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by cubix 5mo ago
I took a course exactly like that. I wonder if we went to the same school, or it’s due to curriculum standardization. The professor was particularly enthusiastic about Ada, so I had assumed the course was largely his creation.
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by cubix 5mo ago
Although, they also said, "Because the patches appear to be written by humans".
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by cubix 9mo ago
I prefer to read on screen if it can set to “night mode” (white-on-black), large font, and full screen. For one, I find it’s more ergonomic to look at a well-positioned monitor than bending my neck to read a book.
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by cubix 11mo ago
I asked ChatGPT for a succinct definition, and I thought it was pretty good: “Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing platform that provides on-demand access to computing power, storage, databases, and other IT resources over the int
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by cubix 11mo ago
Non-techies don’t. Here’s how CNN answered, what is AWS? “Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Amazon’s internet based cloud service connecting businesses to people using their apps or online platforms.” Uh.. yeah.
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by cubix 1y ago
They’re not buried around here for the most part. I think the population density is just too low to justify the cost.
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by cubix 1y ago
And if you live a rural, mostly wooded area like I do, fallen trees are constantly taking out the fiber services for days at a time.
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by cubix 1y ago
> sometimes it rains ash When the sky turned orange in 2020, my wife and I were just done. Also, there's something to be said for living in a place with four seasons, and a sense of time passing by.
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by cubix 1y ago
That was my thought. More keystrokes with less certain results.
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by cubix 2y ago
I was carrying a pager as late as 2009 because a customer's data center was two stories underground in one of the older tower blocks in downtown Toronto.
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by cubix 3y ago
Having had to recently deal with a prosecuting attorney in a small rural county, even hallucinating AI would be a significant improvement.
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by cubix 3y ago
I suspect it’s more about cost savings than environmental concerns, but the grocery store we frequent doesn’t provide bags at all. However, you can take boxes from the pile they have set aside that usually contained produce originally. So,
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by cubix 3y ago
I've found that quail is often available frozen in many Asian grocery stores.
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by cubix 3y ago
They seem to be popular with retirees who don't need to do much more than use Facebook, email, and watch YouTube videos.
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by cubix 4y ago
I rigged up something similar in my first corporate job in 2000, plugging an ORiNOCO into the PCMCIA slot of my corporate laptop and a spare at my desk. My boss, an old mainframe guy, was blown away that I could check email during the tea
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by cubix 4y ago
"The leftist of the over-socialized type tries to get off his psychological leash and assert his autonomy by rebelling. But usually he is not strong enough to rebel against the most basic values of society. Generally speaking, the goal
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by cubix 4y ago
You might also enjoy The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler.
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Grandpa’s Basement House(granolashotgun.com)
378 points by cubix 4y ago|258 comments
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by cubix 5y ago
I guess now I know the story behind this flyer I saw in a Bay Area shop window a little over a year ago: https://files.catbox.moe/48giot.jpeg
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by cubix 5y ago
We have a gas well on our property, so we come pretty close to getting a free lunch.
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by cubix 5y ago
> will put out the gas too Gas is obviously far more resilient, though not immune to more extreme problems. I’ve literally never experienced a gas outage, yet power outages are routine almost everywhere I’ve lived.
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by cubix 6y ago
Unfortunately, there has been quite a few deaths in my family in the last decade, and most were on some form of pain management. They weren't always lucid, but none were as perpetually loopy as my aunt was in the last few months of her
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by cubix 6y ago
My aunt passed away a few years ago now. Her husband will never read this. The rest of the family agrees with me as far as I know. I don't see who I'm disrespecting by publicly and semi-anonymously questioning those decisions in r
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by cubix 6y ago
By respect I meant that I didn’t attempt argue with her husband about it, or say anything to her, which would have been pointless anyway.
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by cubix 6y ago
As I said, I respected her decision. But I question whether it was the right one because it left her unable to communicate despite an obvious desire to do so. I’ve had conversations with people on high doses of opiates, and while they were
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by cubix 6y ago
How so? I was respectful of her decision -- although I suspect it was more her husband's decision -- but I wouldn't have made the same myself. It seemed like there was a lot she had to say, but couldn't in that state due to t
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by cubix 6y ago
My aunt died of cancer a couple of years ago. She took an unorthodox treatment of extremely high doses of marijuana, which her husband encouraged. It was frustrating for the rest of the family since it was impossible to have a coherent and
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by cubix 6y ago
Their "I checked my notebook" commercials in the 90's are memorable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSycqXoxIzI No company would even joke about behaving like that on an airplane today.
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by cubix 7y ago
I hadn’t thought about it consciously before, but when I hear “Macintosh” a beige box from the 80’s or 90’s comes to mind, and with “Mac” I’m thinking post-millennial aluminum and glass. So, it’s sort of a temporal indicator for the product
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by cubix 7y ago
I might have some time to dust it off tonight.

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