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by raintrees 15d ago
Agency is a reason for me to arise each day and work at my goals. Without goals, or agency, I may head for depression (been there, done that). If I do not see progress being made, I know that if I do not change what I am doing (or measure
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by raintrees 1mo ago
And from what I have read/heard, not just the internet's collective memory, as real world books are being scanned and then destroyed - Allegedly including rare books :(
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by raintrees 4mo ago
I wonder where avocado oil lands?
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by raintrees 4mo ago
caught in java garbage collection (no slight intended :) ) Congratulations on your continued existence!
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by raintrees 7mo ago
to me, ai seems likely to become a new user interface, just like gui did from cli. abstract away a lot of the mechanics of working with data/information. helpful, when literacy seems to be trending in a downward direction.
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by raintrees 7mo ago
I learned early on not to trust anything with a sticker that claimed warranty supported by Fry's (that meant it was a return and tested No Problem Found and sold as is). Too many return trips eats up any profit reselling parts to my c
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by raintrees 11mo ago
I hope Synology gets its act together, it has been a convenient product to resell for clients who down-size. Very simple, very low maintenance. And very simple to set up, versus all of the home-grown *nix boxes I have built over the decad
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by raintrees 1y ago
"There ought to be a law" is why we have nanny-state government. I imagine that is why there have been "no spitting" and "no chewing gum" laws on the books. People going to lord it over others in the pursuit o
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by raintrees 1y ago
Having constraints may also make something more achievable. It helps avoid issues like analysis-paralysis, and helps me focus on the path through the obstacles towards the destination I desire. So for me, still goals, but made more efficie
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by raintrees 1y ago
and an oldie: https://www.zerohedge.com/
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by raintrees 1y ago
An interesting collection: https://thedukereport.substack.com/
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by raintrees 1y ago
I think that just shows our different perceptions - I, too, see many HN posts as very left. Frequently seen in assumptions about values/ethics/morals... Update: On further reflection, it is not HN that I am describing. It is the
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by raintrees 1y ago
Thanks for posting this. While craziness may reign in various places, parts of the world go on healing itself, one human effort at a time, and faster when more than one do so together...
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by raintrees 2y ago
This is also a good argument to me to continue working at being a generalist. The more disciplines I am aware of, even if not expert in, the faster I may come up with an "outside the box" solution that might work. Details observa
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by raintrees 2y ago
"Developers choose Rails today because, 20 years later, it remains the most simple and abstracted way to build a web application." Well, then there are those of us who use Django for similar reasons :)
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by raintrees 2y ago
I chose to use a flip phone over a previous Android phone around 10 years ago when ISPs/Phone providers showed that security lapse issues for them was just a cost of doing business. I used to store private client info in Exchange and
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by raintrees 2y ago
Both, for me. Memory not as sharp as it used to be, and more to be organized.
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by raintrees 2y ago
For me, that is the value of tags. No need to have duplicates to have items represented in multiple categories, yet each appropriate category gets a nod about the particular item.
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Better Child Mental Care?
1 points by raintrees 2y ago|0 comments
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by raintrees 2y ago
Same, although I have been on a Linux distro (different over the years) for the last 18 years, I keep a virtual Win7 machine just to run Outlook. I have been able to do pretty much everything I need to workflow-wise with LibreOffice. And an
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by raintrees 2y ago
FWIW: I am switching from Fedora to Debian. Fedora has what amounts to almost daily updates, I prefer more stability/less changes. My work flow is usually being up for weeks in between boots, multiple projects open at the same time.
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by raintrees 2y ago
"We may wonder also what fun a determined hacker could have with Microsoft running random bits of JavaScript on their servers and allowing these to talk to the world (or to Microsoft itself even)." So maybe there might be a way to
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by raintrees 2y ago
For those who are not happy with the current state of social systems: “We cannot continue to send our children to Caesar for their education and be surprised when they come home as Romans.” - Voddie T. Baucham Jr. (possibly among others) On
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by raintrees 2y ago
Richard Grove offers an online course called Autonomy that teaches these skills and more. Good course, I took it a few years ago. One of the topics is how to sell without being cringy, in my words.
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by raintrees 2y ago
One of the original predictions that might be entertaining(?) to see would be the US having its first President "run" the country from prison... And the follow-up situation to witness, how different would that look, in the end? Fo
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by raintrees 2y ago
"The messaging IS the program" (Apologies to Marshall McLuhan)
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by raintrees 2y ago
Logical and critical thinking would be a challenge to those in power, apparently the Trivium had been removed from a classical liberal education some time ago. I learned about the Trivium in an online school long after I left college... Ch
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by raintrees 2y ago
If I recall correctly, we used a Formaster protection scheme (Copy-Lock? CopyGuard? I no longer remember precisely) to protect the mass copies of Rogue we manufactured, as well. And for personal use, I edited a number of the labels in the
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by raintrees 3y ago
IT service, sales and support business, and private cash-flowing multi-family real estate business (we provide nice places for people to live without the headache of owning/maintaining/repairing your own home).
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by raintrees 3y ago
My experience has been "any time." There are always pros and cons, things will always arise, time passes. Best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, next best is now. Now a specific product or service may be much more impacted b

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