stinkytaco

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by stinkytaco 9mo ago
> I didn't accept any deal by clicking a link that took me to a webpage. I don't think anyone using Python, which is GPL-compatible, expects it to come with a "and you'll see our popup advertising for donations if you
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by stinkytaco 9mo ago
This could also be an investment in future happiness. Part of the point of journaling and documenting is to later revisit and unlocking memories one might have not accessed in some time. This is part of the reason Spotify Wrapped and simila
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by stinkytaco 2y ago
Having served in the military once upon a time, it always makes me chuckle. Now, I didn't do much related to information technology or security, but "unbreakable" is not a term I ever associated with military equipment.
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
I remember listening both to the few PDQ Bach albums my parents owned and then his excellent radio show on music theory and concepts. I found some old episodes online and have been enjoying them again the last few days.
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
> And the majority of us will be outliers are on any bell curve This cannot be possible, by definition. The majority of us will be within one standard deviation of the midpoint on a bell curve because that's how bell curves work. An
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
No, seriously, I had an uncle that smoked 3 cigarettes a day and lived into his 90s. I've started smoking a pack a day and I'll live well past 100, right? I wish we, as humans, understood odds better. All health advice is about st
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
I'm perhaps idealistic by saying that at least some of this time, these things can coexist. It's ok to make money doing a thing. I'm reminded of this video that makes an excellent point: https://youtu.be/x1kv3
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
The above advice is good, since the most important thing is getting all major muscle groups regularly. But you might also look into calisthenics, which is enjoying a surge in popularity, it seems. Lots of good stuff out there on bodyweight
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
One thing I've found in fitness is that people need to do what will keep them active and for many, that requires specific guidance or goals. General prescriptions like "use your muscles by being active" is fine, but what does
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
Yeah, I get it. I was mostly joking, but a few things: I strongly suspect most people buy either the official case from the manufacturer or maybe they go to Amazon or buy one from their local store (Best Buy, Verizon, etc.). They are high m
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
Exactly. Why make more durable phones when you can make an extra $30 by selling a case, too?
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
Half of them provide discord access and 75% a custom rss feed for a subscriber only podcast in my list. And frankly, I only take advantage of a couple of those. Mostly I just do it to throw a few dollars to stuff I like and don't use t
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
I'd like to see a post like this on HN where someone revisits their organization 10 years later and decides if they were right or not. It's not that all organizations don't have disfunction, but as a younger person I was very
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
I think this is a problem specific to your library. A very quick check shows the average age of our collection to be about 6 years (at my small to midsized urban library). That's extremely rough because new editions of classics will sh
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
What you are suggesting does exist, at least partially. SimplyE is the largest open platform I can think of, but it does work by leveraging partnerships with traditional vendors like Overdrive. There's also Ebooks Minnesota and likely
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
Do you expect authors or publishers to operate without a profit motive? I think I understand what you're getting at, but in any library model someone is getting paid. We buy books from the same wholesalers that serve book stores and su
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
> Does a library have no duty of preservation or archival? Surely "what the public wants" cannot be the only driving factor, right? Yes, it is the only driving factor for a public library. It turns out people do want to preser
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
This is interesting to hear. I've always found that Overdrive does live up to its reputation of being a library focused company. The books aren't cheaper on Cloudlibrary or Axis360 and Overdrive offers the best user experience by
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
I'm a librarian and while I sympathize with some of the arguments here, they are not arguments I can explain to the public. No one cares, and they shouldn't have to. They should be able to read everything from James Patterson to
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
If you jump up a level, you'll find a rhyme to it. He's a relatively well known artist and has a moderate internet following.
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
> Stress is a factor of excellence. So is having a rich family. The article provides a long list of examples of great artists who's success is largely enabled by already being wealthy, not necessarily being the best. Even just being
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
I like both. I think Lego sets are in many ways my first experience of technical documentation and I still use those skills. It also helped me learn about how sets went together so I could design my own. Finally, I wanted to play with what
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
Fairly similar to roam. It has: Atomic nodes. Citations. A map of linked nodes. Tiddlywiki and org-mode can also offer similar experiences I'd you take the time to set them up.
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
They have, especially big names that count on high follower numbers and analytics. I run across lots of accounts that have 2 or 3 posts, then stopped.
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
True, though I'd say that email is a cautionary tale due to how centralized it's gotten. I guess I was referring to "second wave" federation, for lack of a better term. Federated replacements for social networks: Mastodo
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
I'd argue that social networks are a little bit different because discussing is what they do. Reddit is obsessed with itself, when I'd say most of the wide world doesn't care about the API or 3rd party app business (though th
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
An instance can block another instance from federating with it. So if I'm on instance "b" and it defederates instance "a", I can no longer see any of instance "a"'s communities or comments.
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
This is one of my favorite HN adjacent projects and I use it with some frequency. Glad to see you are committed to it for the long term. Good luck.
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
Easier to find, but probably harder to talk to. I think it's not a coincidence that several of the subcultures you list above involve dressing in costumes . I'm sure part of that is immersing oneself in the culture, but there&#x2
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by stinkytaco 3y ago
A corporation's obligation is to generate shareholder value. Not user value, but value for the owners. This can be done a variety of ways but the two big ones are: generating profits and distributing those as dividends or raising the s

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