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Jacob  ·  1733 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 26, 2019

If you are techy, you could put all your music on a server, open a port on your router to the outside, and stream to the VLC app on your phone via SFTP. I've been dying to do this so I listen to my music more but don't have home internet, just my phone hotspot.

Jacob  ·  2535 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Human mealworm will not seek re-election

Good point.

Jacob  ·  2535 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Human mealworm will not seek re-election

"Probably close to zero" -- Clinton, asked about her chances of running for president again, 2008

Nice! Never have a sweaty backpack swamp ever again.

Jacob  ·  2583 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, what app do you use to write?

Tell me how...

Jacob  ·  2584 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Feature idea: What if we could buy badges to award?

Separate sticker, maybe? "I've been touched by wealth"

Jacob  ·  2895 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 172nd Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

Can't link now, but Buffy Sainte-Marie.

Jacob  ·  2895 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 172nd Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

Can't link now, but Buffy Sainte-Marie.

Jacob  ·  3168 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 133rd Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

    Oh god the soundcloud embeds are huge

Like holy cow.

Jacob  ·  3168 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Will you be upgrading to Windows 10 on Wednesday?
Jacob  ·  3168 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, I think today we should all go out and do something fun

Meh, I went out yesterday. But I could really go for a swim right now...

Jacob  ·  3177 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, what's your wallpaper?

This style really tickles my fancy. Know the artist?

Jacob  ·  3177 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What do you understand about life?

No individual can ever "figure out" life -- our experience is limited, our brains are biased, and the clock is ticking. The best we can do is be creative with our constraints.

Jacob  ·  3177 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A game that takes a minute to play (with a message from me to hubski.)

Awwwwwwwww

Jacob  ·  3177 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are you reading this week?

Just wrapped up the third one. Fucking killer, dude.

Jacob  ·  3183 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are you reading this week?

Finished it last night. Omfg.

Jacob  ·  3187 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are you reading this week?

Hey, me too! I'm halfway through the second one.

Jacob  ·  3191 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reddit has done it again

I'll probably keep using the site until most of the individual communities have quit camp. The awful problem is that the communities are all going to go in different directions :( I don't want to use reddit AND hubski AND voat AND Aether...

Jacob  ·  3201 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How did you learn programming?

I learned on the job for a summer research project. We used Arduinos, so I had to figure out the basics of C. I was working on Linux, so BASH and Python were very handy (and still are). I later took a class in C.

Sorry, this comment is private.
Jacob  ·  3253 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski : What is your morning routine ?

Hey, I love this. Definitely going to start tightening my routine up :)

Jacob  ·  3279 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Just who will be we, in 2493?

How does this post have three tags?

    Terry Pratchett once wrote about how the “Brownian motion” of society kept us sane and honest.

This is from Men at Arms, the 15th Discworld novel.

Jacob  ·  3280 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 117th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" Thread

Jacob  ·  3282 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 'It Doesn't Matter Where You Go to College': Inspirational, but Wrong

    College acceptance and future success are both reflections of an obvious but often overlooked variable: the person you're becoming in your late teens. After all, elite schools aren't taking a random sample of high-school students and churning out success stories. They're accepting people who are already on the road to success, connecting them with peers and alumni in successful jobs, giving them a degree that signals to employers that this person has the potential to be successful, and then basking in their eventual success.

Wow.

    students who attended more selective colleges earned about the same as students of seemingly comparable ability who attended less selective schools.

That's encouraging. But is he right? Have there been other studies done?

Jacob  ·  3282 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: MY BROTHER JUST DID STAND UP FOR THE FIRST TIME!

That's crazy!!! Comics have to have balls of steel. There's only one way to test how good your jokes are, and that's too tell them. Good on him.