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by awithrow 3y ago
Its just plain incorrect. As you note, Yuengling is older (1829) and is considered a craft brewery by the Brewers Association. Given that this is just a local news website, I just assume they're not exactly doing a ton of work verifyin
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by awithrow 3y ago
Yuengling's flaghsip is an Amber Lager, not a light lager in the same vein as bud/miller/coors. Also, they didn't introduce their amber until the 80s. Prior to that their main beer was their porter. I don't think th
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by awithrow 3y ago
This was discussed extensively yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36520658 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36520869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36520765 https:&#x
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by awithrow 3y ago
Eternal September was a problem in old chat rooms and IRC servers too. Discord isn't unique here.
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by awithrow 3y ago
Merlin really is great. My wife and I refer to it as Shazam for birds.
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by awithrow 3y ago
Honestly this is the first i've ever heard of it. Was it even a meme? I'm sure there might be some tech companies there? I've just never heard it mentioned in any of my circles.
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by awithrow 3y ago
what are your concerns here?
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by awithrow 4y ago
Oh god this is a flashback. One of my earlier jobs (circa 2010 or so) was working as a defence contractor doing operations for a system using an IBM/Weblogic/J2EE SOA stack. Part of this stack involved the XI50/XI52 and event
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by awithrow 4y ago
A few options. 1. Check the literature of who is eligible for the bonus. The bonus might get paid out for anyone who was employed as of a certain date. 2. Use this as a negotiation for a signing bonus. It's common to have some vest or
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by awithrow 4y ago
I couldn't read a free summary without signing up/creating an account, that's where I stopped. It's not really clear to me what having a curated list of book summaries gives me that I couldn't get from wikipedia or
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by awithrow 4y ago
My guess is they want to keep the overall structure of the OGL while tearing out the parts that can make the license change at the whims of WotC. The ability to carve out portions of a product as trademark/non-reproducible while releas
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Paizo Announces a New Gaming License Amid Dungeons and Dragons' OGL Controversy(gizmodo.com)
4 points by awithrow 4y ago|0 comments
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by awithrow 4y ago
Infrastructure by it's nature won't be deterministic. Fighting it to me sounds like wanting to use "assume a frictionless plane" in a real world physics solution
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by awithrow 4y ago
> But in majority of the cases developers are very much aware of environments their code run on - they know that their containers are stored in ECR, ran in ECS, their data is stored in S3 and RDS. This has absolutely not been my experien
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by awithrow 4y ago
I put mine in a near by Little Free Library and in a few days they'd all been claimed.
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by awithrow 4y ago
What games can be played well solo? Do you take the roll of multiple players?
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by awithrow 4y ago
i'ts not a law, but there is also Jevon's Paradox in which the more efficient use of a resource causes overall increase in the amount of overall consumption of the resource https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons
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by awithrow 4y ago
Depending on your stack, security patching can constitute a non-trivial amount of changes as well.
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by awithrow 4y ago
Using alexa as a timer is about 99% of what I do with mine. Occasionally I'll ask it the weather. The push for engagement is what is killing it for me. Just about everytime I ask it for something, it follows up with suggestions for oth
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by awithrow 4y ago
They get flagged because people flag them. I'm guessing given all the news on Twitter that has dominated the site recently that plenty of HNers are tied of it.
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by awithrow 4y ago
Last I checked, the kubernetes provider didn't support CRDs or custom resources. Its pretty common to have various operators running in a cluster so you'd need a different way to manage these. I usually provision clusters with Ter
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by awithrow 4y ago
I remember seeing the term around the mid to late 2000s. But it was also used primarily in the context of enterprisy J2EE, weblogic servers and various IBM hardware that made the everything way more complicated than it needed to be.
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by awithrow 4y ago
It was when someone first purchased it for $2.9M
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by awithrow 5y ago
I have. I'm sure there have always been a lot of low effort posts but I don't know why it feels like more recently. What I've also seen an uptick in are the various status posts from SaaS and cloud providers. Each one of thes
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by awithrow 5y ago
no, the savings vehicle at many workplaces is called a 401(k) (named after the section of the tax code that describes it). When you leave a job that offered the 401(k) you can take the money that was in it and transfer it to your IRA. This
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by awithrow 5y ago
If you had a 401k when leaving a job, you can roll that into your IRA. A 401k has much higher limits
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Facebook is developing its own city near Silicon Valley HQ(dailymail.co.uk)
5 points by awithrow 5y ago|0 comments
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by awithrow 5y ago
I find the active voice makes it much more clear what is happening. But I do agree that assigning blame needs to be avoided so people are comfortable dissecting these issues. I think the key point is just removing names entirely. "An e
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by awithrow 5y ago
A lot of heavy metal is the blues played very fast and with heavy distortion. So many of the solos by Pantera use the blues scale
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Show HN: I made a TTRPG tool for making loot tables in Markdown(github.com)
2 points by awithrow 6y ago|1 comments

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