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by igor47 2y ago
While I sympathize with your broader point about gig worker wages, I'm a little confused about joco's role in the situation. They're providing a service to the workers. They're not paying them -- the workers are paying j
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Welcome to hacker News! Yes, we find ignorance funny. I think people adding fuel to the fire are the ones freaking out about aliens or Iranian mother ships. Pointing out that the this is a hysteria event is more akin to pouring water on the
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I think it's okay to make logical conclusions but you must base them in evidence, not just suppositions. Intuition is a good start to begin generating hypothesis, but it doesn't render conclusions. I interpreted the GP asking for
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What's wrong with tokens in local storage?
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But ... Why do they want to? I'm genuinely curious. Did this desire for larger vehicles exist latent in the human psyche? Is it an emergent property of a race to the bottom as everyone tries to have the safest car? Or to secure prestig
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Google "chicken tax". The chain of unintended consequences goes back even further
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It's an incasualator. It causes the response to read as more casual/conversational, and less pedantic. But I guess you wouldn't know anything about that ;-P
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Does anyone know of a non profit that routes money directly to open source projects? I'm wondering what's the best way to support open source via 501c3 dollars
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I self host just about everything, but I've yet to start self hosting my calendars. I'm worried about the user experience of people I'm meeting with, and I need a migration path from Google calendars. Can folks here who actua
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The Deluge -- a darker take on climate change than Ministry for the Future, but also felt pretty realistic. This is how you lose the time war -- took me a long time to start this book, and then I couldn't put it down. Non fiction, I re
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In "Slouching Towards Utopia" there's a lot of emphasis on "communities of practice". I think HN is a great example for software people. I wonder if the hollowing out of print media begins a vicious cycle where the
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Why are GCR and pgbouncer incompatible? Could you run a pgbouncer instance in GCR?
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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Cool! I actually did a similar project this year, though not expandable: https://igor.moomers.org/posts/solar-ev-at-burning-man-2024
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This is an over statement. I, too, have read Slouching Towards Utopia and Steven Pinker. But (a) technology is not a monolith, it's clearly nice to have enough food and modern medicine while it's also terrible that we're dest
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[citation needed]
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Curious how people interact with LLMs besides just going to chat.com/Claude directly. I've been trying aichat but not sure yet if it's worth it, especially given the token pricing vs the flat fee structure on the website.
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Why do you say that? Demographics is a fairly well understood field. Can you point to other moments when such forecasts have been wildly inaccurate?
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Fully remote meaning there's no office and the company is 100% remote. The USA part means we only currently hire in the US.
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Rock Rabbit ( https://rockrabbit.ai ) | Full Stack Engineer | USA FULLY REMOTE | Full-time Buildings account for ~40% of all emissions. There is a ton of federal, state, and local programs to help decarbonize buildings -- but this
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I wrote a little tool for this! https://github.com/igor47/dcsm
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Fine nuance of exactly the type that's hard for folks to get behind today. If we could get people to consider nuanced positions, many of our problems would already be solved. Even in engineering orgs I've been a part of, navigatin
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I like using my blog to experiment with technology. I used to use GitHub pages and wrote some tips about using it with custom domains: https://igor.moomers.org/posts/github-pages-proxying-and-red... But then I wanted t
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Cool! Mine sweeper is a really fun easy game to implement. I did a version in Python a few years ago: https://github.com/igor47/sweeper but mine is closer to 500 lines
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They don't say if it was an Apple or Android device. Either way -- that was fast . I wonder what happened here? Did the suspect not have encryption turned on? Using an older phone with known vulnerabilities? Is the FBI sitting on some
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They claim they got access to his phone -- pretty quickly! They don't mention if it was an Apple or Android device. Curious how they got into it so fast!
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Huh. You'd think all the organizations that attribute their challenges in hiring non-male engineers to a "pipeline problem" would've spent a small fraction of their recruiting budgets helping to fund Girls in Tech...
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Yup. I gave up on trying to get Google wallet / Android pay to work on my lineage device. I got it working sometimes but it broke after update and just wasn't reliable enough to keep trying when paying for stuff. I'm not real
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I bought an EV, so I'm part of the problem. I hate that it's basically a rack of servers on wheels that I don't have root on, and which track my every move.
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On mobile Firefox this page loads briefly, and is then replaced by a blank white page. I don't understand why it continues to be so difficult to make a web page

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