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by js2 2y ago
It's funny you say that. The NC DMV used to have a decent site for renewing registration. It was basic but functional. No bling. Took me like 2 minutes to use. A few years ago they replaced it with a vendor solution (PayIt[1]). It&#x27
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by js2 2y ago
> 1. From the end-user’s perspective, what makes this a quality service? Is it simply better than other government alternatives, or does it compete with equivalent modern services from the private sector? I couldn't even login to ss
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by js2 2y ago
Aforementioned reddit post: https://old.reddit.com/r/IPhoneApps/comments/1ih8jfk/any_iph...
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by js2 2y ago
That's not grifting. The baby proofer asked a high price. You declined. No one was conned.
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by js2 2y ago
Odd. The 45-second "rule" was not new to 2010. It apparently went back to the 1940s. > The longest Oscar speech was given by Greer Garson at the 15th Academy Awards after she was named Best Actress for 1942 for Mrs. Miniver. He
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by js2 2y ago
That's covered, but it's even easier: Press ~ to open a Go To File dialog prefilled with the home directory. Press / to open it prefilled with the root directory.
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by js2 2y ago
Thank you for the clarification.
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A son spent a year trying to save his father from conspiracy theories(npr.org)
82 points by js2 2y ago|94 comments
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by js2 2y ago
A tale about Perl array vs scalar context and `fortune` has gone missing from the internet (edit: found it, see below). I'll do my best to recount it. The story goes a kid in high school setup a web page that displayed fortunes from, w
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by js2 2y ago
Really? Apple sold the device as capable of displaying "millions of colors" which you don't get to with 6 bits per pixel.
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by js2 2y ago
I'm from S Florida where the conch shell is pronounced konk. It pains me to pronounce xonsh as kontch. Maybe I'll just go with calling it zonk. :-)
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Tilly Smith(en.wikipedia.org)
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by js2 2y ago
In Severance S2E1, Mark W says to Mark S: "Would you be open to using a different first name to avoid confusion?" Did anyone ever ask that of you or your twin?
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by js2 2y ago
It means waiting 150 days after eliminating all the chickens in an area for any virus remaining in that area to no longer be viable.
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by js2 2y ago
20 years ago, Thailand almost overnight got rid of backyard chicken farms: > Perhaps the biggest and most lasting change, Auewarakul says, is that this outbreak abruptly accelerated the transition from backyard chicken farmers to large-s
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by js2 2y ago
Okay, but I'd never expect an AWS SDK to remain backwards compatible with third-party services and would be leery about using an AWS SDK with anything but AWS. It's on the third parties to keep their S3-compatible API, well, compa
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by js2 2y ago
> No really, we had this. On the Vax it was DEC$PHONE and allowed up to four (or was it five?) simultaneous participants in a real-time text chat channel. If you “phoned” someone using their account name on the system then a “ringing” te
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by js2 2y ago
> I am guessing that's the end of the small phone line at Apple. That really ended with the 13 mini on which I'm typing this comment and that I'll hold onto till it's no longer supported.
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by js2 2y ago
> There’s also `sudo cat /dev/null > /dev/nvme0` That doesn't work. The redirection occurs in the current shell which unless it's already root won't have permission to write to /dev/nvme0.
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by js2 2y ago
FWIW, the head of USDS under Obama (Jennifer Pahlka) wrote a whole book about it: https://www.recodingamerica.us Interview with the author: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/opinion/ezra-klei
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by js2 2y ago
18F has been discussed on HN quite a few times, though not too much recently: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=18f Here's its GitHub org: https://github.com/18F
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by js2 2y ago
This was apparently published in 2018: https://www.bennington.edu/news-and-features/bennington-revi... The issues are frustratingly undated, except the first. It strives to publish twice a year.
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by js2 2y ago
Previous discussions from 2015 and 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10078027 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8085254
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How odd is a cluster of plane crashes? (2014)(bbc.com)
2 points by js2 2y ago|1 comments
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by js2 2y ago
Haven't lost power here in my neck of NC yet, but I was sure we would. Blew through here around 9 am this morning: https://ibb.co/zhrxwx93 Still pretty gusty out but nothing like this morning.
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by js2 2y ago
`atuin search --cwd .` https://docs.atuin.sh/reference/search/#examples You could also make "directory" the default filter mode or bind it to up-arrow: https://docs.atuin.sh/configuration
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by js2 2y ago
Everything old is new again: > Flickr is somewhat unique in that it uses a code repository with no branches; everything is checked into head, and head is pushed to production several times a day. This works well for bug fixes that we wan
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by js2 2y ago
Not sure if it's the best implementation, but Norvig's may be the best explanation: https://colab.research.google.com/github/norvig/pytudes/blob...
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by js2 2y ago
Huh, macOS includes a utility called `dot_clean`. It's just been sitting there, quietly, in `/usr/sbin` for decades waiting for me to discover. I've been using macOS since it was OS X and thought I knew most of its nooks
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by js2 2y ago
https://support.apple.com/en-us/118212

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