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by dvektor 2y ago
Badass. Love to see things like this
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by dvektor 2y ago
Yeah somehow doesn't surprise me at all. The AI space is well on it's way to becoming as dubious as crypto/web3
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by dvektor 2y ago
Great tool, just found it a few months ago. I am a pretty hardcore CLI/TUI user so I am generally reluctant to reach for GUIs but this gets the job done and comes in quite handy when the sqlite3 cli just doesn't cut it.
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Unlocking tech job opportunties for people with records(info.jff.org)
2 points by dvektor 2y ago|0 comments
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by dvektor 2y ago
I am a bit surprised at this, considering the lack of non-apple ecosystem but I guess when you build everything yourself completely from scratch, you may not care as much about libraries and ecosystem.
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by dvektor 2y ago
This is referencing 'exa', of which eza is a fork. Exa was unmaintained for about a year before it was marked officially deprecated by the only person with write permissions on the repository. It has definitely been long enough no
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by dvektor 2y ago
Yes, several. This is going to be a controversial one... but it isn't nearly as difficult as people make it seem. You shouldn't roll your own crypto libraries, but storing a bcrypt hash of the users password in the database, and t
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by dvektor 2y ago
I remember when I first went to jail in 2013, every month paying for a $20 phone card and getting to make a 25 minute "long-distance" call. I couldn't believe that this was legal, and even if it was, I was in disbelief that m
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Does Modern PHP Suck? Migrating from Laravel to Go(pthorpe92.dev)
3 points by dvektor 2y ago|1 comments
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by dvektor 3y ago
Somehow nobody has mentioned this yet but big props to the original author of this post. Super impressive work
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by dvektor 3y ago
"Wow jeez! 'Only' ten years! That's not so bad, I think I could live with that, now I think I'm gonna go pull a huge scam! But damn, if he would have got 20 or 25 years, then I'd have to reconsider my carefully
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by dvektor 3y ago
Who else read this as: Rethinking databases - ?
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by dvektor 3y ago
Wow this is awesome. I use a KVM switch currently and it takes a solid 2-3 seconds and for that reason I find myself usually just SSH'ing into the other computer and having a tmux session instead. Excellent work.
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by dvektor 3y ago
There is an existing platform in production right now in a few different facilities. We are currently re-writing it from scratch. It's almost an LMS, more of a UI that allows a portal for students to access many other LMS's, all t
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by dvektor 3y ago
We get a lot of interest from universities with students that want to intern/volunteer but most of it seems to be UI/UX stuff which I recently found out, doesn't usually include front-end work. I can talk to my boss, there ma
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by dvektor 3y ago
qingcharles I keep running into you in HN threads, I'm just gonna leave this here: preston@unlockedlabs.org hit me up sometime
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by dvektor 3y ago
I do pay rent because I work (10% of my salary) as well as I obviously pay my taxes. This is why I feel like it is insane that people wouldn't want this to be more prevalent.. would you rather have me sucking up tax payer money and lea
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by dvektor 3y ago
Yeah that's actually my blog post lol same guy...
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by dvektor 3y ago
I work for a company that develops education software for people in prison, founded by two people who were released after being sentenced to life as juveniles.
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by dvektor 3y ago
Here (Maine) calls are almost $7.00/hr which is indeed outrageous, however the jobs pay 2-4x better than other prisons i've been in, the food is better, you are given more things like clothes that other prisons would make you pay
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by dvektor 3y ago
The handful of companies that run virtually all the commerce/communication in the US prison systems, are some of the worst companies on the planet and should absolutely be shut down. GTL/Securus/BobBarker/etc are profiti
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by dvektor 3y ago
Lmao I remember the bounty for COFEE was up so high.. and it was super anti-climactic when it finally showed up. Nobody was impressed
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Oink's Pink Palace(en.wikipedia.org)
92 points by dvektor 3y ago|82 comments
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by dvektor 3y ago
Who else was here? God damn does this bring back memories.
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by dvektor 3y ago
Makes me feel old thats for sure
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by dvektor 3y ago
Thanks for sharing this.. send me an email if you'd like. preston@unlockedlabs.org
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by dvektor 3y ago
Cool to see I'm not the only one in this situation... I want to like the language very much, so that is helping. That CIS310something or other course that is on Youtube is pretty cool, although a little slow for me (this is usually my
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by dvektor 3y ago
Notice the ! in "!significant whitespace" I thought I was being slick
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by dvektor 3y ago
Author here: Totally hear you there, the post was literally just like it says 'first impressions'. Will most definitely be posting a few updates as I progress farther and try to make some comparisons :)
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by dvektor 3y ago
Author here again: I told myself I was done chiming in, but this is just something I have to clarify. My parents are absolutely amazing people, and they are the only reason my life has any hope at this point. They were still figuring thing

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