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by shireboy 5y ago
Really neat tool. Reminds me of a favorite quote: Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are
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by shireboy 5y ago
Went with kids not long ago. They enjoyed it for several hours. It was hard work - you dig, then slug your dirt up to a trough where you sift it. You can also just walk and look for shiny things. Lots of tips on YouTube, but we never fo
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by shireboy 5y ago
It seems like it would be really hard to be productive developing large projects in Assembly. Adding features/bug and security fixes seems like they would be very time consuming. What are the advantages of going this low level vs C or
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by shireboy 5y ago
That's interesting to hear. I have several friends with Teslas and keep up with some of the reviews, etc. But I haven't heard much perspective from people with kids. I have a few friends with Teslas that also keep an ICE for tri
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by shireboy 5y ago
I'm a potential customer on this. I'm in the market for a vehicle, need a pickup and towing (no really). My hesitance still is charge time on trips. If I'm taking my kids camping or something, I really don't want to a
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by shireboy 5y ago
Second cast iron. We use ours daily - and it's a handmedown from my grandmother who also used daily for 20+ years. Once seasoned properly, it is non-stick, cleans easy. We just be sure to put a little oil on it after each use. Reall
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by shireboy 5y ago
Nice resource. I’ve been into gardening a few years but dove deep during COVID. I joke it’s not cheaper than a grocery store, but is cheaper than therapy. I’m trying to improve that by doing more from seed, using vertical techniques. One
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by shireboy 5y ago
Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one who never gets around to my //TODO#s. One related tip for devs: I've started adding "You are here" as a placemark for where I'm working in the code. So for exampl
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by shireboy 5y ago
Something I think would be cool for a tool like this is to export code in various languages. Work out your algorithm in more "mathy" tool, but then spit out plain C#/F#/Python/Javascript to implement it in an app.
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by shireboy 5y ago
Tim really is doing an incredible job of making these topics accessible for mere mortals. My kids refer to him as the “pointy end up flames end down guy”.
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by shireboy 6y ago
“Tech has made startups both cheaper and easier but only for a small percentage of people” I’d really like to see cold hard data on this. As best I can tell it is false- tech has made starting a business way easier and cheaper for more peo
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by shireboy 6y ago
Tip on App Store fud: set up fastlane to automate your deployment. I have mine down to a single command to publish to both app stores, or to both Google Play Internal track and TestFlight. It’s a bit of a pain to set up, but saves me ton
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by shireboy 6y ago
Yes, that's generally the math. You save 80% of your income while learning to structure your life to live on the 20%. These people bike everywhere, eat cheaply, and are all around frugal. If you can do that, then in 5 years you can re
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by shireboy 6y ago
I might suggest a slightly different approach. “Early Retirement Extreme” proposes that if you save 80% of your income in a few broad index funds (search bogglehead), learn to live on the 20%, then you can get to where you are financially i
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by shireboy 6y ago
I’ve explored lots of these and implemented a few with customers who wanted their “business analysts” to be able to build apps. My experience has been the “non technical” people can’t do these either and wind up getting developers to try,
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by shireboy 6y ago
There are ways, but definitely can be hard to get unstuck from framework. This came across my newsfeed this am: https://www.telerik.com/blogs/jump-starting-migration-dotnet... and also, the other day, dotnet rocks po
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by shireboy 6y ago
Tesla mentioned similar in their battery presser a few months ago. One question that I have with the whole concept is if a "structural battery" means you have to throw out the whole car once the battery is EOL. I would hope Tesl
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by shireboy 6y ago
Yes! Some of my favorite, and definitely less well known than Narnia.
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by shireboy 6y ago
I haven't read Feser, but I do agree there is a huge gap between, say, the theology and level of discourse of C.S.Lewis and Tolkein and popular megachurch pastors. Culturally it's interesting to me - all but the most die-hard ath
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by shireboy 6y ago
Glitch.com is my go-to static site/tinker w nodejs container. Super easy, generous free sku. Put it behind cloudflare if you need.
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by shireboy 6y ago
Also, agricultural runoff can be an issue for oceans. I think that’s mostly fertilizer, but I have to imagine a large scale beef operation near the ocean could have runoff consequences.
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by shireboy 6y ago
On a personal level, this may be a little self centered, but I use cases like this to put my own problems in perspective. Recently I had to troubleshoot lots of IT issues during a winter storm. It was a bad outage for the organization dur
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by shireboy 6y ago
Garden. I planted a ton of veggies in 3 raised beds and really enjoyed caring for the garden and picking fresh food. I wouldn’t say it was cheaper than the grocery, but probably cheaper than therapy. I code from a home office, so the gre
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by shireboy 6y ago
This is stunning - both the image itself and the 12 years of dedication making it. Well done.
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by shireboy 6y ago
The most recent one I've experienced is ElasticSearch + Kibana + FileBeat/MetricBeat. I've gone from munging through log files in a text editor or maybe LogParser to being able to quickly visualize issues in charts and dashb
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by shireboy 6y ago
We started with scratch, code.org, recently got an arduino kit with lots of electronics for ~30$ Glitch.com is good for learning “real” web. I’d disagree it’s less accessible. I think it’s way more accessible than when I was a kid and had
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by shireboy 6y ago
Agreed. If I were hiring pharmacists and had two candidates, I'd hire the one who read up on their field outside of work and participated in industry organizations, etc. Passion is not required in any field, but in every field you ar
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by shireboy 6y ago
Overpriced collectibles were around in 2008 and well before. Beanie Babies anyone? Tulips? A fool and his money are soon parted. Only difference here is “digital”.
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by shireboy 6y ago
Been a while since I read them, and I don’t think it was magnetic reversal, but Silo series involves prolonged life in underground silos. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silo_(series)
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by shireboy 6y ago
Was sitting here wondering that. Are some of those sounds from the lander? Sounds like lots of wind and some mechanical sounds - or perhaps metal being corroded by sulfuric acid and excruciating heat.

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