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by bigyikes 4y ago
>as a seller, why would I sell it at a lower price than what it is on iTunes? A seller would do this to undercut iTunes, making a sale much more likely. >As a buyer, why would I buy an iTunes movie from someone else and not from iTune
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How can this be? Every prescription I’ve ever had was dosed by my doctor. How can you possibly prescribe a drug without knowing about drug dosing?
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The person you’re replying to is a paramedic who claims to have actively stopped people from overdosing. I think they have a pretty good idea of how damaging it can be.
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I hear this repeated a all the time. I can see how this might be the case, but I just don’t get it. My social media is overwhelmingly positive. I see celebrations, beauty, fun, and love. Social media makes me happy and more connected. Maybe
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Can you have an accent in sign language? Might someone from New York sign differently than someone from Los Angeles?
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Human brains have been performing lossy text compression for thousands of years. I think we’ll be ok.
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This misses the point. A trillion dollars goes a lot further when the software is cheaper.
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For (1): consider that your entire digital life is bound to your email address. In a sense, Google owns you. $50/yr is a small price to pay for truly owning your digital life. That’s what I tell myself, anyway. (I recently renewed my F
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by bigyikes 4y ago
The word “cheaper” here is doing a lot of work. Yes, it’s cheaper, meaning that it allows you to ship more stuff faster. You could make the argument that this results in lower quality, but this isn’t always the case. (For example, VS Code
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You think the founders of the most valuable computer companies in the world are too famous?
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by bigyikes 4y ago
What about a wireless receiver instead? I have some smart light switches in my house that don’t contain batteries and aren’t wired to mains. They’re powered purely by the force of pressing the switch. A bite-powered receiver might not even
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by bigyikes 4y ago
I was thinking the same. Digikey, Mouser, etc. are great, but their websites don’t give me the same confidence that McMaster does. There’s always a fear in the back of my mind when browsing these electronics sites, wondering if the part I
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by bigyikes 4y ago
Did you enjoy school while growing up? I occasionally feel the calling to go back to school for the sheer joy of learning and mastery. It’s an odd feeling though, because I always hated school, from elementary to undergrad.
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by bigyikes 4y ago
Fiscal policy is not in the Fed’s charter. They are independent from the rest of the federal government and only control monetary policy. Adjusting taxes isn’t a tool in their toolbox. As for congress, raising taxes is wildly unpopular with
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by bigyikes 4y ago
I don’t see how GPT-3 is any more dangerous than Stable Diffusion, Photoshop, that fake news website the crazy person you’re friends with on Facebook really likes, or any of the number of other tools and services that can be used to generat
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What you call a “mistake” is actually just having empathy for the user. User experience is king. It’s not tech debt, it’s a feature.
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I’m a native Texan, also lived in CA, and “different to” also sounds somewhat foreign to me.
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Most people would pick Google if there was no default option. Most people don’t change the default option though. If Google didn’t (or couldn’t by law) pay such large sums, someone else (e.g. Bing) would pay a bit less and become the defaul
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Many people capable of paying rent declined to do so during the moratorium. Now they’re being evicted, not because their income is too little to afford housing, but because they made a series of truly reckless financial decisions. Empathy i
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The primary employee responsible for the screwdriver seemed to be a production engineer with 10 years experience. I’m also aware of experienced product designers they employ. Linus himself has product management experience, and probably emp
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by bigyikes 4y ago
The point of the quoted remark is to illustrate the exotic possibilities of “Multiverse TV”. It’s not an example of quality content you /would/ watch, it’s merely some content you /could/ watch. Multiverse TV has everyth
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by bigyikes 4y ago
The title of this article is clickbait. Every single piece of advice listed can and should be done in addition to counting calories. The single best heuristic we have for weight loss continues to be “calories in - calories out” simply bec
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Do you disagree with those comments? I ask because Dang often links to a collection of threads where people make this type claim[1]. If we’re to believe him, the bias you’re perceiving may not actually exist, and may actually be a reflectio
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I imagine having a prime number size might reduce the chance of collision, probably as a result of some property of modular arithmetic. But if you’re using a decent (i.e. actually pseudorandom) hash function I would think this is moot?
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> Richer "nice off-the-shelf device" people will stay that way, DIY with an IKEA speaker people will also stay that way. HEY! I was literally just researching wireless speakers this week, and considering Sonos. Seeing this post
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I was a DDG user for the past year, and I consistently found myself falling back to the big G due to poor result quality. I recently started paying for Kagi[1] and I’ve been very pleased with the results. I haven’t felt the need to use a di
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Check out Orion[1]. They claim to run web extensions on iOS. Apparently they ported many extension APIs to work with WebKit, which sounds pretty impressive. I can’t vouch for their iOS browser (yet) but I’ve been using their Mac browser and
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As a mid-level engineer, lately I’ve come to think that improving my writing (or more broadly, communication) skills is the best way to grow my career. All of those great ideas you have aren’t worth anything if you can’t communicate them. W
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I think there’s room for two categories of terminal apps. “Library” apps, and “User” apps. Library apps are intended to be consumed by other terminal apps, or by advanced users. User apps are strictly intended for humans. Take ffmpeg as an
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Yes. Lately I’ve found this to be true at my job, with the whole frontend/backend distinction. Job specialization is good. I mostly write TypeScript, and I can usually contribute the most value to the company by writing TypeScript and

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