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by quesera 2y ago
FWIW, the only realistic legal action right now is a cease and desist letter. Which will be responded to swiftly with no lawsuits or damages exchanged.
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by quesera 2y ago
I am absolutely not suggesting that "full-time employment years" are better allocated to work/job/employment. Just modeling what we (US, 40hrs/wk and 50wks/yr) consider a "full-time" commitment to a
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by quesera 2y ago
> My Factorio play time is up to 6,573.2 hours at this point. I habitually translate "X thousands of hours" into "full time employment years". You've been playing Factorio as the equivalent of a full time job,
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by quesera 2y ago
Brings back memories from the early web: https://www.ding.net/bonsaikitten/
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by quesera 2y ago
> "Bezos thinks that Trump thinks they are" This is the key.
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by quesera 2y ago
I think this is exactly right. I'm 100% on board with impartial reporting, with the caveats that a) endorsements are of the Opinion section, and b) the fact of the matter is that only the higher-minded news orgs would attempt impartial
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by quesera 2y ago
Umami is a subset of savory. It's not pretentious (when used correctly), it's more precise.
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by quesera 2y ago
> The diagram asserts that --- by definition --- you aren't good at your "mission," This is a misreading of the Venn diagram. Ikigai is the only section where Passion, Mission, Profession, and Vocation all intersect. The
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by quesera 2y ago
Have you heard of "vocational schools"? That use of the term is no more "wrong" than yours -- i.e. they are both correct and clear in context. I'm very aware of the Latin root.
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by quesera 2y ago
Thread premise began with the homeowner insulating the interior door. Assuming that's done properly, the door should not leak humid air into the (likely uninsulated) exterior wall. If anything, it's the currently uninsulated coo
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by quesera 2y ago
No, it's literally a historical design feature. Just like high ceilings and center chimneys. You have modern options also. And of course the new owner can customize to their liking, or pay a markup to someone else to have already done
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by quesera 2y ago
It's vented to the outside, just like a soffit or an attic. Insulating the interior door should not promote condensation.
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by quesera 2y ago
There are plenty of things to be offended by in the California real estate market. An agent describing the historical design features of the property is probably not one of them. Spending weeks looking at x -million dollar shacks is offens
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by quesera 2y ago
> there is no big commitment if you sell some software for $10 or $20 This ends up not being true. It creates headaches and contracts both explicit and implied. It creates legal requirements and a for-consideration nexus that is far to
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by quesera 2y ago
Selling a thing comes with greater obligations than giving it away. I am unwilling to accept those obligations, in most cases. I am, however, perfectly happy to share some of the work that I do back into an ecosystem which I have benefited
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by quesera 2y ago
> What's the logic? Some of us like making things, and are happy to share our excess production with the world. Like any other good work, it does not require acknowledgement or reciprocation, and the benefits are not part of a zer
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by quesera 2y ago
Rumor has it that the SE 4 will be released in early 2025. It will have the new flagship A18 processor and adequate RAM for Apple Intelligence. Unfortunately, it will be larger (6.1") than the SE 3 (4.7"). Probably with a notch an
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by quesera 2y ago
Agreed -- I'm with you 100% on the opsec hygiene regiment. But FWIW, I think "Firstname Lastname Postal_Address" has never been easily kept private (indeed, the winning strategy is subterfuge), and that adding "Callsign&
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by quesera 2y ago
> not, you know, physical address White pages had physical address too. In practice, even today without published phone directories, lookup from name to address is readily accomplished from public records. If you have put in the effort
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by quesera 2y ago
> redundancy is in having your data and infrastructure in multiple buildings aka "RAIDC" -- redundant array of inexpensive data centers. :)
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by quesera 2y ago
MacPorts is great! Another excellent alternative is pkgsrc: https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-macos/ I've used pkgsrc on SmartOS/illumos and NetBSD for many years, but this is my first time using it on ma
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by quesera 2y ago
> The entire point of the stock market is to get capital to companies Only if the shares are newly-issued, though. Usually your counterparty is just someone with different cash flow needs, or who disagrees with you about the future. No
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The clever ways that brood parasites trick other birds(knowablemagazine.org)
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by quesera 2y ago
I was referring to the multiple timezones that are abbreviated to "CST", as described in a sibling comment. But you bring up another good example. I've worked with people who write times as "PST" or "EST"
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by quesera 2y ago
Depending on your calendaring system(s), you can subscribe to your work calendar on your personal account, and vice versa. Although you should be careful about the latter! My life is simple enough that I just dupe the occasional MTWTF perso
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by quesera 2y ago
> Their employer knowing that the kids need to be picked up from soccer at 6 is a non-issue. That's great and fine, until anything non-trivial in your life happens. Illness, relationship drama, recruiter conversation, off-hand l
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by quesera 2y ago
I would love it if AI images were tagged with the prompt that generated them. I assume PNG/etc image file formats have internal tag-like data structures. Browsers could display the image as usual, and show the "origin" tag da
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by quesera 2y ago
It looks like there's some variability: smartos$ uname -a SunOS smartos 5.11 joyent_20240701T205528Z i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris Core system stuff: smartos$ file /usr/bin/ls /usr/bin/ls: ELF 32
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by quesera 2y ago
I use uMatrix. On Firefox, so no current concerns about MV3.
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by quesera 2y ago
Mobile maps apps already do this pretty well.

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