tclancy

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by tclancy 9mo ago
https://github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzone/blob/main/dange... How hard did you look the other times?
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by tclancy 9mo ago
Still have a couple original Ubuntu CDs floating around the house after 2 subsequent moves.
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by tclancy 9mo ago
We should probably talk then!
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by tclancy 9mo ago
You seem to be talking about an alternative universe where employers are being paid in a different currency.
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by tclancy 9mo ago
Same!
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by tclancy 9mo ago
Sorry, my bad, fourth comment.
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by tclancy 9mo ago
Buddy, this is the second comment in here where you want us to blame some unknown Other for our problems. That is a dead end. And gray hair doesn’t confer wisdom, as Thoreau said. Signed, some guy in his 50s.
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by tclancy 9mo ago
And if you like that, the good news is you will probably like most every Kidder book. Or at least House. His works tend to be inquiries into how systems work, just at different scales.
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by tclancy 9mo ago
> I don’t mind the ways in which my job is dysfunctional, because it matches the ways in which I myself am dysfunctional As a fellow traveller, I offer one caution: learn to turn this down in personal relationships as it can be counterp
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by tclancy 9mo ago
I wonder if they’re still putting out music …
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by tclancy 9mo ago
You should try the Hammock District, they may have some ideas.
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by tclancy 9mo ago
Because people vote for the name on the ticket and not the dude he planned to put in charge of the economy who, economically speaking, has always been a madman on a corner soapbox ranting that every other economist doesn’t understand the ef
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by tclancy 9mo ago
Whereas you’re happy to air yours. I guess that’s something.
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by tclancy 9mo ago
All of us who grew up with Law & Order are wondering why this dude is bragging about planting poisoned fruit trees.
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by tclancy 9mo ago
Just you wait for the next set of FDA recommendations! We are ahead of the curve I tells ya.
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by tclancy 9mo ago
A good rule of thumb coming out of this, if your country rebrands the military to the Department of War, it’s not to fight Johnny Foreigner. Who knew the capitalism loop of fighting wars for oil and then selling the lightly used weapons to
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by tclancy 9mo ago
Pfft. The knives in my kitchen are all original Damascus steel I use them to make food from recipes that were lost to time as well.
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by tclancy 9mo ago
Having now read it, the CEO did get convicted.
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by tclancy 9mo ago
Still reading the story but just hit that line and came here to snarkily post, “another MongoDB success story”. I should probably talk to my therapist about this desire to be seen as funny.
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by tclancy 9mo ago
This isn’t quite true. I’m in the last stages of organizing a record club (basically a book club with a much lower commitment) and I started by talking to a small handful of close friends who I knew were music nerds because I am picky and s
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by tclancy 10mo ago
https://tomclancy.info/
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by tclancy 10mo ago
Run 72,000 database queries to generate a bunch of random HTML files no one has asked for in five years is not, especially compared to downloading the files designed for it.
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by tclancy 10mo ago
The Economist tried to solve this in the past with https://www.economist.com/interactive/big-mac-index ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index for non-subscribers)
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by tclancy 10mo ago
>I doubt the US’s extensive federal welfare state Citation needed.
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by tclancy 10mo ago
I’m sure it was positive, whatever it said.
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by tclancy 10mo ago
Yes yes, definitely people don’t know what they’re doing and not that they’re operating on a scale or problem you are not. Metabrainz cannot cache all of these links as most of them are hardly ever hit. Try to assume good intent.
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by tclancy 10mo ago
As someone who has been interested in actual Stoicism for years, yes, there is a whole industry of people monetizing cherry-picked bullet points to serve up what people already want to hear. The fact it all comes with a less-than-subtle she
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by tclancy 10mo ago
. . . toward what?
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by tclancy 10mo ago
This would be news to the Founding Fathers. If it is allsotiresome, why open an account just to bitch about it?
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by tclancy 10mo ago
I think you missed my point. That camera can be anything whereas a phone camera is going to work and no, most computers don’t have an always available camera. Other than that, touché.

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