SnorkelTan

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by SnorkelTan 29d ago
Some municipalities have been able to levy taxes on computer hardware and fund their public services.
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by SnorkelTan 1mo ago
The vested shares are unlikely to be worth anything, so they are essentially just working for a salary.
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by SnorkelTan 1y ago
My thought is they got on the phone with someone and got their IP ranges white listed with the major captcha providers.
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by SnorkelTan 1y ago
Were you Senior? I look at those situations as eat what you kill. Like I would ask my manager to put me in touch with arch or up level engineers to tell me where the focus is and find tickets to work on myself.
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by SnorkelTan 1y ago
I'm not a webdev, but I suspect an overwhelming majority of their traffic is on mobile devices. So that's where a majority of eng time is probably spent. Not that it shouldn't be fixed.
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by SnorkelTan 1y ago
Why not just use http retry-after? then you can use middleware/proxy to control this behavior. Downside here is that system operation becomes more opauqe and fragmented across systems.
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by SnorkelTan 1y ago
I remember the original post the author is referring to. I was captivated by it and thought it was cool. When I ran the original mentioned in the post, it detected my one of my alt's that I forgot about. OP's newer implementation
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
I can’t imagine getting Medicaid to cover the biologic that I take that costs $5,000 a month without a prescription to be anything other than a nightmare.
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
I take a biologic that costs $5,000 a month without a prescription. $1k a month is honestly easier and I can afford it. I enjoy the luxury of being able to afford to not have to navigate the stupid “oh, so you’re poor” patchwork bullshit th
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
What would you recommend for a backend developer looking to make the switch from rest crud apps to ml platforms?
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
I quit my job as a dev to care for my father who has dementia. Using COBRA and paying for the identical health insurance I had from my employer is $1,000/mo. I have no dependents. California minimum wage annual income is ~$32k. Almost
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
Stack overflow was an invaluable resource for me as a developer. I got a wealth of knowledge about a bunch of thorny problems I was encountering with out paying anything. The people who answered the questions I had were able to help far mor
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
Are there any command line tools that will help me with the drudgery of diving into an existing Java project using gradle and say something like “please update the dependencies of this package to this version using the existing project conv
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
His first name is Brian. That’s his picture at the top. I can’t think of any other groups or organizations that have the persona of a single person. Can anyone point to an example? Genuinely curious about this.
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
Is it execution or price? Iirc the broker cannot give you a worse price if it knows of a better one... But is the regulation that the price must actually result in an executed trade?
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
What your suggestions is front running. This is illegal for stocks and most assets (not FX!). This will get a broker in hot water. The more nuanced practice that brokers use to monetize is payment for order flow. They sell your security ord
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
From what I've read the discrimination women face in their careers is a huge contributor to the problem... Which was not discussed at all.
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
Could also have been inserting commercials from video ad companies? Wonder if anyone pays for pirate streams directly
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
Looking at the order messages sent to and received from another trading system was not uncommon when I worked in that neck of the woods
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
The chips are improving. They are adding dedicated AI co-processors/cores. Every major chip developer is moving towards providing functionality that supports running AI models locally on chip. Eventually all of these use cases will be
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
I don’t think any native English speaker would use this word choice. Probably not a native English speaker… user name implies Indian.
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
The bitcoin atms follow kyc. You have to have an account with a verified identity. Examining the exchange rates offered by these ATMs and the fact that the customers are insensitive to the rates offered by these services will illuminate why
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
I read somewhere, maybe a job ad, it was an all cash compensation? Has this changed recently?
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
or the liability for the fault with the software maker. Like a defective car that kills ppl reners the manufacturer of the car responsible.
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
Banking is one of the domains where you will encounter the bleeding edge of sophisticated bot/malware detection. Banks lose billions to fraud and theft. They will pay top dollar to detect and prevent it. Likewise, since the thieves can
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
If solar panels can be turned off, why are utility companies having to sell excess power at a loss? Why can’t they tell the solar farms to reduce their output by the required amount?
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
Preserving the community and also preserving the low tax rate at which people who bought their houses ages ago pay. If the people who “put down roots” had to pay in property taxes what the newer arrivals have to pay, many of them would be
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
My dad’s relative (uncle I think?) ran the team that fabricated the detonators for the bombs. They weren’t told what the purpose was when they built them. They found out what the purpose was when they were used.
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
I also remember reading somewhere the frequency of mass shootings pre-2008-2010 decreased dramatically with the rise of social media. Right around the time Facebook use became ubiquitous. I was trying to find the source, but couldn't.
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by SnorkelTan 2y ago
It searched the web and cited sources.

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