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by shantly 7y ago
I don't want to go so far as saying that alone would make me consider suicide, but I was effectively deaf for a little over a week once in college with a sinus infection—mine, which I never even had one of until college so was unacquai
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by shantly 7y ago
The thing is, I'm pretty sure "free" spyvertising-funded stuff harms both paid and actually free , as in non-commercial, solutions. The market for the former is reduced significantly, and with the demand/audience for th
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by shantly 7y ago
I've not encountered the HN meaning of it outside startup culture, specifically. There's a kinda-similar definition in sports that's common but not quite the same, and then if you're talking about "hustle" as i
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by shantly 7y ago
My entire experience with "hustle" in the context of making money was as a near-synonym for scamming people. Not until I encountered HN and related startup culture did I read/hear it used in that sense. I bet if I told most p
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by shantly 7y ago
Also sales, property, and so on.
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by shantly 7y ago
Kansas City buses are like that. Outside parts of a handful of routes they're only tempting if you have way more time than money. Making them free does help the people already using them but I can't imagine it'll do much to
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by shantly 7y ago
The Kansas City Zoo has to let people in certain counties visit for free every so often, as part of the agreement by which it receives funding from those counties. This used to be implemented as periodic "free" days, but those bec
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by shantly 7y ago
Costco sells buckets of emergency food with 20ish year shelf lives. I think at one point they had a year-long supply bundle available, best I can find now is 1-month (for one person) at $114 (though it's out of stock). https:/&#x
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by shantly 7y ago
> Can C++ be learned/used on Linux? Very much yes. One of the reasons C++ is a very popular language is its portability. It compiles for most any platform. C is kinda the "native" language of Linux, if there is such a thin
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by shantly 7y ago
Everything about popular task planning & tracking systems like Jira lead me to think that any aid they give the people actually doing the work is accidental and beside the point.
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by shantly 7y ago
Since Java relies on the JVM I think I'd avoid it, and any other languages that'd require running another VM on top of the WASM VM. Seems like useless stacking of technology that serves basically the same purpose. Not saying it wo
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by shantly 7y ago
It seems probable to me that some actual application GUI toolkits will target WASM+Canvas and finally give us good-looking, capable, better-performing, easy-to-work-with GUI application development in the browser, yes. HTML's pretty ba
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by shantly 7y ago
It seems to me that, given the incredible number of person-years put into making Javascript fast, it's probably approaching its max speed of execution already without modifying the language itself. I'd expect the C/C++ interp
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by shantly 7y ago
A big bucket or three of KFC with a bunch of sides isn't all that uncommon a solution to family-gathering dining in certain circles (probably a regional component, too?), so it'd be fair to say they're a pretty popular choice
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by shantly 7y ago
This seems to rely on a specific take on the phrase "change everything" that doesn't square with how I'd have read it, followed by the odd claim that CBT doesn't change anything, but then a description of things it
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by shantly 7y ago
You could hear it IIRC. The soundtrack was relatively muted, building up tension before the explosion (mostly some lightish kettle drum I think? "Stand by" Bum bum, bum "Stand by" [exterior shot] BOOM) and even after is
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by shantly 7y ago
IMO most games—especially ones that are more intellectual than physical—get worse over time as the rules get more and more "gamed" and "correct play" gets nailed down & optimized. Kills all the fun.
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by shantly 7y ago
I surveyed a ton of translations a few years ago and found Maxwell Staniforth's to be the best balance between readability and fidelity to the original text. Older translations (as is typical of older translations of ancient works) ten
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by shantly 7y ago
Hopefully I'll knock at least a couple off my "most shameful not to have read" list: - Paradise Lost - The Divine Comedy - The Aeneid - Moby Dick - Middlemarch - Othello & at least the lesser Henriad - Any of several Russ
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by shantly 7y ago
There's a lot of rural America that's not in agriculture[0]. I mean yes many of the other rural folks provide services to farmers but I wouldn't say the assistant manager of a McDonalds in Small Town America is involved in fa
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by shantly 7y ago
I feel that way almost all the time—mostly due to client and co-worker feedback—except when interviewing. Interviews are far more demanding and stressful than any dev job I’ve had. Even the bad weeks.
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by shantly 7y ago
1000% the same. I often get motivated to mess around with or learn something for the sake of it, but have a very hard time choosing something to get motivated to mess around with or learn about. Give me someone who needs me to build somet
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by shantly 7y ago
I doubt they'd stock books on Flat Earth in the school library. Maybe it'd get a mention in a book on kookie conspiracy theories alongside Elvis being an alien. There wouldn't be enough material there to get a start then... j
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by shantly 7y ago
Our (allegedly very good for our state) elementary school gives the Kindergarteners iPads. Not to take home—I think they wait until 3rd grade or something for that complete fucking nonsense—but during much of the school day. Their free time
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by shantly 7y ago
> I'd do it again, but I'd go in giving up any pretense that I was going to maintain anything like a life. I really think it's best if you just accept that you'll be giving up most of what you used to do. You can fi
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by shantly 7y ago
Having young kids is like working 80 hour weeks. In fact it basically is that, just at two jobs rather than one. Plus you spend a lot more time keeping house, on top of it. Most people don't have much left to give working those kinds o
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by shantly 7y ago
It’s kinda the title feature of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath .
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by shantly 7y ago
You can. What does that have to do with traditional sessions?
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by shantly 7y ago
Pointy-clicky GUI for people who don't live the #VMLife and just occasionally want to throw some graphical OS in a VM and mess around in it for a few minutes, without having to read any man pages. I know Qemu has GUI interfaces availab
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by shantly 7y ago
> And at that time there was also a lot of controversy about their competitors selling search positions, so you could outright buy the #1 slot, for example. Google never did this, and always maintained a policy of maintaining a clear dis

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