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by js2 2y ago
"The world's semiconductor industry hinges on a single quartz factory in North Carolina" (130 points 6 months ago | 97 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39818248
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I think it depends on the carrier. With Verizon, replying STOP seems to block the number. But I only do that with political texts (I get a lot of them). For phishing I just delete/report junk.
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I mean this sincerely: it's my favorite Scorsese film. I don't think many people would say that.
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Kristofferson standing up for Sinead O'Connor shortly after her SNL appearance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKeJifOXAnA He later wrote a song for/about her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HwW
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by js2 2y ago
YMMV. I have over two decades of experience with Python and about a decade with JS though it's all backend work. I use both in my day job, but write in Python more frequently. I've found the transition to Python static typing much
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Duck typing is an aspect of it being dynamically typed, not whether it is strong/weak. But strong/weak is not formally defined, so if duck typing disqualifies it for you, so be it. https://langdev.stackexchange.com&#x2F
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> Python's lack of strong typing I see people conflate strong/weak and static/dynamic quite often. Python is strong[1]/dynamic, with optional static typing through annotations and a type checker (mypy, pyright, etc).
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That issue apparently goes back a couple years. https://osxdaily.com/2022/01/28/fix-safari-cant-open-page-ns... https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/qna5js/safari_issue_
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by js2 2y ago
You don't need the backslashes in that case. As with lines ending in pipes and a few other places, the line continuation is implicit after the &&: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/253518/where-
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If you end with a pipe, you don't need the backslash before the newline. It's implicit. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/253518/where-are-ba... When writing bash, if I have a command with many sw
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The following code will only validate when gameServerVersion is a hex string between 9 and 32 characters: #!/usr/bin/env python import sys import re from typing import Annotated from pydantic import BaseModel, Aft
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So, yes, YAML's implicit typing is a landmine. However, this could've been caught by a validator. Whatever is loading this config file should know that `gameServerVersion` is a string and when it got a number, it should've th
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As I look at the comments on this blog post 4 hours after submission, the number of HN readers dismissing it out of hand is really disappointing: Rather than go to all this hassle... Just Program in C Folks, take your dismissiveness els
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> Today however, disk space is no longer considered an issue; this is evidenced by macOS Sonoma, where shutdown and reboot are two separate executables. Try running `ls -li /usr/bin` on macOS and you might be surprised to learn
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Yes. I've worked across a range of companies for small startups to Fortune 500s for nearly 30 years, interviewing for positions from system administrators to dev ops to programmers, beginners to architects. There's just not a lot
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> SG&E [1] includes a lot of things, including all labor costs (all the salaries for all the employees) Lowe addresses that: Interestingly, R&D expenses technically go there [SG&A] as well, but companies almost always break
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You're not comparing the same numbers as Lowe did. So first thing, I was just summarizing what Derek Lowe wrote in 2013. If you click through, what he's comparing is SG&A to R&D. Quoting his post: We're talking SG&am
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by js2 2y ago
Derek Lowe is as good a source as any (he works as a research scientist but I've always believe writes in good faith): https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/don-t-drug-compani... Pharma companies spend ab
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A story written by a human and a story written by ChatGPT(nytimes.com)
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There are criminal antitrust cases[1], but they are hard to win. From "Why Does the Antitrust Division Keep Losing Criminal Trials?"[2]: > Even in the best of circumstances, prosecuting criminal antitrust cases can be challengi
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Thank you for this. I had never seen it before. All truth is one. In this light may science and religion labor here together for the steady evolution of mankind from darkness to light; from prejudice to tolerance; from narrowness to broadm
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Letterman being silly with an 80 ton press: https://youtu.be/0CqCLf4RUUY
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No idea if these work, but I found disk images here: https://macgui.com/downloads/?cat_id=193 Install instructions: https://a2central.com/features/gno/ Also a short video of it running: http
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by js2 2y ago
I think most people know that Vanguard has lower expense ratios than Fidelity. What you give up are products and excellent customer service that some of us find worth paying a bit more for. I don't use an MMF as an investment vehicle.
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GNO/ME was published on GitHub years ago: https://github.com/GnoConsortium/gno https://github.com/GnoConsortium/gno-docs
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by js2 2y ago
I was with Vanguard for many years. Fidelity has too many things I like to split between two brokerages. Using 4-week treasuries on auto-roll is close enough to VUSXX for me. You really can't go wrong with Fidelity, Vanguard, or Schwab
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by js2 2y ago
It's an Olympic sport. Watch this compilation of Pyrros Dimas Olympic lifts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ICfmC8z8oI&t=6s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrros_Dimas
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Ally Savings right now is 4.2%. Their high-yield 6 month CD is 5%. Both are subject to state and federal income tax. FDLXX 7-day yield is 4.93%. 99.5% exempt from state income tax. The most recent 4-week treasury is 5.24%. Exempt from state
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This site doesn't get many submissions so you can search for it by site (domain address): https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=epmonthly.com
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Jeff Jackson's anti-bribery bill [video](old.reddit.com)
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