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I really enjoyed that game. Tons of personality.

Ayn Rand novels have this theme IIRC.

Yeah, not a movie but I feel like Halt and Catch captures the hacker ethos the best. I loved it.

I've been reading it since at least 2017 which was the first time I can find that I emailed someone about it. Don't remember how I was introduced.

I really enjoyed the recent 100 Greatest Stars series as it is always fun to read a ranking list and see where your own picks slot in but few ranking lists go as in depth with their reasoning as this one. Plus, it highlighted a lot of films by the big stars that I haven't got around to seeing yet.

https://seeingthingssecondhand.com/category/better-than-afis...

For people with kids, or who still enjoy kids movies, this one is good:

https://seeingthingssecondhand.com/category/disney-pixar-ran...

I'm hoping he does a Studio Ghibli ranking at some point.

I'm going to drop a link to my favorite film critic and one of my favorite sites on the Internet: https://seeingthingssecondhand.com/

His reviews always rekindle my love for film when it is waning (mostly due to lack of time). Love the rankings (Marvel movies, Disney movies, etc.) as well as the reviews of the other top movies list (Better than the AFI Top 100). Feels like required reading for a cinephile.

I couldn’t save files from Firefox to an NFS-mounted folder inside of my home directory with the snap version. I would have figured that was something that wouldn’t make it through testing.

I think it is a combination of the book and where you were in your life when you read it. For me:

Cosmos was such a departure from anything else I read for school or for pleasure. It transformed my love of reading into a love of learning.

On the Road gave me wanderlust and made me want to move beyond my bubble and see the world.

Exact same for me for about four or five years post. I eventually came across my (extremely normal) name in an article about common names that were on the watch list and causing issues for many Americans. Even members of Congress were caught by it. Unfortunately, that article came out a few years of no airline agent being able to tell be why I couldn’t check in for my flight. They were cagey every time I asked.

I resubscribed to YouTube TV a few months ago for two channels: CNBC and ESPN. The rest of my family doesn't watch anything on it which is why I had cancelled it a couple of years ago. CNBC isn't worth $50/month to me. I'll give them another week before changing anything as I imagine someone is going to bend with this being college bowl season.

I wrote a blog post recently that touched on this very disappointment with the potential that was the Internet and how I hope that the metaverse is a new opportunity for that early creativity to be unleashed. However, in my mind that will require either decentralization or a different gatekeeper than Facebook.

I recently wrote about this topic and am in agreement that the term is poorly defined and thus you can’t really define how the metaverse is different from today’s Internet. My conclusion is that the VR-ness is the least interesting aspect of it. The most interesting aspect to me is that ability to do business with anyone and to do so anonymously (as your avatar).

https://www.startuplevelup.com/musings-on-the-metaverse/

I also think that Discord is the platform most likely to become the eventual metaverse and would love to invest or be involved somehow!

I had issues as well with that card in 20.04. I did some research and there was a fix for my issue that was resolved in 20.10. I still have issues with the card gaming in Windows though. Not completely stable with some games and can’t play Elite Dangerous because it always crashes before I get out of training.

I've avoided using it because of concerns about library size. I want to move off of iTunes (launch a VM just for this) but nothing else seems to really handle managing a library. Currently trying out Airsonic but it is kind of slow and I can't edit tags with it.

Maybe time to give Plex a try for this.

This looks like a great tool to generate some Pokémon and Beyblade coloring pages for my kids. We went through everything in Google image results many moons ago.

Nice. I modified Dashing to do something kind of similar many years ago. Dashing then got discontinued and I didn't have time to extend it as much as I wished. Still own the domains I bought for it.

It is excellent! Music is a lot clearer but now I am noticing that my headphones are a bit lacking in the bass department. Thanks for the recommendation.

What if they added posts? Either metal driven down into the road that a car would not go through or plastic ones that would deter a driver from running into them? I think that would provide more of a sense of physical separation.

About a decade ago BATS tried to IPO on their own exchange and failed pretty spectacularly. Coinbase probably doesn't want to "fail fast" with their IPO when there are billions on the line.

Thanks for responding. I just ordered the Fiio K5 Pro though but both looked like good options. Excited to increase my audio quality after all of these year.

Any recommendations for a cheaper usb dac?

Edit: one that I could connect both headphones and speakers to and switch between each would be sweet.

Agreed. British shows have characters that look like what people outside of LA look like.

I hadn't heard about the performance reviews and when I just Googled I saw results about her implementing performance reviews at Yahoo. Curious if you have more background on that?

I have the exact same dream but the class varies.

When this was announced I actually assumed this was a ploy to get fast Internet into Teslas.

You might like Dark Matter if you haven't seen it. It is available on Netflix and, imho, has a feel that is somewhere between Firefly and The Expanse.

Two books that I might recommend for others that are interested are:

Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners (cost of this on Amazon seems to have more than doubled since I bought it 11 years ago)

Algorithmic Trading and DMA: An introduction to direct access trading strategies

Can't unsee!

StartOpz (https://www.startopz.com) is expense reporting, time-off tracking, and what not for small businesses. I had hoped to make it basically a Workday-light. The launch kind of ran into having a second kid and it wasn't really something I was passionate about.

If I were to do things differently I would maybe refocus it on a niche to start with (e.g. target office managers of a professional firm (law offices, accounting firms)) or really try to focus on remote teams. I had also tossed around the idea of just turning off most of the modules and making it just an expense reporting or just a time-off app. Never did that though.

How do you like the Concept2 and rowing machines in general? I would prefer a treadmill but I don't have a good space for one. Do you get a decent cardio workout with it?

So on point. Sharepoint is awful. Confluence is the worst except for all other knowledge base software.

I guess this space is so boring that we aren't seeing any exciting startups tackling it and giving the incumbants reason to innovate.