thepuppet33r

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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. https://marydoriarussell.net/novels/the-sparrow/ Almost didn't finish it. Whatever your feelings on religion are, it's a fascinating and heartbreaking exploration of ho
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
So if you constantly delete emails (or move them elsewhere) you could have quite a few people on a $1.50 a month plan. I wonder if this would be effective for families. Could source a custom domain for everyone in the household.
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
Has System76's hardware improved in the last few years? I bought a Gazelle 15 during the pandemic, and it has been the worst computer I've ever had. Display issues, overheating, keyboard dies at random, monitor has an increasing n
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
https://forum.obsidian.md/t/andy-matuschak-mode/70 There's an Obsidian plug-in.
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
Dr. Glaucomflecken on YouTube has a funny but informative series of shorts on private equity and their effect on hospitals and the medical system. In case you have people in your life with short attention spans but who still need to hear it
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Armor from Mycenaean Greece turns out to have been effective(arstechnica.com)
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Brickit App Suggests Lego Builds Using AI(brickit.app)
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
Agreed. It's also both amusing and saddening to see the iOS/Windows/Android fanboys duking it out. Some good ideas in this thread, though. I'll curate a list of recommendations and provide it to him and hopefully he can
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Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
Why doesn't my Powershell terminal work in Visual Studio Code? What do you mean my launch.json file is missing? It was there yesterday? Wait, I can set up custom launch settings in my launch.json? What else? Ok, so I've got seven
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by thepuppet33r 2y ago
Dinner is with the family. For lunch, if I'm not busy, I read my RSS feeds or catch up on my YouTube subscriptions. I can't read a book over lunch because if it starts to get good I'm frustrated when I have to stop to go back
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New Version of Catan Focuses on Renewables(npr.org)
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Don't Use Iperf3 on Windows(techcommunity.microsoft.com)
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by thepuppet33r 3y ago
https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metad... For anyone else looking for the link.
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by thepuppet33r 3y ago
I really like this. I wouldn't have thought to ask it either. Thank you!
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Ask HN: What should I ask the VP of my company?
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by thepuppet33r 3y ago
Always love a Bill Bryson quote in the wild. And it's true: I contribute less to GDP by living frugally with my family than I would spending away my savings in Vegas while paying alimony and managing messy divorce. Pure economics does
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by thepuppet33r 3y ago
We were told (unofficially) that the whole reason we were being brought back into the office three days a week was because they needed to make their real estate holdings worth something again.
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by thepuppet33r 4y ago
Maybe it's just nostalgia, but it had a way of having a broad collection while still allowing you to discover new acts. It just... worked, seamlessly, and it didn't have any of the flashiness of Spotify. I like Spotify, but RDIO w
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by thepuppet33r 4y ago
You're the only other person I've met online who knows of RDIO. I was an early adopter and I loved that service like it was my own child. I was HEARTBROKEN when it was shuttered.
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by thepuppet33r 4y ago
We tried this, and even tried the whole cloth diapers thing, too. My daughter outgrew her cloth diapers in less than a year. We moved to a new place when she was one and we still don't know enough people to be able to do this sort of s
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by thepuppet33r 5y ago
I think a missing factor here that hasn't really been brought up is Teambuilding. Factorio lends itself to multiplayer very well, and a team working together to solve problems that are not dissimilar to the coding projects they have at
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by thepuppet33r 5y ago
A great offline alternative to this is the Serial reader: https://www.serialreader.org/ I've been using it for years and they keep adding public domain books.
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by thepuppet33r 5y ago
Reminds me of https://excalidraw.com/
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You can now buy a keyboard that only copies and pastes(theverge.com)
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