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by jawns 3y ago
I can think of a few cases. For instance, say you want to make parts of your codebase open-source and self-contained, but others closed-source. It can be easier to carve off the OSS and treat it as if it were a third-party application. That
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by jawns 3y ago
If the bishop specifically said that God ignored those intentions, please quote it. What he said was that the Masses were invalid, a term that means the conditions necessary for the sacrament were not present. He also said, "the intent
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This is a common criticism: "Why would God care about this seemingly minute detail?" We hear it, as well, with things like, "Does God really care if I eat meat on Friday?" But actually, the whole point is that if we can&
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by jawns 3y ago
Number-based organization systems (e.g. US code) work best when there are frequent references to specific nodes in the hierarchy (e.g. legal citations) and there is no guarantee that they're being accessed digitally. But there is a goo
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by jawns 3y ago
Do I understand correctly that Twitter's refusal to pay its AWS and Google Cloud bills has not resulted in a loss of service? It sounds like the only consequence so far is that Amazon, in a tit for tat move, refused to pay its advertis
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DOGO News – Kids news articles(dogonews.com)
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So we're all, metaphysically speaking, a Ship of Theseus?
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My fellow US citizens can't even seem to wrap their minds around something as simple as ranked-choice voting, where instead of selecting the candidate you like best, you instead order the candidates based on how much you like them. It&
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by jawns 3y ago
As best I can tell from perusing the thread: - The Asahi Linux team was "blocking" links to their site from Hacker News by detecting HN as the referrer and redirecting those users to Google. - HN added the "noreferrer" t
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My dad had me at age 55 and my brother at 56. He was receiving Social Security retirement benefits by the time I turned 9. I don't resent his decision to have children at that age, in and of itself. But what I do resent is that he ha
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Justices limit suits challenging misleading securities registration statements(scotusblog.com)
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The Supreme Court Made Just About Everyone Happy for Once(motherjones.com)
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If you're familiar with the history of the Rwandan genocide, it was not simply a matter of the vulnerable Tutsis being massacred by the evil Hutus. The genocide was the culmination of a hundred-plus years of power shifting from one gro
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by jawns 3y ago
> if you vote Republican in 2024, you vote erasure. You vote oppression. You vote fascism As a registered independent who finds both major parties unconscionable, this line of argument worries me. Frankly, members of both parties can as
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by jawns 3y ago
This feature request has been sitting around since 2018: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/52116 It advocates for treating VSCode extension permissioning like browser extension permissioning. Of cour
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I have used it to produce diagrams that represent various stages in the workflows of a content management system for video and mobile assets. Just because the underlying systems were complicated doesn't mean the diagrams needed to be,
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Nice, although that's not technically a publicly accessible endpoint.
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Ask HN: How long would it take you to return current date?
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For more than a century, local newspapers served as the primary medium through which obituaries were published. But nowadays, more and more families are opting to memorialize their loved ones with a digital-only obituary. One unfortunate si
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Rest in Peas: The Unrecognized Death of Speech Recognition (2010)(robertfortner.posthaven.com)
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The most difficult part about code deletion is practicing the Chesterton's Fence principle: > In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probab
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Slack's new modular-apps system charges orgs for using 'custom functions'(slack.com)
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by jawns 4y ago
When my sister was in the ICU at a hospital in a big city, I created something similar for her. The nurses complimented me on it and said it made their lives easier, but I was shocked to learn that they didn't have anything like it unl
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Fermi's Pair o' Decks: Card-trick math reveals odds of alien life(shaungallagher.pressbin.com)
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AI Spam Is Already Flooding the Internet and It Has an Obvious Tell(vice.com)
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The Manager's Handbook – Mental Health (2020)(themanagershandbook.com)
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I treat all lifetime guarantees and lifetime licenses the way I treat employee stock options, as predicated on the company continuing to perform well. And my priors for that assumption lead me to be fairly skeptical and build in a certain a
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by jawns 4y ago
I would assume that if "probability that other users will positively engage with a tweet" is the primary determiner of reach, then the more you can help Twitter accurately predict that probability, the better, because otherwise th
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I think we need to look at the populations of these colleges not as solid blocks, but as distributions. In the simplest case, we could plot the population based on objective talent vs. financial access. And it's likely that with Stanfo
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I recently read this interview with Judith Spritz, who runs "Sprinternship" programs for women in tech. https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-and-social-sector... Basically, participants do a 2- or 3-we

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