kris_wayton

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by kris_wayton 4y ago
I recently noticed this on Fiverr.com. I had used it in the past and wasn't ever hit up for a tip. Paid for some work to create some icons just the other day, and the payment flow hits you up for a tip at the end. With wording like
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
Also, typically, the "journalist" doesn't pick the headline...an editor does. Not sure if their AI section follows that tradition.
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
People that are already addicted may seek out the lowest cost opiate.
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
That's tricky though, as access to the drugs varies by society also.
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
I can't help but wonder how many of these layoffs are really just "rank and yank" in disguise. Where the company will soon go back to backfilling pretty much the same spots from the open market. And, funny enough, if the po
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
Google's image search also supports passing "imagesize:WxH", like: https://www.google.com/search?q=imagesize:88x31&tbm=isch
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
Looks like we've overwhelmed it? I'm seeing only "no matching tag found". Also seeing "Uncaught ReferenceError: example1 is not defined " in the JS console.
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
Tried adding adjectives like "deep" to the request, but it then portrays Hacker News exclusively as a sort of beacon of hope. "Write an angsty poem about hacker news" was better, but too cynical. I'm unable so fa
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
Not a word, but "zzzz", or any four character repetition makes a perfect square. So now the previous comments that generate almost-squares make sense to me. It all clicked a little late for me :)
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
Tried asking ChatGPT to write a poem about hacker news. Parts of it seem pretty well done: Where coders gather, to share and explore. Stories of startups, and open-source galore, A community united, forever to soar. With upvotes
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
"noon" and "poop" make pretty good squares.
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
The Redis example is a little different: "fork() e.g. Redis: Calling fork marks all of the process's pages as copy-on-write. Then when a single byte on a page is modified, the page must be copied. Redis uses fork to create a read
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
Everyone hates on confluence, but the one thing that's really hard to find elsewhere is their inline annotation/commenting. This: https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/comment-... The comme
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
Obviously faked reviews is my pet peeve. It's irritating that Amazon can't figure out how to spot and remove these, or at least offer a "report this" button. Even when the review is obviously for an entirely different
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
There's also the notion of seeing when expensive planned maintenance is due. Changing the timing belt is a good example where the cost can exceed $1k, so knowing when that's due milage wise and what the current mileage is becomes
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
They get around address verification with mailbox rentals at places like the UPS store, or other places like it.
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
The milestones are a nice touch.
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
I remember this being especially bad for certain niches like locksmiths. In that space, someone would create fake businesses and then take the leads they got via phone, email, websites, etc, and then refer the business to some actual locks
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
I imagine the comparison to gritty heroics on the ground, face-to-face, means it's harder for pilots to earn that.
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
It would probably be more destructive if it were checking for pirated versions of Office.
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
Assuming the catalytic converter is underneath the car, making that particular area inaccessible would be a lot less headache than the engine bay.
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
I think there's also some amount of "Other companies are laying off, and we secretly kind of like the idea of ranking and yanking, even if we don't need layoffs. So we'll use that already socialized economically driven
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
Character is a tricky concept to me, as it's hard to make comparisons without context. It's easier to have good character, for example, if you're born into circumstances with less temptation to push those boundaries.
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
The short delay in a toggle switch turning on, as opposed to a checkbox, is also irritating. Like, if it's used to expose an additional menu option, for example. That stutter of waiting breaks the flow.
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
The numbers I can find do suggest high percentage growth in Europe, but growth on numbers that are small compared to the US. Something like ~$7B in sales in plant based meat in the US, and ~$3B in sales for Europe. So maybe a bit early to
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
It does seem a fair observation that having a group of people that aren't 100% well versed in the language and culture of the subject matter might not deliver the best results.
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
I'd try taking Paypal to small claims court. It doesn't really matter if you "have a case" or not...many big companies will settle to avoid having to send a lawyer. They can potentially choose to close your account thou
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
This really seems to boil down to "right place, right time", which I suppose you have some control over. However, I assume there's also a potential downside. I've seen, for example, people who are overtly hustling...an
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
Seems like it is not a new problem. https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/11174
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by kris_wayton 4y ago
If this hack enabled wiring up actual physical buttons for things that need them, that would be handy.

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