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by Qub3d 5y ago
Absolutely! Another couple of grocery shopping tips (from Michael Pollan): - The Grandmother (or Great-Grandmother) test: don't buy food unless your Great-Grandmother would recognize it. I expand this to a generic hypothetical ancestor
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by Qub3d 5y ago
> Just don't buy rich foods over which you have no willpower. I started working with a dietician recently (which has benefits, but is not at all necessary) and they phrased is as, "its easier to practice willpower for 30 minute
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Absolutely! It wouldn't be easy, and would need some adjustments for colorspace etc but this is a method I have seen discussed online before. The speaker part is much easier. At some point in almost all modern audio systems, there will
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by Qub3d 5y ago
https://archive.ph/O5EFA
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Really great read, I found it very engaging! It does a great job balancing introducing concepts and teasing more advanced stuff for anyone who wants to explore further. I wish I had this text when I took my intro to computer hardware course
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by Qub3d 5y ago
The problem is that results in some users with privileged knowledge and other users without. The OP has been using language like "they" to refer to editors as some unified, privileged bloc but that is incorrect, and part of the is
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Yikes! I would sort of wonder if it was a test to see if you know scope. But for two hours? I know its Apple but I'd definitely be prepared to walk out. In that situation that gives you the freedom to clarify the job description -- if
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by Qub3d 5y ago
I imagine they're complaining about the technical interview. For the record, when I did the technical interview I didn't find it too onerous -- mostly a more advanced sort of FizzBuzz to check you could do some intermediate math a
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by Qub3d 5y ago
ReactOS isn't necessarily the best example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341933
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by Qub3d 5y ago
One of the ultimate plaintext champions is (unsurprisingly) John Gruber, the "inventor" of Markdown. One of my favorite facts about his site, daringfireball.com: You can add the extension .text to any permalink and it will render
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What Happens When a Russian Invasion Takes Place in the Social Smartphone Era(techdirt.com)
4 points by Qub3d 5y ago|0 comments
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by Qub3d 5y ago
As noted in the repo README: > One could do this with GNU sed, but developers working in proprietary operating systems don't have GNU sed.
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Good Twitter thread about the leak (nitter instance): http://twtr.domain.glass/RidT/status/1498692537741025284
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by Qub3d 5y ago
I hope none of them plan on accepting cups of tea in the near future[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvine...
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Uh-huh, ask the Sailors of Kronstadt how that went: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronstadt_rebellion#Aftermath
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by Qub3d 5y ago
And I'm about to get shot by dog with a handgun[0]. Of course nuclear is a concern to be aware of -- but that is why NATO et. al. aren't responding with boots on the ground. In our current situation, where that has been unequivoca
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by Qub3d 5y ago
I use vanced, and I have YouTube premium. Sponsor segments and missing dislike counts are killer to my experience. I also like that I can turn off elements of the YouTube design that are clearly rushed and/or TikTok also-rans demanded
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US Copyright Office refuses to register AI-generated work(ipkitten.blogspot.com)
2 points by Qub3d 5y ago|0 comments
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by Qub3d 5y ago
For the record, I support the informal system used for paywalls: Its allowed if there is a viewable alternative (archive.is or another news site). In the case of twitter, we have https://threadreaderapp.com (used to also have th
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by Qub3d 5y ago
To illustrate the above point (a little hyperbolically) https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
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A Hacker Is Actively Stealing High-Value NFTs from OpenSea Users(vice.com)
5 points by Qub3d 5y ago|0 comments
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Vivaldi is a chromium-based browser, so it comes with the pros and cons of that. Pro being that it (currently) supports ublock... we will see if they decide to adopt manifest v3 or not.
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by Qub3d 5y ago
A bit of realpolitik on my part, I'm afraid. I think even my suggestion would be a challenge to get passed in any state, let alone federally.
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Seriously. I believe victims of civil forfeiture should be given their money back + an amount equal to, say, the average stock market returns over the period it was gone (or at least a base 4-5%) as reimbursement of the opportunity cost and
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by Qub3d 5y ago
I think part of it is also an implementation pressure. If you put your dev work into building a system around managing subscriptions and processing user payments, its less easy to flip a switch and start siphoning data to 3rd-parties when t
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Kagi ultimately will be a paid service. As I've noted in the context of other services (email), by providing revenue in the form of paid services (and only paid, no freemium tier) the service doesn't have to implement ads at a
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by Qub3d 5y ago
I'm confused then, are you in support of cryptocurrency? Because what you're describing (the "system") sounds an awful lot like reinventing banks from first principles but much less efficiently. If that is how it's
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by Qub3d 5y ago
It's certainly under the category of base rate bias but it's a specific subcategory (think of it as the rhombuses and squares relationship). In this case the term is used to focus on the fact that it's not just one example he
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Counter-point: there is currently another submission on HN suggesting that crypto "off-ramps" are really problematic and difficult at the moment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30322296
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by Qub3d 5y ago
Well, yes and no. They are clearly all-in on crypto (and who wouldn't be, if I made 100 million on tulip bulbs I'd probably be all-in on tulips, too) but they do state in the featured thread that they "aren't really an N

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