gknoy

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by gknoy 6y ago
Would you be willing to describe the process you use to do this?
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by gknoy 6y ago
Menu fatigue is real, I experienced it only a few weeks ago. PC laptops often differ just enough in things like build quality processor version, RAM amounts, screen quality that you are constantly trying to balance "best" or compa
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by gknoy 6y ago
> BBC's Sherlock series which doesn't make it possible for the viewer to figure out "who done it", it only has Sherlock swoop in and connect dots that were never shown I realize this is a little off-topic, but this i
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by gknoy 6y ago
After having a pocket knife close on my finger as a kid (when I did something stupid;)), I will never again use a pocketknife without a locking mechanism. A knife is a personal tool; Often what you're paying for is not just the blade q
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by gknoy 6y ago
What prevents them from selling/giving the data of the wayback machine to another curator?
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by gknoy 6y ago
> making ethical judgements requires wrestling with ethical conundra oneself, and that is not something a professor with 300 undergrads to teach can provide any useful guidance to the majority of them for. I don't remember a lot fro
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by gknoy 6y ago
Also, in a similar vein as testing backups, make sure to test + listen to the recorded audio, if you can.
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by gknoy 6y ago
Really? I felt that what happened to Aaron was a tragic injustice on many levels (from the fact that he was charged at all to the number of charges they threw at him), but for some reason I had always thought that it was fairly well-known t
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by gknoy 6y ago
I've found switching between four or five virtual desktops (e.g. when I'm using the laptop without any extra monitors) is more annoying. I'm not sure why but I think it's the extra hassle of switching between three thin
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by gknoy 6y ago
> I can only focus on one thing at a time. Managing windows and which screens they are on is an overhead I don’t need to deal with. I find that having different things live on different monitors (and virtual desktops on those monitors)
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by gknoy 6y ago
For what it's worth, I tend to upvote most "Show HN" threads, because I want to encourage new things. I've never seen a "Thank HN" post before, and thought that it was worth upvoting because it's nice to s
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by gknoy 6y ago
> If I say mail-in votes will cause election fraud, you cannot prove or disprove that statement I'm not sure I believe that claim. I think that looking at past history of voting fraud shows pretty conclusively that _vote by mail_ f
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by gknoy 6y ago
When the president says "we will take over", and that "the shooting will start", that seems (to me) to be fairly authoritarian (right-leaning) rhetoric. Our laws explicitly forbid the national military "taking over&
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by gknoy 6y ago
They might have more followers, but I'd be interested in seeing that in relation to how often those accounts tweet (tweets per year?).
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by gknoy 6y ago
I don't have one, but was considering buying one. I went looking for benchmarks a while back, and it seemed that it performed about as well as a several-year-old cheap laptop, from some guy's blog that I can't find right now.
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by gknoy 6y ago
As a contrarian view, do our rights require it to be _cheap_? AWS + a domain name (`www.the-moon-really-is-made-of-cheese.com`) seems like something that is available to everyone. - It's not cheap - It's not easy However, it'
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by gknoy 6y ago
When I get up from my desk and walk to the kitchen, I have to open the fridge and decide what to eat. In contrast, when I was visiting on-site at the office, each day's lunch was pre-planned by someone other than me, made by someone ot
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by gknoy 6y ago
It still counts as workplace retaliation.
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by gknoy 6y ago
People support _forcing_ parents to take {ma,pa}ternity leave? I am skeptical, as this is a position I have never ever heard of before. As a parent, I can see why one could advocate for equal (+generous) paid parental leave (disclaimer: I s
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by gknoy 6y ago
That sounds really neat! I hope we get a chance to see a "Show HN" of this sometime in the future.
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by gknoy 6y ago
> If they have a website, try to get them on Shopify So ... they then pay you for helping them get on Shopify? I can see how one might be able to convince a business owner that they could benefit from using Shopify, but is there room in
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by gknoy 6y ago
But, of the normal ER visits, one would expect to have the same scalar number of emergency (stroke, heart attack) visits to STILL be happening, and we would expect those people to still be going to the ER. These are not "no insurance&
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by gknoy 7y ago
> the only thing that discord really does better is the embeds and voice. For me, the thing that Discord does really well is having a persistent message history, so I can join a server about a topic, see the pinned posts, read an FAQ cha
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by gknoy 7y ago
For those like me who had never heard these abbreviations: AuthN: Authentication (who you are) AuthZ: Authorization (what you are allowed to do)
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by gknoy 7y ago
> If I report harmful content on Twitter or Facebook or Google, we need a system that ensures I receive a non-automated, competent response That seems extremely prone to being DOS-ed by bots or a brigade of complaint-heavy users.
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by gknoy 7y ago
Brexit shows that there's still a major difference: member states can elect to leave. Economic penalties etc follow, and political fallout, but here in the US we fought a major war to demonstrate that states are _not_ allowed to secede
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by gknoy 7y ago
I don't remember who said it, but someone who tended to post twitter threads noted that they have massive anxiety about writing things, and would/have never managed to write a normal blog post, whereas a tweet is just below the t
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by gknoy 7y ago
TIL that CDPR owns GoG. Thanks for pointing that out! I have until now made it a habit to almost exclusively buy on Steam (convenience), but this might make me support them more directly.
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by gknoy 7y ago
I hope you'll forgive my ignorance, but what do you (as a "sneakerhead") look for in shoe design? Is this a matter of visual aethetics, or of performance/support metrics? I buy shoes relatively rarely, and usually end u
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by gknoy 7y ago
It might be that people are less motivated to take the effort to rate something if it was "meh, okay" -- whereas a 1 or 5 star rating is something you might want others to know about, so they can see/avoid the show.

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