Zanni

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by Zanni 3y ago
Some advantages of the parenthetical time entry: 1) more granular control over time; I can easily enter (:02) or (:10) without going to a second-level menu to access the slider; 2) I can estimate times for all my tasks in advance, which mak
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by Zanni 3y ago
This is fantastic! Just used it to knock off five quick tasks. I don't have ADHD (to the best of my knowledge), but I do love a running timer to help me focus. It reminds me a lot of an old tool put out by Harvest (time-tracking softwa
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by Zanni 3y ago
Charging for access is at odds with the idea of a public town square. On the other hand, I can't help but feel that this will raise the level of discourse. Folks like the idea of free public speech, but then it inevitably becomes (in
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by Zanni 3y ago
I love the copy on the individual hat pages. Here’s a snippet from the Hemingway hat: “I don't want it all crisp and ironed looking. Don't worry about it. I want it to lose the shape you give it, as it takes the shape I give it. I
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by Zanni 3y ago
I'm very much in favor of local governments raising additional funds by selling cosmetic upgrades (rather than outsourcing enforcement of speed limits to privately owned traffic cameras, for instance).
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by Zanni 3y ago
Turing "mechanism" is a bit misleading, but I'm fascinated to learn about Turing patterns . [0] I'm not swayed by either side of the debate (and don't really care), but learning about Turing patterns was worth the
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by Zanni 3y ago
As a sometime pedestrian, I can tell you that those are the sorts of mistakes human drivers make all the time .
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by Zanni 3y ago
https://lovebloodrhetoric.com/ Writing about writing. And swords. Of most interest to HN readers is probably this piece of flash fiction, Prompt Engineering for pre-Singularity Service Workers [0], inspired by the idea that
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by Zanni 3y ago
You had me with you until your final two words. I'm not a fan of Lord of the Rings either, but I can't say I'm "not impressed." It's clearly a work of genius, though it doesn't appeal to me personally. A
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by Zanni 3y ago
This may blow your mind: Alvin Toffler wrote the book Future Shock [1] about the psychological effect of "too much change in too short a period of time" in 1970 . That predates cell phones (1973), personal computers (1977), the
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by Zanni 3y ago
It seems to be mostly security alerts on large transfers (over $10,000). The first version of this story I read [0] had Thacker's transfer (first in the WSJ story) as $17,000, not $1,700, but maybe that's a typo. [0] https:/
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by Zanni 3y ago
We're already there with tablets (Surface, iPad) with attached keyboards. Personally, I prefer the bulk and weight of the device to be on the table, not propped up, but some folks love this configuration.
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by Zanni 3y ago
That's true, but in this case, Washington State has no income tax. The capital gains rate here isn't an unfair rate that privileges the wealthy, it's an additional tax burden on the wealthy.
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by Zanni 3y ago
The IRS is already doing this. They used to have a password-based login system, but they're switching over to ID.me, which requires a scan of your ID and a matching selfie.
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by Zanni 3y ago
Tim Ferriss has a great blog about this (the risk from crazy folks as your fame increases): https://tim.blog/2020/02/02/reasons-to-not-become-famous/
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by Zanni 3y ago
It's just an electronic table; the dice are real. The goal is to reduce the crew working the table from 4 down to 1. Presumably much easier to get away with shenanigans with six fewer eyes on the action, which, I assume, is why they ta
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by Zanni 3y ago
There are still real dice being thrown. Only the betting is handled electronically.
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by Zanni 3y ago
I can't remember the last time I saw a single-deck game being dealt. Lowest I've seen (and not recently) is double-deck, dealing about half the cards before shuffling. More common are six or eight deck shoes, dealing anywhere from
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by Zanni 3y ago
Please show your work. The top marginal rate in the US is 35% plus state taxes of up to 12.3% (California). If you can arrange to take your income as long term capital gains or qualified, you can get the federal rate down to 20% (but you&#x
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by Zanni 3y ago
A signal of what? What's your point?
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by Zanni 3y ago
Tesla support this. "Set temperature to 70."
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by Zanni 3y ago
Or ... trade it in for a better EV (i.e. a Tesla). The Supercharger network is much denser and more reliable than the patchwork of non-Tesla chargers. My anecdotal experience matches the author's of roughly a quarter of all public (non
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by Zanni 3y ago
Favorite bit: "What if the 432 had won? Computing would be very different. Many security problems wouldn't exist. You can't have a buffer overflow because every data structure is a separate object with memory segment size enf
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by Zanni 3y ago
Banning is a little extreme, but I agree that title is unhelpful. Better title would be "Ruff is a fast Python linter written in Rust" (which is a slight paraphrase from one of the subheads).
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by Zanni 3y ago
AI is the better UX! I've been using ChatGPT to do all sorts of things--proofreading, generating "diffs" on unstructured documents, getting text web-ready by substituting HTML-entities--that I already have tools for but use
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by Zanni 4y ago
Curious about your math that equates 7 billion transactions per month to a "few people." That's a relative increase of more than 400%. I think you could argue that we were already on that trajectory, but it sure looks (to me)
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by Zanni 4y ago
I'm not a one-pedal driver, but I do love regenerative braking. danans is right about charging at 120v. It's doable for some, depending on their needs (at a charging speed of 3-5 mph). But I live in a townhouse, and my parking spo
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by Zanni 4y ago
EVs are quieter due to lack of engine noise. This is especially noticeable when paused at intersections. EVs don't "idle." There's also no engine shake, something which never bothered me in ICE cars until I started going
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by Zanni 4y ago
Agree that turbulence is inescapable, but that's exactly why every passenger should have a seat belt.
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by Zanni 4y ago
Not that unusual. Just a month earlier, 25 passengers were injured on a flight coming into Hawaii from Phoenix, 6 of them severely enough to require hospitalization. [0] "Between 2009 and 2021, at least 146 people, including passenge

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