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by jnsie 3y ago
I'm curious if it is standard practice to name space-related-entities in English ("Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM"), if this is a translation and in Japan they call it something different, or why the named it in
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by jnsie 3y ago
I just want to be able to exclude "basic economy" (and its synonyms). I don't want premium economy, I don't want basic economy. I just want economy. My understanding is that it's not a different cabin so isn't
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by jnsie 3y ago
It's funny, the author went out of their way to give the company the benefit of the doubt...but they come across extremely arrogant and sometimes vitriolic. I wouldn't have been so positive
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by jnsie 3y ago
Every parent's worst nightmare. Godspeed, Lars.
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by jnsie 3y ago
Truly sorry to hijack, but if you have any recommendations for shared French vocab cards I'd greatly appreciate you pointing me in the right direction. I have some French from school, but would like to get back into it and it's...
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by jnsie 3y ago
You can't bring us this far without some examples! Fess up, OP!
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by jnsie 3y ago
> achieving a level of poignancy alongside its humour This quote about a particular episode sums up Bluey for me. It's tremendously well written - funny to both kids and adults alike, and often hits you in the feels. It's genui
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by jnsie 3y ago
Thank you!
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Ask HN: Book recommendation as gift for new COO
1 points by jnsie 3y ago|2 comments
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by jnsie 3y ago
> HP ignored my questions about how many customers were affected and why it repeatedly gave you false information. It stated merely that all affected customers had been notified. It says: “We are taking steps to ensure we deliver the fir
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by jnsie 3y ago
I know this will sounds like a random interneter virtue signaling or karma whoring...but I'm pulling for them buddy, truly!
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by jnsie 3y ago
Alas it appears that it is that way because the prison is extremely short staffed and they have to let a lot slide, rather than any progressive attitude toward prisoner reform.
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by jnsie 3y ago
If you don't mind me asking, what makes it worth the cost for you? I'm a long time mint user with very good financial discipline and can't imagine paying $100 per annum for such a service. But I'm open to learning new th
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by jnsie 3y ago
I agree in principal but I think it depends on the process to submit DMCA takedown requests. If it's trivially easy to abuse this system then I don't think it's fair for the burden to fall on the company (note: in general I&#
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by jnsie 3y ago
The MKUltra series was my intro to the podcast. I can't speak to other episodes but I very much enjoyed those.
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by jnsie 3y ago
> the manager told him that he understood it wasn't his fault. He blamed the Senior DBA for poor supervision Would have been good management...had they not decided to replace said senior with the new hire junior DBA.
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by jnsie 3y ago
The Behind the Bastards podcast did a good (3-part IIRC) series on MKUltra. Well worth a listen.
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by jnsie 3y ago
I hope, one day, it leads to consumer benefits. And not just for the uber wealthy
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by jnsie 3y ago
So, with Mercedes assuming liability is the $2,500 annual subscription fee effectively a new form of insurance?
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by jnsie 3y ago
I have too and I 100% agree that there is a strong non-piracy use-case for Plex. However if you browse the reddit r/Plex sub it's shocking the percent of people not only using it for piracy but also working to build their own us
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by jnsie 3y ago
> This is why more Irish live in America than in Ireland This is nonsense. Are you telling me there are over 5 million 1st generation Irish people living in America? Of course the number will be significanty greater if you include descen
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by jnsie 3y ago
I have a friend who won't take medication (cold meds and otherwise) because they don't treat the illness "only the symptoms". While I understand the distinction I don't understand the lack of desire to treat the sym
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Ask HN: Tools to find prescription drug availability
4 points by jnsie 3y ago|1 comments
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by jnsie 3y ago
There's no reason why both can't happen side by side. Don't see any cause for your derision.
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by jnsie 3y ago
I wonder if, in the future, stable diffusion or other AI techniques can be used to generate nice icon sets and other UI elements. Not that I'd expect Apple levels of design, but anything to bridge the gap would be nice...I'm prima
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by jnsie 3y ago
> Rajs remains upbeat about Black Box’s future, saying its novelty guarantees success—there’s simply no one else offering what they do. Doesn't seem like a winning bet...
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by jnsie 3y ago
I don't think it had anything to do with familiarity to be honest - you noted that "Getting on a call was incredibly complicated, getting someone else in a call even more so." I suspect you overstated this point and, anecdota
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by jnsie 3y ago
> I got deflated whenever I saw a WebEx mail. I literally don't think I ever had an issue getting on a WebEx call, using it many times a week every week for as many years as I can remember. Not that I'm passionate about WebEx
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by jnsie 3y ago
I'm still not 100% clear on what zoom solved that led to such a surge in popularity. I'd used WebEx and other tools for work for years and they always seem "good enough". I probably prefer Zoom, but am not sure it improv
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> The composition of a resume acted as a primary filter from people who couldn't even organize a few lines of information about themselves. That's fine...but you have no way of knowing if the people you filtered out would have

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