miesman

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by miesman 24d ago
“When the going gets weird,the weird turn pro.” Surprised I didn’t find this quote from Hunter S Thompson in the comments yet.
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by miesman 2mo ago
TLDR
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by miesman 11mo ago
https://archive.is/Fe1zN
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by miesman 11mo ago
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” — Carl Jung
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by miesman 1y ago
Was at an event he was at CSUN ~1978. We were in the parking lot coming in and he was just coming out. He stopped and talked to us for a while. Super nice guy. My impression is he is exactly the same as he is on the air all the time.
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by miesman 2y ago
V7 Unix Kernel. By far the cleanest most concise code I’ve had had the privilege to work with. Really laid the groundwork for what came after particularly BSD4.3 and beyond.
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by miesman 2y ago
Dirty Keto!
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by miesman 2y ago
Summary of the diet used in the study via ChatGPT4: IF-P Diet Instructions: Protein Pacing Days: • Women: 4 meals/day; Men: 5 meals/day. • Meals: 2 shakes (breakfast + one), 1 whole food dinner, 1 afternoon snack (men only), 1 eve
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by miesman 2y ago
“It’s time to feed the alien”
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by miesman 3y ago
No, not at all. His job was just to fix crashes. He would go through the logs and they just all happened mostly be porn sites. We used to joke that his job was to visit porn sites, but it was among a small group of developers. I wasn’t even
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by miesman 3y ago
Not that I’m aware of. It was a nice code base, but all very custom. Even the network stack was custom. I would think companies could get a lot more adopting all the open stuff available now. It did have a life for several years after I lef
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by miesman 3y ago
I worked at WebTV after it was acquired by Microsoft. My officemate was a dev that fixed browser crashes on the box. 90% of them were for porn sites. Which meant that he was paid by Microsoft to visit porn sites all day
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by miesman 3y ago
My favorite was Taco Bell putting a 10’ x 10’ box off the coast of Australia and running an ad saying if Skylab hits it, everyone in the US gets a free taco.
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by miesman 4y ago
Pick things you’re passionate about.
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by miesman 4y ago
Partial workaround for not having dislikes is to divide the number of views into the likes. 1% is ok, 2% is good, >=3% is a must see.
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Jonathan Lebed's Extracurricular Activities(nytimes.com)
1 points by miesman 5y ago|0 comments
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No time to exercise? A fitness routine everyone can squeeze in(abc.net.au)
3 points by miesman 5y ago|0 comments
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by miesman 5y ago
Another short thing she wrote about living that I really like: “ I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package,” she once wrote. “I’m just telling you to live in it. Not
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by miesman 5y ago
Who’s a good boy!
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Know Thyself(psychologytoday.com)
2 points by miesman 5y ago|0 comments
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A human-like neural network chess engine Capturing human style in chess(youtube.com)
3 points by miesman 6y ago|0 comments
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Scientists Destroyed a Nest of Murder Hornets. Here’s What They Learned(nytimes.com)
2 points by miesman 6y ago|0 comments
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Nasal Spray Prevents Covid Infection in Ferrets, Study Finds(nytimes.com)
14 points by miesman 6y ago|4 comments
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by miesman 6y ago
Article mentions scopdex (scopolamine) for treatment found these links which are interesting: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/scopolamine-devil-s-breath-nasa-us... https://youtu.be/ToQ8PWYnu04
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by miesman 6y ago
I made this change 20 years ago and it improved the quality of my life. I’d suggest for someone to try it and see for themselves. Start with skipping one day then a few days then try to go for a week. See how you feel for yourself and then
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by miesman 6y ago
https://openflexure.org/projects/microscope/
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by miesman 6y ago
The supply chain may not be fragile but other areas are more tenuous. We should acknowledge that it is very harsh times for a lot of people right now.
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by miesman 7y ago
Like. Want.
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by miesman 7y ago
Starting work before I had a written purchase order in hand (or at least a verbal purchase order number with the promise of getting me the written purchase order soon). if you’re working before you get the purchase order there’s no need for
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by miesman 7y ago
I had a friend I grew up with who smoked his life away over a period of a few years. It was really ugly. Funny thing was he was the only one in our group of friends that didn't party that much when we were younger. They say an addict h

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