Meekro

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by Meekro 3y ago
That's a fair question. I'm sure some attendees are pro-Palestine, but many of the important organizers might not be. I've seen a few things over the last 2 weeks that led me to this impression: * While speaking at an off-c
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by Meekro 3y ago
Not the GP poster, but I would honestly be okay with that because I actually believe in free speech . As we discovered over the last 2 weeks, though, many colleges (including at least half of the ivy league) are also okay with pro-Hamas ra
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by Meekro 3y ago
This is definitely right. It's amazing how quickly presumption of innocence goes out the window when the accused is from the enemy tribe. In this case, it's a person who hasn't even been formally indicted, much less convicted
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by Meekro 3y ago
> Well they could just not allow prompts that seem to participate in blogspam. Unfortunately, any question that lots of people legitimately ask will also be a prompt for blogspam.
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by Meekro 3y ago
Apache2 still doesn't support HTTP/3 (though I hear nginx recently added it). So yeah, the increasing adoption numbers seem to be major websites like Google and YouTube, and major CDNs like Cloudflare and Cloudfront.
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by Meekro 3y ago
I've wondered about this myself. It's not just grocery scanning-- my parents used to get a bunch of bills in the mail every month, and send out a bunch of checks to pay them. It's stunning to think about how many people were
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by Meekro 3y ago
Japan's government seems so functional compared to what I'm used to in the US, that I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. Their governments are building all sorts of things every year while we can't seem t
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by Meekro 3y ago
It's true that you have to use their DNS, but that's it. You don't have to use their CDN (it's easy to turn off) and you don't have to use their SSL certs.
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by Meekro 3y ago
I didn't want to move away from Sublime Text, so I made a continuous sync tool for remote editing. I've been using it for quite a while now and it works pretty well. https://unisync.sh/
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by Meekro 3y ago
I have two sites that provide documentation for open source libraries I've created, and I definitely won't be blocking ChatGPT. It has already read my documentation and can correctly answer most StackOverflow-level questions about
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by Meekro 3y ago
Scott Alexander has an interesting take on legacy admissions[1]: the idea is to admit some privileged kids, and some smart kids, so that each can benefit from the other's presence. In other words, if you're a smart kid trying to p
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by Meekro 3y ago
What, specifically, would have happened to you if you simply ignored it all? Would you have accidentally violated one of these new laws (in the place where you live) because of not reading the news?
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by Meekro 3y ago
Maybe we should distinguish the impact of the story itself from the impact of people reacting to the story after they read the news? The Tea Party talked a lot about taxes and got a bunch of people elected to Congress, but if you simply ign
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Newest College Admissions Ploy: Paying to Make Your Teen a Peer-Reviewed Author(propublica.org)
4 points by Meekro 3y ago|2 comments
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by Meekro 3y ago
I'm reminded of an old saying, "The world is run by those who show up."
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by Meekro 3y ago
Some of the worst places to live in the world (Somalia, Sudan, Gaza, etc) also have the highest birth rates. I'm sure the lack of birth control contributes here, but I still feel like we're missing a piece of the puzzle. In any ca
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by Meekro 4y ago
Why not cut out the middleman and pay the kid? Go to the poorest high school in town, tell the kids they each get $1,000 at the end of the school year if their performance is at grade level (and $5,000 if they're in the top 10%), and w
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by Meekro 4y ago
Understandable, though. I'm sure the comments section will not represent the programmer community at their best.
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by Meekro 4y ago
I run a hosting company that has around 100 large dedicated servers at OVH. OVH's website sucks, but everything else is great-- outages are extremely rare in my experience, and their built-in DDoS protection is excellent. Also, OVH&#x2
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by Meekro 4y ago
I'm glad to hear you'll be addressing this. To an unsophisticated reader like myself, it sounds like you guys are planning to examine the code I edit in Zed, maybe even keep copies of it. Aside from the general creepiness, many pr
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by Meekro 4y ago
I'm the creator of this tool. I like to use my local text editor (Sublime Text) to work on code, but I need to run that code on a remote VPS. Running scp every time I save gets old fast, so I needed a better way. I made unisync, a cont
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Show HN: Unisync, the programmer's continuous sync too(unisync.sh)
2 points by Meekro 4y ago|1 comments
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by Meekro 4y ago
Agreed! To me and all the gamers I know, Steam (and consoles) is gaming, whereas cell phone games are that scammy market full of skinner boxes, ads, and deliberately broken games designed to milk you for money. I never would have guessed
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by Meekro 4y ago
I've worked with products like that on the backend, and they're all perfectly capable of receiving data from your website so that the live chat staffer has all your info automatically show up. Someone was lazy and just didn't
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by Meekro 4y ago
I get what you mean, but what's the alternative? How should you behave if you're exempt from normal social boundaries because of your personal tragedy? Shout at random people? Throw things? Punch some guy in the face? Seems to m
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by Meekro 4y ago
Humans can't tell that difference, except in the sense of "it's good when my side does it to you, and bad when it's the other way around." Elon Musk aggressively criticized Yoel Roth, forcing him to flee his home
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by Meekro 4y ago
"Don't publish someone's location in realtime (24 hour delay is required)" seems like a simple rule that can be enforced even-handedly against both sides. On the other hand, "don't do speech that causes harm&qu
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by Meekro 4y ago
Probably it's "Full Self-Driving." The other kind of FSD is a bit further away, I'm guessing. :P
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by Meekro 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at. This looks like a standard minivan layout, but without a driver. I'm pretty socially awkward myself, and I've always used taxis and such without any issue.
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by Meekro 4y ago
Could you explain what you're getting at? Taxis have been a part of modern cities for a long time, and they serve a purpose beyond moving humans "from screen to screen." This looks to me like an attempt to make a more modern,

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