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by cmckn 5y ago
This is actually pretty commonplace in the LA area. I mean, you can take a tour bus that points out dozens of celebrity’s homes. It’s why many actors and influencers hire private security.
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by cmckn 5y ago
Last year, when a Nintendo Switch was difficult to come by, I found that a large retailer’s API returned exact stock counts (and even restock dates in some cases) for any physical store you wanted. Got a Switch for myself and a couple frien
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by cmckn 5y ago
The cavalier dumping of waste into lakes and rivers is wild to think about. I was recently reading about various mid-century plans to dam or widen the Bering strait in order to intentionally melt the Arctic. It’s astonishing how humanity vi
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by cmckn 5y ago
"Hacker" isn't an absolute term. This site is what it is (a community). I think it's bizarre to make an appeal to a dictionary definition in order to shift the culture of said community. If you want to see more of X, Y,
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by cmckn 5y ago
Listen, even if you disregard all of the privacy concerns and support of cancerous communities, Facebook is a shitty social network. The platform has decayed into a junk drawer that is legitimately terrible at the things it was originally d
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by cmckn 5y ago
“The twin towers went down this week and traffic to news sites went up”
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by cmckn 5y ago
I have wondered lately whether the anti-vax movement gains much of its power from the fact that most Americans don’t have a primary care physician anymore. I think almost any skeptic is convinced once they speak with a doctor they trust, wh
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by cmckn 5y ago
“My boss discovered my blog” is an interesting way to phrase “I disclosed my blog to the press using my real name”.
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by cmckn 5y ago
I was surprised when they shut down, because it seemed to work well in Denver. There was always a car within a couple blocks, and it was so much cheaper and nicer than Lyft IMO. I once drove a car2go from downtown to my apartment near the u
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by cmckn 5y ago
I tend to agree, but the numbers aren’t that crazy. My rent in the Seattle area is $2500/month. I could buy a reasonably-nice house here for around $750k. If you have a $150k down payment (which isn’t unrealistic to amass over ~5 yea
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by cmckn 5y ago
“Some” as in dozens (for my apps, at least). It’s a solution, but not a great one. The projects I depend on will have to remove such usages eventually to avoid awful UX (and avoid punching holes in encapsulation).
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by cmckn 5y ago
This also brings some big gotchas, such as the closing of encapsulation loopholes. Unsafe code and various hacks calling into the JDK will break a lot of programs; so you might be stuck on 11 if you use HBase, Spark, etc.
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by cmckn 5y ago
My perspective on this was shifted significantly by a college course focusing on the (un)sustainability of modern consumption. If you’re interested, check out Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer. I still eat meat, and don’t really plan o
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by cmckn 5y ago
I believe the author has missed the point here. The conversation is not that “working hard is a bad thing”. “Hustle culture” is about making character judgements based on how many “hustles” one has going on at any given time. That is, if yo
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by cmckn 5y ago
I don't really have any way to contextualize these rates -- like how often is the Icee machine at 7-11 down? 30% is definitely crazy high, though. Would love to see it broken down by franchises, because I'd wager that the machine
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by cmckn 5y ago
I think the "machine is always broken" meme is mostly confirmation bias. I can't even remember the last time I swung through McDonalds for a cone and the machine was down. It's probably been 5 years. Not that I do this v
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by cmckn 5y ago
If you’re still on the fence at all, apply elsewhere today . If your current employer isn’t fulfilling your personal goals, you have zero obligation to wait around until they do. It’s just a job. If your current management would react poor
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by cmckn 5y ago
Highly doubt this kind of equipment is present at the majority of institutions, or that it’s sensitive enough to find the trace of a trace amount like this. Sounds cool for a movie, though
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by cmckn 5y ago
I was once tasked with writing a crawler for FTP servers and lost about half the hair on my head over this madness. Just when I tuned the robot to work with 10 servers, an 11th would pop up that behaved totally differently. Thankfully, I&#x
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by cmckn 5y ago
I don’t fault her for growth hacking truly, but faking a deep voice for years to everyone inside and outside the company is pretty extreme in my opinion. It wasn’t just that she did the voice in a couple important meetings with some Old G
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by cmckn 5y ago
Is she still doing the fake voice? I truly cannot get enough of this story.
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by cmckn 5y ago
I think both of those focus on ingress? I suppose you could just create your CA with cert manager and manually issue cert requests, but securing in-cluster traffic (automagically) will need some other moving piece, like a sidecar proxy that
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by cmckn 5y ago
Rancher.
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by cmckn 5y ago
There is no accessible “database” for Wallet, these are just digital versions of cards that are stored on your local device in the Secure Enclave. Some items in Wallet, such as a credit card, may be included in an (encrypted) iCloud backup,
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by cmckn 5y ago
I find that passwordless links usually expire after 1 use or some amount of time; generating eternal alt-passwords for an OkCupid account in every message notification email seems pretty heinous.
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Pfizer vaccine highly effective in 6-month study(medrxiv.org)
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by cmckn 5y ago
The gig economy will not produce good journalism, as good reporters prefer a stable job as much as anyone else. I like a few writers at the NYT, so I pay $5/month to support them. Same with a few other newspapers. The bonus is I also g
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by cmckn 5y ago
I’ve never really had a good idea of what Percolator is . I understand it to be a “streaming” indexer that replaced a “batch” indexer based on MapReduce. ES allows indexing individual documents (or small batches) vs. rebuilding the entire
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by cmckn 5y ago
Aw man, they should have at least blurred the license plate :( Really cool story, I just moved to Seattle last year. Anyone know of something else I could check out?
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by cmckn 5y ago
Clearly so many nightmarish things about this setup, but the one that makes my skin crawl is: my chair. Can you imagine having to sit in a different, random office chair every single day? It's like getting in your car every morning and

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