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by zwieback 3y ago
I was wondering about that too. To answer that question we'd need normalized numbers, e.g. sci-fi as a percentage of total sales. It does seem likely that people who read sci-fi 20 or 50 years ago are now gaming, tinkering or cosplayin
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by zwieback 3y ago
Author says that sci-fi readers are voracious readers and have moved to fantasy, romantasy and non-fiction.
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by zwieback 3y ago
"Sci-fi readers have moved to adjacent genres and non-fiction because the current tech landscape is so depressing" makes a lot of sense to me.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Just finished rereading Geek Love for my bookclub and I was thinking that it might be a lot more controversial if published today. To my surprised it showed up in this list The Atlantic published today. Fully agree!
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by zwieback 3y ago
Right, I use both. I degrease the stock but the lard is also fantastic. For chicken or turkey I would just throw the fat away but lard is great.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Yeah, we have a lot of both in Corvallis, neither are great city trees but look great in parks etc. My neighbor across the street has a Sequoia and the electric company is constantly chopping out massive sections to keep the power lines saf
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by zwieback 3y ago
Discovered by accident that really low end pork from the supermarket, which I throw in the slow cooker for various uses, yields a great nearly solid stock. I was going to just use the lard swimming on the top but when I tasted the stuff tha
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by zwieback 3y ago
Sometimes I ask myself "why don't we have Windows File Manager or Norton Commander anymore" but then when I find an old version and try it out it's always "ah, right, time has moved on and nostalgia is tricking my b
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by zwieback 3y ago
Takeaway: if you're already highly organized and disciplined a simple tool is all you need
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by zwieback 3y ago
Sounds like the team you were in back then was a bit dysfunctional but if you feel rage and shame over SW bugs in your codebase you need to address that first as it's a disproportional reaction to normal things happening in programming
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The Thorny Ethics of Making Alien Planets Habitable(nautil.us)
2 points by zwieback 3y ago|0 comments
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by zwieback 3y ago
Actually, I've always been pretty happy but now my kids are mostly launched in their lives and doing well. The 40s were pretty constrained still but now we're looking at doing more traveling and other fun stuff.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Yes, 50s are a great age!
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by zwieback 3y ago
We call Dutch Baby "Puff Daddy" because I used to make them for my kids and they puff up in the oven. When my kids come home they will still request it from time to time.
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The dating app paradox(npr.org)
251 points by zwieback 3y ago|542 comments
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by zwieback 3y ago
I grew up in Stuttgart (although I don't speak the dialect) and to me the poem read like someone from Frankfurt wrote it, so maybe a hair north of Baden Wuertemberg?
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by zwieback 3y ago
At work we just cost-optimized away the better teas like Tazo and Stash but one station, interestingly in the blue-collar facilities area, started stocking Twinings. I do go down there for Earl Grey but was reminded that that particular one
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by zwieback 3y ago
Agreed, or trees. Where I work we have to pick code names for the components we develop and the nerds around here always pick sci-fi or fantasy themes. I've been lobbying for using trees or flowers, to no avail.
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by zwieback 3y ago
That species is now renamed to snow-digging owl.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Me too. I seem to remember we even had a NMI pushbutton with tiny contact pads the width of a ISA bus contact. You could force the kernel debugger to pop up when otherwise all hope was lost.
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by zwieback 3y ago
After 30+ years as an engineer without reports I now spend more time motivating my managers to make them do what I want them to do vs. the other way around. I'll need to invert the advice in this post (if I can figure out what it'
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by zwieback 3y ago
26 years at Nikon! Did you work on NIS Elements? Have come across that a few times, we have a buttload of Nikon scopes.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Skip ads in 5,4,3,2,1,...
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by zwieback 3y ago
Sure, why not. People can have multiple skills and I'm sure there are bad eggs in the office and bad remote eggs that will chew up the majority of that manager's time and energy.
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by zwieback 3y ago
I read back in the blog history of this author and thought to myself, "yeah, what an opinionated dork!" Then I got to his post about the beauty of friction shifters and went, "yeah, he's right!". Scrolled some more
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by zwieback 3y ago
Nice summary, thanks!
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by zwieback 3y ago
Demo from NAMM, love the presenter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uWk5_ifkFk Mother Maybelle would have loved this thing.
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by zwieback 3y ago
No, mainframe had almost exclusively dumb clients, at most some local display trickery but cloud is way, way more distributed. I think the main point is valid though: distribution of SW is now much easier, the stacks of floppies of my youth
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by zwieback 3y ago
I heard the same anecdote about the upper classes adopting French after 1066 but the farmers still calling the thing by its animal name. Trust the Germans to just continue smashing nouns together, Schweinefleisch, Rindfleisch and my America
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by zwieback 3y ago
Same here, hp switched to Teams a while back and it's been working great until today. Also think we should have gotten an alert earlier. I switched to my phone app, that kept working for a bit but now it's total blackout.

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