wrycoder

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   by wrycoder 4y ago

   Thanks. Yeah, big penalty of you don’t switch to Medicare.
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   by wrycoder 4y ago

   His 21 Lessons for the 21st Century is worse.
3. 453.▲
   by wrycoder 4y ago

   Seems like a great filter to me.
4. 454.▲
   by wrycoder 4y ago

   I heard of a politician who was somehow an expert on cattle futures.
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   by wrycoder 4y ago

   I met my wife in a completely random way, no bars etc. involved. We've been happily married for over fifty years. We ran across each other and just started talking.
6. 456.▲
   by wrycoder 4y ago

   You don't stay on private insurance after 65 in the US. You go on Medicare. 85K per year is unbelievable and the OP isn't responding.
7. 457.▲
   by wrycoder 4y ago

   And what happens when a meter breaks or gets run over? Chicago fixes it?
8. 458.▲
   by wrycoder 4y ago

   Busy communicating.
9. 459.▲
   by wrycoder 4y ago

   Grow bamboo there.
10. 460.▲
    by wrycoder 4y ago

    Yeah, it’s like growing your own food or fixing your own car. Most people can’t, and don’t care. Remember Heinlein: A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a s
11. 461.▲
    by wrycoder 4y ago

    You are talking about one month's cellular or cable bill. It will take effort to set up and run one of these - it's always easier to get corporations to do everything for you, but is that what you want out of life? Anyone could se
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    Eben Moglen and the FreedomBox Foundation have been pursuing this since 2010.[0][1] Moglen recognized very early the loss of freedom and agency involved in the stampede to the cloud. FreedomBox is entirely free and open source software.[3]
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    I like Alpine with i3 for its simplicity. I'm thinking that if I show them the Alpine installer script, they can get a feel for (and even participate in) the system construction without going all the way down to Linux from Scratch.
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    It's a lot of fun. I'm back to my old interest - small systems programming on the bare metal. I did Nand2Tetris several years ago, and now I'm following the work of people like Tunney and DeVault as they bootstrap de novo.
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    Yeah, I'm 80 and feel about 40. I'm a little slower, that's all. Sometimes, I'll be walking past a shop window and say, "Who's that old dude?"
16. 466.▲
    by wrycoder 4y ago

    LOL where are the old people?
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    Graham: What you can't say http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    Government seems to be inventing a lot of rights lately that even contradict basic facts, and a lot of people heartily approve. Might makes right. Liberty, free speech, facts, etc. are apparently just nice theories from a more enlightened t
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    There are people, who, if you kick them into the ditch, will lay there thinking, "I must have done something to deserve this."
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    And then there's the multiple Substack subscriptions.
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    Here's a 2015 paper on successful gain of function work done at the University of North Carolina under the leadership of Ralph Baric. The work involved characterizing a synthetically constructed chimeric virus comprising a SARS-CoV ba
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    "At this point, what difference does it make?" -- famous politician, responding to a question on a different issue
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    The last line of which is You may find you have you actually created a MVP of something that would be appreciated by many users even though I Am The Only User?! So there's hope. I'm reminded of my favorite Zappa quote: The crux
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    Quote: I have been on first dates with 107 people in the past five years, without securing a long-term love relationship with anyone That's a "first date" every two weeks or so.
25. 475.▲
    by wrycoder 4y ago

    Edit: I said “attempt”. Linux doesn’t have those extreme stupidities you mentioned, and probably never will.
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    This has been re-hashed many times. What you should look at is the difference between Debian and Devuan. Or between Debian and OpenBSD, to understand what the systemd project is doing, and how it’s doing it. There are many of us that prefer
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    I use AdBlock+, never had a reason to switch.
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    I'm reasonably happy with AdBlock+
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    Even better, install Devuan, which is Debian without systemd (the attempt to turn Linux into Windows). Many former Debian developers are now working on Devuan.