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by pantaloony 6y ago
A large majority of web clients must be operating on battery now, too. Willingness to burn battery participating in Torrent and other distributed protocols rather than HTTP will be low among those, let alone willingness to leave such a thin
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by pantaloony 6y ago
It’s gonna be weird when there’s no cheap labor left and even the American middle class can’t afford anything that wasn’t 100% machine-made, anymore.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
- less exotic stuff available—many ingredients had to be sourced locally. - Underground storage. - Lots and lots of canning. Like... lots of it. - preserved meat and cheese as a necessity rather than a choice - Actual ice for refrigeration.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
It’s good for teaching very young kids how games run. Turn-taking, rule-following. Not knowing what the next card will be holds their interest long enough to get them used to those things, at least.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
It’s a result of how long it took to send messages (days to months, depending on where the recipient was), and that it didn’t usually cost more to send six sheets of paper than one. You wanted to make sure to write everything you had to say
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Starts off promising but spends a lot of space going nowhere. Lots of inline links that go to other articles on the same blog. Reads like a self-help or pop-business book and content marketing had a baby and it was raised by a TED talk.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
I drink a lot less good coffee at home. Not worth shelling out for 5lb of the good stuff when everything past the first pound will be stale and not very good by the time I get to it, and purchased in smaller (usually 8-12oz) bags high-qua
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Movie releases used to be a lot more stretched out. Theatrical release, maybe a year passes then it hits the premium movie channels, another year and they get to make a big deal about it being aired on a regular network. Then finally a few
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by pantaloony 6y ago
We have three and have to try to keep people from giving us more toys. It doesn’t work and we get rid of about 1-2 kids worth of toys per year. You could outfit a kid’s room with toys pretty respectably from scratch with $30-40 at the thrif
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Given how general the message is, My first guess would be it’s an “industry association” of some sort.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
People also do it so they don't accidentally open something that's got the camera enabled. If you're a school teacher answering questions for students in the evening you don't want to click the wrong thing and turn on vi
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by pantaloony 6y ago
> gnome shell (which takes as much memory as the average electron application). I don't know a ton about it but I assume gnome-shell is where all the JS (which I gather is a huge thing in Gnome now) runs, judging from how crashy and
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Interesting. Confirms some suspicions I had re: why my recent attempts to use Gnome under Wayland were... more interesting than I'd hoped. That exchange matches what I'd imagined their attitude must be to have produced software
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by pantaloony 6y ago
I've always found Open/Libre Office unpleasantly heavy-weight and fragile. On Linux I use lighter stand-alone programs (which are... fine, kinda, for lack of anything better) and on Mac, the bundled Apple office programs, which I
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by pantaloony 6y ago
If you've got an iPad and don't mind dropping $150/yr, Simply Piano is pretty damn great. Strong focus on playing recognizable music, which helps keep interest up. No affiliation, just very happy with it. Nb as you get farthe
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Having a tan in colder latitudes in the Winter/Spring was fashionable because it meant you'd "Wintered" or at least had a long Winter vacation somewhere sunny, which means you could afford (having the time, freedom, an
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Exactly. A lot of what's available to men these days is former athletic/sporting wear turned "athleisure", then sometimes losing much of the original association: button-down collar shirts (there's a reason they&#x2
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by pantaloony 6y ago
I hope we don’t lose the blazer and sport coat, at least. They’re great. Like a purse for men, but even better than that because you wear them. Unlike winter coats or hoodies they’re not shlubby-looking and you can wear (appropriate cloth &
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Right—HierarchyQL or NestQL would be a better name, even. I’m not aware of its being much more ergonomic or helpful for graph queries than SQL is. Certainly nothing like Cypher or another actual query language for graphs. Doesn’t mean it’s
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by pantaloony 6y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if a stripped-to-the-bone installation of WinXP in a VM, running only Paint, is lighter on system resources than Electron running this.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
GraphQL isn’t particularly “graphy” nor does it have much to do (necessarily) with graph databases. Its name is, for the reason that it continually generates that sort of confusion, pretty bad.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
I also once got stuck under an org with leadership that’d fallen for N4J’s marketing. It was a bad fit for their needs by most any metric and leading to tons of stability problems, bugs, and development slowness. Hell one application they w
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by pantaloony 6y ago
Shit-talking relational DBs this hard makes me assume all other material in the article is BS, or else the person writing it isn’t very experienced.
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by pantaloony 6y ago
From long observation: no, one thing HN is remarkably bad at, even compared to the rest of the web(!), is taking context into account. Usually that kind of thing is deliberate trolling when it happens elsewhere, but here I can never tell. I
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by pantaloony 6y ago
> it's my responsibility to communicate that I'd like to try to do this a bit differently. Yes, and please, to all interviewers, tell candidates WTF they’ll be expected to do/talk about in the interview, in the greatest de
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by pantaloony 6y ago
The sequels stress me out. Too much to do, too many things available that you can't do yet but can't tell whether you don't have the thing you need or just haven't figured out the trick. Random events happening constantl
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by pantaloony 6y ago
It is insane that we consider it a matter of personal responsibility to have an on-demand carnival in our homes but to have the restraint to barely use it. We light our houses daylight-bright with ceiling-mounted lights at night, and can