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by breakpointalpha 11mo ago
He's been very clear that he intends on raising taxes to cover the budget shortfall and additional services. "Zohran’s revenue plan will raise the corporate tax rate to match New Jersey’s 11.5%, bringing in $5 billion. And he will
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by breakpointalpha 11mo ago
We call these people "compliance flies". Any large enough organization gathers them en mass to cloud real development work with "compliance."
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by breakpointalpha 11mo ago
Open Source maintainers should require a $10 deposit to submit a pull request. Even more so when there is a bounty payout. Refundable if the PR/report is accepted.
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by breakpointalpha 1y ago
Or they were raised with terrible and predatory culture. Screwing other people to get ahead is something that is frequently taught in childhood by parents and older role models that were also taught that mentality. We've all seen the M
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by breakpointalpha 1y ago
Collusion in live casinos is a real thing for sure, but it's not exactly easy to pull off. 1) Most card rooms these days are 8 or 9 players, so your team would need to be at least 3, maybe 4 to really swing the odds in your favor. 2) Y
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by breakpointalpha 1y ago
You don't have to lie to win at poker, you just have to bluff sometimes. The game is similar to chess when played at a moderate to high level.
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by breakpointalpha 1y ago
The profit from a scheme like this would likely be in the high tens of millions of dollars. The poker game itself in high-roller situations could be a million plus per night depending on the stakes. Then there's the whole "you owe
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by breakpointalpha 1y ago
First, people who are banned from online bookies use "horses" or other not-banned players to place bets for them. Second, the FBI is targeting real world Mafia members, who will typically be the bookies taking action from others.
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by breakpointalpha 1y ago
Your millage may vary, but I just got Cursor (using Claude 4 Sonnet) to one shot a sequence of bash scripts that cleanup stale AWS resources. I pasted the Jira ticket description that I wrote, with a few examples and the script works perfec
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by breakpointalpha 1y ago
This points to a Substack UI/UX problem. If a first time visitor to Substack doesn't know this, it's a bad experience.
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by breakpointalpha 1y ago
This was my immediate reaction as well. 1.5 hours is unreasonably short even for an acknowledgement message! My employer rarely has that level of urgency, let alone a side project that is probably revenue negative! This feels like a hit pie
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by breakpointalpha 1y ago
That's only a problem in the short term. Watch the company fire 50% of the engineering team then hit a brick wall at 100mph.
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by breakpointalpha 1y ago
What jumps out at me is the $135 bill of materials. What a time to be alive!
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by breakpointalpha 1y ago
Poker, specifically Texas No Limit Hold'em, is widely taught on Youtube. Here are some of the very best in the category, it would be really cool if you partnered with any of these. https://www.youtube.com/@hungryhorsepo
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by breakpointalpha 2y ago
Yes I’m very interested. I had exactly the same idea, but solved it using the “say” command and a random grab from a set of strings. I’m a Python dev and I’m happy to contribute to a project is you get it started.
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by breakpointalpha 2y ago
Yes! I wish there were better tools for getting sound out of the terminal. I got bored waiting for long running scripts to finish one day and wrote this bash one liner. Now I can run a command and put a pipe and the zzz alias on the end and
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by breakpointalpha 2y ago
If I want to do a voiceover of a ten minute video, I can type out the transcript and produce a flawless one-take audio track. This saves hours of time finding a quiet place to record, saying the lines, having a good mic, doing post-recordin
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by breakpointalpha 3y ago
Last sentence of section 39 makes it look like all you have to do is remain silent for 6 hours to be released. I'm not a lawyer.
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by breakpointalpha 3y ago
Name and shame the company, my man!
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by breakpointalpha 3y ago
Do you have any evidence that video conferencing software is being data mined for these types of metrics?
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by breakpointalpha 3y ago
We do. The politicians actively support it because they are pro-cop.
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by breakpointalpha 3y ago
Nope. You can't just walk into any bank branch you have an account with an expect to withdraw 10s of thousands of dollars without notice. Also, there are tons of people with online only banks. No physical branches at all!
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by breakpointalpha 3y ago
Horses were at the very heart of the American economy for over a hundred years, until the invention of steam power. Technology destroys old industries and creates new ones.
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by breakpointalpha 3y ago
I just bought a Quest Pro this weekend and was hoping to get something like this running. Apple should do the right thing and support early VisionOS development using the Quest Pro.
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by breakpointalpha 3y ago
Start tiny. Set a reminder to check your contact list once a week. Message someone on there you haven't talked to in a while. Say something nice, hello, how are you, have you seen the latest tech news? If you make this as easy and rout
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by breakpointalpha 3y ago
You don't have to blog to grow or manage your professional network. Set a reminder, once a week, to look at your LinkedIn. Ping someone you actually know, just to say hi. This keeps you fresh in their minds as someone who does X, and i
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by breakpointalpha 3y ago
I was instantly a big believer in Phind. It has replaced 95% of my previous DuckDuckGo searches for development info. I even used it with another developer to solve a mission critical bug based on some very vague symptoms. It's saved s
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by breakpointalpha 3y ago
What an unbelievably biased article. Knowing it's from Forbes, it's propaganda for the C-class... Quoting James Clarke, CEO of digital marketing firm Clearlink, without disclosing that he has recently come under fire for praising
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by breakpointalpha 3y ago
Easy fix is to bracket by age. 18-25, 25-35, 35-45, etc. Self select into an older or younger bracket based on your interests. If WeWork wasn't so bonkers, I'd consider giving it a try.
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by breakpointalpha 3y ago
As weird as it sounds I had this exact thought. I signed my parents up for Storyworth, which emails them once a week writing prompts about their life. I'm still weighing the ethical implications of using the entire dataset 20 years fro

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