mcny

22 ms·

361.
by mcny 2y ago
The best coffee I have ever had was from a coworker's French press. (:
362.
by mcny 2y ago
Related reading (I would love to hear some feedback but I am NOT op) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42414911 ---- Write code and experiment instead of talking and planning I want to have a chat with the computer in it
363.
by mcny 2y ago
I had an interesting conversation with a friend from India. He was talking to his daughter back home in first grade. He actively encouraged her to look around in an exam, to copy off of others, to cheat in an examination. I overheard him an
364.
by mcny 2y ago
>Circumventing a copy-prevention system without a valid exemption is a crime, even if you don't make unlawful copies. Copyright covers the right to make copies, not the right to distribute; "doing what you want with it yourself
365.
by mcny 2y ago
> Due to the modern streaming tech stack, such a cache can't really be automatic and provider-neutral, so of course Netflix needs to work with the ISP to set that up. If Netflix and the other providers thought about sustainability e
366.
by mcny 2y ago
I am sorry but I don't understand what you're saying. > Your rule is a common one, but somewhat misses the point of the argument. In the absence of a CLA who does own the copyright to the work you do? If I don't own the co
367.
by mcny 2y ago
Can you please share why it is dangerous? If I release some code that I wrote myself, I own this code so I can always re release it in another strongly copy left license if there is a defect in AGPL v3 or whatever.
368.
by mcny 2y ago
I also have NY at the end of my name for New York!
369.
by mcny 2y ago
I've argued in the past that Australia should join the European Union and gotten laughed at in my face. :/
370.
by mcny 2y ago
It could also mean Amazon dot com has decided that it was not possible to kill honey and it was better to join them rather than trying to and failing to kill honey. I think it is already proven that honey does not automatically show the bes
371.
by mcny 2y ago
Here is an article from January 2020 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-10/amazon-te... --- PayPal Holdings Inc. made a big bet in November with its $4 billion acquisition of Honey, a web browser
372.
by mcny 2y ago
What am I doing wrong here? Prompt: Say , oh my dear husband I am hungry. Please give me something to eat In as many languages as you know Response: (This response is from hugging face with default settings) , but you don't know me. 1
373.
by mcny 2y ago
> The only thing that I never understood was why brands would allow Honey to be an affiliate. Why would they want to pay Honey any money when Honey doesn’t originate any traffi? One YouTube channel, theo dot gg has a conspiracy theory ab
374.
by mcny 2y ago
Ohio State University won its game of American football against University of Oregon to advance to CFP semifinals.
375.
by mcny 2y ago
It is easy to make any "logic" make sense with words like "if you build it, they will come" or "there are no bad products, only bad pricing" but the reality is that sometimes you can build the best product but
376.
by mcny 2y ago
> You can a building on top of the mall a 20 story building and have the mall on the first floors. This way the tenants can enjoy full and real apartments while the convenience of the mall is one elevator ride away. Absolutely. For anywh
377.
by mcny 2y ago
On the flip side, I would like to see a free of cost email provider offer JMAP as well. It could be a limited version in the sense that something like the free version only has limited storage or something but it offers the full JMAP experi
378.
by mcny 2y ago
If you meet someone new at a social event and give them your email address, where do you want your email provider to put the message that this person sent?
379.
by mcny 2y ago
How do you query json with SQL server like let's say you have one data point like this { "id": 42, "quantity": 12, bla bla bla And you want rows where this column has quantity and quantity ≥ 20 How do you do it if y
380.
by mcny 2y ago
I apologize if this is a stupid question but aren't GST and VAT (basically) the same thing? It is just an "advanced" sales tax, no? It still does not fix the problem of income tax... The big problem from what I remember from
381.
by mcny 2y ago
Thank you for the insightful comment. One small nit though > I always ask what their salary expectations are I thought we were supposed to never answer this question. Why do you even bother asking this question? You have a budget for a
382.
by mcny 2y ago
Speaking of data structures, I am curious what you guys think of the Entity Attribute Value model. I worked on an e-commerce "platform" that used EAV and I always struggled to write queries to find anything I needed. https:/
383.
by mcny 2y ago
> The account creation failed because the password is too weak (it is too simplistic/systematic). Please try again with a different one. What does it want in a password? Would be nice if it actually listed out the requirements from
384.
by mcny 2y ago
> it is hard to blame Microsoft for not checking this code I don't blame Microsoft for the mistakes of Cloudstrike. I DO blame Microsoft for clearly fishing in troubled waters, trying to get back control during a crisis.
385.
by mcny 2y ago
> Windows auto updates if I remember correctly, Windows Updates were a pain in Windows 98 or even Windows XP. Maybe it was just a pain because I was on slow as molasses dial up but just the fact that active x(?) only worked on Microsoft
386.
by mcny 2y ago
I anal so I don't really know what I am talking about but I am hoping for criminal liability as opposed to civil liability. For example, I am thinking if I kill someone with no next of kin, I still have criminal liability even if nobod
387.
by mcny 2y ago
It highlights the dangers of a mono culture as well. Most importantly though, I remember my history professor who always said, "follow the money!" Do the CEO and the board have to pay (either in money out of pocket or time served
388.
by mcny 2y ago
The obvious solution though is to fix the product/service so people don't have to talk to customer support (pit of success, yada yada). This is an iterative process and requires people who form a cross-functional team willing to s
389.
by mcny 2y ago
I tried it with FIrefox 127 (production) and it worked just fine for me even though there is a huge banner on the top.
390.
by mcny 2y ago
It isn't ironic at all. It is like asking "Why does the ACLU support freedom of speech of people who strongly oppose the ACLU?" It really isn't defending freedom of speech if we only defend the freedom of speech we like,

More ›