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by jawns 2y ago
I think combining Nyx (dark) + xylon (wood) makes perfect sense in a vacuum. But these researchers have doomed themselves to forever explaining that no, they didn't misspell nylon, and yes, this is something completely different.
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Show HN: Tip Calculator for People Who Like Rounded Totals(shaungallagher.pressbin.com)
1 points by jawns 2y ago|0 comments
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awesome-monorepo(github.com)
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by jawns 2y ago
> markdown is a lightweight representation of html, while rst is a midweight representation of an abstract documentation tree To me, the whole point of markdown is to allow you to do simple things faster than writing raw HTML, but with t
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by jawns 2y ago
Conceptually, this is like https://jsonata.org but with a UI for applying the transforms. Is it worth $9/mo. to anybody? Not sure, but if your entire day is spent wrangling with JSON data ... maybe?
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Ethiopians are struggling to keep up with the new "EV or nothing" policy(restofworld.org)
12 points by jawns 2y ago|5 comments
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by jawns 2y ago
I get the reasoning behind it, but the choice of the division operator is still a little weird. I believe it should be equally possible to overload the bitwise OR operator (|), which, for people used to piping in Unix, is probably more intu
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How do you find a good manager? [pdf](nber.org)
2 points by jawns 2y ago|0 comments
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Cameo was once valued at $1B(businessinsider.com)
64 points by jawns 2y ago|65 comments
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by jawns 2y ago
I've spent the last couple of years identifying and resolving N+1 problems in a Django codebase. https://planetscale.com/blog/what-is-n-1-query-problem-and-h... Aside from the performance gains, it's very sat
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by jawns 2y ago
Right, they aren't explicitly saying it. They are, however, implicitly saying it with the position that "I don't care as long as it works." Javascript is available on every modern browser. It's not going away any t
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by jawns 2y ago
This reminds me of the following: * Devs: We need a better language than Javascript as the lingua franca of the web! * Users: Sure, use whatever language you want -- just make sure it compiles to Javascript, which is already the lingua fran
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Welcoming Prodvana to Databricks: Investing in Next-Gen Infrastructure(databricks.com)
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Is college worth it? Poll finds only 36% in US have confidence in higher ed(apnews.com)
8 points by jawns 2y ago|3 comments
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by jawns 2y ago
It is already possible to combine multiple vaccines into a single shot. This approach is used for other diseases, such as the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine. In the hypothetical case you're describing, I would expect that co
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by jawns 2y ago
Your example gives Random House 35 years of exclusive rights. While not indefinite, it's still worth paying for, just as financial options are worth paying for, even though they eventually expire, too. The grandparent example gives Ra
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by jawns 2y ago
Former journalist here. Journalists do this all the time. Back in the print days, we'd keep clips -- literally cut-outs of our articles -- and use them when job-hunting to demonstrate our past work. I've got a stack of clips in
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by jawns 2y ago
Right now, the way it works is that you produce code, then you give that code to your employer, and they give you money in exchange for the exclusive use of that code. The code and the money change hands. What you're proposing is that
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The Rise of Medium Code(dagster.io)
1 points by jawns 2y ago|0 comments
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by jawns 2y ago
I have followed this guide a few times to successfully back up on Glacier: https://gunargessner.com/takeout One of the tricky things is making sure that you're not duplicating things you've already backed up. The
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by jawns 2y ago
CopyClip https://apps.apple.com/us/app/copyclip-clipboard-history/id5... allows you to retain and access your clipboard history. I would be lost without it. It's gotten me out of so many jams. Just have
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by jawns 2y ago
We are happy subscribers to Pinwheel ( https://www.pinwheel.com ), which is a smartphone without browser or social media access. Our kids can still phone and text their friends, take photos and videos, listen to music, etc. There
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by jawns 2y ago
The Taxpayers Protection Alliance spokesperson quoted at the bottom says: > Private tax services "have every incentive to find the deductions that will yield them the best return," Zupkus said, adding that the IRS wants "t
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Louisiana law will criminalize approaching police under certain circumstances(apnews.com)
43 points by jawns 2y ago|29 comments
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by jawns 2y ago
> The customer’s CIO and technical teams deserve praise for the speed and precision with which they executed the 24x7 recovery, working closely with Google Cloud teams. I wonder if they just get praise in a blog post, or if the customer
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by jawns 2y ago
Former journalist here. I worked at a business dot-com where the writers were expected to churn out at least 5 market briefs a day, and the majority of them did more. I also worked at a daily newspaper where it wasn't uncommon for me
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Average US vehicle age hits record 12.6 years amid high prices(apnews.com)
33 points by jawns 2y ago|50 comments
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by jawns 2y ago
Here's an old joke about the progression from junior to mid-level to senior developer: Junior dev: My code is simple, straightforward, and easy to understand. Mid-level dev: My code is clever, innovative, expressive, hyper-optimized, a
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by jawns 2y ago
No. Courts see through that. You can't even get around it with negation, like "John Doe -- who is surely not a child molester, even though many people think he is." The simple way to think about libel (which is the written f
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by jawns 2y ago
That depends on whether every startup CEO is considered a public figure by default. Does this guy have much name recognition outside of his niche? I would wager not. Even if he is found to be a public figure, I believe the "actual ma

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