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by couchand 4y ago
20% is on the order of 40%
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by couchand 4y ago
Kids are crazy. One second they'll be yelling in your face about how completely different from you they are, then the next minute they're repeating you verbatim to a friend. You can absolutely get a kid excited about a long walk.
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by couchand 4y ago
Is your panel of end users self-selected, by chance?
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Ask HN: Firefox Updates – Too Aggressive?
2 points by couchand 4y ago|1 comments
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by couchand 4y ago
I once saw a productive argument on the internet.
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by couchand 4y ago
> you do have to set it up so that you can send email from the addresses Fastmail's webmail allows you to specify the sending email address for a catch-all mailbox in the message composition page, so there is no additional setup the
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by couchand 4y ago
I don't trust Zoom, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't trust any video client. Zoom is uniquely untrustworthy in the wide world of software.
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by couchand 4y ago
That's a great point about looking to music equipment for UX ideas. If you want to see what happens when a design team puts serious effort into building a satisfying and effective interface, look at electronic music devices.
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by couchand 4y ago
But you could put the knob back on, right? I mean, it slides off to make it easier to clean or replace, and you just need to slide it back on...?
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by couchand 4y ago
I'm not sure there's legal or historical basis for that assertion? Edit: see this comment from elsewhere in this thread with a link to a scholarly history of civil asset forfeiture: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by couchand 4y ago
Not the GP, but I read "we use spin waiting" as a response to "aren't you wasting a bunch of CPU cycles" in the sense that "yes, but it's the least bad option".
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by couchand 4y ago
Not the GP and I do not have relevant scientific expertise, but my memory from beer is that CO2 stays dissolved longer than N2? Are they underwater?
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by couchand 4y ago
This is really neat! Also, please don't hijack the back button if you're not going to do anything useful with it!
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by couchand 4y ago
As a disinterested bystander, it sure seems like, "this coin failed" is a reasonable rebuttal to the argument that this coin is an example of success.
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by couchand 4y ago
If we're designing a system that relies on an unconventional and otherwise quite rare use-case of a dependency in order to make critical long-term stability guarantees, I would rather that dependency be SQLite, for sure.
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by couchand 4y ago
Maybe it's just my suspicious-of-everything-distributed brain, but that diagram seems to assume a single universal time scale without any discussion of the implications.
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by couchand 4y ago
It's brilliant that a person can ship their WAL from an app that doesn't know anything about Litestream. That's cool. But it is not in fact just SQLite. If it were, there wouldn't be a blog post, or an additional bina
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by couchand 4y ago
> > Any read (GET or LIST request) that is initiated following the receipt of a successful PUT response will return the data written by the PUT request. > So this is stronger than RYW. I'm not sure that it is? The examples li
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by couchand 4y ago
This is great and I'm definitely going to be using it this week in a client project. That being said, you don't get an innovation rebate for using a new tool, even if, as here, it's a parsimony-enabler. It's still a new
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by couchand 4y ago
I'm not familiar with UK banking but this sounds like something lost in translation. The checks the ancestors are speaking of are personal checks, basically just an IOU -- I'm guessing this is more like your "for electricity
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by couchand 4y ago
Not GP, but one architecture where there would be a difference is there's a distinct identity provider, responsible solely for exchanging the user's long-lived username/password credentials for a short-lived ticket.
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Tell HN: We'd better step up to protect privacy
47 points by couchand 4y ago|25 comments
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by couchand 4y ago
I may just be a simple big city technologist, but there's something really vim-like about broadcast that I thoroughly appreciate. I sure hope I'm not the only one who sees value in such things!
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by couchand 4y ago
Well, I'd argue that till now many of our most vibrant flowers of innovation ultimately grew out of basic research into how the universe works. A deeper understanding of the fabric of the universe seems enough to me to call it "s
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by couchand 4y ago
Unfortunately, there exist two different distributed protocols named scuttlebutt. The one referenced here is a gossip algorithm, the one you mention is a social network protocol. They appeal to different enough spheres and scuttlebutt is s
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by couchand 4y ago
Usually that's modeled in the application layer. In scuttlebutt you'd store a higher-level state as one of the node-specific parameters. The gossip protocol doesn't need to know that you know the node knows it's about
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by couchand 5y ago
The concern with SEO is that the goal is to drive traffic to a site without meaningfully improving the content. Doesn't the same argument apply here? If the video doesn't change, and it's just the title and thumbnail changin
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by couchand 5y ago
Evidently, at least two people care.
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by couchand 5y ago
Something I find wonderful about the OP is that the emphasis is on the humanity. It's not that the news outlet is lying, it's that they are human and making a very human mistake. The OP's argument is that, even when the hum
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by couchand 5y ago
Except Donny's Discount Gas!

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