lukewrites

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   by lukewrites 4y ago

   This sort of stuff makes me a militant user of archive.is https://archive.ph/20220512234058/https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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   by lukewrites 4y ago

   I'd love to learn more about the longevity conferences you've attended, if you don't mind.
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   by lukewrites 5y ago

   If this helps stops high earners from buying second or third homes, as seems common in the sections of the software engineer community in my area, I am all for it.
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   by lukewrites 5y ago

   I wrote a web scraper to determine how local Nissan dealerships changed prices on CPO Leafs over time. The script hit the Nissan CPO page, grabbed all the VINs, then updated the price & date if there had been a change. I collected data
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   by lukewrites 5y ago

   Deepest sympathy for the Nadella family as they grieve the loss of their son.
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   by lukewrites 5y ago

   Yeah between the “take whatever you want” and the sensory experience of seeing and touching and opening books of different sizes, textures, thickness, etc it’s mind blowing to try to replicate. Just something as simple as having books shelv
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   by lukewrites 5y ago

   I don't think anything compares to going in person. I'm father of a 4 year old, and we live a couple of blocks from the library. Seeing how his interactions with the shelves has changed over the past couple of years has been reall
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   by lukewrites 5y ago

   I feel like I get great value for my Apple One Premier subscription. I already was paying for the largest available iCloud storage. Paying a bit more and being able to host email addresses for private domains, plus having iCloud Private Rel
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   by lukewrites 5y ago

   Eluded so completely from the comment that it didn’t appear at all.
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    by lukewrites 5y ago

    For my job I spend a lot of time working on a python package that uses threads. I’ve found that pycharm’s debugging tools are much better than vscode’s when it comes to threads. Also, auto imports are possible while I don’t think I’m able t
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    by lukewrites 5y ago

    Cohen’s music isn’t always for me, but I love this rendition of “Hallelujah” in Yiddish - I prefer it to the English version: https://youtu.be/XH1fERC_504
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    by lukewrites 5y ago

    Startup, WA Gold Bar, WA Skykomish, WA At least from Apple Maps, they’ve all got a USPS but no bank.
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    by lukewrites 5y ago

    Honest question that I'm sure sounds snarky: Why was Bezos in a flight suit if he wasn't flying?
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    by lukewrites 5y ago

    I have seen jobs at Mozilla that I'm interested in, but I'm just too afraid that they'll do more eng layoffs that I don't want to go through the hassle of applying.
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    by lukewrites 5y ago

    There's a joke a rabbi I admire likes to tell to illustrate how random "success" is. He was watching the news and they interviewed the richest man in Canada. The interviewer asked, "How did you make your fortune?" &
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    by lukewrites 5y ago

    https://archive.is/Fvf70
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    by lukewrites 5y ago

    > When I saw the Harris video, I could only facepalm when I hear the "if any 3rd party (no matter the credentials) touch the machine, it can be dangerous for the consumer"... it's an ice cream machine for god sake, not a n
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    by lukewrites 5y ago

    I only use Reddit via third party apps because the website is so awful. First it was Narwhal now it’s Apollo, both for iOS. Apollo is fantastic and has a desktop client in the works…well worth the money.
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    by lukewrites 5y ago

    五毛 or 5毛 - 5 _mao_ is half a yuan, so the equivalent of 50¢. “Fifty cent” is an Americanized translation. Edit: the wiki page you linked has it in simplified and traditional characters.
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    by lukewrites 5y ago

    The Onyx Boox e-ink devices run Android and have wifi. I sync my Pocket account (using the app) and read via RSS. They’re great devices, and you can even download the Kindle app and read your DRM’d books on them :)
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    by lukewrites 5y ago

    Inspired: mafernment
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    by lukewrites 6y ago

    I work in a non-union office and we also have the same policy. I don’t think this reflects it all upon unions.
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    by lukewrites 6y ago

    > If anyone wants help or advice regarding healthcare systems and/or citizenship matters, I am here to help. Check my email on my profile. I'll be emailing you. My wife and I are starting to work on a shortlist of countries to
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    by lukewrites 6y ago

    > Why bother using FF at this point? I use it almost entirely for containers. Do any other browsers have the same functionality either built-in or via plugin?
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    by lukewrites 6y ago

    Thanks to this article I discovered and now use this feature. Crud.
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    FAA safety engineer goes public to slam agency’s oversight of Boeing’s 737 Max(seattletimes.com)

    245 points by lukewrites 6y ago|113 comments
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    by lukewrites 6y ago

    Thanks
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    by lukewrites 6y ago

    https://archive.is/BHGUt if you don't want to log in to Medium.
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    by lukewrites 6y ago

    Any chance you saved/upvoted that post? I can’t find it but would love to read it.
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    by lukewrites 6y ago

    What’s the angriest part of a computer? The cursor.