artpepper2

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by artpepper2 8y ago
Anecdotally based on my kid (n=1), stopping screen time about an hour before bedtime helps. However, she still seems wired to fall sleep at a certain time, and we finally decided that fighting biology is a losing battle. The strategy of mov
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by artpepper2 8y ago
Dynamite recently had a Nancy Drew miniseries comic
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by artpepper2 8y ago
I mean, my impression from reading 19th century novels is that people used to just slip into a convenient glen or wooded area, it wasn't that hard before the industrial era.
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by artpepper2 8y ago
Counter-point: When you fly to another time zone, your body naturally adjusts to the new local time. If sleep cycles were totally malleable, you would just stay on your original sleep cycle until you decided to change it.
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by artpepper2 8y ago
As I get older, there are fewer people I actively dislike , but I also have less patience to spend on people I don't actively like .
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by artpepper2 8y ago
> Maybe we should replace them by people who are able to problem solve in the face of adversity. One of our political parties has been paid to ensure that doesn't happen.
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by artpepper2 8y ago
guck yes!
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by artpepper2 8y ago
Or use versioning and a package manager. You should be able to introduce vNext and then have each service update at its own pace, with a deprecation strategy so that service owners are responsible to get off the old version by such-and-such
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by artpepper2 8y ago
I used this pattern a lot writing Win32 / COM code.
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by artpepper2 8y ago
Blurg, now every tooling pipeline that uses JSON needs to include a JSMin step...
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by artpepper2 8y ago
Exactly - spiritual awakening might do just the opposite of making someone a contented worker.
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by artpepper2 8y ago
I hate this trend where things that exist to help us grow as humans (meditation, arts and humanities, exercise) are repurposed by corporate HR to make us into better (i.e., more efficient) workers.
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by artpepper2 8y ago
I think "vignettes" is a good way to look at them. They aren't really plot-driven, rather each one builds to a psychological or spiritual moment, what Joyce called "epiphanies"
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by artpepper2 8y ago
I think it's meant to be a pun on "great white whale" - there's an idea of the "Great American Novel" which is the mythical book standing at the apex of American literature. Moby-Dick is both a template for the
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by artpepper2 8y ago
On the other hand ... as a kid I roamed around, but I always had a quarter for the payphone just in case of emergency. Cell phone is the modern equivalent.
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by artpepper2 8y ago
That's a great point. The community votes on whether an answer is helpful, so why not vote on whether a related question is actually related?
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by artpepper2 8y ago
+1 Another nice thing about that series, for an early reader, is you can read one character and your child takes the other.
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by artpepper2 8y ago
I read a ton of graphic novels with my 6-year-old - DC Super Hero Girls - Cleopatra in Space - Adventure Time - Zite the Spacegirl
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by artpepper2 8y ago
But "what is happiness" and "what is the good life" are themselves philosophical questions.
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by artpepper2 9y ago
Many years ago I got to see a Warhol retrospective at MoMA, and seeing the early works in person was a revelation. My own tastes leaned more toward the "traditional" abstract expressionists and I thought Warhol was too "surfa
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by artpepper2 9y ago
It's hard enough to get bike lines built, let alone a separate road system.
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by artpepper2 9y ago
Private prisons monetize prisoners, so releasing someone is demonetization. (I joke ... sort of.)
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by artpepper2 9y ago
Somebody disagrees with 'x' does not make 'x' partisan.