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by drusepth 6y ago
This sounds super cool. A few questions, if you don't mind: 1) Do you have any examples of the kinds of "actions" you execute (and what you would write to execute them)? Is the text also in some kind of strict DSL (e.g. @ fir
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by drusepth 6y ago
>Sure, but you could have a single account called "bills." Ah, I specifically don't because: 1) Capital One gives you 25 savings accounts, but only 3 checking accounts, and 2) There's a federal limit of 6 withdrawals
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by drusepth 6y ago
Automatically filling those envelopes (setting aside that money) prevents you from accidentally spending that money and getting yourself in a bind when it comes due. It's just a digital version of physical envelopes, which people also
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by drusepth 6y ago
Most of the accounts are for things that have a mostly-fixed price per month (e.g. utilities/insurance/investing that might cost more/less month-to-month, but average out to $X, which gets automatically put in them each month
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by drusepth 6y ago
I've thoroughly enjoyed using Capital One's online banking for pretty much this. I have ~20 different savings accounts that I use for budgeting envelopes (you can have up to 25, I think) and each has their own routing/account
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by drusepth 6y ago
The best intent I can think of is showing 1) team sizes, and/or 2) potentially-recognizable faces that a recruiter might interpret as "oh, s/he worked with someone I know is good at X". But both are likely wishful thinki
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by drusepth 6y ago
They're definitely overused in a lot of designs. They can be useful to portray some information at a glance in some data-heavy designs, but I don't find them helpful here -- I find them distracting. Comparison CV with/without
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by drusepth 6y ago
While Google does admittedly do a much better job preventing malware-ridden sites from running ads (for very long) than most platforms, to say there's "absolutely no malware" is a bit disingenuous when there do exist some sit
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by drusepth 6y ago
The optional Pro subscription gives you a ton of games to stream that you can only stream whenever your subscription is active. Alternatively, you can just buy games outright and play them whenever/wherever; no subscription required. I
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by drusepth 6y ago
Yeah, it definitely seems like the "big deal" bugs are confined to last-gen consoles; however, the online reaction would make you think it's the game as a whole. I'm ~30 hours into the PC version (on Stadia) and the only
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by drusepth 6y ago
There's so many messaging apps named Messenger it's always hard to tell which is which. This is Facebook Messenger, in case anyone was wondering.
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by drusepth 6y ago
The last 5 or 6 transactions I made on my old PayPal account each resulted in freezes of my account that required a ton of hoops to unfreeze (uploading pics of my passport, proving address with bills, etc). I eventually abandoned the accoun
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by drusepth 6y ago
I built a private Goodreads "competitor" for friends (with groups and book clubs and whatnot) using the Open Library data dumps for book/author/publisher data (since GR APIs were too restrictive in how they could be used
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by drusepth 6y ago
The less visibility police personally have on the car they're doing the reading on (e.g. half-mile away & at night), the less they're capable of introducing human bias (e.g. profiling) into who they scan and who they don'
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by drusepth 6y ago
>Ads disguised as content. Sure feels like the final evolution of ads will be indistinguishable from content.
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by drusepth 6y ago
I guess that explains why I keep getting hooked by it.
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by drusepth 6y ago
When you switch to a dark theme in dim lighting, is it because you can't turn your screen/monitor brightness down (e.g. on a desktop)? (Sorry if this sounds confrontational; just trying to understand the appeal of dark mode from s
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by drusepth 6y ago
>There isn't an industry with a handful of corporations like Spotify making billions of dollars off your friends' pottery while millions of people spend hours gazing at it. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Etsy...? What
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by drusepth 6y ago
Wouldn't negotiating a "better deal" for the 80% of artists earning less than £200 likely just raise costs on the already-expensive streaming platforms to help pay for it?
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by drusepth 6y ago
I'm not OP, but my parents house in Missouri sits around $300/mo for internet via mobile hotpot, occasionally getting up to around $500/mo in the months were a lot of family visit. HughesNet is their only available ISP, so th
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by drusepth 6y ago
Well, this relies on the assumption that a God also inherently exists outside of time and space, which is debatable even among religious scholars.
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by drusepth 6y ago
I helped build something kind of like this in college for a research team that was aimed at facilitating in-person arguments between 2+ people. It took speaking tone, body language, and facial expressions as input to judge how productive th
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by drusepth 6y ago
It's easy to see the potential for abuse for any new technology, but it's much harder to come up with actual uses and worthwhile applications. I don't know if this technology will do any good, but I appreciate this comment fo
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by drusepth 6y ago
Anyone have a screenshot or mirror of the page with Javascript already disabled?
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by drusepth 6y ago
https://www.hcaptcha.com/ has a "Try it out" section on the homepage you can repeatedly solve for examples.
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by drusepth 6y ago
>do the users like it? This is completely anecdotal (and seems antithetical to the typical HN response to hCaptcha vs ReCAPTCHA), but I feel like I end up spending at least twice as much time trying to solve hCaptchas successfully becaus
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by drusepth 6y ago
I had to pay two bribes (200 USD, then another 300 USD) to Cancun police to get a friend out of jail so he could make his flight home. They asked when his flight was (~3 days later), then said they'd hold him until the day after the fl
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by drusepth 6y ago
+1 for Heroku for sure. My SaaS has grown from $50/month costs to over $2k/month costs on Heroku over the last few years and I'm always eyeing AWS and others as a cheaper alternative, but honestly the ease of mind Heroku give
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by drusepth 6y ago
Tried to draw Patrick Starr. Got a horrible, horrible monster [1]. 10/10, will definitely be drawing more. [1] https://i.imgur.com/yBDW2gd.png
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by drusepth 6y ago
>You just bought a light bulb? How about a dozen others? Ironically, this suggestion is probably driven by real-world behavior. Whether your bulb fails due to age (and you'll probably need replacements for your other similarly-aged

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