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by basch 2y ago
if you have a calculator or a function, and you supply the input, who owns the output?
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by basch 2y ago
You tip the person who pours you a drip coffee or a tap beer, but not the person who lugs an 80lb box to your doorstep. Would you advocate eliminating the $1 handing someone a cup tip, because it is expected service and not "above and
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by basch 2y ago
I personally would love for the world NOT to move towards MORE tipping, which a tax exemption would encourage. Wouldn't it make more sense to bump standard deduction to $85,600. If someone is making more than $85,600, they pay taxes w
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by basch 2y ago
the small battery in a Sienna is a nickel-metal hydride (Ni-MH).
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by basch 2y ago
is going to stop random number generators from creating synthetic reality on local devices?
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by basch 2y ago
which has yet to leak. as far as we know, the equifax data never became public.
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by basch 2y ago
Did they tell the google maps team? If I open the mobile app, click a pin, and press share, I get a maps.app.goo.gl link Will this break every map ever shared?
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by basch 2y ago
How do you keep an airline ticketing system offline? How would anybody book tickets without access to the databases?
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by basch 2y ago
You do that for antivirus definition updates?
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by basch 2y ago
If the computer system was down, and medicine was needed to save a life, would either some protocol dictate grabbing the medicine and dealing with the paperwork or consequence later? If protocol didn’t allow for discussion, would staff sta
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by basch 2y ago
There are sooo many companies in the world, when snowflake or crowdstrike or solarwinds has an issue, it’s going to touch every industry.
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by basch 2y ago
PowerPoint? Maybe PowerPoint with embedded excel?
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by basch 2y ago
I mentioned above in the thread, perma.cc is a service, that collects government, institution, and library money and archives on their behalf. I think its a fair way to have some check and balance between a centralized library doing all the
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by basch 2y ago
there is perma.cc which gets around the archive.today and waybackmachine gray area by only allowing link archival through affiliate libraries. It's as close as you get to the government archiving journalism/culture, besides the l
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by basch 2y ago
I'm partial to this comment from Jedd saying my "seen things you wouldn't believe, attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion" / bill gates installs movie maker esque comment was his favorite of all time. http
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by basch 2y ago
what made Gmail memorable was cross browser ajax. Prior to, you had things like OWA but it only worked right in IE. The big inbetween OWA and Gmail, was Oddpost, which was also IE only, and was purchased by Yahoo three months after gmails
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by basch 2y ago
Meteor, Ember, Derby were the "next big thing" 10 years ago. Principles of Rich Web Applications (rauchg.com) Nov 4, 2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8559519 https://www.infoworld.com/arti
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by basch 2y ago
The scale of wealth/information transfer probably hasn't closely been accounted for, and is a fascinating story. https://foreignpolicy.com/2012/07/09/nsa-chief-cybercrime-co... https://ww
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by basch 2y ago
It still for whatever reason blows my mind that a subset of society hasn't adjusted to functioning based on weather instead of clock/sunlight. In a place like Phoenix that would/could mean the world shutting down 2PM-5PM inst
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by basch 2y ago
I described the current process for voting. I meant it both a little facetiously, and mostly just matter of factly.
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by basch 2y ago
It needs to basically act as an RFID. Pass the dead phone over wireless charging, enough juice passes into it for it to reply with your default cards.
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by basch 2y ago
Stop at the Post Office to pick up your One Time Expiring Activation Code, bring along a piece of mail and a friend to vouch for you.
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by basch 2y ago
But why when you can rent something good enough, and swap it for something in house later when you feel like it. Look at Apple Maps.
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by basch 2y ago
That's a round peg in a square hole. As ive seen them called elsewhere today, these "plausible text generators" can create a pseudo facsimile of reasoning, but they don't reason, and they don't fact check. Even wh
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by basch 2y ago
If the goal is to fill some time with something mildly educational, it replaces the dopamine/serotonin hit all the same.
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by basch 2y ago
Supreme Leader is like Charmain of the Board. President is like COO/CFO.
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by basch 2y ago
and the author of the article has 23 years of unused stickers in an envelope in a drawer, illustrating why its good for the author that apple is stopping
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by basch 2y ago
The user interface is extremely customizable. You can have a default layout and still keep legacy ones around. You wouldn’t need to kill the legacy layout unless you are removing the cuetomizability.
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by basch 2y ago
Despite all the attempts to improve upon the basics, hyperlinks really are better than almost everything that’s come after them.
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by basch 2y ago
I don’t have a no YouTube and Roblox policy at my house. However, mysteriously they usually arent working. It’s a lot less contentious that way

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