ashark

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by ashark 9y ago
I'm not following how the linked story relates to Lorde. Probably there's some news I've missed. Could you fill me (us) in?
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by ashark 9y ago
Also the schools. Houses in the our city in safe-by-city-standards neighborhoods are not only way more expensive (and, nonetheless, smaller) than the 'burbs, they're usually served by some of the worst schools in the area. So then
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by ashark 9y ago
Those joke bumper stickers with the couple and the pile of money next to them instead of kids aren't wrong.
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by ashark 9y ago
Between promoting sponsors (ads), promoting their own programs (ads), and trying to get me to give them my car (ads), it seems like my local NPR station's ~25-30% ads even when it's not pledge drive week.
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by ashark 9y ago
I'd say that it felt like the movie wanted Rey to join Kylo. It was what it was building to. It would have fit with the taking-an-old-thing-and-twisting-it vibe of the rest of the film. The momentum of the film seemed in that moment
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by ashark 9y ago
> Up until this point, I usually would make most things from scratch and pull in libraries sparce. No big deal because my previous programs didnt need to. (Self taught programmer for 11 years.) You can still do this with React. Some of t
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by ashark 9y ago
Yeah, Henry James is the novelist. William's brother. I'd call his output... mixed, but much of it's really good. Big fan of Washington Square, myself. Probably better to approach shorter novella-ish works like that, and his
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by ashark 9y ago
"I want to retain my own identity. Therefore the thing I’m most anxious to avoid is any kind of work that can be considered ‘interesting’ in its own right. I want something that can’t possibly touch me. I want some big, swollen corpora
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by ashark 9y ago
It doesn't take a ton of time to be way better-informed than most people on current events. Background reading of big ol' books is a lot more valuable than keeping up with the headlines every day. You can catch up on the need-to-k
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by ashark 9y ago
> Congress seems to be more dysfunctional now than it was in the 80's and 90's. Electoral punishment for gaming the system to extreme levels, and even for misconduct that has no benefit for a party or candidates image or effi
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by ashark 9y ago
Pre-monetized YT was even noticeably better. The my-first-VFX videos aren't even the problem, it's the mountain of outright clickbait burying everything else, and rampant padding of what ought to be 20-30s videos to several minute
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by ashark 9y ago
Considering we're in an unprecedented content boom, this would harm me not at all and might even help. The free content might go back to being good stuff from enthusiasts rather than SEO-gaming junk. Signal-to-noise might improve. In
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by ashark 9y ago
Peer-to-peer solutions, including IPFS for file storage/serving and various solutions proposed here for decentralized messaging, are no good for battery-powered devices, like cell phones. I don't want mine to burn battery maintain
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by ashark 9y ago
A friend of mine works at a state facility where, as he describes it, it's impossible to be a manager without constantly breaking rules, because many contradict one another or violate the laws of reality. Result is that management is
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by ashark 9y ago
Yeah, but the sidewalk’s like 1/10 the work of the driveway, if that. Heavier the snow the bigger the difference, too, since you have to move the snow so far from the middle to reach the side of the driveway.
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by ashark 9y ago
Or butt garages up to the street so there's no driveway to speak of. Oh no, now I also don't have a front lawn to mow. How will I ever get over such a loss.
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by ashark 9y ago
I'm strongly on the side of less tech in (most) classrooms, especially for younger kids, but iPads are pretty awesome if what you're creating involves video, recording audio anywhere other than at a desk, remote-controlling anythi
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by ashark 9y ago
> If I spend all day watching Netflix I feel like I’ve done nothing but vegetate, but if I play video games I’ve made progress. If I’m constantly scrolling through Facebook I’m keeping up with my friends. If I zigzag half a dozen news si
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by ashark 9y ago
I remember one of my professors who'd been behind the iron curtain back when there was an iron curtain saying the one thing the commies definitely got right was banning most advertising. Said when they crossed back to West Germany it w
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by ashark 9y ago
Congrats if you find a spouse who's onboard with eating, and feeding your kids, rice and beans for a significant percentage of your dinners and lunches, unless you're so poor the alternative is starving. Staying healthy solo is ea
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by ashark 9y ago
> I got ~160 WPM without learning touch typing. ...what? What kind of error-rate? How long could you sustain that? How'd you manage that speed having to glance between source and keyboard? I'm pretty sure I was the fastest in m
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by ashark 9y ago
I almost exclusively use left modifiers. I blame first person shooters.
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by ashark 9y ago
There are rules to making oneself well- and easily-understood generally, and to appearing to be an educated writer to other educated people. If you care about neither of those things then sure, there are no rules.
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by ashark 9y ago
I learned the basics on Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, which must have assumed a monospaced font because it taught the double-space-after-period style. Took years before I learned that wasn't always how you're supposed to type, an
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by ashark 9y ago
The em-dash shortcut, system-wide remapping of CAPS LOCK to CTRL from the GUI in about 15 seconds flat, a top-level modifier key (command) that's respected enough by developers that it mostly retains its "I belong to the OS and, t
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by ashark 9y ago
Probably just an effect of longer shot lengths (some modern action films are under two seconds average shot length) and not being able to color-correct the hell out of every individual scene separately. Both made possible (or practical, a
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by ashark 9y ago
Hey, at least this era gave us the improbably-awesome Mad Max: Fury Road. In any sane universe that would've made every other action filmmaker go "oh, that's how you write and film engaging modern-feeling action that's
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by ashark 9y ago
Part of the problem is we've seen some of the nastiest predictions of past sci-fi come true... but in the most boring ways. 2001 has an optimistic space-ageyness to it that'd be hard to replicate now without it coming off as force
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by ashark 9y ago
That one's all feel . It's gritty and realistic, but unsettling and dreamlike at the same time. Take out the pointless cinematography and that goes away :-)
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by ashark 9y ago
> If you think that's bad, I've even heard people say that the original Star Wars movie is too slow and boring for them to sit through. This is how we get the JJ "uh oh, two characters talked for more than 30 seconds, bett

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