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by stinkytaco 4y ago
> dependencies are a necessary evil, but still an evil I'm curious about this assertation. I've also heard that "do one thing and do it well" is a desirable goal and one should offload tasks to other pieces that speci
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> I wonder what it is about the folks who are able to "get into" eBooks. If you view a book as a one time use, disposable good, it's not hard. That sounds far more disrespectful than I mean it, but if you're the type
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
In my line of work I get asked about the future of books with some regularity. I've got a canned, slightly jokey response by this point, but one thing I point out is that the UI of a book is really very good. Part of it is that we&#x27
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I really liked the Common Core early math curriculum. My daughter was taught to do calculations the way I had to come to them myself later on: break the problem apart into easier pieces. A simple example: If you are adding 73 and 29 break i
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
I think Moveable Type is still a going concern. I think there's even a hosted platform.
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Somewhat interestingly, Ted Chiang, in my opinion one of the best writers working in science fiction today, worked as a technical writer for Microsoft. However, he has said that they are very different and he doesn't feel one really im
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
This is entirely beside the point, but I think Lego instructions were my first real foray into technical documentation. It's surprising how well they worked. Their ability to boil down a complicated process into something a 10 year old
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
> Would Brazil 1970 beat Spain 2008 No. Spain 2008-2012 may be the best overall international team of all time. Too organized even for the front five of Brazil. > Man Utd 1999 Yes. Good team, but a lot of things broke their way that
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
So long. Bookmarks, pocket articles, org-roam notes, things jotted in notebooks, I even have an org capture template that quickly populates a list of "recommended media" (books, movies, etc) from friends and relations. Maintaining
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
It would be. Making unlimited ebooks available would be even cheaper than that. But neither of those really fits the business model of the publisher. A public library is already a compromise in the eyes on many publishers.
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For the same reason they pay $80 for a single use copy of an ebook: because users expect it and don't really care about the excuse. Users see that other libraries offer a service, they see the services they want to use and no number of
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
Incidentally, Libby and Kanopy are owned by the same company and they are planning some further film discovery focused enhancements in the Libby app this year.
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
A few years ago, I attempted to work out what a circulation cost us calculating things like our collection budget, staff budget, etc. vs number of circs. It came out to about $2.50 or so. Keep in mind there are some serious limitations; for
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
The library signs up with Kanopy. Sets restrictions on who can use the service and how often, then makes it available to their patrons.
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
Not OP, but I have a lot of experience with Merino wool. My opinion is that it's great, but expensive and not durable as outerwear. It snags easily and if you're wearing the thinner stuff, you will end up with runs and even tears
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
For readers not at all familiar with American idioms, "astroturfed" is a response to "grassroots". A "grassroots" movement in American slang is one that is bottom up and not driven by advertising, corporations
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
> In my electronics bag I carry a short extension cord, some USB plugs and charging cables, etc. That'll make you the hero in every cafe you go to. A small power strip might have been my best travel investment. Good way to meet peop
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
> Yeah it's kind of weird that people want things to work as well as they do in Xorg. While I completely understand that it works very well for you, the "for you" doesn't actually make it so for me. But the converse i
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
Yet... it's still the only way I can use mixed DPI displays. I'm sure all of these concerns are justified in one way or the other, but no one's really given me a lot of other options. A quick environmental scan reveals two se
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> Wayland isn't going to happen. I'd be very disappointed by this because I'm in a mixed DPI environment and I need its support. Seriously though, I find hostility toward Wayland so weird. I could kind of understand it wit
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
I'm nervous about how these technologies impact public computing like public libraries or other shared networks. We still occasionally run into sites flagging our network as spam and requiring additional attestation (something your ave
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
I agree this is a troll, but I'd like to point out a few things: > - Not going far from home, but using ~23 liters of gas($50 @ 210/L) just to get there? Absolutely could see this. I live in the US, but the nearest spot I'
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
Though I like this idea, as I age, I sympathize with people who are unable to do this for a variety of reasons. I'm sure those people can be accommodated, but that opens the door to abuse, putting us right back in this position.
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It's the angry stream of people you need to turn away that becomes the issue. It's not confusing, it's just time consuming and frustrating for all involved. Doubly so if there's an event the overwhelms your normal facili
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I don't. I work in municipal government and if anything the firewall is greater here than it is the private sector because we know all the rules. We handle citizen data in all sort of ways and the police don't get automatic access
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I'm a college educated, well off person and most of my social circle is as well and they are very much on this train. My question is always, "What do you want your child to do?" It's very easy to send other people&#x
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We also need more support for people who work trades. Often those are jobs you cannot work until you are 65 or that involve non trivial amounts of physical risk. It's not just the current stigma, it's the long term social impacts.
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Except the way it's pronounced in the song is not the way the English pronounce it, if that's what you mean. The emphasis is on the first syllable in the song and on the second in the British English. It's like someone who ha
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I've actually never heard it pronounced "Jiff" in conversation. Ever. I'm not going to categorically claim that people don't do it, because anecdote isn't evidence, but I've only ever heard the word &quo
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by stinkytaco 5y ago
UBI != stimulus. The vast majority of this money went into state and local governments which led to infrastructure projects, expanded social programs, etc. which have large ripple effects in the economy. I'm not really on one side or a

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