turbojet1321

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by turbojet1321 2y ago
Thanks for newsminimalist - other than what comes up on HN it's the only news I read these days. It's usually just enough to keep me in touch without any of the outrage.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
That's a false equivalence which is at the heart of the issue. You seem to be be assuming that "being informed" makes you better placed and/or more willing to take right action, but I'm not convinced that's the
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
Yes but unfortunately that doesn't make it false.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
> too young to lie or corrupt In my experience, youth has little to do with honesty or corruptibility.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
It's the circle of life
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
> I wish to see a FOSS incremental reading application in the very least, such an underrated concept. There's an Anki plugin[0] though I know almost nothing about Anki or incremental reading, so I have no idea who good it is. 0: htt
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
I recently ditched Spotify for Qobuz. Spotify has always been a bit of a letdown, even though I've been using it since Rdio went bust (so ~10yrs). The thing that finally pushed me over the edge was the amount of shit content they push
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
This looks cool, but I'm not 100% sure what it does. Is the "music server" part just a backend for the web UI, or does it serve via other protocols like DLNA?
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
> What do you think happens once a company knows you are looking for a job and then you don’t get the new job? Maybe it depends how useful you are. IME, they're grateful to have you say a while longer. One of the guys I work with ha
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
It's a job; not a cult. People come and go. If I were working somewhere that made me feel like I couldn't leave without being super secretive about it, that would be a huge red flag.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
The big thing that got me to move off passwordstore to BW (and self-hosted vaultwarden) was sharing passwords with family. The app and browser extensions are nicer, too.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
> No one is going to let you talk to your current manager and let them know you are looking for a job. What on earth do you mean? Who is going to stop me from talking to my manager? Over my 20+ year career, in all-but one case my current
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
It's not at all false IME, though I'm not in SV or the US. Most job want up-front references from at least 2 people, one of whom must be your current supervisor/boss (or someone else higher in the chain of command). You can o
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
The question to ask yourself then is: why is it that the behaviour that brings you pleasure/meaning/satisfaction happens to align exactly with what the company wants? I spent most of my career with a similar attitude to yours, and
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
This is a good point. I have a backup strategy that includes cloud and offline HDDs, but at some point, when I'm not around to keep it all running, it'll probably just be family getting them off my laptop. I should probably look a
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
I thought that was a strange approach, too - I'd have thought it'd be far quicker to cull post-scanning. Plus, then you have the whole catalog digitized in case someone else wants to come along and make different editorial choices
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
I take a ton of photos. I cull probably 80%. The remaining ones are all pretty good/interesting/meaningful. I end up with maybe 1000 for a year, then pick maybe 100 of those to make into a photo book for the year, which is what th
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
The best solution I've come up with is jpgs in a yyyy/mm folder structure + EXIF metadata. I know it's not your ideal, but it'll be supported and platform agnostic for the forseeable future, and there are plenty of apps
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
That's like asking "is there a building industry" just because every industry uses buildings. Every (well, most) industries use software; but the production of that software is itself an industry.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
> I'm curious why you are confident they would be more intelligent than a modern toddler? Because we have intellectual artefacts from that time that show us. Artefacts that underlay much of modern society, and that in many respects
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
I think you're under-selling your point. Forget highschool students - some of the greatest thinkers in human history lived 2000+ years ago.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
I used to work somewhere that had a similar licensing model. I believe it was perpetual access to all updates (minor or major) released within 12mths of purchase, along with free support. Once your 12mths were up there were no further updat
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
Look, I love FWWM, but that's a brutal way to start. Firstly, it works a lot better if you know TP. Secondly... it's a brutal film. I've seen it a bunch of times and still find some of it hard to watch.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
It also happens to be just a beautiful film.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
There are a bunch of hifi brands that are making great products but don't have great name branding: SMSL, Topping, WiiM, Fosi (I own 3 of those 4, lol). The upside is that they mostly seem to care about making good products rather than
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
I've been really impressed by how they keep pushing features out to old devices. Like, there was no reason for them to give the Mini 10 band PEQ - they could have made people upgrade. But no, the working (seemingly quite hard) to get t
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
Conjecture on the wiim forums is that they ran into licensing issues so their two flagship products (Amp Pro and Ultra) don't have airplay, but weirdly all of their lower-end devices (Mini, Pro, Pro Plus) do.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
> The home-audio market is consolidated into a tiny number of manufacturers masquerading under once-proud brands they bought. The crippling incompetence of the products themselves is depressing. There's quite a rise in Chinese HiFi
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
I have 3 - they're awesome.
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by turbojet1321 2y ago
My favorite recent discovery in the HiFi world (after losing interest about 15 years ago) are the WiiM network streamers. Connect them up to any old system via RCA, toslink or coax and you can: - stream from a wide number of subscription se

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