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by danso 2y ago
That was my first thought too; I often use Google Sheets/Excel as a lightweight todo calendar, and I'll make formulas to calculate week-of-year and day-of-week. These lists are so lightweight and adhoc that having to do that kind
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'Destiny 2' Reveals Its 'Content Shredder' as a Result of Recent Lawsuit(forbes.com)
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Judge Grants SEC Request to Halt Fraud Case Against Justin Sun [pdf](storage.courtlistener.com)
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Absolutely bonkers that Hackman quit acting more than 20 years ago [0] — "Welcome to Mooseport (2004)" was his last film. But his body of work in my mind feels as timelessly relevant and fresh as Clint Eastwood's and Bill Mur
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Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels into Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence(404media.co)
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by danso 2y ago
Non-paywall link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/stanford-professor-can...
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When Professor Bryant Lin got cancer, he taught a class about it(nytimes.com)
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Been a long time casual — i.e. happy to fix my code by asking questions and copy/pasting individual snippets via the chat interface. Decided to give the `claude` terminal tool a run and have to admit it looks like a fantastic tool. Hav
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by danso 2y ago
Ever since seeing this time traveling meme [0], I'm constantly thinking about how I would be the worst time traveler ever. Maybe I could explain flight? But not electricity, definitely not the engineering needed to make it usable. [0]
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by danso 2y ago
Looking back, U7 is a deeply flawed game (the combat basically provides zero challenge, the inventory system is horrendous) yet its game world is so deeply immersive that it's not at all surprising to see this kind of open source labor
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The Medicare budget in 2023 was $830 billion [0]. Where are you getting $400B from? [0] https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/what-to-know-about-...
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by danso 2y ago
Related podcast with the authoring researcher and the specific Treasury API she used: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1231335530 > Now, it is not an accident that this document exists, this beautiful, awkwardly hyp
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Tracking federal expenditures in real time(hamiltonproject.org)
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Use of LLM in Prime Video Movie Summary(bsky.app)
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The SSA OIG has done a couple of investigations into this the past decade. In 2023 [0], it agreed with the SSA that "almost none of the numberholders discussed in the report [people aged 100 or older] currently receive SSA payments&quo
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by danso 2y ago
The U.S. government is a service with 330 million people who are both users and legal stakeholders, mandated to provide and maintain a variety of services and databases that predate the Internet and personal computing by several decades, an
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What's especially unfortunate is that experienced USDS employees had already achieved the one software engineering task that is basically impossible for a 19-year-old (or a newly hired USDS employee of any age): convincing a federal de
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Worth noting that the U.S. Digital Service (USDS, i.e the org that DOGE has now subsumed) has for a long while been experts at building and deploying static websites for the federal government. And doing it completely in the open. Within mi
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by danso 2y ago
> How lazy can you get?" Genuine question: What would the ideal docker-free solution look like in your opinion? That is, something that is accessible to the average university student, researcher, and faculty member? What installa
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USDS/website (GitHub repo for usds.gov Jekyll deployment)(github.com)
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The doge.gov page doesn't mention salary range, but the previous USDS job page [0] points to the salary tables found at the OPM; here's the one for DC [1]. The USDS page includes this blurb: > Salaries in government may change
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by danso 2y ago
The sequel introduced a couple of non-time-limited challenges, including: make the biggest katamari with just 50 objects, and make a katamari that’s exactly 50cm. I think the time limits worked fine for adding challenge to the game — IIRC t
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Postmortem: The singular design of Namco's Katamari Damacy (2004)(gamedeveloper.com)
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The Social Security Administration and Information Technology (1986) [pdf](ssa.gov)
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The Leaning Tower of New York(newyorker.com)
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by danso 2y ago
FYI the issue of free tax filing — including opposing TurboTax's lobbying efforts to kill it — has been a fairly popular topic on HN, to the tune of thousands of upvotes over the years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange
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by danso 2y ago
The Obama admin created the US Digital Service — i.e. the unit that “DOGE” has now reappropriated — which attracted and hired folks like Google’s Matt Cutts [0]. The USDS did not, as far as we know, try to sneak in fresh-out-of-college-grad
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Nice to see a principled stand by a regional leader. I've seen people (e.g. Shopify's CEO) complain that Canada should be more compliant to the U.S.'s demands. But that implies there is something reasonable to be complaint to
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Cisagov/dotgov-data: the official list of registered domains in the .gov zone(github.com)
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“Unconventional” compared to the average athlete

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