tarboreus

Weirdly, AIM was a great social media application. Anyone on AIM was on because they wanted to talk. I actually miss AIM a good amount, now you can reach anyone but you're always interrupting their life.

I read my spam mails. Google dumps 90% of non-Google or MS domains in there.

Don't take your phoen, problem solved

Misanthropes are boring.

I'm visually impaired and not being able to write in a notebook is one of the relatively few things I actually miss.

Or a map on a piece of paper, for that matter.

Wow, 50 years, so old.

It strikes me as a pretty decent list. The books on here I've read (maybe 30%) are worthy of recommendation.

People always get offended by lists, I've noticed.

Asterisk is usually pretty good, but this article seems like an exception.

I remember someone trying to fix an isue on my machine recursively changed all permissions on the whole drive to 777. Might as well have nuked the system.

What if brussel sprouts tasted like Twinkies?

Kagi is actually really good and usable. I'd pay for it just for the "I'm feeling lucky" bang alone. (Add ! to the end of your query.) The AI answer thing when you do ? is also pretty nice. Plus, no more doing weird javascript dumb stuff when you go back out of a page to the result using your back button.

Why lift weights when I could just use a forklift?

At some point someone actually has to do some thinking. It's hard to train your thinking if you just offload every simple task throughout your entire education.

$3000 is a not so great one as well. They can go up to $16k for some 80 cell models. 20 cell ones have gotten pretty cheap, though. (Relatively speaking.) Being blind is expensive.

He had a ton of proprietary code after a while so he did do some non-social stuff. But that was his main area.

Can we see the command? I've been using this one:

wget \ --recursive \ --mirror \ --timestamping \ --page-requisites \ --html-extension \ --convert-links \ --restrict-file-names=windows \ --no-parent \ $url

This comment shouldn't be downvoted. Point to a 750 billion dollar company that doesn't have undue market power.

Chuck Norris ghostwrote those papers while on a motorcycle tour of Brazil.

That's the standard.

And get what.

From a legal perspective, monopoly just means holding undue market power. People seem to really focus on the "mono" part, it's irrelevant from a US legal perspective.

This is true. Also, when was the last time you sat down and ate five oranges? Processing changes what you eat. Oranges are pretty good for you, orange juice often is not.

RIP Aaron Swartz.

Sure, and if I had a jar of wizard jelly, I could teleport directly to the moon to eat it.

Sure, and the flu isn't over, either, last time I checked it's still circulating and a large number of people die every year from it.

Eventually you have to go live your life.

Anyone recommend some good books on this topic?

Because they're not that great? Fine if you have freshman undergrad writing skills.

Are you sure it didn't?

This is blinkered given the hockey-stick growth of higher ed management over the past ~30 years. If anything, there was a much reduced need to write grants back when there were few managers in the university. Bureaucrats create bureaucracy, they don't protect people from it.

Pretty well-known finding. Probably because increased sociality leads to greater longevity, not because alcohol is directly healthy.

I agree with this ordering.

Another series that I think benefits from a read in publication order is the Horatio Hornblower series. That means starting with the book Beat to Quarters.

I find it's often best to start with the book that made people like the series. When I recommend Stephen Erikson to people, I recommend starting with the second book, Deadhouse Gates, which is much more original, and you don't miss out on much. (Erikson never explains anything, so if you jump in, beleive me, the first book would not enlighten you.)

One exception is the Dresden Files series. It starts out with some weak book, but I can't recommend jumping to the first good book (the fourth) or the first sort-of-good book (the third). You have to slog through the whole thing or you'll miss out.