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by indymike 3y ago
> Anyone who spends any time arguing this point quite clearly has too much time on their hands and no real problems. Actually, trying to argue against something that you will not use, but others would use, that has no other effect on you
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by indymike 3y ago
Issue trackers, vcs and employees change. A meaningful comment stay as long as it is meaningful.
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> The CEO was upset others were allowed to perform as if they were of the same class. I doubt it. Companies that try to hire pedigree know that they are hiring from the same class. The disdain is shock from a junior not working 20 hour d
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It's amazing how often the wheel gets re-invented because people don't realize there's a spare tire.
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by indymike 3y ago
> Solution: logs go into a data store that allows you to filter on this data. You can get very far getting to know the operating system's remote logging machinery can get you very far on this. It's amazing how often people basi
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This is a really nice idea. It's also small enough you could hide it behind the living room TV and it would probably make a nice little media center PC.
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by indymike 3y ago
> Wearables, ultimately, are an expiremental product. Neither the users not the developers really know what the application is. I think we know what the killer applications are, and the problem is that the killer apps for wearables (espe
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by indymike 3y ago
> Facebook would be made better without news content. This. Times 1000. My neighbor's cat's incredible Easter Island vacation photos are much more interesting that 1000 articles about presidential politics.
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by indymike 3y ago
How does forcing some companies to pay to link TO a news story (and send traffic to that new story) do anything other than give an incentive not to link to news stories any more? How is making it impossible to discover news stories good for
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by indymike 3y ago
> I understand that part of the reason for that is that people need to appear as though they are part of the "actually trying" crowd to get the desired job effects There's another less obvious problem: we don't always
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> 99% of all papers mean nothing. They add nothing to the collective knowledge of humanity. A lot of papers are done as a part of the process of getting a degree or keeping or getting job. The value is mostly the candidate showing they h
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by indymike 3y ago
> This is also all work that doesn't benefit the scientists replicating the paper. It only costs them money and time. Maybe this is what needs to change. If we only reward discovery and success, then the incentive is to only produce
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by indymike 3y ago
If you are looking for Pegasus mail on a mobile device, I think you might be a wee bit outside of the target market. And btw, Pegasus is a shareware site from the 1990s.
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by indymike 3y ago
> There seems to be a really strong disdain on HN for AdTech in general, which I think is misguided, and comes fundamentally from a "web consumer" mentality. I think the disdain is against surveillance and invasive content. &gt
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by indymike 3y ago
> Allowing 100% remote work makes it possible to move to smaller towns/cities, which are not prepared for the extra intake. Wow. This is the opposite of the US where most small towns have depressed real estate values and negative gr
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by indymike 3y ago
Hosting providers *have* to comply with takedown requests to maintain safe harbor.
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Samsung, Huawei, LG (well, they exited the phone biz) and Motorola all have a desktop mode on many of their Android devices. You plug in a USB-HDMI adapter (I've plugged in a ton of USBC docks to my phone and they just work most of the
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by indymike 3y ago
> I wouldn't diminish that work by refering to it as just a reskin, but it's also not what I have in mind when I hear about something being forked. If the goal is to maintain compatibility with what you've forked, there ar
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by indymike 3y ago
Please add a license.
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by indymike 3y ago
Addictions and incarceration have three things in common: they both rob a person of vast amounts of time, society of whatever that person's output is and impose vast hardship on the people around the addict/incarcerated.
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Lately, I've been having developers and designers on my team install each of the three major browsers without plugins and visit five of the "top 10 media sites" ( https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/ne
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by indymike 3y ago
Old lock handle fridges are surprisingly efficient. I have a 1949 Hotpoint and a 2022 LG. They both draw about the same amount of power when running, the difference is the Hotpoint runs less because it has four inches of insulation and a lo
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There are points where it is, particularly political speech.
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> There is no right to anonymity. Sometimes a right must necessarily exist for another right to function. Anonymity must exist to allow freedom of political speech, which is the most important kind of free speech. I'm not sure I&#x2
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by indymike 3y ago
> It doesn't seem entirely unreasonable that if a school system gives a researcher access to data that isn't shared with the public, the researcher agrees not to use that information to sue the school system. Such agreements wo
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> Such a long time and a relatively low bar. I've promoted juniors in months. I've also had people start, stay a few years and leave as a junior. It's all about learning and what work you take on. Also, I see this often wh
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> It’s legal to do all kinds of dumb things that you shouldn’t do. Yes. The government should not harm me for doing legal things, even if those legal things are dumb.
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> The officers were willing to make an arrest to retaliate against First Amendment protected activity because they knew they could do so with impunity. It's worse than that, NY has an ordinance explicitly allowing people to film pol
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> When the police learn not to react to lawful activities, the "auditing" movement will be dead. This is what most of the auditors are working towards.
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> I am trying to think of a good reason to open-carry into a police station apart from "making a point". It is legal to do so?

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