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by Tagbert 8mo ago
specifically to prevent this kind of tracking
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by Tagbert 8mo ago
Even in the US, for most people tax filing it not really a complex process. It only gets complicated if you are trying to itemize deductions and have a complex income story. Most people can do it with a couple of documents and a single form
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by Tagbert 8mo ago
That’s never a good, long term business model and people are willing to pay more for Apple hardware because it tends to last longer than others. We’ve heard this cynical take for years, but I don’t think that it is really convincing.
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by Tagbert 8mo ago
We know that he’s very pro-worm
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by Tagbert 8mo ago
So you might be discriminated against by some ignorant teenagers? Probably for the best.
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by Tagbert 8mo ago
But… winning!
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by Tagbert 8mo ago
The problem isn't really SVG but the more complex problem of looking at a, possibly noisy, image with continuous color variations and identifying the cutoff point where you contain one part in a border and a different part in another b
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by Tagbert 8mo ago
HN has been right leaning? That seems an odd take. Most comments I see on here lean more progressive. Or are you talking about the billionaire tech class who are in their own demographic?
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by Tagbert 8mo ago
Where I live we vote by mail by filling in little bubbles with a pen. the counting is done by simple photoelectronic tabulators and there is a built-in, human readable record that can be checked by hand. It is very economical and hard to co
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by Tagbert 9mo ago
Brasilian Portuguese adopted that as their main greeting though spelled “tchau”.
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by Tagbert 9mo ago
Most MD readers I’ve seen show an editor and preview side by side.
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by Tagbert 9mo ago
Oddly, Apple has gotten a lot of criticism for not including chargers be default with their phones for this specific reason.
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by Tagbert 9mo ago
And BBEdit
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by Tagbert 9mo ago
Thanks for the additional detail.
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by Tagbert 9mo ago
From what I know - There are two sister groups, the Archae and Bacteria. Their ancestor would be LUCA. The first Archae would be the archaeal ancestor. There should be a first bacteria to match that. I believe that Eukaryotes then from Arch
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by Tagbert 9mo ago
Having a great hand axe might be more analogous to the boy with the “bitchin Camaro” to attract the girls. Or more recently, performance in a street takeover.
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by Tagbert 9mo ago
I've been using the Claudi.ai website for a project and that is pretty much what I do, though I have uploaded all of the source files to Claude so I only need to upload anything that I changed. I don't need to reupload the whole c
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by Tagbert 9mo ago
Then practice keeping your phone in your pocket for increasingly long periods of time. You may need to build up to this and to develop some level of control.
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by Tagbert 9mo ago
It can be at first until you get used to it. You can observe your surroundings, make up stories about what is happening. Ask yourself questions. Listen to yourself. This is a bit like excercise. When you first start, 30 minutes of exercise
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by Tagbert 9mo ago
Safari has long been better for battery than Chrome but people still install Chrome on their MacBooks.
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by Tagbert 9mo ago
Current news media is even more narrowly focused on the three hot news stories of the day with 24-hour repetitive commentary all funneled into the narrative of the day.
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by Tagbert 9mo ago
Nice project. In 1990 I used AutoLISP to setup a tool that the state legislature would use for redistricting after the census. The AutoLISP let them interactively assign counties to districts while seeing the voter numbers and then export i
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by Tagbert 10mo ago
The southern end of the Atlas, the Anti-Atlas range, is from the same formation as the Appalachans. The rest of the Atlas came from a different (later?) event.
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by Tagbert 10mo ago
They are just reporting what is happening. Tesla has been making some really bad product calls for the last couple of years.
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by Tagbert 10mo ago
Much of the cost of Alexa wasn't the data center costs, as Alexa was not, until recently, an AI. Amazon lost tons of money selling cheap Echo speakers at below cost expecting people would use Alexa on those to buy things. Turns out, pe
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by Tagbert 10mo ago
From the paper... Why "experimental" HTML? Did you know that 90% of submissions to arXiv are in TeX format, mostly LaTeX? That poses a unique accessibility challenge: to accurately convert from TeX—a very extensible language used
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by Tagbert 10mo ago
Or people should read beyond the headline before commenting
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by Tagbert 10mo ago
From my perspective, all browsers are fast enough and within a couple of percent the same performance. I value features, privacy, etc. More than raw speed.
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by Tagbert 10mo ago
Why? How is it helpful to him, to his wife, or their son to live this lie of unhappiness. The lie will be more damaging than facing the truth.
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by Tagbert 10mo ago
Yes, there are some toxic people here, as in any community or population, but there are also thoughtful and compassionate people here. This article seems to be mostly filled with the latter. I don’t know what your experience on HN has been

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