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by a3c9 3mo ago
> I can often “run out” of content to consume As a reformed YouTube addict myself, that feeling of "running out" really is great. Tragically, that was its own exciting rush which has since faded. :)
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by a3c9 4mo ago
That's exactly what happened with Nortel in the dotcom crash. Everyone's pension and retirement tied up in a company that couldn't turn a profit and was, at its peak, 38% of the TSE300. I don't think dominating an index
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by a3c9 5mo ago
I was in a similar boat, but recently started getting through that barrier. The thing that clicked for me is pretty simple: I was filtering myself and chipping away at that filter made a huge difference. For example, I was in the elevator w
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by a3c9 9mo ago
By gut feeling I’d agree on Chrétien, and there is some polling on this (which I think backs that up). This article compares favourability after first election for PMs going back quite a ways and Carney looks similar but slightly worse off
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by a3c9 9mo ago
Working towards a handheld computer with a physical keyboard. Lots of examples out there (Hackberry Pi, Beepy, etc) but wanted to try my hand at it. Along the way I found most of these use salvaged BlackBerry keyboards which are only going
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by a3c9 10mo ago
I think it's likely - from what I can tell only Sharp makes these displays. I've been looking for displays like these (no backlight, fast refresh) for a project and all I could find was the Adafruit breakout of that one.
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by a3c9 2y ago
And while it's not free, there's also Comic Code: https://tosche.net/fonts/comic-code
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by a3c9 3y ago
I took it around 5-6 years ago when I was moving to Vancouver from the east coast. It was a great way to see the country and meet some other travellers - such a strange travel option attracts some interesting folks! The highlight though is
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by a3c9 3y ago
The way I think about it is that as programmers we build the process for the kitchen. The software is designed around commodifying the repetitive work for non-programmer domain experts. In my experience this was building a process for data