gwbas1c

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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Oh please! Every time scammers are told to behave, they run around claiming their "free speech" is being impacted. Free speech is about expressing opinion and fact. It doesn't grant you the right to lie and deceive.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
My Dad told me he worked for a manager who always kept a job open "just in case" someone good walked through the door. It also made it easier to hire if he got a phone call within his network, because he didn't need to jump t
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Ever go to Fry's back in the day? A lot of the items they sold were junk, but they had a liberal return policy.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> (essentially banning HR ghosting in the interview process) (Joke) Let me guess: Companies will start immediately rejecting candidates after they submit an application, and after every interview. Then, when they want to move forward the
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
The "Refined Hacker News" browser plugin adds the "favorite" link on top of every comment. (It's one of the few browser plugins I use.)
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
With Azure-hosted sites, I find it's significantly easier to have Microsoft perform all certificate management for us. All we do is verify that we own the domain, and then they do all the certificate management for us. When I saw the 4
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
When they are screening a call, if I push the button to answer the call, the call comes to me immediately. They used to play back a 10 to 20 second "polite" message that just annoyed everybody.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I use call screening with Google Fi. I recently added my number to the FCC block list, and they made some recent changes, so it's gotten a lot better. I did ask if I could just send all calls not in my contact list to get screened, and
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> I'm not sure what the correct end solution is, but the current solution seems to be very broken. I think one of two high-level approaches: We could be ultra-strict about who is allowed to call whom, and have penalties and enforcem
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
But then why would you: > Create and modify tables with ease using Base's visual table editor. No need to write complex CREATE or ALTER statements.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> Create and modify tables with ease using Base's visual table editor. No need to write complex CREATE or ALTER statements. I'm trying to understand who your target audience is? Normally, I think of SQLite as something that onl
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
They rehired the team. Basically, when Tesla's stock started to dip, he went on a cost-cutting rampage. The head of Superchargers made a proposal to grow, and Elon got angry and fired the whole team. It's one of those moments wher
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I got out when Elon Musk fired the whole Supercharger team. That was roughly a year after the entire North American Auto industry standardized on the Supercharger standard, the Supercharger Network opened to non-tesla cars, and they were po
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
That's because are so mind-numbingly dumb that no one is going to show up for an annual meeting unless there's actually something important to vote on. Saying, "hey, show up and vote and you might actually get some money fr
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Where I lived there were regular fairs where different vendors would set up tables and sell parts and complete computers. They were quite fun even if you didn't buy anything.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Your governing docs are not law. I would hold a vote to change those ASAP.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
You pay the current owners as of the date of dissolution. The current owners bought into the HOA from the past owners, and thus assume future liabilities (or profits) from the HOA. Edit: If/when it becomes known that there will be
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I don't want to say too much because it would reveal where I live. But, to be general, my town has a very unique political system where a plurality of voters is the deadlock. Basically, to break the deadlock, it would require a very la
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I volunteered to run my HOA in Massachusetts because I was afraid someone would come in and abuse their power and fine everyone for trivial matters. What I learned was that the town "forces" all new developments to have an HOA bec
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> What do we do with the $500k we have the operating funds and reserves collected over the past 40 years? Uhm, return it to the property owners? The real pattern is that HOAs have been abusing their power; or in other cases are required
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
Something is wrong with your heat pump. Mine works fine during cold snaps. It doesn't blow cold air during the defrost cycle. Perhaps yours is undersized, or otherwise not designed for cold climates?
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
High amounts of margin debt indicate that a crash is coming. When a lot of the investments fail, the whole house of cards unwinds: A lot of the debts go bad, and then there isn't enough lending to create investments which are then used
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I just traded in a 6.5 year old model 3 with 75k miles. Battery was at 87% of capacity. The big problem was cold snaps. It had the older heating system and would lose a lot of charge in the cold. Our 2022 Model Y with the newer heating syst
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
There are some cars with panels, but they can only get about 10ish miles a day with good sunshine. Stationary panels work much, much better. > Assuming superconductors aren't figured out any time soon, this appears to be an impossib
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
> I find myself peering into the abyss of thousands upon thousands of people trying to game the system and "advance their careers", which they presumably do well. I find LinkedIn is a career honeypot at best, and a dead-end at
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I find it's best not to argue with (cough) "experts" and just use my own judgement. See my other comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44915807
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
I've noticed quite a few studies where the author appears to prove their bias: Pediatricians started asking about guns because someone "proved" that if there are guns in the house, children are more likely to have a gun injur
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
LLMs can't reason: They're a statistical model that can only copy. In many cases though, the copy that the LLM generates is either "good enough" or a great thing to start with.
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
(Depending on company culture) There is a lot of risk in making a bad hire, because in many companies it's very hard to fire someone for poor performance or being difficult to work with. In those situations, it's safer to leave a
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by gwbas1c 1y ago
There's a huge difference between a network of cameras on a road, versus a device that an officer has to set up and take down.

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