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by npsimons 6y ago
I have been all over the place, never able to focus much. I'm keeping very busy, perhaps to ignore the insanity. It's been awesome working from home, I've missed it so much! Being here where I don't have IT rules that ar
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by npsimons 7y ago
> I found that book quite superficial and superfluous. Content of few pages stretched out to a book. Perhaps you need to do more than a superficial reading, as they suggest. In seriousness, I found it very good and deep. Perhaps I just w
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by npsimons 7y ago
> then looking to type (or at the screen) If someone is looking to type or at the screen, whoever taught them to type failed them. This sounds like the same stupdity of pair programming where "one can type while the other thinks.&qu
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by npsimons 7y ago
> I've been considering skimming through the whole things to get kind of a big picture of what the thing is and where I'm going and then going back a second time to catch then the details and experiment. This is what they recom
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by npsimons 7y ago
> For some people, dropping out of college and spending a few years working on a project that might pay out spectacularly is negligible. Sure, it's a few years of lifespan, but you learned some stuff and your future trajectory isn&#
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by npsimons 7y ago
The dirty little secret that the successful don't like to admit. Plenty of people worked as hard as they did - the only difference between them and the "losers" is that they got lucky. That being said, you'll never win i
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by npsimons 7y ago
> So can we sue advertising companies now? Naw, we should ban advertising.
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by npsimons 7y ago
> In French I lend (prêter) "Friends, Romans, countrymen: lend me your ears."
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by npsimons 7y ago
When the article came to the part about teachers encouraging students to be attentive, I couldn't help but think of a schoolmarm chiding a child to "attend to their lessons."
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by npsimons 7y ago
> "devote attention" If that's a literal translation (I realize you said "rough"), "devote" connotes to me more along the lines of "devotion" such as a "devoted husband" or "dev
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by npsimons 7y ago
So much for my focus; I'm only five paragraphs in and already my mind is wandering to "hmm, attention, this reminds me of 'The Rock Warrior's Way' which itself draws from Carlos Castaneda's 'The Teachings
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by npsimons 7y ago
Why not just not have open floor plans?
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by npsimons 7y ago
> No, I think "writers" just write because they are paid to, so they use 10000 words instead of being precise and getting to the point. There is validity to this - "brevity is the soul of wit." but some things need de
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by npsimons 7y ago
> I'm very confident that I'm not alone with this position. You are not alone. There are plenty of services I pay to eschew ads. The moment they start inserting advertising, they'll lose me as a customer. I don't have
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by npsimons 7y ago
We need to pay better attention. Things like The Correspondant come along ( https://thecorrespondent.com/ ), and they're lucky if they succeed. I threw some money at them specifically because of the problems of today&#x2
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by npsimons 7y ago
JFC! Maybe if they didn't whore themselves out, they wouldn't need the money they're whoring themselves out for because their hosting and web dev costs would go way the fuck down.
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by npsimons 7y ago
They didn't list this, but most things I've heard (eg, "How Not to Die" by Dr. Michael Greger who reads a lot of studies) is to eat a whole food, plant based diet. Might not have to give up meat completely, but the less
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by npsimons 7y ago
> What is the value add for a wifi-enabled alarm clock? My dumb alarm clock is the last and only thing I possess that requires I set the time manually. And it drifts. Even my wristwatch autosynchronizes every night to the time server sig
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by npsimons 7y ago
org-mode. Sync with git over SSH. Been using it for over a decade. Not exclusive to personal knowledge base, but I keep a lot of notes in there because it's my default catch-all, including on the phone since I have Termux installed. It
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by npsimons 7y ago
> Humor is a generally positive thing and can't help but improve mental state while working. Humor is subjective. All you have to do is reference "Office Space"'s "looks like somebody has a case of the Monday&#x2
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by npsimons 7y ago
Second Leaflet. When Google Maps dropped support for loading GPX files from external websites (a handy way to share tracks ), I was forced to find my own solution. I found Leaflet and a few hours later I was up and running with topo maps an
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by npsimons 7y ago
> Hmm, I wonder if it's confirmation bias on my end, or just a difference in what pages we each view. Yes. Joking aside, I will add that I've been a NoScript/FlashBlock user for quite some time (more than a decade? I hones
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by npsimons 7y ago
> No one ever wants to change and no matter how nicely you put things they’ll always feel attacked. Precisely. As another example, when people claim that progress pics are "fatshaming", it's pretty obvious that the problem
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by npsimons 7y ago
> I feel a lot healthier This was the clincher for me. I listened to the audiobook "How Not to Die" by Dr. Greger and was convinced of the common sense that eating plant based whole foods is the way to be healthier. The lowered
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by npsimons 7y ago
> It's interesting that you bring up AOL, because I remember dealing with this kind of crap with them. It was annoying, but didn't feel like it was as big of a deal. I do too, because there was an actual useful URL that had con
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by npsimons 7y ago
> This is not just gmail issue. Though with many smaller providers you'll at least get something like "your blocked by XYZ blacklist". I would much rather get this than silent discard. At least when I've seen things
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by npsimons 7y ago
I'll just chip in with everyone else who is also self-hosting: I'm in a similar boat; been running email servers since before GMail existed. My personal one I've been running out of a home server closet since 2001. I've
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by npsimons 8y ago
Hey Google recruiters, in case you're wondering why I don't respond to your emails asking for interviews, you should know that things like this don't really make me want to work for you.
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by npsimons 8y ago
> No one can DIY everything. Well, technically they can , it's just that that sort of lifestyle is unrecognizable to us today, and would basically take all your time. They would be totally left behind by modern society, ie hermits.
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by npsimons 8y ago
> You can see this most clearly in the Metacritic for Tideland which is pretty positive as far as user submitted reviews go, but is one of the worst movies ever if you were to go off the critics reviews. The problem is, critics are usual

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