jachee

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841.
by jachee 7y ago
Genetics are 100% luck. You can't choose your parents.
842.
by jachee 7y ago
Yeah, I misremembered the moral of this list. Ah well, my karmic price has been paid.
843.
by jachee 7y ago
Sure. His luck started by being born to a pediatrician and a math/physics teacher, rather than—say a couple of itenerant agricultural workers.
844.
by jachee 7y ago
Talent is merely applied luck.
845.
by jachee 7y ago
Just beware the Falsehoods Programmers Believe about Names: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
846.
by jachee 7y ago
I'd argue that each Senator's sole job is to debate and vote on legislation as a representative of their state—not their SuperPAC-backed party bloc. Wasting their time is paying them to not do their job because a single person
847.
by jachee 7y ago
Look into Mitch McConnell's record—or rather lack thereof—for allowing House-passed bills onto the Senate floor. He's one man undermining the spirit of our government for his own political agenda.
848.
by jachee 7y ago
Abdication is a single man stonewalling all remotely-progressive legislation from even reaching a vote in the Senate.
849.
by jachee 7y ago
I use Magnet, which comes with very nice KB shortcuts for window manipulation. It adds on the one feature from Windows that I missed on macOS.
850.
by jachee 7y ago
Can we please stop using the "alt-right" euphemism for racist, backwards, literal Nazis? Edit: seems we have some Nazi-sympathizer downvoters on HN. Go figure.
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by jachee 7y ago
You clearly don't know anyone suffering from depression and/or anxiety. If you think money relieves anything—regardless of the amount—you're quite mistaken. Robin Williams was a literal multi-millionaire, and if money relieve
852.
by jachee 7y ago
iOS users tend to be relatively quick about upgrades. Plus, the publication of the announcement contributes to word-of-mouth dissemination of the existence of the vulnerability and prompts those who haven't updated yet to do so.
853.
by jachee 7y ago
There's a 24-hour Kroger near where I used to live that would routinely shut down the last human cashier around 10PM, which was about an hour too early. This resulted in a nightly backup at the two self-check lines they'd leave op
854.
by jachee 7y ago
But it is when we should do something, and stop debating whether anything is happening.
855.
by jachee 7y ago
Hey dang: why editorialize the actual article title? It was up verbatim and got edited to appear less catastrophic.
856.
by jachee 7y ago
To my (admittedly ancient at 41) eye, it's not different enough to warrant all the hubbub that's been raised around it.
857.
by jachee 7y ago
Which is why they're a terrible idea, usually implemented out of sheer greed for passive income with no actual police work.
858.
by jachee 7y ago
Dopamine is the only thing that truly makes me happy.
859.
by jachee 7y ago
Agreed! Their little amputated robot looks too much like the reddit Snoo.
860.
by jachee 7y ago
If you know your insurance won't cover a procedure, couldn't you truthfully tell them that you don't actually have insurance for that procedure?
861.
by jachee 7y ago
I was guessing it was a pre-paid card that just barely had the balance to cover the rental fee.
862.
by jachee 7y ago
Pi hole. SSH server for tunneling gogs Anything else that needs a tiny Linux box.
863.
by jachee 7y ago
I bet CloudFlare has the bandwidth for it.
864.
by jachee 7y ago
How much does ReCAPTCHA's aggressively targeting non-Chrome and/or privacy-enabled browsers and making completing captchas exceedingly difficult factor in your decision? Do you want your site "protected" from those users
865.
by jachee 7y ago
"Yes. I personally filled out an electronic signature for my intent to opt out, Your Honor."
866.
by jachee 7y ago
> You could definitely tell the crowd was bummed on that tidbit in particular. It was the closest to a "boo!" I've ever heard at an Apple keynote.
867.
by jachee 7y ago
There was an anecdote on a semi-recent (sometime this year) episode of ATP where an inside source related to them that nVidia were a terrible organization to try and work with. They apparently screwed Apple over, and Apple has a long memory
868.
by jachee 7y ago
You don't even have to dedicate a pi to it. If you've got Docker, you can run it in a container: https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole
869.
by jachee 7y ago
As another option, Apollo[0] is fantastic, and also independently produced. 0: https://apolloapp.io
870.
by jachee 7y ago
Not talking about destruction. Only redistribution.

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