now can we also agree that often what is touted as "best practice" is not industry practice, but
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by npsimons 6y ago
I'm in mountain rescue and I'll second all of this. It's why we will set up repeaters, or station people as repeaters if we have enough people, but more often than not, we are out of radio communication for hours on end, desp
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I am by no means an expert, and have a disdain for short sellers, but I will say this: having watched the "Dirty Money" on Valeance where it appeared that shorts were the first to sniff out the fuckery, I believe we'd need so
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> Melvin Capital has already stated they have closed out their position, think it would probably be fraud if they hadn't. Two points: 1. As I understood it, they closed *A* position, not their whole position, and announced that
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> The problem is bigger than originally conceived then. You're starting to get it.
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Nail on the head. Article and other associated hand wringing reeks of NIMBYism.
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> that will destroy all the business models catering to office workers. Good.
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It reeks of NIMBYism, of the sort of HOA backing busybodies who dread "sheds" will cause their property values to plummet. Fuck them.
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> Sadly, part of me knows it's just a matter of time before other gas stations gets these new machines. I'm so looking forward to home EV charging.
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You sir, more than my introversion and social anxiety, more than COVID-19, have convinced me I should never leave my house again. Ever.
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> They didn't really deplatform until it went beyond speech and into targetted political violence and murder. This right here. Far too many fucking apologists are neatly eliding the insurrection against our lawfully elected govern
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by npsimons 6y ago
I don't recall Spolsky's article (even though the term rings a bell), but as someone having worked in modelling and simulation the better part of my career, I tend to think of it more along the lines of Asimov's "Relativ
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For a binder or thickener, I've found ground flax seed mixed with water to work better.
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I haven't been through a lot of comments here or at the link, but I'll bring up something I ran into in what I realize now was an early version of "vendoring": over a decade ago I was playing around with https:/&#x
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> These days, I have a 3G ~/.local/ directory. It has become normal again to build stuff locally and just drop it into ~/.local/. And in fact, sometimes it is way easier to do so then to try and find a current version
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> But either way you lose a lot of the benefits that being officially in the Debian repos would bring. The first thing I do when I hear about a new (to me) piece of software is an "apt-cache search $SOFTWARE". If it doesn'
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> Personally I believe that vendoring is just the lazy approach by developers that do not want to care about the eco system their software runs in. As someone with a foot in both worlds, allow me to try to put it more diplomatically: dev
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> but the needs of system administrators are not the same as the needs of developers. That's why my development machine is on a rolling release, but my servers run Debian stable with as few out-of-repository extras as possible. As a
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> If required, you could always close a balance in one file and start with new accounts in a new file, sharding your journal by year, for example. When I was using double entry accounting down to individual grocery items in GNUCash, I us
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Seconded, although I feel I'm pushing the limits of org-tables. That being said, being able to pull values between tables with "remote(table-name,@Row$Col)" has been a game changer. I may have to look into ledger, but it woul
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As an org-mode user for nearing a decade, including on multiple phones, I agree.
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I used to used GNUCash heavily with double-entry bookkeeping; nowadays I use org-tables' spreadsheets functionality. I've also done a bit of tax calculation using CL, and always meant to look into ledger, and it sounds like it mig
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> Or maybe it's because we actually treat majority of people like little children. At 42, I've felt this is the cause for quite some time. You see it in things like the adult Disney woman[0]. Part of it is playing it safe so as

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