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by dossy 4y ago
Martin is just trolling to get traffic to his newly launched Substack. On 2022-04-02, I paid $32 to Amazon Pharmacy for a 90 count of Bupropion XL 300mg. Tonight, I'm ordering a refill of my prescription from Mark Cuban's CostPlus
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by dossy 4y ago
The fact that EY didn't fire all people on the spot who couldn't pass the ethics portion of the CPA exam without cheating says a lot about the kind of people EY employs. > Many EY employees knew that their behavior violated the
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by dossy 4y ago
https://archive.ph/6hxos
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by dossy 4y ago
If your situation is as dire as your post makes it sound, I wouldn't personally wait until July. Given that we've finally advanced into the era of more accessible tele-health thanks to COVID, you may not necessarily be restricted
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by dossy 4y ago
What medications are you on?
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by dossy 4y ago
old news is old: 1:51 PM · Dec 7, 2021
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by dossy 4y ago
It's not stateless. The state is in current_state. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Edit: To answer your two questions: 1) No, it's not stateless. 2) Depending on the implementation of the function, yes, it may be a valid state machine. Or, it m
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by dossy 4y ago
Sorry, if the entire repo can fit in RAM on a low-end consumer PC, it's not large.
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by dossy 4y ago
It's a bit of history: https://github.com/Homebrew/discussions/discussions/225 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6941889/is-it-safe-to-sh... https://stackoverflow.
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by dossy 4y ago
I wouldn't look for COBOL gigs in SV. I would look in places where keeping up with the technological Joneses isn't part of the culture. I live in New Jersey. NJ and NY has a considerable amount of COBOL deployed, in banking, ins
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by dossy 4y ago
This article is now a bit dated, but: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/business/coronavirus-cobol-pr... "Despite a dwindling number of COBOL programmers, a 2017 report by Reuters found that there are
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by dossy 4y ago
*cue the Jurassic Park theme* "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should." -- Jeff Goldblum
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by dossy 4y ago
Become an expert COBOL programmer. You will always be able to find paying work until you die, and it will only pay more over time as supply decreases (programmers die) but demand doesn't decrease at the same rate. It's not sexy, b
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by dossy 4y ago
Typing. If you aren't touch-typing and are looking down at the keyboard, or even just having to spend mental cycles thinking about typing, it's taking away from your capacity to think about the problem you're solving. Can you
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by dossy 4y ago
Maybe. Maybe not.
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by dossy 4y ago
Sure, I get the practical reason why Twitter is focused on that specific subset, but I think Elon's point is, as a user of the service, the quality of the service is directly negatively affected by the number of bots and spam on the se
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by dossy 4y ago
> [...] you don’t know who is a monetizable daily active user [...] That is some real BS gerrymandering on the part of Twitter. Accounts that are not "monetizable daily active users" who spam and harass users on the service don
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by dossy 4y ago
> "(Again, caveat emptor: these are non-random samples, and likely not representative of Twitter’s estimates!)" Why would you not just take a random sample, instead of cherry-picking scenarios that are guaranteed to be affected
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by dossy 4y ago
If you know of a quality URL blocklist that's free, please share that with HN! All of the ones that are of sufficiently high quality that they're worth using (new URLs reported quickly enough to block active senders in progress, n
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by dossy 4y ago
TIMTOWTDI: $ jq -n -r '[{"a": "b", "foo": "bar"}, {"c": "d", "baz": "quux"}] | .[] | [ keys_unsorted[] as $k | .[$k] ] | @csv' "b",&qu
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by dossy 4y ago
PGP already has solved the problem, the "OG" blockchain: web of trust, a decentralized trust model. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust And you can implement it without silly proof-of-work nonsense.
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by dossy 4y ago
Any list that has enough accuracy to be useful is valuable, and isn't going to be available for free. Perhaps you've heard of https://www.nomorobo.com/ ?
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by dossy 4y ago
this.
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by dossy 4y ago
I don't know who to attribute this to, but these certainly aren't my words, but they have been the words to help me re-center myself when I'm having "one of those moments" and my lizard brain is running the show: &q
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by dossy 4y ago
This is the exact use case that the web browser's history solves really well. Also: https://hn.algolia.com/
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by dossy 4y ago
See also: https://dontasktoask.com/
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by dossy 4y ago
If you know enough to do your own vulnerability scanning, code auditing, and testing -- and, have the human capital/available time in your schedule to do it yourself -- then the answer is probably "no" from an actual security
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by dossy 4y ago
A description of an agreed upon way that two programs can exchange information.
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by dossy 4y ago
> Stating that their reasons are “imaginary” is just a needless insult, apart from being wrong. Why be like that? It's not an insult, let alone a needless one: it is a statement of fact. The reasons OP cites for criticizing CSV are
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by dossy 4y ago
Yup, I noticed that and my Level of Care was insufficient to go and edit my comment a second time to fix it. But, thanks for confirming that it could have worked!

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