jarnagin

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by jarnagin 7mo ago
I got it about ten years ago and it drove me absolutely insane for a few months until I just accepted that I would have it. Then a weird thing happened: my brain stopped paying attention to it. Now I mostly only hear it when I think to myse
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by jarnagin 3y ago
“If you get a lucky break, you have to really use it. You have to fight like a bastard. You can’t just sit there and wait to get lucky. It doesn’t happen.” - Joe Simpson, who, written off for dead, survived one of the most harrowing mountai
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by jarnagin 3y ago
The tech industry is littered with once-giant megacorps that had an opportunity to pivot as technology progressed, failed to do so for this exact reason, and were usurped by startups with a better vision. In Shell’s case, the writing is alr
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by jarnagin 4y ago
Evidence from California seems to suggest that ending the drug war locally has actually strengthened cartels: https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2022-09-08/ess...
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by jarnagin 4y ago
Unfortunately most of the ADUs around here are converted garages--maybe 300 square feet with a micro kitchen. They're essentially hotel rooms, not a place where someone would live. This is a much different thing than a multi-unit lot.
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by jarnagin 4y ago
One unfortunate side effect of this is that this behavior ultimately gets priced into the market. When a house with an ADU will reliably fetch 20% more than one without, then eventually all houses on the market will have ADUs, with the cons
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by jarnagin 5y ago
One of the remarkable things (in the context of this age) about reading history is that you see just how many people used to write letters in heated moments and then choose not to send them once they'd cooled down. The histories of pre
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by jarnagin 5y ago
Love this. One idea that I haven't seen implemented in other drawing tools: the default behavior after drawing a shape is to revert to the select tool. This is rational but it can also pull you out of flow if you're trying to diag
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by jarnagin 5y ago
Refusing to reduce things to dualisms and binaries is a pretty well understood path to tolerance.
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by jarnagin 5y ago
Fixed, thanks.
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by jarnagin 5y ago
Good point. How could I have forgotten? Added a bullet (11) at the end.
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by jarnagin 5y ago
Here’s a reasonable way to maintain your weight: 1. Limit added sugar to an absolute minimum. Fruit is fine. Go crazy. 2. Avoid processed foods like chips and other things that have lots of preservatives. 3. Limit breads and starches to no
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by jarnagin 5y ago
George Saunders gave an interview with the Guardian earlier this year[0] in which he said, “ There’s something wonderful about the spontaneity of social media, but I think at this point it’s becoming 100% toxic for people to be firing off t
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by jarnagin 6y ago
I actually needed a few weeks of body work and mild exercises to teach me how to correctly engage my scapula before I graduated into more rigorous exercise, and I still require work to keep my infraspinatus from feeling like a steel cable.
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by jarnagin 6y ago
A lot of people really underestimate the impact that mobility and strengthening can have addressing issues with RSI. If you're struggling with RSI, consider going to physical therapy as your condition may be caused by a wide variety of
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by jarnagin 6y ago
Zettlekasten: the Kubernetes of note-taking systems. I think it’s important to bear in mind the context this system grew out of (academic research) and ask yourself whether you really need such a heavyweight note-taking system. It’s also im
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by jarnagin 6y ago
It’s tempting to believe that climate change just means that some places will get hotter or colder, or that species will move north or south, upslope or downslope, but the reality is that we don’t really know. Much of the work coming out of
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by jarnagin 6y ago
While fire is a natural part of the lifecycle of these forests, it’s important to note that the specific forest management practices that have been implemented over the last century have drastically changed the character of the fire regime
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by jarnagin 6y ago
> "Oh, Parkinson, Parkinson!" I cried, patting him affectionately on the head with a mallet, "how far you really are from the pure love of the sport—you who can play. It is only we who play badly who love the Game itself.
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by jarnagin 6y ago
One thing that often goes unmentioned when I see discussions about these sorts of alternate layouts is that, particularly for programmers, the keyboard isn’t just a simple device for entering text, it’s the mechanism through which we intera
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L.A. Music Startup Stem Establishes Capital Fund for Artists(bloomberg.com)
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by jarnagin 7y ago
Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22372005
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by jarnagin 7y ago
Seems consistent with your comment, IMO, given that "the future" is by definition something which never arrives. It's much less exciting, however, to say "React Native Is What's Next at Shopify".
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by jarnagin 7y ago
It’s officially recommended on packaging.python.org [1]. If that’s not enough to count as an official endorsement, what is? [1] https://packaging.python.org/guides/tool-recommendations/
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by jarnagin 7y ago
It’s true. When you’re writing, nothing will tell you when your thoughts don’t compile. You just have to deploy and deal with exceptions bubbling up to your end users.
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by jarnagin 7y ago
What is good war?
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by jarnagin 8y ago
Moreover, Django already has facilities for compacting migration files together: squashing. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/topics/migrations/#mig...
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by jarnagin 8y ago
This story seems to have it backwards: well-rounded people train happier dogs. Classic “tail wags the dog” reporting here, IMHO.
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by jarnagin 8y ago
The moment I start worrying about procrastinating productively, I’ll start procrastinating procrastinating, and then there will be two levels to traverse back to productivity, rather than one.
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by jarnagin 8y ago
Ursula LeGuin has also published a nonliteral interpretation of the Tao Te Ching (derived from the work of several Chinese-to-English translations) that is absolutely wonderful. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C2WJQNM&#x2F

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