stakkur

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by stakkur 4y ago
The part missing from all conversations about 'young' vs. 'old' programmers is: what about 'old' people who enter the field late, and aren't multiple-decade veterans of it? That is where rampant ageism r
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by stakkur 4y ago
For me, the problem is time, and the result that there's a finite number of books I have time left to read. https://jamesgill.net/pagecount/
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by stakkur 4y ago
“The prevailing opinions of my peers shows them idiots, while I walk enlightened but unheard” —Oscar Wilde
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by stakkur 4y ago
Wrong question.
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by stakkur 4y ago
A reasonable test of 'productivity': if you fire large swaths of employees and 'productivity' remains the same, was it a failure of management, or of the employees? I'm just kidding. Measuring employee 'product
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by stakkur 4y ago
I remember typing in hex programs from Compute! magazine to my C64. It would take a long time and, of course, I made at least one error along the way and had to start over.
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by stakkur 4y ago
Thanks. Do you find these limitations are device-specific, or just general OpenBSD gotchas that apply broadly?
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Ask HN: Does anyone use FreeBSD or OpenBSD as a daily environment?
30 points by stakkur 4y ago|23 comments
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by stakkur 4y ago
I agree, but the fundamental problem is how most western math education is structured top-down to be a goals-driven curriculum. In other words, teaching to the test. In the US, it’s a sprint towards meeting goals tied to government funding
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by stakkur 4y ago
Well-intentioned, I suppose, but this seems more of a scattershot blog post than a thoughtful answer to 'how to choose your college degree'. I've heard a lot recently about 'picking the right college major'. It&#x27
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by stakkur 4y ago
Amazon shopping is bifurcating into: 1. Drop shippers 're-branding' stuff from SE Asia 2. Amazon-branded clones of successful products. #2 is where Amazon has been headed all along.
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Desktp Diaries: Oliver Sacks(youtube.com)
2 points by stakkur 4y ago|1 comments
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As nuclear waste piles up, scientists seek the best long-term storage solutions(cen.acs.org)
1 points by stakkur 4y ago|2 comments
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by stakkur 4y ago
I don’t know if you’re a guitar player or not, but I am and I disagree with just about everything you said. It also seems like you didn’t read the article.
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by stakkur 4y ago
It's always odd when someone picks apart a work of fiction with the tools of realism. It tells me they either have too much time on their hands, or they have missed the entire point of stories.
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Nine Quandaries of Tourism(revista.drclas.harvard.edu)
2 points by stakkur 4y ago|0 comments
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by stakkur 4y ago
Every story about Microsoft--every time--ends with "...and then Microsoft fucked people over". After decades of watching the shitshow that is Microsoft, and the moral equivocating around defending them, I always return to this.
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by stakkur 4y ago
https://www.urbandesignmentalhealth.com/how-the-city-affects... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5374256/
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by stakkur 4y ago
Nobody seems to stop and ask "are super high density cities what's best for human health?", and that seems rather odd. No, I'm not talking about 'study x showed people like walkable cities', I'm talking ab
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by stakkur 4y ago
I’ve never understood the nitpicky Linux complaints I hear about ThinkPads. I’ve owned and used four different models, and all ran Linux well with no compatibility problems. I’ve recently got a T480 and Ubuntu works flawlessly.
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by stakkur 4y ago
I basically do this with Dropbox, Emacs, and git, but just for shared 'personal' note taking/journaling amongst multiple devices.
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by stakkur 4y ago
Common goals, clear processes, trust, and open, well-developed lines of communication. Like everything else in life involving more than one human.
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by stakkur 4y ago
This is common in the US, too. I've been doing it for a long time. My current credit union offers some online customization of that, too.
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by stakkur 4y ago
Well done, and the one-click download/local data was exactly my first thought when visiting. One question: why CSV?
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by stakkur 4y ago
I have a sit/stand adjustable desk. Here's what I do: 1. Stand for first ~1 hour of the day. 2. Depending on how I feel, alternate sitting/standing about every hour or so until lunch. 3. After lunchtime, stand for ~30-60 minu
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by stakkur 4y ago
I still hold that the M1 is still a better choice. The M2 is slick, but it’s not a meaningful upgrade, all things considered. The M1 Air just got everything right.
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by stakkur 4y ago
BMI might be the most worthless metric of health ever invented.
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by stakkur 4y ago
This is the same for me: my most starred repo has 220 stars and a dozen forks--and no code. It's links about writing (prose) with Emacs: https://github.com/thinkhuman/writingwithemacs I think the idea that 'r
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by stakkur 4y ago
Literally no science behind saying the body turns to muscle before fat.
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by stakkur 4y ago
No, obesity is a metabolic problem. And barring personal medical issues, diets of starch and sugar are the cause. [EDIT], Folks, obesity is a result of metabolic disease. Obesity is an epidemic, and the science is abundant on this. This isn

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