DrBob

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[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 hours ago

I lived like this the first year of my postdoc and couldn't have been happier. I had 4 place settings but only used one and washed it after every meal. Desk, computer, one camp chair, and an inflatable mattress. Stayed that way until my wife joined me my second year and made me get a real apartment.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I read all of that and none of it made sense except the child soldiers part. And even then I'm not certain that you aren't being funny.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

I didn't forget. I have no idea who this person is. Wikipedia lists some music and other business ventures but no controversies or social activism. A soldier for money?

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Surely a cup is closer than your phone.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Richard Dawkins coined the term in The Selfish Gene to describe a unit of culture in the same way that a morpheme is a unit of meaning, a phoneme is a unit of aural language, and a grapheme is a unit of writing.

 

Published in the New Yorker in 1993, the same year the world wide web went live.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 81 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Another short-term decision by America could lead to more long-term loss of wealth and influence.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's for F, M, and J visas, not tourists. F visas are for academic students, M is for vocational/non-academic study, and J is for work/study programs. None of them are for immigration.

 
 
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

As was Last Vegas.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The creek is 3 feet wide in places and can dry up during dry seasons. The "lake" is 3 feet deep. The city was founded there because the governor owned land on the bald prairie, not the river valley where the fort and city already existed. Water is piped in from a lake several miles away.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Let me introduce you to Regina.

[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 weeks ago
[–] DrBob@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 weeks ago

It's very short and perpendicular to the skin. It feels like velvet.

 
 

I ate so many cookies I wasn't hungry. I'm sure there will be regrets - I might need a Tums before bed.

 

I don't know if this is what your after, but I flew into Denver today. I ate a takeout burrito in my hotel room while watching tv. I'm going to be in bed by 8.

 

She doesn't really watch hockey so I don't know what her opinion is worth. But she wanted to do Leafs Lucky Guess with me this morning. Evidently we are going to lose 16-1 or something.

 

The US 2nd circuit has ruled that auditors opinions aren't relevant in cases of investor fraud because the statements are too vague for people to rely on. Whut?

Wall Street Journal article here for those who have access.

Here is a professor's blog entry for a barrier free commentary on the importance of the case.

 

I was thinking about this after listening to Marc Andreassen blather on about how he doesn't trust government as a repository of trusted keys and other functions. He advocates for private companies to perform critical functions. Standard libertarian stuff in many respects.

The problem of course is that corporations lack accountability. They can shift terms and conditions or corporate purpose and there is little meaningful recourse except to stop using them. I can think of small examples that don't widely resonate (Mountain Equipment Co-op I'm thinking of you 🤬) but are there big examples that I'm missing?

 

I am finally going to join the '90s and set up a blog. The audience is mostly students to show how the academic stuff blends with real world professional practice. I'm an adjunct so I have a foot in both worlds.

I have my domain names (parked for years) and free webhosting through my university - but the university doesn't provide any development tools. All of the recommended tools I've run across (weebly, wix, webflow etc.) either want to host the page, manage the domain name, or require a fee to link the page to my host. I'm simply looking for a low cost site builder where I can edit my files and move them to my webspace.

Any recommendations for a WSYWIG style editor? I'd be happy to not have to learn any actual coding, but will if I have to.

The last time I did any of this I was manually tagging static pages in notepad (lol).

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