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by weeksie 9y ago
Kratom is fine and all but I'd hardly describe the high as "mild". I'll take it once every few months but not more often than that primarily because it feels way too nice (much of the reason why I've not gone beyond
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by weeksie 9y ago
Don't build on someone else's platform unless you have a ripcord. :/
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by weeksie 9y ago
For me the most important part of writing longer, novel-length pieces is the organization help that Scrivener gives me. So far it's my favorite tool and as cool as this might be I'll remain skeptical until I see the final product.
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by weeksie 9y ago
You know what worries me about this? Not free speech because that's a dumb line of argument. What bothers me is that these companies are inadvertently teaching a bunch of nazis how to use the dark web by pushing them out of the public
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by weeksie 9y ago
Pretty much completely jives with my feeling for the place after spending a couple months traveling through it.
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by weeksie 9y ago
Shouldn't calling `preventDefault` on an event marked passive throw an exception? It seems sloppy not to but maybe I'm missing something.
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by weeksie 9y ago
I remember reading RAW back when I was 19 or so. I think it was the Shrodinger's Cat Trilogy, then the Illuminatus! Just amazing stuff. And a massive piss take on the post modern novels of the day. Kallisti!
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by weeksie 9y ago
Sigh. That's the most obvious of knee jerk responses and the most naive. I hear stuff like that a ton from people who are chasing that old illusion of authenticity. 16 months on the road through the backwaters of SE Asia and India as w
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by weeksie 9y ago
That's precisely my point. Except that SE Asian expats are boring af on average. There are exceptions to be sure (I made several good friends while traveling) but on average they're shockingly boring, but they're as good as y
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by weeksie 9y ago
Stay out for a year or so and you will likely want to mingle with some westerners. Or maybe not! Everybody's different.
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by weeksie 9y ago
That's kinda what I did. I wasn't head down on trying to build something, but I did write a novel while we were traveling, along with some freelance. We'd travel, moving from place to place frequently, then settle in somewher
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by weeksie 9y ago
Sure! Lifestyle businesses are great, and so is the whole digital nomad thing (I spent all of 2016 and a good chunk of 2015 traveling around the world). There are a ton of upsides but I wouldn't go back to it full time. For one, it&#x2
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by weeksie 9y ago
Loved Three-Body Problem!
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by weeksie 9y ago
For pretty _amazing_ sci fi that I just stumbled on, NK Jemisin is amazing. Her Broken Earth series is not only tremendously gripping, original, and epic in scope, but it also does a fantastic job of portraying a world with predominantly no
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by weeksie 9y ago
Ooh, that reminds me of Profont (which I used until displays got high enough rez that a pixel font at 9px was just unreadable).
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by weeksie 9y ago
Thailand is _very recently_ a much more wealthy country than it was even twenty years ago. The per capita car ownership has certainly gone up drastically in the last twenty years, particularly on the islands and more rural areas where the p
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by weeksie 9y ago
HAhahaha, and if you believe Indian government statistics I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn . . .
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by weeksie 9y ago
Better safety for the driver of the car, not the poor bastard on a scooter that gets mowed down ;)
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by weeksie 9y ago
Ahhh safety, driving, and the developing world. Ugh. I haven't tested the hypothesis but I think the switch from mopeds to cars has resulted in a huge number of traffic fatalities. This was super evident in Thailand as it's quite
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by weeksie 9y ago
Oh shit! I've read the Dirk Gently books, I totally missed that though!
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by weeksie 9y ago
Nice! Thanks for the pointer.
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by weeksie 9y ago
Fun stuff. I write novels on the side and for a series of pulp supernatural detective books I'm writing I picked up the Lesser Key of Solomon which is a compendium of demons, their ranks in hell, and their specialties. Christian mythol
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by weeksie 9y ago
Sure! But if you're going to make animal cruelty laws, at least make it illegal to be cruel to animals. I'd rather be butchered and eaten than spend my entire life in the hot sun, tied to a post through my nose, eating garbage.
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by weeksie 9y ago
I find it laughable that rules against animal slaughter in India are being made based on cruelty. This is in a country where cows (though supposedly holy) are treated horribly. Cows in every part of that country can be found: * Grazing on g
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by weeksie 9y ago
Unless you invented the Haber-Bosch process it's unlikely you've contributed anything appreciable. All of us are scions of thousands of years of human progress without which it wouldn't matter how smart or motivated you were
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by weeksie 9y ago
Maybe I'm crazy but I feel like the US goes on this uppers/downers cycle. Of course I'm probably seeing patterns where there are none, but we had heroin in the seventies, cocaine/crack in the eighties, heroin was back in
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by weeksie 9y ago
Related: if you like meta-narratives, I would highly recommend House of Leaves.
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by weeksie 9y ago
Oh this perennial idea. That our editors could produce plain text, but represent everything as a rich data structure. This sails happily along until someone realizes that they _already do that_. Code is structured. It compiles to an AST whi
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by weeksie 9y ago
Spoken like someone who hasn't spent a lot of time in India ;)
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by weeksie 9y ago
To be fair, anecdotally at least, a ton of seniors/intermediates just migrate elsewhere. The pay for dev work in the US is _WAY_ higher than in Oz, especially at that level. Though, I've been away for almost ten years so maybe tha

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