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Brings new meaning and scale to the idea of a RUD.

I learned double-entry bookkeeping from the GnuCash "Tutorial and Concepts Guide" https://www.gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=5&lang=C&doc=guide

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 losin…

Found this that summarizes comments as well as the article: https://hackyournews.com/

Particularly if it summarized the key points of arguments on both sides of any debates.

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 i…

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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 re…

Also recommend A Sea of Words , which is a lexicon of the nautical terminology from the books.

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 j…

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 invest…

Ask GPT-3 for its opinion, "does this command look potentially dangerous?"

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 nu…

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 res…

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, …

I once had a dream where I could 'pipe' physical objects through a bash command-line...

nit-pick, but only a tiny portion of Utah is in the Mojave desert. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojave_Desert

This bookstore's cousin, Cărtureşti Verona, is also a gem, https://carturesti.ro/librarii

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 8…

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 socia…

Reminds me of http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/ , from way back when, using 'Doom' as an interface to manage Linux processes.

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 RDBM…

I found an Anthropology class very eye-opening, helpful to become aware of one's own ethnocentrism. I'd echo the vote for Physics.

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.

I'd point out that the article referenced above comes from a group that could hardly be said to be 'dispassionate observers' themselves.