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by dools 3y ago
The culture war bullshit is how they convince people to vote for small government which is against almost everyone’s financial well-being except for a vanishingly small number of rich arseholes. The core mission of the movement is still ana
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by dools 3y ago
This is a fun project. It reminds me of a little console of sorts my brother and I had when I was around the age of 4. I remember it only as "TV Games" and I'm pretty sure it only had pong on it. It's funny to think abou
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by dools 3y ago
Thank fuck for that. No more having to remind it not to give me stupid suggestions like "reach out to the manufacturer or the online community for advice", or give me brainless warnings about how the thing I'm trying to do is
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by dools 3y ago
The headline is a simile.
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by dools 3y ago
Not only that but the cash swapped for bonds is also a liability of the government, so it is just swapping one liability for another. What we call government debt is just an operational vestige.
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by dools 3y ago
None of what you just said is true, it’s libertarian propaganda.
757.
by dools 3y ago
It can make a pretty big difference if you have lots of money though.
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by dools 3y ago
"i not read sms who isn't from 2fa in more than 7 years, it is publicity, scams, and miss calls." Funnily enough the volume of scam calls and txt that I receive via WhatsApp is why I have it disabled. The only reason I ever u
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by dools 3y ago
That's mental, no wonder everyone uses WhatsApp! EDIT: out of curiosity, which country are you in?
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by dools 3y ago
WhatsApp rose to prominence because data was cheaper than SMS. Is that still the case in Latin America? In Australia there are no mobile plans with metered SMS charges anymore.
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by dools 3y ago
It would be interesting to redo the calculation based on the weight change in electronic storage media when data is written versus being zeroed out: https://langa.com/index.php/2019/08/29/yes-your-hdds-an
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by dools 3y ago
The problem is the method of prioritisation. I propose a method I call "task shortlisting", the only tool I've found capable of achieiving it from an interface perspective is Trello: https://benkoworks.com/sho
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by dools 3y ago
I do this with my servers
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by dools 3y ago
If you know just what you want you could a) buy online or b) buy it from any other retailer. The Apple Store is for people who want to speak to apple staff
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by dools 3y ago
Fundamentally we have only 1 problem worth solving: how to support 11bn people sustainably and equitably by 2050 (that's when the population peaks and levels out). you can do a Wardley map that shows the needs of those people, then you
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by dools 3y ago
You might be interested in the work of Steven Hail and Gabrielle Bond. There's an online course they run through Torrens University that covers a lot of this stuff: https://www.torrens.edu.au/courses/business/
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by dools 3y ago
"I hate writing. I love having written" https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/57688-i-hate-writing-i-love...
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by dools 3y ago
It's more likely that the mattress company couldn't be bothered creating a separate segment from their purchase order completion page and then excluding that from ads, because 95% of people who come to the page don't buy a ma
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by dools 3y ago
> So you have 1 year to rewrite your app if necessary Multiply this by the thousands of dependencies modern apps have and the only thing you will ever do is rewrites.
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by dools 3y ago
> Did Australia not drastically cut back and stop the amount of back burning that Australia used to traditionally do in order to prevent larger bushfires? No, that didn't happen. “Hazard reduction work has increased because of incre
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by dools 3y ago
I live in Australia. Since 2019 I’ve seen outrageous nationwide bushfires, intense rain and flooding in the central coast which forced us to evacuate for a week, followed of course by 2 years of a pandemic and then an entire year of rain so
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by dools 3y ago
There are 2 projects from the same dev on the front page of HN … that’s like a Nobel
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by dools 3y ago
Props to the dev with two projects on the HN front page at once
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by dools 3y ago
That’s what I would like to know
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by dools 3y ago
We’re both expressable as the sum of two cubes!!
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by dools 3y ago
Have you had a crack at making VoIP call quality better globally? It’s one of those things you can’t cache but I bet there are still some fancy things you can do to speed it up.
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by dools 3y ago
The thing I always disliked about ActiveRecord ORMs is that you need to learn "their way" of writing SQL too much, because everything beyond the "Getting Started" tutorial is too complicated to use the built-in query bui
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by dools 3y ago
I saw a project where someone had trained an AI on classic novels so you could have a conversation with the book. I think AI trained on text books should be able to achieve the same thing relatively easily. It’s just an interactive textbook
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by dools 3y ago
Educators: how can we stop students cheating by using AI? Harvard: hold my beer
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by dools 3y ago
Right … but it’s not unreasonable to buy your kid microwave popcorn unless you know it’s harmful which one would assume is not the case since you can get it in the supermarket. So like, the people who were included in the study were obvious

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