adamhi

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by adamhi 4y ago
> Kenneth Murphy, who directs FEMA’s Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, “Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.” I remember when this article came
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by adamhi 4y ago
Some of the very first scripting I did was for a MUD, back in the day! I really like that feeling of painting a very subjective map of a place in my head, just based on text. Part of the joke of this project, for me, was treating an entire
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by adamhi 4y ago
I won't pretend that this isn't a troubling development for digital artists, maybe even existentially so. I hope not. One thing that makes me a little hopeful is that every image I've generated with DALL-E 2, even the best on
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by adamhi 4y ago
Over COVID I wrote a novel-length... thing. I hesitate to call it a text adventure, or a game, even though that's what it looks like on the surface. I'm not sure what to call it. The joke at the beginning was that it's a &quo
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by adamhi 4y ago
Not Leetcode, but I did do Codewars for quite a while just for fun. This was after I'd switched tracks away from development to design, and, for the first time in about 12 years, was not burned out on programming, and wanted to just do
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by adamhi 4y ago
I'm not sure how much of Patreon is tied to Youtube. Anecdotally, of the ~15 creators I support on that platform, 3 of them are Youtube channels. The rest are podcasts, web comics, and blogs. Non-YT streamers and game developers are al
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by adamhi 4y ago
I know two different engineers who quit their engineering jobs to be professional woodworkers (or finish carpenters, is that close enough?). The first one started taking classes in traditional woodworking, then those classes turned into 2-w
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by adamhi 4y ago
Keep in mind that they're really measuring pageviews to Stackoverflow, not actual data about movement. My intuition is that it's probably right, but this is suggestive at best.
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by adamhi 4y ago
As far as I understand, there is no criminal penalty associated with patent infringement. With copyright violations you can in theory get prison time (as the warning on a DVD informs us), but it's very rare — on the order of a couple h
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by adamhi 4y ago
This is good advice. You should almost always be talking more slowly and taking more breaks than you want to, if you're nervous. Pause between sentences, and even just try to pronounce words more slowly. You'll seem less nervous,
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by adamhi 4y ago
I bought a smartphone pretty late, only 5-6 years ago. Mainly I wanted an easier way to subscribe to podcasts (I'd been using an MP3 player for this for 10 years, and just using a feature phone for calls). I never actually got hooked o