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by jrockway 1y ago
I'm only a casual baseball viewer, but balls and strikes are so easy to see on TV and the umpires miss a lot of obvious calls. It makes a lot of sense to make this a game mechanic that is managed by the machine, rather than requiring
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by jrockway 1y ago
Because type Foo struct { sync.Mutex whatever string } var foo Foo foo.Lock() foo.whatever = 42 foo.Unlock() is convenient.
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by jrockway 1y ago
Why leak your primary keys? They are for the DBMS, not your end users.
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by jrockway 1y ago
Looks like the battery is glued down with heat sensitive glue. Those are the terminals to connect to a built-in heater (i.e. piece of wire). This replaces a finicky 3m-command-strip-like thing. That's what I gather; I've never
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by jrockway 1y ago
Are H1B visas undercutting wages significantly? I haven't really looked since the zero interest rates era, but back then H1Bs were getting paid the same as everyone else. I got the impression that companies would like to hire citizen
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by jrockway 1y ago
I think it's a fine argument to make. At some point, the price discovery mechanism has to ask someone a price that's too high. Someone then has to say "no". Everyone starts off with a price that's too low becaus
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by jrockway 1y ago
It's unclear what device attestation does here. You can print a fake check and take whatever picture you want. If it's using dead pixels or something as a device fingerprint, you get those dead pixels. You can also fake dead pi
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by jrockway 1y ago
I think the reality is that your phone will always encounter something that can damage it (unless it's made out of diamond), and a case lets you easily replace the damaged part. Just subjectively, I remember having a super scratched iP
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by jrockway 1y ago
Johnson & Johnson split off their consumer pharmaceuticals into a new company (Kenvue) in 2023, so there isn't 5 years of stock price data.
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by jrockway 1y ago
I'm not making a value judgement. I'm saying, how are they going to punish you, as a burger flipper, for not saying their TV commercial tagline? Demote you to burger flipper? That's already your job. So why pay people to
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by jrockway 1y ago
I'm most surprised that they have this whole system for how drive-thru interactions should go. Positive tone. Saying "you rule" like their exceedingly-irritating television commercials. Like... what if you don't? &qu
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by jrockway 1y ago
We watched this happen again in New York where OMNY was supposed to be the region-wide fare system, but the Port Authority decided not to use it, all the bus systems decided not to use it, and the MTA's railroads decided not to use it.
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by jrockway 1y ago
I just use my phone to pay for BART?
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by jrockway 1y ago
There are no terms and conditions attached to library books beyond copyright law (which says nothing about scanning) and the general premise of being a library (return the book in good condition on time or pay).
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by jrockway 1y ago
From the article: > However, this required she be given a prior warning. Only more serious breaches such as “threatening and intimidating language” would be gross misconduct and warrant summary dismissal. It seems like the prior warning
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by jrockway 1y ago
I think it's pretty obvious that the goal is to get rid of the conductor position entirely. 50% less employees per train. Someone who sits at a desk all day definitely gets promoted for that one.
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by jrockway 1y ago
It is. There are possibly-recognizable tunes throughout the system. Vivaldi's Spring comes to mind. I think at Ooimachi.
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by jrockway 1y ago
Contrarian here. I wish all product managers were forced to work on a much slower machine, so that "make this shit fast" becomes the highest priority issue in the backlog. Nobody is writing slow code specifically to screw over us
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by jrockway 1y ago
It varies by state. In many states, felons can register to vote immediately after release (even while on parole) and aren't disqualified from programs like Medicaid. So it's not a death sentence despite what the system intends.
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by jrockway 1y ago
What about the people that didn't vote for this? Every election is 49/51 so when someone says "they're getting what they voted for", half the people are getting the opposite of what they voted for.
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by jrockway 1y ago
I guess "plausible deniability" is the best anyone intending to immigrate to the US can do. It's crazy how difficult we make it.
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by jrockway 1y ago
H1-B is an immigrant intent (actually dual intent) visa. I know a lot of Canadians that started working in the US on a TN visa, which doesn't let you ever become a permanent resident. They had to do all the paperwork (and win the lot
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by jrockway 1y ago
You can proxy all the underlying USB communications to a physical device. Allowing attestation in the spec was not an anti-bot measure.
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by jrockway 1y ago
I'm not sure it's the standards committee's fault that your employer hires people that don't know how to do their job. I think it's reasonable to have attestation for the corporate use case. If they're buying
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by jrockway 1y ago
You have to think about other users as well. One person taking advantage of you doesn't mean you have to cut off all the people not taking advantage of you. Expecting a reward from open source software is a recipe for disappointment.
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by jrockway 1y ago
What's the risk? The current state is "your application has been thrown into a fire and will never be seen by human eyes". How can it get worse than that? There is no downside to complaining on HN, except for getting the r
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by jrockway 1y ago
I've never felt that icky. I don't really have any secrets in my dotfiles, though I have in the past. In that case, I just encrypt the private stuff using my SSH private key (stored in 1password) and age (via sops-nix).
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by jrockway 1y ago
Microsoft is working on this because they'd be the primary user.
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by jrockway 1y ago
Doesn't Florida have an insurability problem that's becoming a crisis? At the end of the day, I'm guessing that most people price housing as mortgage + insurance. If insurance costs go up, the price of the underlying propert
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by jrockway 1y ago
It does seem that people are fed up enough to ignore campaign spending, however. Examples are the Wisconsin supreme court race and Mamdani vs. Cuomo. I really don't think that the Democratic establishment as we know it has much time t

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