kmtrowbr

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by kmtrowbr 3y ago
This is a Rails tool I use: https://github.com/IFTTT/polo — it works well.
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by kmtrowbr 3y ago
I see -- my apologies I must not have read it closely enough! :blush:
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by kmtrowbr 3y ago
I thought this was a funny statement too. Text is the most powerful, original medium. It's difficult to overstate how powerful and valuable it is. Of course, text won't necessarily be the only UI exposed for interacting with these
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by kmtrowbr 3y ago
This is from one of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books. They're with Slartibartfast driving onto the factory floor for creating planets. Slartibartfast, as you recall, is a famous "world designer" who won an awar
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by kmtrowbr 4y ago
On the seal: "melius simul quam solus" means: "better together than alone." On the scale of extravagant perks and celebrations of success it is a fairly minor and inexpensive one.
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by kmtrowbr 4y ago
Lots of comments about small improvements to typing efficiency. It is an important topic. One thing I do, is turn the key repeat speed up as fast as I can stand, and turn the delay to repeat down as low as possible. I have always done this
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by kmtrowbr 4y ago
https://www.etymonline.com/word/machine machine (n.) 1540s, "structure of any kind," from Middle French machine "device, contrivance," contrive: to form or create in an artistic or ingenious manner
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by kmtrowbr 4y ago
Yes -- my wife and I are both from the northern midwest. We live in San Francisco now. We are actually colder here in the winters, then we ever were in the midwest, because houses in San Francisco are not insulated, and don't have good
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by kmtrowbr 4y ago
You have a good point. It doesn't necessarily need to be consciously programmed into people. Maybe it's just the hive mind forming memes. All those minds reading, thinking, looking, creating ... causes strange ideas (myths?) to pe
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by kmtrowbr 4y ago
It seems crazy to say but I think it may all boil down to a massive influx of inexperienced readers. That plus the fact that most content on on the internet is not to be taken quite at face value. Counterintuitively I believe there are more
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by kmtrowbr 4y ago
It's even worse: the views that folks are getting all worked up about, aren't their own personally formed opinions -- they are being programmed with these opinions via media, advertising, etc. Then we hold these opinions so strong
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by kmtrowbr 4y ago
Thank you. I appreciate your comments. It does make sense that most of the heat from a gas stove does not go into the cooking vessel. In fact I often use the electric kettle to speed cooking by pre-boiling water, then adding it to the cooki
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by kmtrowbr 4y ago
The internet has successfully changed my mind! A very rare event. No need to appeal to bad faith. I simply received an engineering education which taught me that a great deal of energy is lost along the way to delivering electricity to hous
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by kmtrowbr 4y ago
I don't see how it makes sense: the electricity has to be generated, which is almost always via burning something to heat a boiler. Then the electricity is sent to houses via the grid, which involves further losses. So you burn somethi
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by kmtrowbr 4y ago
A useful, related website: https://explainshell.com/
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by kmtrowbr 4y ago
I am not a violent person. I always seek to de-escalate at every turn & I'm very good at it. Most incidents turn on the smallest details. A 4' metal pole with a sharp point on the end is a very meaningful thing to have in your
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by kmtrowbr 4y ago
You're right! That's benefit #4. I suppose it's different for each person, depending upon their age their health. For me, sometimes it's easier to just kinda, jog or sorta, "controlled fall" down the hill, in t
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by kmtrowbr 4y ago
It is very similar to the role of walking sticks (trekking poles) in long distance walking -- the poles serve a few functions, in reverse order of importance: 3) Potent threat / weapon agains dogs or strangers (this has only been usefu
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by kmtrowbr 5y ago
There are morning w/coffee books and, nighttime books. For me, history works well for night time. The 18th or 19th century. Ancient works. YA novels. Something which will take you out of your day and into another place mentally. Exampl
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by kmtrowbr 5y ago
The reason that comprehension is decreased, is that when using a smartphone, you are mentally in the "world" of the smart phone, no doubt different for each person, but for me involving a bunch of unconscious behaviors such as: sw
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by kmtrowbr 5y ago
The point of the external hard drives is really just to have a backup. I don't have a 1TB collection of files that I need to access from multiple places. So I would never try to access my big backup from my phone. I don't do that
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by kmtrowbr 5y ago
Dropbox works well for small files that you need to share with others. However, if you use it to back up large amounts of data ... say >100GB, the experience of using it is very poor. It consumes large amounts of CPU continually. It take
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by kmtrowbr 5y ago
The human mind is designed to solve problems, and so this is its mode. It perceives death as a problem & in doing so, sets itself an unsolvable problem. Also, consider that human language can describe things and situations which are non
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by kmtrowbr 5y ago
Yes! I love this one. It's my favorite too.
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by kmtrowbr 5y ago
This is not true -- he does give good advice, it's just that it can be summarized in a single page. In fact the last page of the book has his 12 tips. They are widely shared across the internet -- here is one such place: https:/&
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by kmtrowbr 5y ago
I always use Occam's Razor: the simplest explanation is the likeliest. It's one of the foundations of how I think. I often see people spinning off with increasingly improbable theories as to why something happened, and I try to ex
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by kmtrowbr 5y ago
Well, thank you -- I shall endeavor to better contain my enthusiasm in the future, and also to correctly attribute the invention of windsurfing to Polynesian tribes.
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by kmtrowbr 5y ago
Yes -- Newton WAS employed to combat currency counterfeiting: https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2380.htm
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by kmtrowbr 5y ago
I adore Benjamin Franklin and I've read many many books about him. This is my favorite biography of Franklin: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300095325/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b... It is also very worth reading
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by kmtrowbr 5y ago
I drive, walk, and bike often in San Francisco. I rode a 650cc motorcycle for 10 years when I was in my 20s. In the Panhandle, for example, there is a mixed use bike / walking path. It is very dangerous for the walkers even with normal

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