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by vandyswa 2y ago
If the intention is to convince whistleblowers #3 through #30 that they should find a healthier hobby? Then yeah, they don't really care if it's obvious to the peanut gallery, so long as it's obvious to any other witnesses.
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by vandyswa 3y ago
My self-hosted web and email goes back to 1997... still in use. (vsta.org)
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by vandyswa 3y ago
To be a Regal Cinemas usher (i.e., minimum wage entry level) you have to take this sprawling personality test during your online application. My daughter took a pass on'em.
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by vandyswa 3y ago
Insane. I could consistently sit in a room with a candidate for an hour, and at the end describe which positions they could handle, which would be a stretch, and which would be a fiasco. I ended up being a bit of a candidate whisperer. Bu
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by vandyswa 3y ago
When the bucket of things to sort drifts below count ~100, bubble sort will hammer it into order in an amount of time which is, for all intents and purposes, zero. Use the smallest hammer which drives the nail...
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by vandyswa 3y ago
Of course, do remember that the original USA legal structure was _explicitly_ designed to avoid "the tyranny of the majority". It was founded by a number of different religious sects, and the small ones didn't want to be dom
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by vandyswa 3y ago
Do note sqlite3 suffices up to a surprisingly demanding workload.
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by vandyswa 3y ago
No extras. Hand written JS, CSS, and HTML. Backend use CGI or for long polling type apps, golang and an HTTP server module. Or Python and its batteries-included HTTP server (but I'm moving away from Python).
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by vandyswa 3y ago
Last I checked, the USA spends more on military than the next nine nations, combined. Do we need to spend _more_, or do we need to change how we spend the vast amounts already collected?
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by vandyswa 3y ago
Solo dev, do take a look at Fossil SCM. It's git-ish, but human scale (rather than Linux kernel scale).
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by vandyswa 3y ago
I see most of the comments are immediately cutting over to Unix clones, which is sad. RSX280 is a professional quality take of Dave Cutler's (yes, of NT fame) architectural innovations in RSX-11. The Unix groove is worn deep, deep in
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by vandyswa 3y ago
We stood up a failed local newspaper (yes, newsprint and everything). Local news, local color, but also local commentary on national issues. Who would have thought--human scale and decentralized still has an audience? vashonloop.com if yo
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by vandyswa 4y ago
I converted a van to an RV, and now we stay in RV sites. Never going back to AirBNB/VRBO/Hotels! I know, useless for international travel, but within the USA it has become--by far--the most congenial option.
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Groupthink: Modern Perspective(rwmalonemd.substack.com)
11 points by vandyswa 4y ago|1 comments
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by vandyswa 4y ago
A "big picture" retrospective on some recent dynamics in (very) large scale group decision making.
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by vandyswa 4y ago
Why do you assume you need a framework? JS in the ES6 world is a perfectly adequate language, and the obvious RESTful API back into the server can be coded directly. Hand code your HTML and CSS, and if you don't know how--learn. On t
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by vandyswa 4y ago
If you invest, you own the gains. You also own the losses. If you think there can only be gains, you need to look more deeply.
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by vandyswa 4y ago
I wrote about these concepts, and have lived with my system since 2004: https://www.vsta.org/spam/Traveler.html (Ancient formatting, use reader mode if you're in Firefox.) tl;dr Mail is broken because there's
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by vandyswa 4y ago
Just ironic, since I saw this entry by way of YC's RSS feed! I feel like RSS dipped, but actually has rebounded a bit in the recent 5-ish years.
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by vandyswa 4y ago
If you _only_ want to keep textual notes--self hosted cloud style--then here's a minimalist web note solution. Just a few (Python) CGI's plus 6k HTML/CSS/JS: http://sources.vsta.org:7100/notepad/ind
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by vandyswa 5y ago
We had to deal with this; in our case, my daughter moved in with my mother as a (paid) caregiver. My Mom got to live in her home a lot longer, and my daughter had meaningful work. It was great to keep it all within the family. You sound a
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An open source, easy-to-hack text/audio chat system(commoxy.org)
2 points by vandyswa 6y ago|0 comments
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by vandyswa 6y ago
Ah, thank you. I was pretty sure it would be something like this, but couldn't find details anywhere else.
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by vandyswa 6y ago
A great companion is FeedMonkey, a web based reader which plays very nicely w. tt-rss. I forked it w. dark theme, ES6 syntax, article grouping. Just host it on the same server as your tt-rss, no cross-site issues: http://source
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by vandyswa 6y ago
I host my own tt-rss, and the install FeedMonkey (via my own sources.vsta.org) which provides a very nice viewer.
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by vandyswa 7y ago
I have BEEN one of the founders, and still didn't make any money off the ultimate sale. There are far too many games with share classes, VC-funded bridge loans, and preferred investor incentives. The only way to win is to not play th
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JavaScript and images on the web
1 points by vandyswa 9y ago|0 comments
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Serveraxis.com going, going, ?
2 points by vandyswa 9y ago|0 comments
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by vandyswa 9y ago
Agree that all signs are there's a glut. Note that we're down to somebody at age 30 starting to notice age discrimination. With a career longevity approaching that of an NFL player or MMA fighter, is it really a good choice any
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by vandyswa 10y ago
I've had good luck over the years with Server Axis. For much cheaper, Scaleway has some innovative "bare metal" offerings. 3 euros/month, it'll even fit Apache and Wordpress. Some of my heavier PHP lifting had to

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