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  1. Comment on What is your favorite live album? in ~music

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    I also wish they included La Mer which is on the DVD. Fantastic album and also my favorite

    I also wish they included La Mer which is on the DVD. Fantastic album and also my favorite

    4 votes

  2. Comment on What are your favorite webcomics? in ~comics

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    The thing that gets me the most is I could see my parents doing that to me when I was a stupid kid. Fortunately, they didn’t…

    The thing that gets me the most is I could see my parents doing that to me when I was a stupid kid. Fortunately, they didn’t…

    2 votes

  3. Comment on What are your favorite webcomics? in ~comics

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    Joe vs Elan School was one that sucked me right in. I believe he said he is shooting for 100 chapters, so it’s nearing its end.

    Joe vs Elan School was one that sucked me right in. I believe he said he is shooting for 100 chapters, so it’s nearing its end.

    8 votes

  4. Comment on What were your gardening adventures this weekend? in ~hobbies

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    This is our first season in the southwest (zone 8b). It’s been a bit of a struggle. We bought a house with 4 raised beds so we planted in two of them but a pack rat came along and ate/stole most...

    This is our first season in the southwest (zone 8b). It’s been a bit of a struggle. We bought a house with 4 raised beds so we planted in two of them but a pack rat came along and ate/stole most of it. It literally stole two medium tomato plants.

    So I built two elevated beds and wrapped the legs in metal so it couldn’t climb up, which has been working so far. This weekend I planted the second bed with zucchini, squash, and new tomato plants. The other bed we added onions, and we have broccoli and pepper plants. Our peppers are really struggling. Only one out of 7 plants is producing any fruit. The others don’t seem to be pollinating, they will produce flowers but never turn to fruit. We added some hanging flowers and added marigolds into the beds this past weekend also to try and attract more pollinators.

    Despite the challenges, I still enjoy watching everything grow and change.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~music

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    I’ve also seen them 5x, but I’m super jealous you got to see them with Bowie. Definitely the best live experience(s) I’ve had.

    I’ve also seen them 5x, but I’m super jealous you got to see them with Bowie. Definitely the best live experience(s) I’ve had.

    3 votes

  6. Comment on Garden drip irrigation recommendations in ~hobbies

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    Awesome, thanks for the suggestion!

    Awesome, thanks for the suggestion!

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Tell me about the best urban neighborhoods you've lived in in ~life

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    I googled that and came up with nothing. What’s the dance of the pavement?

    I googled that and came up with nothing. What’s the dance of the pavement?

    1 vote

  8. Comment on What was your first programming language, what languages do you know now, and what tips do you have for those trying to learn any of those? in ~comp

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    I believe my first languages were C and C++ in high school. C was first in 10th grade in a programming class, then I took C++ as part of AP CS. I moved on to Java and more C++ in undergrad. After...

    I believe my first languages were C and C++ in high school. C was first in 10th grade in a programming class, then I took C++ as part of AP CS. I moved on to Java and more C++ in undergrad. After graduating, I worked as a network engineer for about 15 years, so I picked up Perl at the time to help automate command line stuff and integrate with some SDKs for vendor platforms. From there I taught myself PHP as my first web dev language with some Javascript. PHP support was non existent in our company and I didn’t like it much so my next web dev language was Ruby (on rails). Eventually I was one of two people in our team that knew RoR so we converted the app we built over to Python/Django.

    I left networking and I’m now a full time software engineer where we primarily use Java/Spring for our web apps/APIs. We contribute to one app internally that uses Ruby on Rails/JavaScript. I still also use Python but more for scripting/automation than a web framework these days. And not really a programming language, but we also use Terraform pretty heavily too.

    I guess one piece of advice is that the more languages you learn, the easier it is to pick up a new one. Same goes for frameworks (Spring, Rails, Django, etc). I’ve never used Pyramid (the Python framework Tildes uses) but I’ve been able to look at the code and understand where to look for things by drawing similarities to other frameworks.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Garden drip irrigation recommendations in ~hobbies

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    This looks very promising, thank you!

    This looks very promising, thank you!

  10. Comment on Garden drip irrigation recommendations in ~hobbies

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    Good point. We don’t have any home automation system in place yet so we are flexible in that regard, but at the same time I don’t want to be vendor locked either

    Good point. We don’t have any home automation system in place yet so we are flexible in that regard, but at the same time I don’t want to be vendor locked either

  11. Comment on Garden drip irrigation recommendations in ~hobbies

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    I’m leaning toward an off the shelf solution, but this does sound really interesting

    I’m leaning toward an off the shelf solution, but this does sound really interesting

    1 vote

  12. Comment on Garden drip irrigation recommendations in ~hobbies

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    Great information, thanks! I never really thought about PVC like that being harmful/intended for waste. I’m kind of leaning toward kit based setups/off the shelf controllers. I love DIY stuff but...

    Great information, thanks! I never really thought about PVC like that being harmful/intended for waste. I’m kind of leaning toward kit based setups/off the shelf controllers. I love DIY stuff but just don’t have the time or drive to dedicate to rolling my own system right now

    2 votes

  13. Comment on Garden drip irrigation recommendations in ~hobbies

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    Sweet, thank you. I like that they come in kits, it would take me too many trips to/from the hardware store if I was trying to figure it all out from scratch.

    Sweet, thank you. I like that they come in kits, it would take me too many trips to/from the hardware store if I was trying to figure it all out from scratch.

    2 votes

  14. Garden drip irrigation recommendations

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    Anyone using a drip irrigation system they can recommend? This would be for watering veggies (and possibly flowers in the future) in raised beds. These are some of the things I’m looking for but...

    Anyone using a drip irrigation system they can recommend? This would be for watering veggies (and possibly flowers in the future) in raised beds. These are some of the things I’m looking for but I’m getting a bit overwhelmed with all the choices out there:

    • network capability, whether that be an app (iPhone) or website I can look at stats and control from
    • 2 different garden beds to start with (3’ x 8’), with possibly 2 more in the future
    • drip is the only irrigation I’m really concerned with so no need for sprinklers or anything (I don’t think, at least)
    • there is only one spigot available for the area the beds are in
    10 votes

  15. Comment on Lego - what do you do with it afterwards? in ~hobbies

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  17. Comment on Lego - what do you do with it afterwards? in ~hobbies

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    I don’t 😂 But seriously the shelf has only been up a few weeks so far so I haven’t needed to yet. I probably will use a compressed air duster and handheld vacuum?

    I don’t 😂

    But seriously the shelf has only been up a few weeks so far so I haven’t needed to yet. I probably will use a compressed air duster and handheld vacuum?

    4 votes

  18. Comment on Lego - what do you do with it afterwards? in ~hobbies

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    I built a shelf to display them. It’s a built in/floating shelf about 8 feet off the ground so the cats (hopefully) can’t get to it (so glad we have 10ft ceilings here).

    I built a shelf to display them. It’s a built in/floating shelf about 8 feet off the ground so the cats (hopefully) can’t get to it (so glad we have 10ft ceilings here).

    9 votes

  19. Comment on Fishing - angling for others hooked on the hobby AND folks who want to try in ~hobbies

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    I lived in the northeast US for many years and did a lot of bass fishing on lakes and ponds. Now I live in the southwest US and there aren’t many lakes and ponds in my area. I’m learning how to...

    I lived in the northeast US for many years and did a lot of bass fishing on lakes and ponds. Now I live in the southwest US and there aren’t many lakes and ponds in my area. I’m learning how to fish for trout in streams and will probably take this opportunity to finally try out fly fishing soon.

    5 votes

  20. Comment on Ripples through Reddit as advertisers weather moderators strike in ~tech

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    I think you’re right. I deleted my account yesterday. It was a weird feeling letting go of fake internet points but I really didn’t have anything of value that needed to be preserved there...

    I think you’re right. I deleted my account yesterday. It was a weird feeling letting go of fake internet points but I really didn’t have anything of value that needed to be preserved there anyways. The only thing I ever went back in my own history was looking at a flair in r/stopsmoking to figure out when I quit.

    In deleting my roughly 10 pages of comments/posts, I also realized I was not very active there either, I was mostly a lurker/doom scroll. Tildes has scratched an itch of a positive, ad free space that feels like the early internet and I’m happy to donate/pay to experience this

    18 votes