jkubicek

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by jkubicek 3y ago
People getting off on technicalities is one of the things that keeps police honest.
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by jkubicek 3y ago
Lexikon 83DL typewriter, 1970 https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/2004.187/ The audio recorder is cool, but that typewriter is *gorgeous*
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by jkubicek 3y ago
When folks say stuff like this, I feel like they're imagining two buddies arguing over tax reform or something. I'm absolutely fine being friends with someone who has conservative economic beliefs. What I'm not fine with is b
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by jkubicek 3y ago
"Easy and secure solar mobility for all (EU Only)" We're in the market for a new car. A cheap, small, low-range, light electric car is exactly what we need. I'm putting off our purchase for as long as I can in the hopes
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by jkubicek 3y ago
The planet is tidally locked to the star, so absent an atmosphere, the side of the planet facing away from the star will be freezing. If there is an atmosphere then the opposite side of the planet may be a bit more mild?
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by jkubicek 3y ago
And, the taps on your wrist are unique depending on which direction you need to turn, so you can theoretically navigate via the wrist-taps alone.
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by jkubicek 3y ago
Your documentation is amongst the best I've seen on OAuth, but it suffers from the same naming confusion I always run into when I'm reading OAuth docs. > OAuth 2 makes it easy for large service providers to write many APIs
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by jkubicek 4y ago
I value my privacy. I don't have a relationship with data brokers and I see no need for them to know anything about me. For the record, I have no issue with targeted advertising within a single org. If Google shows me ads based on my
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by jkubicek 4y ago
There are a lot of right ways to solve this problem, but this is clearly the most fun way.
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by jkubicek 4y ago
I think this is exactly right, and explains why staunchly middle-income suburbs around San Francisco are filled with luxury cars. An $80k car feels relatively cheap when your mortgage is $1.5mm.
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by jkubicek 4y ago
We also used "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" for both of our kids. It works outrageously well and we've recommended it to all our friends with young children.
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by jkubicek 4y ago
> Beatriz Flamini... said by her support team to have broken a world record for the longest time spent in a cave in an experiment closely monitored by scientists seeking to learn more about the capacities of the human mind and circadian
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by jkubicek 4y ago
This is exactly why I think the "myth of the 10x engineer" is so obviously false. An average software engineer will create an overly complex system. If a skilled engineer can come in and create something that doubles team produc
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by jkubicek 4y ago
It doesn't seem particularly interesting? I would never make a formerly private repo public without first erasing the history. There's no upside to showing everyone your work in progress and almost unlimited downsides.
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by jkubicek 4y ago
it's also just plain advertising. When the celebrities listed in these charges say that they're buying NFTs, a whole lot of people are going to see that and notice. The number of people that buy an NFT because Soulja Boy bought on
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by jkubicek 4y ago
No, you misunderstood me. I like the realistic reload mechanisms in Pavlov, I think they're fun and wouldn't change anything. But the parent comment complained about having to relearn complex control schemes every time they pick u
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by jkubicek 4y ago
> I can't think of a single shooter where reloading is anything different from just physically doing a reload action like you would with a real gun. I'm fairly confident that more people have experience reloading video game gun
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by jkubicek 4y ago
I’ve gotten much better at load the pizza into my pizza oven stress-free. I’ve moved away from cornmeal; it works great, but I never liked the gritty texture it gives the pizza. My technique is to use a wooden pizza peel and liberally flour
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by jkubicek 4y ago
> This touches on a big reason why it's so hard for me to get on board with generative AI. The hype around it is pretty much the same as the hype I saw with NFTs, complete with a community lacking any awareness of just how uninteres
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by jkubicek 4y ago
> there's millions of developers who are actively working in the open on OSS platforms like GitHub? There's an order of magnitude more qualified developers who don't have the time/aptitude/patience for contributi
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by jkubicek 4y ago
Reddit captures so much of what (to me) made the old internet so fantastic. Anything I want to learn more about I can search for and find detailed descriptions/reviews/stories from real people talking about their real products wit
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by jkubicek 4y ago
There's some people making outsized and unreasonable claims about AI today, sure, but AI is generally useful and valuable right this minute. Crypto never really made it over that hump.
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by jkubicek 4y ago
I don't see why this couldn't be regulated in the same way that HIPPA protects our health information. Onerous regulation and business-killing fines have the added bonus of making the collection of personal data extremely unappeal
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by jkubicek 4y ago
If you're about to sue your former employer for breach of contract (because of the acquisition) and wrongful termination (because he was fired for being disabled) it's nice to have the CEO admit all of this stuff in public.
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by jkubicek 4y ago
> there's exactly zero good reason to not license out access to the protocol. There's at least three good reasons: * Keeping the protocol private is a competitive advantage * Licensing a protocol and managing those licensees i
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by jkubicek 4y ago
> Apple SPECIFICALLY does not open up iMessage to non-Apple platforms because they want you to buy their phones- something they share a duopoly with. That is the very DEFINITION of market abuse. I don't think that's the definit
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by jkubicek 4y ago
I'll add some anechdata: I get frequent text spam (about 1/day at the peak, it's slowed a lot recently). I've gotten maybe 5 spam iMessage messages during the entire lifetime of my phone.
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by jkubicek 4y ago
I've also suffered from canker sores. Vitamin B (B-12 is the important one, I think) is a wonder cure. At the first sign of mouth soreness I start taking daily doses of Vitamin B and it cures the sores right up.
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by jkubicek 4y ago
This is very well put, you said it better than I ever have myself. One thing I'd add is that, even if I were able to give away enough of my income to make a difference in my community, everyone in the community would benefit, but I wou
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by jkubicek 4y ago
I don't think that's true at all

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