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by Spivak 10mo ago
Because Epic hitched their real desire, we want to do digital distribution independent of Apple, to wanting alternative App Stores and alternative payment methods. And Apple responded with a scheme that does the latter without the former. S
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by Spivak 10mo ago
That's immediately what I thought of. You'll never be able to satisfy this rule when every service has lines pointing to auth. You'll probably also have lines pointing to your storage service or database even if the data is i
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by Spivak 10mo ago
I'm really glad you're not in charge of making laws. The one thing you can do as a parent is override most age restrictions. You can give your child alcohol, you can take them to R rated movies, you can let them watch NC-17 movies
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by Spivak 10mo ago
And yet this has been the system for the last 35 years and somehow the sky didn't fall. Either you're old enough to understand what porn is and have desires to consume it in which case you won't be scarred by it and don'
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by Spivak 10mo ago
Wow. Why even remove it? It's just the thinnest wrapper around the dict and since the dict is now part of the public API these methods will work forever unmodified.
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by Spivak 10mo ago
HN literally has an algorithmic feed and the karma system is the most addictive system used on forums. It's why Reddit is so addictive. Either HN is part of the evil social media club or the rule for what separates the good ones from t
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by Spivak 10mo ago
This is the way, you name things random words devoid of all connection to software because you don't want to confuse people later when the scope grows or changes. Well so in the beginning we only supported email notifications which is
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by Spivak 10mo ago
But it's not even imperative. Your code runs, declares all its resources up front and then normal terraform runs on it. With cdktf you can even have it output the HCL. At the point where we are templating Terraform files we've alr
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by Spivak 10mo ago
???? We're on social media right now.
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by Spivak 10mo ago
Like the choice of typeface is of literally no importance whatsoever but it is also the funniest thing in the world that there is now a DEI font.
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by Spivak 10mo ago
I'm probably just going to bite the bullet and replace the panel but this is really good to know.
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by Spivak 10mo ago
I guess I should have said "a more inconvenient time" where owning an EV kinda revolves around your charging setup/schedule in a way that you don't have to think about with ICE cars. I know some people swear by them bein
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by Spivak 10mo ago
I say this as someone who owns an electric scooter and whose next car will be an EV—the sales pitch for EVs right now is basically pay more (especially now that the tax credit is gone) to have a worse time and maybe eventually claw some o
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by Spivak 10mo ago
Well duh because "just make everyone underwater on their mortgage" is a bit of a silly solution that definitely won't have any second order effects.
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by Spivak 10mo ago
I mean the answer is "not very profitable." They're making less profit as a percentage of revenue than Costco. They absolutely should do better at updating the tags on their shelves but they're less making it rain and mo
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by Spivak 10mo ago
Lordy this comment section is tiring: * The number of wood banks are increasing in Maine because of rising cost of living meaning residents can't afford the $300/cord anymore and because of cuts to the LIHEAP program. * Wood banks
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by Spivak 10mo ago
Everyone likes to hate on Dollar General but they made a little over $1 billion in profit on a little over $40 billion of goods sold which is a 2.7% profit margin. In terms of real value delivered to customers it's really hard to beat
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by Spivak 10mo ago
It's not really about Google, I think the reason that HN in general is.. annoyed at the actions of the EU is because they're worried these rulings will be far reaching. This one in particular: fetching content from a website and f
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by Spivak 10mo ago
The title is less nonsense than it first appears. Cassettes are riding the coattails of vinyl getting popular again as collectibles. Lots of medium sized bands added vinyl to their merch stands to great success with their fans but the total
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by Spivak 10mo ago
I mean they do advertise themselves as an ERP system so that part tracks.
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by Spivak 10mo ago
I will say that with enough group policy and sysinternals turning absolutely everything off, turning all of the settings to maximum performance lowest flashiness, no web results, killing Cortana with reckless abandon my Windows installation
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by Spivak 10mo ago
I mean it's not even politics in the way most people think about it—like this is just blatant corruption. Trump moved in and said this is my swamp. We're not even gonna get a good investigative journalism podcast about the corrupt
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by Spivak 10mo ago
Which is why the model that would actually be good for consumers and the model that absolutely no content producer wants which is splitting content creation from distribution isn't going to happen. Let a bunch of companies compete over
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by Spivak 10mo ago
I think the point is that for Amazon it's their own code and they pay full time staff to be familiar with the codebase, make improvements, and fix bugs. OpenStack is a product. The people deploying it are expected to be knowledgeable a
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by Spivak 10mo ago
I don't think you would reasonably expect it to be close to 50/50. Most price changes are increases and the mistake theory basically boils down to the employees never updating the shelf tags. Which I think is an extremely plausibl
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by Spivak 10mo ago
I really don't know what this means about the state of the corporate world but companies just don't care if it's bad. Higher ups demand the feature be added but then don't care at all if it's good or even if people
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by Spivak 10mo ago
Same stone, different people trying to squeeze it. But every time we go around the loop it does seem to improve. What we have now with "home theater" is instant, on-demand, portable, and super cheap both compared to cable tv and m
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by Spivak 11mo ago
I think, broadly, this is what neurodivergent people want. Nobody considers having poor vision a disability despite it nominally being one since it's so well accommodated. And it's so well accommodated in part because it affects s
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Responsibility without accountability is that it's your job to make sure something gets done but you don't face any real consequences for not doing it. Accountability without responsibility is "being the final desk." Lea
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by Spivak 11mo ago
Because I don't think there is a max price. Like of course there is in practice case by case because individuals don't have infinite money but nobody wants to be told "sorry, we can treat your condition but we're not goi

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