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I would be having some fun.

Friend: Have you any success bringing your neighbors on board.

Me: There's been a setback. They're currently not speaking with me.

Friend: That is unfortunate. We're talking a lot of money.

Me: I know. I'll fix it.

Friend: You better.

Slightly off topic:

I recall as a youngin watching Gary Kildall on the Computer Chronicles. I was always fascinated by what people were doing with computers. I know it is nostalgia and there's infinitely more to learn about today than there was then, but I do miss that era of computing.

Squirrels around here are super annoying. They love to play dodge wheel. I hate it because I don't want puncture a tire because of one of those little shits.

Edit: Relevant - http://toddmitchellbooks.com/twelve-things-about-squirrels-t...

"Ugh... REST is too much work! We'll just change the meaning to suit us."

How soon until your car tells BMW that it's cold outside and BMW turns on the heated seats and puts an ad on your display, "For just $18/Month, this feature could be yours!"

"New and Improved" is corporate speak for we spreadsheeted the flavor out of it.

Maybe this is a good reason a single human being shouldn't be so fucking rich.

If enough money makes you untouchable by the law, then our system is simply broken.

Feels snappier. :)

> Every time I cook, my wife about has a panic attack watching me fumble around, forgetting things, looking for things, oh god that's burning, etc.

I do all the cooking for our family because I'm pretty good at it. A few things that help me. First is mise en place. I read through the recipe and lay out all the ingredients and prep them (dice, chop, measure, etc). The next thing is I read through the recipe several times and picture myself following the directions. This greatly helps me determine my timing for everything.

Not trying to fix you. Just thought I'd throw out some ideas in case you wanna try.

EDIT: Forgot to mention music. I can't code to music with lyrics. Nor can I code to music that has too many sharp edges. If it has a nice, smooth, consistent beat, I can really get some stuff done, though.

> That would imply that they currently do so, or used to in the past. I won't say that Republicans want me dead because I'm a working-class, autistic, openly bisexual atheist and the child of an interracial marriage, but I think it's fair to say that the vast majority of them wouldn't so much as piss on me if I was on fire.

Good grief, you get hit by nearly all the Fucker Carlson hate spew.

Keep your head low... and stay safe.

> What will happen when those Republicans - the same people who you are calling "hateful and paranoid" - win the next two election rounds which they seem to be poised to do?

Welcome to the Authoritarian States of America.

That's not hyperbole. It's coming. When SCOTUS rules on "independent legislature" the way everyone expects them to, it's all over.

Hope you enjoyed it while it lasted.

He's not stupid. That man is very shrewd. He's playing to his base's paranoid, hateful beliefs.

I believe it was Accuweather (sic) and Rick Santorum.

Laser printers (color ones) are (were?) required to have some sort of built in imperfection because they were too good and could be used for counterfeiting.

I wouldn't be surprised if this eventually is a requirement for cameras, you know, just because law enforcement wants it.

I think that is the point. The problem is, they're blowing up non deterministically.

Trump is a tool. He didn't do this. He doesn't have the brain power to do this. This was the CNP, the Federalist Society, the Koch bruhs, etc. They've worked on this for decades. DECADES.

Cruelty is the point.

I can only read his short fiction with few exceptions. He got to the point where he would take 50 pages (exaggeration, but still...) to describe, I dunno, a room. Okay, so the room is important, but is it that important?

Unless one is talking about CCW, then it's apparently a federal thing.

I put c:\tools in my path, then put shortcuts to all my tools in there (ie: shortcut to AgentRansack named ar). Now, I pull up the run command (WND+R) type ar and agent ransack opens.

> I have a parallel term I use, jiggle programmers. They can jiggle code around until it works, often working off existing code.

We're all jiggle programmers then. Once the applications architecture is established, we hang new feature on it by following that architecture.

Very very few of us get to only write code from scratch every day. Most of the time, when I'm writing from 0, I'm working on a R&D PoC. If I'm not doing that, I'm jiggle programming a new feature into an existing architecture.

> With the rise of self-taught programmers, you will see more take this copying approach than the academic redistillation.

I was self-taught before university. I learned on a C=64 and then an early x86 back in the day. If you didn't figure it out on your own, you hoped you would see it in a magazine or book some place. I learned a lot about how computers worked at a fundamental level from the C=64. I don't think self-taught is the issue. I think it's how much the person really wants to know about computers and CS.

I read once that when we read, our eyes bounce along the tops of the letters. A demonstration removed the lower parts of the letters, and interestingly, I was able to still read the words. I would like to see this same test but with a font that removed the lower half of the words in each sentence. Just for kicks and giggles...

I was a mere 2% faster. 404 vs 396 WPM.

Edit: 2% faster with BR.

Ahhh, okay. That went right over my head. Thanks.

Why does the HN title say "IKEA"? How are these related?

That's a little unfair. When you lose someone, a very many things have to happen almost immediately. It can be quite overwhelming. Especially given the stress and trauma of just losing a loved one. Having everything "you should already have" in one place makes a lot of sense. And there's nothing to say that this has to remain only in MD format. A printed copy in the safe would be helpful.

Of course, using your logic, getting is sorted "yesterday" could mean sitting down and having your loved one understand how to access all this data using MD. Even better would be to have them build the data up with you.

I think you're making the case for Apple being too powerful.

>There's enough gross margin to produce a $B company just by selling webcams [0], especially if you can actually get customers excited about the product.

Is this from HW only or some sort of MRR from SW lock-in?

> Asshole for trying?

Trying what exactly? We're literally killing our planet and instead of doing what we should do to save it, we praise some rich asshole for building a rocket? Why?

That's not what free speech means.

Multiplanetary? Really? We'll all be so far dead by then...