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by gxs 1y ago
I understand what you’re saying and agree, where we might disagree is on what the right measure should be for communicating how long one should spend on an assignment In math for example, they give you problems. Some days it’s 3 problems th
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by gxs 1y ago
Good, I always hated writing papers and the whole arbitrary requirement of x pages was always so stupid to me Really? You don’t think someone could get their point across in 8 pages just as well as 10? Hope this means you just have to write
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by gxs 1y ago
And yet, Coinbase goes Scott free Someone, someone at that company should be going to prison for negligence
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by gxs 1y ago
Maybe if the headline said Stop using REST for state synchronization in these scenarios, I would have been on board Dismissing something outright is usually the wrong answer, and for the same reason I did read the article Using REST for syn
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by gxs 1y ago
FYI the Hinge app works the same way I requested my data and all the image URLs are publicly accessible - and the URLs provided are both your own images and the images of anyone who’d ever viewed your profile
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by gxs 1y ago
Huh? I’m talking about my own post where I said maybe they want to feel like the are speaking “correctly” - I added the quotes because obviously what’s correct is debatable Besides it’s not like there isn’t correct either - if you’re out in
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by gxs 1y ago
Hence in quotes, man
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by gxs 1y ago
Yes, should go without saying that intelligibly is perfectly provided it’s intelligible in whatever context you’re in
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by gxs 1y ago
Yeah, as long as it’s intelligible an accent is perfectly fine It’s also perfectly fine to want to sound like a native speaker - whether it be because they are self conscious, think it will benefit them in some way, or simply want to feel l
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by gxs 1y ago
Huh? Have you ever just told it, that API doesn’t exist, find another solution? Never seen it fumble that around Swear people act like humans themselves don’t ever need to be asked for clarification
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by gxs 1y ago
Yeah dude you completely missed what I said I guess - I said you can’t build with wreckless abandon which means with “responsible government” as you put it
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by gxs 1y ago
This is exactly right, you captured my sentiment pretty well What exactly is the endgame here? Build rows and rows of mile high apartment buildings indefinitely? It’s not an easy problem to solve and the way people just beat the bUiLd mOrE
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by gxs 2y ago
Just create a shortcut and select an icon It appears as an “app” like any other Open it, will ask you to confirm, hit yes and it will restart
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by gxs 2y ago
FWIW on iPhone you can just create a shortcut to restart the phone One click for me and it restarts fyi
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by gxs 2y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with you and it’s funny reading the replies to your comment. Basically people just doubling down on everything you just described. I can’t quite put a finger on it but it has a tinge of insecurity or something like th
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by gxs 2y ago
Not every business sets out to be the next Google Loyal Kagi customer here, based on their posts and in my dealings with them, they are doing their thing and doing well They are focused on privacy, do a great job of it, and their AI assista
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by gxs 2y ago
I actually do like being locked in and knowing everyone that uses an iPhone has the same features as me When you’re a startup they call this building an ecosystem and it’s cheered on, when you’re Apple and everyone wants a piece of the pie
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by gxs 2y ago
> I don’t want to see any tweets or blog posts or complaints or whatever later on about this. I’m publishing this now so you can make an informed decision about whether to buy a new watch or not. If you’re worried about this, the easiest
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by gxs 2y ago
Yes, they make the API calls anonymously They don’t tie anything history back to your account, you can pay it with bitcoin even It’s worth checking out their privacy policy - in a nutshell they do zero advertising and zero affiliate type st
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by gxs 2y ago
I like to plug Kagi whenever I get a chance Your subscription includes not just the stellar search engine, but access to their assistant as well, along with all their privacy benefits What I love about assistant specifically is that it lets
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by gxs 2y ago
Hm call me old fashioned, but hearing that this was done by people in Malta backed by people in London sort of broke my heart I get HN isn’t sympathetic to this kind of stuff (ovarian lottery and all that jazz), but I, personally, much rath
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by gxs 2y ago
He quite literally addresses this in the article
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by gxs 2y ago
You alluded to this but I wanted to emphasize that a lot of this is just legacy baggage in terms of reputation that windows will have to carry for a long time I think that when people talk about how shitty windows is compared to Mac/ap
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by gxs 2y ago
Don’t mean to be antagonistic here, but do you have a source for the claim that trump took the win? Would be really curious to see how this could be proven or at the very least convincingly induced.
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by gxs 2y ago
Yeah, related to this is that for some subset of people who enjoy things like physical media - it could be as simple as nostalgia and them missing they used to do. That’s also an element of why this is popular Add all those together and the
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by gxs 2y ago
The fact that the amounts in apple's bounty program can range from 5k-500k for a single category tells me that the answer is it depends. It's most likely not just a comparison to black market prices or how many lines of code it&#x
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by gxs 2y ago
This is just one of those situations where some people can ruin things for others A significant number of people prefer something that looks cool over actual usability Enough that car companies will put out something that looks cool even if
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by gxs 2y ago
Wow you read way way too much into my comment Sorry it got you bent out of shape
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by gxs 2y ago
> including a 29% reduction in sickness absence among participants who took cold showers. Reminds me of back when they claimed wine was good for your health Turned out to be people affluent enough to drink wine regularly also had regular
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by gxs 2y ago
A long while back I'd read an article about Facebook's incentive to commoditize technology It was posted here on HN (years ago) - I can't remember the specifics, but it touched on the subject of Facebook's ulterior motiv

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