sleightofmind

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by sleightofmind 4y ago
I know this isn't a humor site, but the three comments above were worthy of any comedy writing team. Result? Instant, involuntary, and un-stifle-able laughter. Thanks!
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
Ahhh! That's great. Thanks!
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
Indeed. This seems like it's in the uncanny valley of can do vs should not be able to do. Delightful but strange.
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
Thanks! I'm gonna try it out. First, though, I think I'm going to add an exorcist to my contacts list. This is honestly the closest thing to magic I've ever encountered.
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
Okay. Now I'm starting to wonder if folks who worry about AI taking over are onto something. Well, not really... yet. But color me absolutely flabbergasted. Thanks for the explain.
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
Can someone give this completely ignorant old fellow a description of what the author is doing in this article? What is the initial drawing being done with? What is this stable diffusion process? (Amazing is one answer.) A very brief descri
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
Thank you for mentioning excalidraw. That's pretty tempting at $6/mo if paid yearly -- yeah, I know I can use it for free. To be able to produce a quick sketch on any computer, anywhere, and quickly share it is pretty nifty. I&#x2
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
There are two types of people in this world (well, at least two): Those who dream of underground living spaces or secret hideouts/tunnels, and those who don't. Count me among the former. Thanks for the link!
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
An aside about the dream of farming. I'd always heard it subtly implied that my maternal grandfather, born 1899, and early on, a farmer in Minnesota, was not much of a farmer, because, ultimately, after 30 years or so of farming, he ga
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
It's been a long time since I read My Antonia. Loved it. If memory serves, though, wasn't the main male character quite the self-made man? Again, it's been a while. Beautiful picture of the harsh reality, and stark beauty of
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
Couldn't agree more with the last two paragraphs. Web standards purists will trot out a reference to some standard and point out the imagined (and terrifying) consequences of making the TAB or ENTER key behave just as they would in a n
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
That was my first reaction. I tried clicking the wiki link, though, at the top of the github page, and from there to "Bird's Eye View". Pleasantly surprised.
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
"... strategival disadvantage... " I thought at first you had invented a clever new word combining strategy and survival. Then I realized that v is just very close to c on a qwerty keyboard. Oh well.
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
What a beautiful site. So easy on the eyes. Thanks.
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
"Unfortunately, it's not easy to make an easy personal website today. Personal sites take so much work to design , and most feel stale because they don't have dynamic content like posts." (italics are mine) Huh? My defi
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
Those dog teams they use in the Iditarod Race seem to be able to cover distances that would do man or horse proud. I don't know how dogs would do pulling a sled in a more temperate climate (assuming efficient, wheeled sleds) as their i
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
re: dragging a decent load My father, born in 1930 in Minnesota, told of watching farmers bringing out a team of horses to help pull stuck tractors out of the springtime mud -- it wasn't only about their not-insignificant strength, but
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
I really, I mean really, really like the slender ones with the almost white bark, and the limbs that branch off with the skin-like wrinkles on their undersides. The trunks and lower limbs remind me of the human form. And I like the broccoli
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
Wow. That was a very good read, and it had an ending -- precisely your point, I imagine. Thanks!
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
Most of the time, no. There are generally far more bodies offered than needed. I was surprised by this when my brother asked about it (for his future dead body) when we were preparing for a loved ones funeral. Perhaps it's different in
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
XOJO appeals to me, it's free for non-commercial use, and very reasonably priced for commercial use. The user community seems nice. Free Pascal/Lazarus seems nifty and capable, but good luck finding thorough documentation on t
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
Just about anything. Go to Project Gutenberg, pick a book of plays, or short stories, and just start reading. Be forewarned, though. Chekov doesn't do endings (for the most part) and he made no apologies for his lack of endings. You&#x
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
Force myself? That's the last thing I have to do. I can't start reading it again, because I know I won't be able to put it down. But I do look forward to a third pass through the book at some point. And another reading or two
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
Geez! What a couple of bossy little tyrants! Don't do this! Don't do that! Ouch! The question was aimed at Non Programming Professionals . I thought my answer was thoroughly non-professional, and therefore just about perfect. &#x
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
Yep. I like that approach for simple personal projects (the only kind I do). Sometimes I just append a date -- myHotNewIdea_9jul2022.txt Same idea, though.
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
For text-only stuff -- programming and writing -- I find the simple, ancient, RCS program to be sufficient, and pretty doggone easy to learn/use.
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
There is not, to my knowledge, any prohibition against you going to a doctor who only sees "fee for service" patients, to get your lab work done. That is, a physician who accepts no insurance whatsoever. These are not rare in the
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
Don't tell them what you're going to do. If Joe Wise-Arse ruins it, proceed with a different trick, they won't know. There is a 1940 booklet called "Outs" Precautions and Challenges by Charles H. Hopkins, that is
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
Thank you for this observation. Low-growth or no-growth societies have long been fodder for my what-iffing daydreaming.
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by sleightofmind 4y ago
I have a simple metric for judging the housing market (well, existing, single-family homes, anyway). I open Zillow, sort homes from Low Price to High Price, and count the number of price cut notifications on each page of 40-homes. I also ex

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