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by j-bos 4y ago
Congrats to GIMP! As someone who could never afford photoshop, and never learned alternative software sourcing, gimp was wonderful for school projects and one off paying gigs. To this day I still use gimp for personal photo projects. Hope t
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by j-bos 4y ago
A ship engineer I didn't know was famous for answering every question with: "The answer is no. [beat] And we'll negotiate from there." He never seemed stressed.
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by j-bos 4y ago
As a one time door dash driver, this seems credible. Everytime I needed support, even under stressful circumstances, help was available with speed, ease, and solutions. That said, driving for Doordash is/was closer to a taking out a lo
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by j-bos 4y ago
Real life behavior is often downstream of media campaigns. For better or worse, look at the changing attitudes towards many mental health disorders.
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by j-bos 4y ago
For those who don't know what a street takeover is, from the article: "Drivers fueled by the need for speed show off by skidding around blocked-off intersections, filling the air with clouds of burning rubber in what’s known as a
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by j-bos 4y ago
> bootcamp + 2 years of experience type aren't going to be making 400k+ with minimal effort. In my my highly subjective opinion, dismiss it freely: This bootcamp do-nothing trope strikes me as a stereotype coming from a similar plac
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by j-bos 4y ago
Great read
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by j-bos 4y ago
Personal intuition, feel free to dismiss.
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by j-bos 4y ago
I personally want my doctors to be amazing and very good. For now tests are a fair proxy, it's the 8 years that seem ridiculous, esp when looking at non US countries.
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by j-bos 4y ago
Welp, guess it's time to finally cancel the subscription and move to Obsidian.
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by j-bos 4y ago
tldr went to Montessori, thumbs up. I went to a Montesorri school from 1st through 4th grade. I enjoyed the atmosphere. In recent years I've read about Montessori and found that my Montessori experience was different, but much the same
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by j-bos 4y ago
Discussed here as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33535857 18 comments
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by j-bos 4y ago
Largely agreed! My view is that 'everything' is being optimized for utility, consistency, and risk managment. This results in unobjectionable but indistinguishable aesthetics, effective but repetitive sports, and shiny but soulles
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by j-bos 4y ago
This great to know, though I'm having trouble referencing the earlier laws, can you post a link please?
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by j-bos 4y ago
There's a twitter personality calles Lindyman who often covers the same topic from an extended angle, calls it refinement culture. The argument goes that it's not simply aesthetics, stratrgies across domains are all converging int
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by j-bos 4y ago
This question reminds me of the old argumemt about calling the monster Frankenstein.
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by j-bos 4y ago
Agreed. That's why the fraudster's should be tried Using the bank records as evidence. When someone opens an account in one's name, that's fraud on the bank, and the bank needs to pay for it until squeezing it from the s
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by j-bos 4y ago
I live where tornados are thing, so I want a wake up when there's a warning.
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by j-bos 4y ago
When I used to drive a lot I'd use a mnemonic to keep the plate in mind in case I saw it.
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Ask HN: Why is there no way to lower amber alert volume on headphones?
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by j-bos 4y ago
Reminds me of this speculative piece: https://twitter.com/CWingUexkull/status/1554639440873652227?... tldr is ancient elephants manipulating the environmemt at scale and enslaving ancient humans. Short worthwhile r
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by j-bos 4y ago
I am by no means a rust developer and asking in ignorance, would this have been a problem had it been written in rust?
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by j-bos 4y ago
From (the) experience(s of many, many people), I've learned that GM makes mechanically terrible cars. Digitizing a handle that doesn't even require a lock tells me that they're simply bad at design and build across many doma
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by j-bos 4y ago
Seems the issue is the request being fired off to get the actual script (xss concerns?), my guess is that it would work by copying the requested script into the js url string, rather than requestimg it.
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by j-bos 4y ago
Hmm, I ran into the same issue (without the notification) on chrome and firefox for android..
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by j-bos 4y ago
How does one, as a non executive, secure a bronze parachute? Maybe silver? This is not a rhetorical question.
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by j-bos 4y ago
Iirc that's a safety feature to tech unsavy users from executing copy pasted code in the url bar. You'll need to manually type javascript: at the beginning. Same applies to chrome.
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I think it is for journalists because that seems to be why they're there.
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by j-bos 4y ago
Slightly off topic, but thanks for highlighting the 'what is code' post. I clicked through to the previous hn post of that article, saw the thousand (+?) points and decided to read the actual article. Well worth it.
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by j-bos 4y ago
How did you declare the hours? An email? "Unpaid time off" submission?

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