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by jtxx 2y ago
2022 was a sad year
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by jtxx 2y ago
The scale at which we've traveled has also advanced with our technology, and the technology has also advanced with it - and it's increase with a pace that matches the overall progress of technology. Columbus took 5 weeks to travel
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by jtxx 3y ago
re: who profits from this, got me thinking - even though $1m is a drop in the bucket of the market cap, could burning that amount of funds have any meaningful effect on the price? since the time of this transaction, prices have gone up 1.5%
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by jtxx 3y ago
+1, it's gotten pretty easy to do bitcoin tracing these days IIRC. there's definitely cash out methods but for this large of a sum, seems like it'd be difficult?
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by jtxx 3y ago
hah humans are interesting! I'm the opposite. I love starting a codebase, I also make music and it's way easier for me to make 100 cool unique sketches live and improvised but not finish anything. it really takes all kinds
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by jtxx 3y ago
yes it does. the phrase OP used was likely a reference to this Apple issue, not that PM is literally doing this
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by jtxx 6y ago
oh that’s fantastic! keeping this in my back pocket
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by jtxx 6y ago
IDK, many people spend their whole lives glued to the TV or movies. it feels like it has only gotten worse. it also feels like people don't have hobbies these days. I think to convince people of what you're saying, we need to get
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by jtxx 6y ago
worked in restaurants for years before moving to software engineering. despite being 'good' at coding, it screws me up a bit that I was a lot happier in many ways while working at a restaurant. i felt I had a lot more brain bandwi
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by jtxx 6y ago
yeah that was amazing. it felt like a lot of people on there were also fans of Erowid, which I now realize probably had a lot of the same people submitting experiences
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by jtxx 6y ago
damn that’s ballin, I didn’t even know people did that with code
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by jtxx 6y ago
> you're likely in the wrong project or too involved in phases of a project where your contribution can't move the needle significantly anymore to expand on this, I've found most of my happiness as a generalist in early st
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by jtxx 6y ago
It’s a memory hog on all OSes, but even worse on mac. and on my 2017MBP, cpu usage goes up quite a bit too. Firefox is also pretty bad on my mbp though.
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by jtxx 6y ago
self-righteous and a bit immature is how it came off to me. I definitely agree that tone is distracting from the article. made me stop reading faster
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by jtxx 6y ago
I started with going from coffee to black tea, which is supposedly about half the caffeine... now I just skip tea sometimes. maybe i’ll stop it completely
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by jtxx 6y ago
I guess it’s just me then. I wouldn’t write “we” in a comment online without explaining who “we” is, it seems like an unnecessary detail to explain
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by jtxx 6y ago
Ah - I took the question as saying “I did nothing to indicate the sort and could in fact be purchasing for a business”, so I was trying to explain that side!
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by jtxx 6y ago
No, it just means the person has the ability to purchase. They could be purchasing it for themselves or on the behalf of another organization.
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by jtxx 6y ago
I’ve been thinking about this as well, they also kept their borders open to US citizens despite most countries closing them. Perhaps Brexit closing trade doors with the EU could be resulting in a stronger relationship between the US & U
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by jtxx 6y ago
I remember this saying originating as a riff on The Art of War, but I have no evidence of that
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by jtxx 6y ago
I was thinking of sciter (5mb) and another similar crate that I can't remember the name for
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by jtxx 6y ago
Yeah good point, I forgot about wxWidgets - wanted to use it but the rust bindings didn't look maintained.
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by jtxx 6y ago
The main cross platform open source offerings are GTK and QT. There are lightweight electron alternatives - HTML/CSS engines with a scripting DSL. Sciter is a paid option but I know there are free options depending on your language of
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by jtxx 6y ago
Wild, this is the path I went down and it was just 3 months ago! I didn’t expect Fedora to become my daily driver so quickly.
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by jtxx 6y ago
I’m not sure about 5nm but I know they were targeting 7nm and something broke that set them back till 2022/23. Not looking good for intel https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-announces-delay-to-7...
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by jtxx 6y ago
this is awesome. really excited to see more community owned ISPs picking up. if you’re interested in community owned meshes, there’s one in NYC [0] and after searching I see Miluwalkee [1] and LA [2] have projects in progress. I’m sure ther
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by jtxx 6y ago
grappling with this myself these days. I would happily choose music over food years back. but once i started making code money, i got so comfortable. built up a whole world and « lifestyle » that now I (feel like I) have to maintain. and it
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by jtxx 6y ago
yeah, the democratization of knowledge was 100% worth it. the only thing we can do from here is try to make it better
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by jtxx 6y ago
wow, I'm so hyped for the improved tracking capabilities
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by jtxx 6y ago
Linux phones!!! There’s still a lot of dev work to be done but this is exactly why I’m on board with the pinephone. not a daily driver yet, but if you’re a programmer looking for something to contribute to, go check it out

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