the-peter

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by the-peter 5mo ago
I make it a point to use the office bathrooms only to excrete food I ate from the work cafeteria. Personal food I ate at home I excrete in my personal bathroom.
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by the-peter 6y ago
Can Foam store the data in files in a local folder using a file sharing tool like Dropbox, SyncThing or Resilien? I don't want private notes going on Github.
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by the-peter 6y ago
I agree that git is a nightmare with a user-hostile interface. Keep backups outside of git and just bite the bullet and learn it. There is no middle-ground, you are either floundering in a storm or master of git but it's everywhere so
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by the-peter 6y ago
You shouldn't write an article telling people not to use Python if you don't really understand Python in the first place. Lists are called Lists in Python because they are just that: lists of varying and dynamic length of heteroge
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by the-peter 6y ago
What a bad article. C++ shouldn't be taught either because C++-98 (1998) isn't compatible with C++-20 (2020).
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by the-peter 6y ago
Unless I'm behind the news, I think the incident people are referring to is: Triplebyte added a new feature to have a public profile highlighting your skills for your job-hunt. They didn't think it through and made the new profile
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by the-peter 6y ago
Try Spacemacs. Vim keybindings, logical well documented help/menus, plus emacs goodies like org-mode. It's the best of Vim and Emacs.
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by the-peter 6y ago
Call me when it has org-mode.
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by the-peter 6y ago
This is wonderful! I hope you wrote up how you put all this together somewhere? Link to a blog post or something?
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by the-peter 6y ago
This isn't the website dad is always on. Son will find that one when he hits puberty.
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by the-peter 6y ago
Interestingly there is a Japanese phrase 'kuchi sabishii' that translates to 'lonely mouth' which means you aren't hungry but want to snack.
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by the-peter 7y ago
5K IU/day over the long term is the upper limit of safe D3 supplementation.
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by the-peter 7y ago
I am having a hard time understanding the benefit of taking thousands of students who have been mixing in close contact all month and mostly likely are already infected and forcing them to disperse to their various home towns across the cou
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by the-peter 7y ago
There never was any hope that it could be stopped. The goal is to slow down the spread so the medical system isn't overwhelmed and people can be helped.
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by the-peter 7y ago
Is this integrated with the shell? Can I write shell scripts and python scripts to eg. grab today's entries from my gmail calendar, etc
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by the-peter 7y ago
In the very early days of the Internet I was running a small ISP and I ran a fancier version of this: for word in `cat /usr/share/dict`; do whois "$word.com"; done and shortly got a phone call from Network
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by the-peter 7y ago
Same here, can't find your email. I am also a 'jack of all trades' and I'm ready to wrap up my third business and find something new. I'd love to talk to you, maybe do something together, maybe just trade our storie
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by the-peter 7y ago
"Keyser Söze detected with 98% confidence"
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by the-peter 7y ago
It's almost as if doing anything in excess isn't good for you.
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by the-peter 7y ago
I have a great way StavrosK can offer his image hosting for free, forever. pmoriarty if you would just pay all of StavrosK's hosting bills going forward we can all live in the promised land of free image hosting.
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by the-peter 7y ago
The EMTs didn't try very hard when I was flipped by a drunk driver. I crawled out of my window and told the EMTs I just wanted to go home and they said 'ok'.
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by the-peter 7y ago
I used and loved Unison for years, but I found myself wanting something that just worked invisibly with no admin effort so I switched to Resilio (Bittorrent Sync). Both work for my purposes. Anyone else try both of these and have feedback?
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by the-peter 7y ago
"It's not really a measure of mental health to be well-adjusted in a society that's very sick." -The OA
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by the-peter 7y ago
Interesting product! I recently used a mind-mapping tool to make a web of everyone (EVERYONE) I've ever known. I started with my family, all of my jobs and all of my schools, added everyone from those places and methodically looked at
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by the-peter 8y ago
Vanguard? That's a laugh. There's a link on the login page "I don't have my device with me, send me an SMS instead". This cannot be disabled.
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by the-peter 8y ago
I started my own company as a 'lifestyle business' not a Unicorn-moonshot. This means I make a consistent healthy profit which I get to bring home, I make my own hours so I can take a day to see my kid's play or go rock climb
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by the-peter 8y ago
Simple: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women. edit: sorry I see below I was too slow posting this...
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by the-peter 8y ago
HitFilm and Lightworks are both excellent professional quality video editors with free versions.