woolcap

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by woolcap 2y ago
Brings new meaning and scale to the idea of a RUD.
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by woolcap 2y ago
I learned double-entry bookkeeping from the GnuCash "Tutorial and Concepts Guide" https://www.gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=5&lang=C&doc=guide
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by woolcap 2y ago
You could consider ditching (most of) the power tools and just do hand-tool woodworking. Much quieter, less sawdust and mess, relaxing (usually) and much lower possibility of losing a finger.
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by woolcap 3y ago
Found this that summarizes comments as well as the article: https://hackyournews.com/
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by woolcap 3y ago
Particularly if it summarized the key points of arguments on both sides of any debates.
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by woolcap 3y ago
What I like about Van Gogh's work, is the 'vibrant energy' in his paintings. But I had to experience his work in person to come to appreciate and perceive that. Prior to my first in-person experience with his paintings, I was
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by woolcap 3y ago
An excellent book. I taught all of my kids to read with it. All are strong readers. By lesson 70 or so, most of them had caught the gist and didn't need to finish it out. Highly recommended.
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by woolcap 4y ago
Also recommend A Sea of Words , which is a lexicon of the nautical terminology from the books.
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by woolcap 4y ago
Having lived through the dot-com bust, my wife and I around the same time (20+ years ago), began to set some funds aside for the "rainy day" of not if, but _when_ I might lose my job in tech, given the often volatile nature of the
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by woolcap 4y ago
Some info about how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints uses its donations: https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/humanitaria... I suspect most of its investments are targeted towards the same en
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by woolcap 4y ago
Ask GPT-3 for its opinion, "does this command look potentially dangerous?"
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by woolcap 4y ago
Another vote for CBT. CBT has made a big difference for me, helping me to find my way out of some very negative patterns of thinking, and allowing me to feel real joy, despite a number of ongoing difficult circumstances in my life. I'd
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by woolcap 4y ago
For a few years I've been learning about woodworking. I'm particularly interested in hand-tool woodworking (planes and chisels and mallets and hand-saws and such). I've enjoyed restoring old tools that are rusty and roached o
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by woolcap 5y ago
I've rescued a few Stanley planes from the rust pile. Bringing them back to life and use is a joy. 100+ years old, and with cleanup and honing, can still take wispy-thin shavings, leaving a glassy-smooth surface on wood.
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by woolcap 5y ago
I once had a dream where I could 'pipe' physical objects through a bash command-line...
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by woolcap 5y ago
nit-pick, but only a tiny portion of Utah is in the Mojave desert. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojave_Desert
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by woolcap 5y ago
This bookstore's cousin, Cărtureşti Verona, is also a gem, https://carturesti.ro/librarii
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by woolcap 5y ago
I find it repugnant to define the 'worth' of an individual solely in terms of 'economic output.' The elderly have much to offer society. I think of my own parents, now into their 80s. They planned well, are not an econom
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by woolcap 6y ago
I assume it's an argument of how you define 'socialism', but in my mind, the body count and accompanying oppression, enslavement, genocide and theft committed by regimes with socialist roots doesn't exactly inspire much
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by woolcap 6y ago
Reminds me of http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/ , from way back when, using 'Doom' as an interface to manage Linux processes.
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by woolcap 6y ago
Just about anything written by C. J. Date would be worth your while in this regard. It will give you a solid grounding in the relational model, which you can then apply to any RDBMS. Here's a good list to start with: - Database in Dept
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by woolcap 6y ago
I found an Anthropology class very eye-opening, helpful to become aware of one's own ethnocentrism. I'd echo the vote for Physics.
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by woolcap 6y ago
Redundant DNS is possible, but challenging when you're making use of features like geo DNS that don't lend themselves to easy replication via zone transfer.
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by woolcap 6y ago
I'd point out that the article referenced above comes from a group that could hardly be said to be 'dispassionate observers' themselves.
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by woolcap 7y ago
Kinda like https://what3words.com/ . Question is, how long would the string of words have to be to enable such a scheme for the entire IPv6 address space?
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by woolcap 7y ago
One way to think about it is with a mathematical relation, like 'X > Y'. A relational database relation representing this relation would consist of a header tuple, <X, Y>, and a set of tuples whose values satisfy the rela
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by woolcap 7y ago
> Relational databases get their name from the fact that relationships can be defined between tables. Relational databases get their name from the mathematical concept of a relation, used by the Relational Model, "an approach to man
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by woolcap 7y ago
"I ignored..." = I was aware, but consciously chose not to address it, but perhaps softer than, "I consciously chose not to address it. "I ignored the fact that the sun was out, and returned from the beach sunburned.&quo
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by woolcap 9y ago
The Perl 5 equivalent is Damian Conway's Perl Best Practices
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Google's .prod TLD is live(iana.org)
6 points by woolcap 12y ago|4 comments

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