zwayhowder

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by zwayhowder 11d ago
This took me back to my first PC gaming experience at age 6ish. Circa 1988. Nostalgia unlocked!
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by zwayhowder 20d ago
Funny you should ask. In high school I was regarded as highly intelligent, I was near the top of all of my classes and widely read, with an excellent memory for facts and figures. (Though no visual memory whatsoever). Then one day we did a
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by zwayhowder 2y ago
It's not even on the same level. Container tabs as the name implies are all in the same window, and you can program them, for example always open up google.com domains in my Google container, while opening amazon.com in my shopping con
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by zwayhowder 2y ago
I have been toying with the idea of introducing something like JD to my system using tags though so something can be both. I use Paperless to catalog all my PDFs, Obsidian for notes and Gmail for email, Todoist for tasks and Cloze for CRM,
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by zwayhowder 2y ago
I use a Boox Note 2 almost daily for reading and regularly with a bluetooth keyboard for writing. It has a stylus, and the OCR is good enough for even my terrible handwriting (I should have been a doctor apparently) and I use that to scribb
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by zwayhowder 2y ago
I switched to vertical typing. It was a challenge at first, but now I can type almost as well vertically as I can on a normal horizontal keyboard with significantly less pain in my arms and shoulders. I already owned a Moonlander keyboard w
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by zwayhowder 2y ago
One thing that I fully internalised only recently - despite learning Asian languages for literally decades. The things western people take for granted as ubiquitous in our culture are often unknown to Asian cultures. As an example recently
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by zwayhowder 2y ago
I briefly flirted with a Japanese keyboard just to get the extra keys that they have (next to the space bar which is much smaller) I then remapped those keys to other more useful commands. I then discovered VIA/QMK keyboards and now I
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by zwayhowder 2y ago
I grew up playing 1/72nd tabletop wargames with my dad and his friends - Napoleonic to WW2 usually. Often with Star Wars/Trek or Babylon 5 on the TV. This was our 3am conversations.
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by zwayhowder 2y ago
https://archive.md/QnEVn
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by zwayhowder 2y ago
My house is about 100 years old and still has the original concrete tile roof, with a stack of spare tiles under the house ready if needed. An extension that was done in the 1980s has had to have its roof replaced once already due to what I
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by zwayhowder 2y ago
I used to work backstage at concerts assisting my dad who was a sound engineer. We had my favourite cable of all time, a 30cm extension cord that was affectionately known as the "you've got to be #&$@ing me" cord. You&#x2
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by zwayhowder 3y ago
This surprised me when I was on my local government and we had an application for a 24/7 carwash. When I asked why they thought it would be profitable to be open overnight with staff they said that the local car dealerships would book
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by zwayhowder 3y ago
I keep a dozen books by von Daniken and his contemporaries on my bookcase to this day. Not because I believe them, but to remind me that I once did. I like to blame the X-Files, but the 90s was a funny time and I don't even remember bu
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by zwayhowder 3y ago
Same here, and if the audiobook has ideas that grab my attention I'll often get the physical book to read later. I find that I can churn through several books a week and find a hidden gem in one that is worth following up. I'll gl
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by zwayhowder 3y ago
I have both. But it isn't weaker. To be clear my gmail password and my password manager password are both 40-60 characters long. I also have TOTP and a Yubikey and a Passkey etc etc. I was more protecting myself against a situation whe
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by zwayhowder 3y ago
I use Diceware. 6 random words with alphanumeric padding. So basically the XKCD, but something like: correct_2_horse_2_battery_2_staple. In my experience it doesn't take long to memorise the words. I have two passwords I know off by he
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by zwayhowder 3y ago
I had the same thought, but wanted to know why the Author thought they were not. For example, a major issue for self-containment is that EPUB content can embed external assets. A content document can legally include an image or font file w
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by zwayhowder 3y ago
In my browser? Two. "Import Bookmarks" and "Getting Started" that Firefox happily recreates and syncs to my account every time I do a fresh install :( In my Zettlekasten 5374... Wow, that's... more than I thought. T
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by zwayhowder 3y ago
Someone at the time had a CNC aluminium one on ebay for $700 or so. I thought "I can do that cheaper". I was very wrong. The actual parts weren't too bad.(I still had to spend $1400 on the cameras IIRC), but the number of too
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by zwayhowder 3y ago
I made one of these during my MBA. I spent close to $2000AUD including the two Nikon mirrorless cameras I purchased. I am not particularly handy and made it out of spare 2x4 lumber I had so it wasn’t light. But it worked, I scanned about tw
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by zwayhowder 3y ago
I wish Firefox would support faster profile switching. I consult and have multiple customers who all insist I use their Gmail or Outlook accounts, so I need about 6 profiles on the go. I can't use containers because it means I can&#x27
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by zwayhowder 3y ago
I highly recommend "Managing Humans" by Michael Lopp. https://randsinrepose.com/ I read it several years into my management path and cringed when reading a few of the anecdotes realising I'd made the same mis
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by zwayhowder 3y ago
I like the look of this for automation of some of my GitHub notifications. We have a small engineering team and we are all drowning under the number of notifications. This could really help with managing the load.
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by zwayhowder 3y ago
(Working in IT) I love laptop stickers for this. Whenever I'm returning from a conference a quick look around the lounge will reveal plenty of people with laptop stickers that are an easy to to startup a conversation. "Oh you&#x27
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by zwayhowder 3y ago
Have you ever seen a Morris dancer? If folk clubs will accept that... But seriously, you're right that they don't always look like they'd be welcoming. Most folk clubs tend to skew older and that often means conservative, tho
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by zwayhowder 3y ago
Contra is a great beginners dance that is also fun for experienced dancers. It is basically just walking, no fancy steps. A friend of mine used to host Contra dances done to techno with nightclub like strobes that were very popular with the
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by zwayhowder 3y ago
I met my wife, and most of my closest friends at dances like this article describes. The Scottish Ceilidh, the Irish Ceili and the many Platford and Regency style balls hosted by folk clubs and dance groups keep these very much alive. When
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by zwayhowder 3y ago
Every large company I've worked at on implementing the ideas from this book that was successful put a lot of effort into supporting the chapters/guilds/communities of practice or whatever you want to call them that encouraged
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by zwayhowder 3y ago
I work at an Australian University and can confirm that use of AI to generate content is rampant. It's often quite blatant and at least in the subject I teach easy to spot, but in a lot of subjects it would be much harder. A lot of my

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