theSpaceOctopus

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by theSpaceOctopus 8y ago
I feel the same way. Also, the integration between Apple hardware is great. I have Macs, an iPhone and an iPad and everything works ridiculously well together. I’ve contemplated switching to Linux for a while, and keep a laptop with Fedora
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by theSpaceOctopus 8y ago
Hey, Fedora mag also has a post detailing the major changes in F28 workstation, here: https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-28-workstation/ Hope you find this helpful.
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by theSpaceOctopus 9y ago
Drupal Engineer | Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health | Baltimore, Maryland, United States | ONSITE Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Office of External Affairs is hiring a Drupal engineer with e
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by theSpaceOctopus 9y ago
> Your analogy is ridiculous. In what way is polluting a river like hosting a social network on your own servers? It's an analogy for the "age old personal responsibility argument", but if you want to get metaphorical then
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Can math be used to predict an outbreak?(projects.jsonline.com)
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Streaming Now: Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Forum on Opioid Epidemic(jhsph.edu)
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How AI Could Slow the Spread of HIV(citylab.com)
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A massive health study on booze, brought to you by big alcohol(wired.com)
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by theSpaceOctopus 9y ago
I have 2 blogs, both on WordPress. My web development blog is on a DO droplet and uses the Roots stack, Trellis, Bedrock and Sage. https://roots.io I've done a lot of WordPress development, custom themes mostly. I can'
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Training exercise boosts brain power, Johns Hopkins researchers say(hub.jhu.edu)
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If a Pile of Poo Has an Emoji, Shouldn't a Mosquito Have One Too?(npr.org)
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by theSpaceOctopus 9y ago
> people who get offended for others and have no actual personal connection with the word and thus have no real negative thoughts. That could better be described as a capacity for empathy, particularly in the context of genocide. "N
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by theSpaceOctopus 9y ago
I think the intent is clear, it’s the word choice which some may find tasteless. For example, a person who survived an actual genocide may find your analogy to be shallow because where you’ve lost some extensions due to a browser upgrade, t
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by theSpaceOctopus 9y ago
> This whole article boils down to "new hires require training". There were also the parts about needless bickering in the PHP community, the responsibility of senior developers to guide junior developers, and the importance of
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by theSpaceOctopus 9y ago
Great read, thanks for sharing it.
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by theSpaceOctopus 9y ago
> But there’s no mistaking the large trend... You didn’t say that, you said “server side rendering is basically dead”. Believe it or not, lots of people are still building things without JavaScript front ends.
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by theSpaceOctopus 9y ago
I have a UX305FA and I wouldn’t recommend it. I love the form factor and overall feel. I really like the keyboard, though I don’t care for the trackpad. My real issue with this laptop is the screen. It’s hard on my eyes to the point that I
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by theSpaceOctopus 9y ago
> I got mine for $650 with IPS 1080p (Zenbook UX305CA). @franciscop - which distro are you running? I'm primarily a mac user but picked up a UX305FA about 8 months ago to start poking around with Linux. I've had Ubuntu, Kubuntu
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by theSpaceOctopus 9y ago
> There must be a pithy term in German for what I'm trying to point at. Saure Trauben
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by theSpaceOctopus 9y ago
> But even though a wall of knobs and wires looks like the last word in musical openness, it actually puts some very rigid limits on the complexity and sophistication of what you can do. And worse (IMO) it trains you to think inside thos
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by theSpaceOctopus 9y ago
> So, if we adopted a true single payer system, by this math, the total spend in the US healthcare system would drop by 3%. US healthcare costs have recently been growing by 6% per year, so this would bring our costs all the way down to
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by theSpaceOctopus 9y ago
> $1/day is not an insignificant amount Especially considering nearly everything has a monthly fee attached these days. $3 here, $5 there, $9.99 over there. Of course businesses should be paid for the services they offer, but as a c
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by theSpaceOctopus 9y ago
I agree, I've read The Silmarillion multiple times. The Bible reference makes sense but I've always thought of it as similar to reading a history book. That's essentially what it is, a history of the beginning and the first 2
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by theSpaceOctopus 9y ago
I don't know if it's appropriate to say or not, but I feel this is kind of weird. This project was not maintained for a while despite multiple offers to help. (for example, https://github.com/scotch-io/scotch-
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Scotch Box Pro(box.scotch.io)
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by theSpaceOctopus 9y ago
I'm curious as to why some people refer to Vue as "the new hotness". I understand the concept but Vue was realeased in February 2014, which seems pretty ancient in JavaScript years. Wasn't React released only a year prio
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by theSpaceOctopus 9y ago
Aside - Jeffrey Way, who runs a popular tutorial site called Laracasts, maintains a free Learning Vue series. It's worth checking out, Jeffrey is a great teacher. https://laracasts.com/series/learn-vue-2-step-by-st
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by theSpaceOctopus 10y ago
Thanks for the clarification.
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by theSpaceOctopus 10y ago
I'd just smash my laptop with a hammer, microwave the HDD, and go live a simple life on a mountain somewhere raising alpacas.
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by theSpaceOctopus 10y ago
> Linux isn't really there yet. On my 3200x1800 XPS13 running Fedora, it took quite a bit of tweaking to get a usable desktop. That's odd. I've got an Asus ZenBook (UX305FA) running Fedora 25 with Gnome. I'm using m

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