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by npsimons 9y ago
> Allowing the experience to wash over you without analyzing it while experiencing gets harder. "It's not over-analysis when every stray thought about the film has to be quashed lest you realize how stupid the movie is."
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by npsimons 9y ago
> His films are good and incredibly entertaining, but Kubrick is on a completely different plane. I agree perhaps I misclassed Nolan with Kubrick. That being said, "Memento" and "Inception" really stand out to me. Cou
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by npsimons 9y ago
> Not sure why am going after you on this, but surely there are better examples than those guys. If it makes you feel any better, I'm with you on this. A single line from "Avengers" really sticks out to me, and it seems al
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by npsimons 9y ago
> Nolan is one of the premier auteurs of our time Auteur - that was the word I was looking for. It's interesting how people deride the auteur concept (including Nolan!), but "auteurship" is exactly how I have found many
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> And it's interesting coming from a director It's incredibly interesting to me, coming from this director, as I class him as one of the best, up there with Kubrick, and I also will discriminate on movies based on directors a
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by npsimons 9y ago
> I wish there was a "web security checklist" https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Main_Page https://www.stigviewer.com/stig/database_security_requiremen...
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by npsimons 9y ago
> Sorry, you need to enable JavaScript to visit this website. C-w
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by npsimons 9y ago
> This is how most platforms get their start. The key word here is 'start'. I don't like to arbitrarily constrain tools, but I've always felt that cross-compilers were sort of a last resort, ie, you don't have a
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by npsimons 9y ago
> It’s not a trite point for BSD but if those are the kinds of objections holding back adoption by Linux and bsd, then I think the end result will just be a new Rust-first operating system. That would be great! Get back to me when it exi
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by npsimons 9y ago
> I'd prefer they spend their time elsewhere, that's all. And I'm sure the OpenBSD developers would prefer to spend their time on OpenBSD instead of working around Rust's lack of support for a platform that OpenBSD su
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by npsimons 9y ago
> then points out that rustc can't compile itself on i386, which is relevant… how? I'm actually gobsmacked this is the case. There used to be a saying, only half-joking, that a language that can't host/compile/bo
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by npsimons 9y ago
There's a simple solution to this: ctrl-w I pay for content. I pay to receive content without ads. Any company who wants me to "pay" via advertising will not get "payment" from me. Full stop.
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by npsimons 9y ago
Even though parent was referencing number of cars, having "enough" cars has never been the issue - the problem is traffic congestion and other externalized costs inherent to having a car per person.
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by npsimons 9y ago
> This tone of this article is pretentious and just plain douchey. I got that same feeling. First a "What?! KVMs are no longer sold at all?!" followed by "wait, no, he's lying - KVMs are still sold, they just don&#x27
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by npsimons 9y ago
This is actually pretty close to what I already do; I've found writing org capture templates cumbersome, so I just have templates in the org files and I cut and paste and then edit as needed.
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by npsimons 9y ago
Okay, so you don't agree with it. And it may not be a facet of net neutrality, but it certainly is analogous. I've paid for a general purpose computing device, and I've paid for a connection to the Internet. Why should anyo
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by npsimons 9y ago
Sometimes, you just really need a check list. Two off the top of my head are packing lists and SOAP notes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP_note ).
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by npsimons 9y ago
Not for TODO items, but org-mode specifically has the RESET_CHECK_BOXES property which will reset the checkboxes when a repeating task goes back to it's start state (eg, habits). TODO items can be repeating and there is a way to make i
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by npsimons 9y ago
> Carriers have a say whether or not they can block things on the Google Play app store. Why do you believe this is okay?
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by npsimons 9y ago
> if you believe in dreaming and creating something larger than yourself Even if people don't give two shits about making themselves or the world a better place, most people do care about convenience, lower prices and whizbang new t
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by npsimons 9y ago
> You've even managed to save around $10K in cash from various summer jobs and gifts from relatives. The consensus advice investment management professionals would offer is to sock it away in a well-diversified set of Vanguard Funds
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by npsimons 9y ago
I get the impression that you and ska are very, very good teachers. Not to disrespect any of my professors, but a lot of times I ended up skipping lectures because I just wasn't getting anything out of them. Was I a model student who a
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by npsimons 9y ago
> Lectures as part of course are designed to be attended after reviewing the material at least once on your own. It's easy to realize this in retrospect, but I think it should be pounded into students' heads starting at least i
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by npsimons 9y ago
I really, really wish more professors had provided slides up front; many don't change them year to year anyway, and it would have helped immensely to prepare for the lecture and be more actively engaged. Syllabi are helpful, but even t
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by npsimons 9y ago
> Lectures and meetings are broken, not the notes. For as long I can remember, I have had trouble staying awake in lectures, meetings and watching videos. It has nothing to do with the content, nothing to do with how 'engaging'
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by npsimons 9y ago
> If Ajit Pai continues to obstruct investigations, I would consider it obstruction of justice. That's something that an Attorney General should seriously consider in the current light. My recurring thought as I read the fine articl
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by npsimons 9y ago
> This type of regulation, where particular parties are favored, rather than particular principles, is madness. It's plutocracy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy ), plain and simple. Some have been point
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by npsimons 9y ago
> You don't want to start someone off doing power lifts. While I agree with most of your comment, this caught my eye, because that's exactly what "Starting Strength" by Mark Rippetoe (an HN recommendation, I might add
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by npsimons 9y ago
> But it lacks the advice to implement a filter: To ignore 80% of the potential issues before we let them onto our lists. Is there a problem with just capturing, moving on, then filtering later? I find my anxiety much reduced and my focu
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by npsimons 9y ago
Works great for exercise too: "just run for five minutes, then see how you feel", "just do the warm-up sets". Even if you stop, it's better than vegging on the couch.

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