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by jasode 10mo ago
>Pretty sure farmers don't buy them tax free? [...], but they still foot the rest of the tax burden. To clarify, this isn't about the farmer paying a "sales tax" or VAT as % of the price of buying the tractor. The
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by jasode 10mo ago
>, how would they know what my Apple account is until they’re redeemed? To add context, your reddit post also mentioned: >, I purchased eleven Apple Gift cards from [...], and apple.com, and added the amounts to my Apple account.
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by jasode 10mo ago
>It's just insane that a gift card redemption can trigger this. It's also the buying of gift cards that can get Apple accounts locked: https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/r8b1lu/ap
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by jasode 10mo ago
>why did you only quote written examples from the HN search and not provide video or audio clips? At the risk of stating the obvious, highlighting the HN _texts_ demonstrates in a very literal way the "write like" fragment
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by jasode 10mo ago
>1) None of those had an Em dash I was responding in particular to the "you write like a late night kitchen gizmo ad?" ... which would be a speech pattern people hear . In the audio case, it doesn't matter what punct
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by jasode 10mo ago
>write like a late night kitchen gizmo ad? I naturally wrote "it's not just X, it's Y" long before November 2022 ChatGPT. Probably because I picked up on it from many people. It's a common rhetorical templa
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by jasode 10mo ago
>Everyone likes a service when it’s subsidized by VC dollars. Netflix went public in 2002. It was +8 years later that the streaming-only service was launched in 2010. The digital streaming wasn't "subsidized by VC". N
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by jasode 10mo ago
>I'm not messaging all the other sellers and suggesting we all raise prices by 10%, The way competitors legally message each other to suggest a price increase is via the prices themselves . E.g. an airline wants to raise the pr
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by jasode 10mo ago
>, UTF-8 predates Windows NT. Windows NT started development in 1988 and the public beta was released in July 1992 which happened before Ken Thompson devised UTF-8 on a napkin in September 1992. Rob Pike gave a UTF-8 presentation at U
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by jasode 10mo ago
>I'll never really understand how they ruined the opportunity presented, Money. It's easier to understand it if you realize each studio is trying to maximize its own revenue. Consider the common advice given to content crea
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by jasode 11mo ago
gp was using a more restrictive definition of "native controls". I.e. "o/s builtin UI controls" vs "framework canvas painted elements". For Windows, "native" would be the classic Win32 UI &quo
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by jasode 11mo ago
Graydon Hoare, a former C++ programmer on Mozilla Firefox and the original creator of Rust, acknowledges that for many people, Rust has become a viable alternative to C++ : https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html And on
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by jasode 11mo ago
>I just stream files from my Macbook via AirPlay to my tv. Ok, explaining your situation with a laptop clarifies where you're coming from. (Which my prior reply anticipated and covered in my 3nd paragraph about torrents being eas
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by jasode 11mo ago
> i think the apparent 'lumper' is just a person ignorant of classification scheme offered, or at least, ignorant of what property it purports to capture. >In each case there is a real objective distinction No, Lumper-vs
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by jasode 11mo ago
Whenever someone argues the uselessness or redundancy of a particular word, a helpful framework to understand their perspective is "Lumpers vs Splitters" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpers_and_splitters
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by jasode 11mo ago
>I don't understand why most people don't just torrent? [...] It's actually more convenient than streaming services. I think your technical sophistication means you're somewhat out-of-touch with what "most&quot
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by jasode 11mo ago
>You can’t have your UI disrespecting [...] and I care too much! I think it just highlights that people care about different things. I've seen the "(s)" placeholder for decades in computer UIs and it's never bother
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by jasode 11mo ago
>, what's the thought process behind this meaning of "render"? It's another use of "render" relative to the server such as converting non-HTML data inside database tables, json, etc --> rendered into
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by jasode 11mo ago
>ZIRP was the fuel, the lightener and your will are the "root causes". But with no fuel, no fire. But the "Z" in "ZIRP" is literally zero% interest so your reply doesn't seem to address the gp'
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by jasode 11mo ago
>I believe Google will ultimately win the AI race once the VC funding tap runs dry. Your mention of "VC funding" may be a placeholder for conversational purposes but just to clarify, OpenAI is way beyond the small pocketbo
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by jasode 11mo ago
>The solution is to run Linux. The Linux answer is often repeated but unfortunately, some users depend on various Windows software that only runs properly on Windows. E.g. CAD/CAM, Quicken finance, sewing embroidery, etc can&#x2
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by jasode 11mo ago
> and then giving up things produced off that investment when the company grows? An investor can be stubborn about retaining all rights previously negotiated and never give them up... but that absolutist position doesn't mean anyt
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by jasode 11mo ago
>Having a web interface It's not the interface , it's the web hosting . People want a free destination server that's up 24/7 to store their repository. If it was only the web interface, people could locally ins
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by jasode 1y ago
So the DNS records if-stale-then-needs-update it was basically a variation of the "2 Hard Things In Computer Science - cache invalidation" . Excerpt from the giant paragraph: >[...] Right before this event started, one DNS
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by jasode 1y ago
>You can rent a VPS from hundreds of possible companies. And people are very happy with them, it seems every month or two there’s a post here about how some company slashed their cloud bill by switching to a VPS. Companies are using hi
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by jasode 1y ago
>This is how Usenet worked: you subscribed to the groups you found interesting and where participants were of sufficient quality. And you further could block individuals whose posts you didn't want to see. Your explanation actuall
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by jasode 1y ago
For a government website like Social Security, the fallback is for the citizen to go to the local office instead of authenticating credentials remotely at home. Same situation with the IRS tax refund website. The ID.ME identity website us
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by jasode 1y ago
>I am also considering using SIP (VOIP) numbers for maximum privacy, The problem is many services out there using SMS for authentication codes blacklist VOIP numbers and only accept real phone numbers tied to a SIM/eSIM . E.g.
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by jasode 1y ago
If you're trying to compare equivalent units-of-measure of terabyte (10^12) vs tebibyte (2^40), it's: 28TB (HDD) vs 18TB (LTO-9) ... or ... 25TiB (HDD) vs 16.37TiB (LTO-9) The 25Tib shouldn't be compared with gp&#x
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by jasode 1y ago
>Call me naive, but can't an artist just refuse to be listed on Spotify? No meetings, groups, boycotts necessary. They want the listeners to change their habits away from Spotify and engage with music differently -- on another

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