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by lastofthemojito 2y ago
It's a shame that people need to use this template to design these sorts of eBay search sites though. Seems like it'd be easy enough for eBay to create a tabular view where one could choose fields applicable to their search - the
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by lastofthemojito 2y ago
Agree with the general approach, whether the devs are contractors or employees. In my industry we might call this a Skunk Works project. Get a small, talented team and turn them loose on a focused problem. If they make fantastic progress
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by lastofthemojito 2y ago
Solr is seen (probably unfairly) as passé by many people. I used Solr back in 2008-2009 or so and it did a great job, but people didn't like that it used XML rather than JSON. Then we had a requirement for something like Elasticsearch
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by lastofthemojito 2y ago
It feels more like writing about Boeing and then writing about Boeing again after the crash, considering the Times has been writing about cyber security and American vulnerability for a while: https://www.nytimes.com/2021&#x
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by lastofthemojito 2y ago
I guess I don't fully believe the story about the single review causing such disproportionate harm. The entrepreneurs were said to be scaling up their business (was it too quickly, did they overproduce?) and if they were so successful
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by lastofthemojito 2y ago
In what way did the complaint blame the wrong party? I guess "the company" can be read in multiple ways, I read it as blaming Amazon: > The diaper arrived used and was covered in poop stains. (See pics) Nothing could have bee
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by lastofthemojito 2y ago
> Amazon says that it prohibits negative reviews that violate community guidelines, including by focusing on seller, order, or shipping feedback rather than on the item's quality. I've always really disliked this policy, especi
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by lastofthemojito 2y ago
> The arctic circle doesn’t pass through Iceland (though this may be a consequence of the rotation) Not the mainland of Iceland, but it does pass through the Icelandic island of Grímsey, at least for the next couple decades: https:&#x2F
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by lastofthemojito 2y ago
Looking at Southwest is probably a good way to put the Boeing issues in perspective. It's easy to want to freak out over the negative headlines over the past few years, and the MCAS fiasco is a well-deserved black mark on Boeing'
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by lastofthemojito 2y ago
> Humans walked on the Moon in my lifetime. I should be contented with that. I'm apparently younger than you, and humans have not walked on the moon in my lifetime. I'm discontented by that.
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by lastofthemojito 2y ago
Without a right to roam, we end up with cases of public lands that lack any legal public access. I just read this article in the LA Times about a state park in California that there's no legal access to: https://www.latimes
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by lastofthemojito 2y ago
There's already dicks in Unicode: https://www.revk.uk/2018/10/unicode-dicks.html
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by lastofthemojito 2y ago
> Anyway, since we are here, where should I get a passport too? A lot of it has to do with your personal background. I know one friend going through the process of obtaining German citizenship which is available to her due to her ancest
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by lastofthemojito 3y ago
So what's the deal with the Chase Sapphire Reserve card he mentions almost everyone having? I don't shop for credit cards often and when I Google it I see it's myriad of rules for points and perks, but nothing really jumped
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by lastofthemojito 3y ago
If they're not booked they're exorbitantly expensive. I've seen one optimistic soul listing an unremarkable house in rural Arkansas for $7000/night: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/905741949079877847?c
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by lastofthemojito 3y ago
I think it's the affordable, approachable 24/7 always-welcome aspect more than the food. People have fond memories of going to Waffle House after partying, or going with their tween friends as the only place they could afford to g
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by lastofthemojito 3y ago
Perhaps that was Don't Wordle? That was eye-opening to me too. Play it before NYT sues it out of existence I guess: https://dontwordle.com
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by lastofthemojito 3y ago
My favorite little cross-language coincidence is how lots of place names up north end in 'vik'. In the old Viking world, there's Reykjavík, Keflavík, Grindavík, etc in Iceland. Then over in Norway, you've got Larvik, Ma
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by lastofthemojito 3y ago
I feel a bit doom-and-gloomy, mainly because I'd like to move into a bigger house as my family grew over the past few years. The problem being, I bought my current townhouse almost a decade ago and refinanced during the pandemic to an
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by lastofthemojito 3y ago
Related to high-cost and EVs, I've noticed this phenomenon of automakers hyping EVs with low announced starting prices, but initially only selling the expensive, high-end versions of the car, then eventually (maybe) releasing the cheap
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by lastofthemojito 3y ago
He's pedantically correcting the poster who said "NASA were able to land humans on the moon 55 years ago". The first moon landing was July 20, 1969, so 54 years and 193 days ago.
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by lastofthemojito 3y ago
They do have that filter but annoyingly it resets between each search. I don't buy a ton from Walmart but I typically buy allergy medicine there since it's cheap. So I go to walmart.com, search for "allergy medicine",
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by lastofthemojito 3y ago
> Wal-Mart and Target are the 'curated' everything stores. Are you talking in-store or online? If I go to walmart.com or target.com and search for "usb cable", I don't see a dozen cables that fit 95% of use case
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by lastofthemojito 3y ago
Regent's electric "seagliders" were discussed last year on HN[0] and one of the biggest threads in the discussion was the potential for travel between Hawaiian islands. It looks like that's taking baby steps towards rea
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Hawaiʻi Seaglider Initiative Launches to Provide Affordable/Accessible Transport(businesswire.com)
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Its funny, back when I want to college I had a CS professor who referred to himself as "an otherwise reputable computer scientist who sometimes gets on Airbus airplanes". That was in reference to the difference in philosophy betwe
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by lastofthemojito 3y ago
Green/MMS messages end up having much lower quality images and videos than iMessages. Send the video to another iPhone user and they see it in HD. Send it via MMS and someone gets a blurry postage stamp video.
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by lastofthemojito 3y ago
One thing that I've found interesting about Iceland is that it is the country with the most authors per capita: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24399599 https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world
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by lastofthemojito 3y ago
Well they might be, and they might not be. The old saying "you get what you pay for" ought to be "you get at most what you pay for". If you buy the expensive product, it might be higher quality, or it might be the chea
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by lastofthemojito 3y ago
Which was contemporaneous with the Yugo, so the Yugo is also a reliable and durable car? Or is it possible that there have been better and worse cars since the dawn of auto manufacturing?

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