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by macNchz 4y ago
Many years ago as a junior developer, some of the very first non-trivial Python code I wrote was an effort to do this programmatically. It was fun! I remember working on it over time, trying to make it faster and more clever. I learned a to
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by macNchz 4y ago
I encountered something similar to this a long time ago in NYC. My friend who keeps tropical fish invited me to tag along with him shopping for interesting new additions to his tank. We visited a couple in Chinatown that were striking simil
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by macNchz 4y ago
A holistic look at the pandemic impact on children should probably also take into account the estimated 10 million children who had caregivers die of covid. https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/topics/orphanhood/i
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by macNchz 4y ago
I agree with you. For me, at least, there’s something to be said about the expectation of being reachable: if you happen to be somewhere remote without any service at all, there’s simply no way for someone to reach you. If you go somewhere
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by macNchz 4y ago
I can't speak for their circumstances, but I'd assume a VC-backed company describing themselves as "not beholden" to VCs means they're default alive without additional fundraising, and that they haven't given o
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by macNchz 4y ago
I did find Geforce Now to be better than Stadia, however I remember being super distracted by the compression artifacts on both. Dark scenes with motion and lots of detail/particles just didn’t look good to me.
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by macNchz 4y ago
I tested out GeForce Now and Stadia two years ago and decided fairly quickly to build a desktop machine instead. Turns out that lots of PC games work really well on desktop Linux these days! The author discusses his internet connection, but
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by macNchz 4y ago
There has actually been a lot of that showing up in my google search results for the past few years… there are thousands of sites out there that were created by scraping news articles and blog posts and replacing random words with thesaurus
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by macNchz 4y ago
> Is that a 4 day week? Is it 4.5? Is it 7? I dunno! To me that sounds like 4.5 days–in this modern work environment I see “working days” as days where there is an expectation of availability and/or action. An off day therefore shou
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by macNchz 4y ago
There’s certainly a comparison aspect to this…I’m 6 feet (183cm) tall and 155lbs (71kg). My family in the American midwest comment consistently about how “skinny” I look, but I’ve never had any similar conversations in NYC where I live, or
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by macNchz 4y ago
My brand new HP laser printer literally won’t do anything until you use the app to set it up and agree to never disconnect it from the internet or use an unapproved cartridge. This is what the printer’s internal web server shows: https:&#x
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by macNchz 4y ago
There’s a bunch of anecdotal reports of forced updates being applied when owners have been holding back for a long time: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/tesla-forced-an-upda... https://mobile.tw
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by macNchz 4y ago
Tesla has pretty clearly led the way on some of this stuff, they’ve been doing unattended OTA software updates and remotely-revokable paid add-on features for years. Other manufacturers do not have more auditable firmware, but they are behi
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by macNchz 4y ago
NYC is interesting in this way, in a given year living here it’s very likely you’ll spend considerable time outside or in unconditioned spaces in windy 15F/-10C as well as humid 95F/35C weather. There are obviously places in the U
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by macNchz 4y ago
I find the Zoom interface UX to be terrible, but keep coming back because it’s way better in ways that matter once you’re used to that. I’ve found that the screenshare quality in Zoom is rather strikingly better than in Meet, to the point t
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by macNchz 4y ago
I noticed this very clearly with World of Warcraft Classic…I’d played the original WoW for a bit when it first came out in 2004, and had a lot fun with it but didn’t really have time for it with school and stuff. During the original March 2
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by macNchz 4y ago
I actually find Twitter’s mobile web app experience to be pretty good–they don’t nag me to install the app every 5 seconds, it’s reasonably performant, the back button works properly and even mostly preserves scroll position. All of the cor
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by macNchz 4y ago
> Today, you can reasonably expect a system to be done booting in a second, with the slowest portion of booting any secure system being the user typing a passphrase. What sort of machines boot in one second? My 12-core Linux desktop with
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by macNchz 4y ago
I’ve set something like that up a handful of times in a kind of ad-hoc manner, by subclassing/extending the autogeneration tools from existing db migration frameworks to just detect changes in a directory of .sql files. Has worked pret
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by macNchz 4y ago
When I started high school–20 years ago next month–there were about ten of us out of 500 students in the school who had Macs. We somehow all got to know each other and shared software and support for the frequent file compatibility issues
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by macNchz 4y ago
I did this to my long suffering 2015 MacBook Pro, which always had significant thermal problems. It worked pretty well to keep it from overheating, but it’s no longer safe to use the computer on my actual lap as the bottom gets skin-burning
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by macNchz 4y ago
I've never actually had it happen to me, but it's one of the reasons I always book a hotel for the first night or two of a longer international trip, even if we're staying in Airbnbs for the rest of the time. Never want the e
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by macNchz 4y ago
In reading more about early Etsy and Treasuries I found this blog post from 2006 praising the interactivity and community driven nature of the Etsy browsing experience at the time, interesting to read alongside the twitter thread: http:&#
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by macNchz 4y ago
I've shared this before on HN, but it never fails to make me laugh when I think about it: >Several years ago a conversation about a similar topic prompted me to look at the ad targeting data Facebook had on me. At the time I'd
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by macNchz 4y ago
It has been a few years since I regularly shopped at Whole Foods, but when I did my impression was that at least some of their reputation for high prices came from the fact that they had a wider range of minimum to maximum price in a given
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by macNchz 4y ago
> I just had a look and they show one appointment available for a single MD across their 14 NYC offices this week. I was curious because my own experience with them has not really reflected this decline, though I see other commenters men
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by macNchz 4y ago
I’ve had a similar saga with my Apple ID profile picture. I snapped it in a poorly lit kitchen with my new laptop’s built-in webcam in December 2008, and in spite of occasional efforts to remove it, it has propagated itself back and forth b
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by macNchz 4y ago
I've had an Awair monitor for a few years and enjoy keeping a fairly close eye on the numbers, but from what I've experienced so far I'm convinced sure I'd be able to train myself to discern CO2 levels. If anything it ha
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by macNchz 4y ago
Thanks for the detailed info–I think what you're describing is how onit actually works. By default, when a repeating todo item is due, you'll get a daily email listing the things that are currently due. For each repeating todo ite
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by macNchz 4y ago
I feel like the promise of Zoho One is strong, but when I was using it I found myself frequently frustrated with the way that most of the services seemed to range from slightly-to-dramatically worse than the competition. As soon as you star

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