SamBorick

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by SamBorick 14d ago
Yes, that is true. From the NPR article: "The real solution is to switch to systems of reuse and refill," Ramsden said. "We are at a decision point on plastic pollution. It is time for corporations to turn off the plastic ta
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by SamBorick 14d ago
That's great! Genuinely, I think you should keep doing that. My point was not actually about plastic vs reusable. My point was, why is embodied energy always used in contrarian climate arguments. Why not talk about ergonomics, or th
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by SamBorick 14d ago
ALSO, what is the obsession with embodied energy? Like lets think about plastic bags from an object use standpoint. Given you have a collection of stuff to carry would you prefer: A) A reasonably sturdy bag that can be styled to your prefe
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by SamBorick 14d ago
"Instead of paying more to recycle, we could spend that money far more effectively on other environmental mitigation measures like carbon capture." Yeah, let's stop doing the fairly well established recycling programs that ha
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by SamBorick 8mo ago
I forwarded this to my dad who still works on RPG. This product is called "Software Sentinel": > It required an input key that was unique to our dongle series & our own code that was whatever we wanted. The reply was a ha
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by SamBorick 10mo ago
pigeons are domesticated rock doves. rock doves nest in small caves, so the only nest building they need to do is a few sticks to prevent eggs from rolling out of the caves.
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by SamBorick 11mo ago
recipients are non-astronaut employees. based on this site: http://spaceflownartifacts.com/flown_silver_snoopy_awards.ht... seems like in the apollo era crew carried a few in their PPK (personal preference kit), and in the
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by SamBorick 2y ago
ReadEra Pro is an ereader app with a decent text-to-speech, I often flip between reading and listening.
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by SamBorick 2y ago
> I've never made music the old fashioned way so I'm guessing the same could be true for that as well Yes, it is. You should try it.
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by SamBorick 2y ago
Awesome, thanks so much!
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by SamBorick 2y ago
I've been trying to put together a study group all week! Is it possible to add a new course to the library? I'd like to make a group for CSS for JavaScript Developers by Josh W Comeau [1] but it seems like I can only make a group
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by SamBorick 2y ago
I like to take this a step further and try to have all my most important tooling be written in my projects major languages. It's not a must have, but having a build system for a go project that is also go under the hood means I'm
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by SamBorick 2y ago
It's amazing how many people in this thread are seriously suggesting that these a11y features are not important. Do HN readers not understand that someday they will grow old, and their eyesight will fail, and they will find themselves
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by SamBorick 3y ago
Assuming Jim Henson is the legal creator, it will enter the public domain in 2085.
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by SamBorick 3y ago
My view is that all of those messaging platforms blocking alternative clients are equally problematic. I've arrived at this position because I'm not able to use any of those platforms because they don't provide accessibility
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by SamBorick 3y ago
For once, I'm proud to be a customer of a company that is willing to stand up against monopolies.
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by SamBorick 3y ago
The biggest strength of the fediverse is that every instance operator can make their own decisions on this matter.
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Ask HN: Project that amends Git history based on a schedule
5 points by SamBorick 3y ago|3 comments
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by SamBorick 3y ago
I think people forget you can't live inside an index fund. It's hard to value a higher predicted YoY return when you have to spend a month out of every year moving because rent went up again.
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by SamBorick 3y ago
That's not accurate. Star movements are on the order of mili-arcseconds per year. So around 1 arcsecond per star in a random direction over the last thousand years. Constellations would be different, but close enough that we could r
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by SamBorick 3y ago
I think it's worth noting that the inventor of the earthship plans does not himself live in an earthship. I have seen a lot of anecdotal accounts of people living in earthships developing health issues because of off-gassing from the
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by SamBorick 3y ago
Do y'all really use ChatGPT for coding questions? Every time I have tried, the answer I get is entirely wrong, and I end up going back to either first party documentation, or Stack Exchange.
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by SamBorick 3y ago
> People needing to move non-trivial distances for periodic tasks shapes everything. Cars, and thus car parking, come about because of this need. This is not true. Every city in the US used to have a robust public transit system. No car
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by SamBorick 3y ago
I'm currently running KDE Neon on a MBP 2012, and I've installed linux on a few apple devices from that era. The nvidia drivers can be a struggle, and wifi drivers have to be configured manually. But the performance is awesome!
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by SamBorick 3y ago
The hardware is still working. I think it's reasonable that the software should continue to work until the hardware is physically incapable of booting. An entire industry deciding that hardware "should" only last 6 years is
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by SamBorick 4y ago
all of the things this product wants to solved would be better served by removing cars from our cities. Like everything can be in walking distance, when they're built within walking distance in the first place. The founder almost got
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by SamBorick 4y ago
commenting is valid, it would be cool to see that in a feed reader. But ActivityPub can do that, I believe Write.as has comments. but video ads? none for me thanks.
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by SamBorick 4y ago
I don't believe it, its true. I was on twitter for 7 years. Hundreds of followers, thousands of tweets. Maybe 6 actual replies in that time. I've been on mastodon for 5 years now. I have people I'd genuinely call friends.
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by SamBorick 4y ago
> you need a proof of concept that centralizes various blogs into an updating feed of subscribed blogs. its called rss
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by SamBorick 4y ago
which would you rather have, thousands of people who maybe see your tweets, or a few people who actually engage with what you care about? numbers vs community.

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