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by semireg 3y ago
Thanks for asking this. I was only recently made aware of this argument technique and it’s a great antidote to division. i.e. No matter your opinions, make your best case for why this is a good idea. See also: strawman
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by semireg 3y ago
Don’t forget crop rotation, fertility, sun vs. shade, storage, processing and lastly: salt.
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by semireg 3y ago
One odd thing I haven’t seen mentioned is that in a quiet enough room you can hear the blood flowing through your body. Is this phenomenon considered tinnitus? For me, earplugs allow me to hear this sound better (similar to being under wate
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by semireg 3y ago
Business is a great way to ruin a hobby.
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by semireg 3y ago
This reminds me of the web comic from Toothpaste for Dinner: “dopamine and serotonin, technically the only two things you enjoy.” Maybe when your motivation for work dries up you have learned to replace the good feeling chemicals by binging
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by semireg 3y ago
I’m 40 years old and generally hate subscriptions for desktop software. Local tools that work offline should be “ownable” in the licensed sense. When I built my indie app “Label LIVE” it was designed to work offline and be paid for ONCE. Af
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by semireg 3y ago
I love the idea of a tool digesting my own writing. Ticket systems like Zendesk should offer this built-in as boilerplate. Instead, I use native iOS/macOS “text replacement” for customer service responses. It saves me so much time. I h
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by semireg 3y ago
I’m not going to say I’m an expert, but I’ve cataloged every electron error and show-stopper for an app I’ve built and deployed on windows/macOS for 5 years. Feel free to get in touch with me if you’d like help, or maybe just a slack c
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by semireg 3y ago
I’m a solo consultant and have had many good client relationships based on agreeing on deliverables. To summarize according to the old “pick two” adage of delivered-fast, works-to-spec and cheap: I’m fast, reliable, and expensive. I deliver
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by semireg 3y ago
Someone should make a list of analogies of: if X were an iPad you couldn’t do Y. Perhaps after a few hundred of these we could identify a higher level pattern that would “make sense” instead of being frustrating. I feel like there’s some de
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by semireg 3y ago
As an aside, Quinn “The Eskimo!” is a legend. They have helped me on a few occasions with code signing electron apps. In the American south there is a saying “doing the lords work.” Thank goodness we have people like Quinn. Their understand
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by semireg 3y ago
I’m 40. I do 3 sets of 8 deadlifts about 5-10% over my body weight. This routine wears me out but each single rep feels easy. I can do this routine every day. You could say I’m maintaining, but I’m still reaping benefits years later. I cons
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by semireg 3y ago
By natty do you mean natural? Like … the opposite of power?
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by semireg 3y ago
I feel like this could be rendered as a 16 bit screen saver.
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by semireg 3y ago
This app is adjacent to my indie electron app [1] for designing and printing labels, including barcodes. My app runs on Mac/windows and can be licensed offline. I love offering my users affordable one-time licenses that will work “fore
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by semireg 3y ago
Am I the only one with a twang of dread and anxiety... being transported back to a summer weekday in the 1990s. I was maybe 8 years old, learning how to use a screwdriver to take things apart. I opened my C64, wiggled one of these ICs out,
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by semireg 3y ago
At 40, I only found these when reading to our children. Oh, how I would have loved these as a youngster! Everything about RS is filled with smiles. I’m grateful I’m able to “be a kid again” with our small collection. We’ve purchased almost
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by semireg 3y ago
Ah, the famous user request: “it’s simple, just add X” Followed by: “any update on X?”
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by semireg 3y ago
For macOS users I recommend moom to manage window tiling. Although the defaults work fine, I always setup the following: 1) Bind cmd-m for activating moom. You’ll get a warning but seriously, who uses native macOS minimize? Not me, ever. 2)
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by semireg 3y ago
I turn on the 3-finger-drag accessibility option on my Mac trackpads. It works amazingly well. You can drag, cmd-tab, and even add an additional click to focus a part of an app without losing the drag. I’m amazed every time.
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by semireg 3y ago
I haven’t used a mouse since the first magic trackpads came out. Coincidentally, I have avoided RSI ever since abandoning mice and trackballs. Part of me feels that apple magic trackpads saved me from a lifetime of pain. They are that good.
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by semireg 3y ago
Anyone living in Brussels know the best way for my wife and I to rent e-bikes for a few days in city center?
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by semireg 3y ago
The problem with randomness is “Randomness does not look random” - from the book Fooled by Randomness
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by semireg 3y ago
I thought it was strange that the history of GPUs jumped from graphics to AI with nary a mention of crypto, but then I realized this was China-centric where this kind of GPU use-case is against the law.
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by semireg 3y ago
After years of solving the same electron code signing issues over and over I finally started keeping notes and now instead of wasting 6 hours troubleshooting I’m down to like 30 minutes. I guess that’s progress. Agh!
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by semireg 3y ago
Not a ton, I suspect. On macOS there'd be app signing/notarizing issues and you'd probably have to disable gate keeper or knock another hole in the walled garden. The real "trick" is keeping the app inexpensive and
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by semireg 3y ago
I started my indie electron app a year after Keygen started. I looked at Keygen when I launched a version of my app off the app stores. I needed a way to license and have complete control. At the time, Keygen didn’t do everything I needed (
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by semireg 3y ago
It’s an excellent book and movie. It’s not a horror film - but a subtle and post apocalyptic draining you of hope to the very end, in the most beautiful way possible in the ugliest of places. It’s a film for experiencing the stoicism and pa
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by semireg 3y ago
Are we still the good guys?
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by semireg 3y ago
Yet, the reply can be encoded, returned as base64 or in a different language.

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