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by mcny 4y ago
This has been argued to death. Previously, on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12641880 > You're a bit late to the party. We're metaphorically speaking at the stage of emptying the ash trays and hunting
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by mcny 5y ago
> And you have now got me daydreaming about kimchi a full hour before lunchtime, thanks a lot :D Just curious (and nosy), It is still early morning in the US but what did you end up having for lunch? :D
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by mcny 5y ago
> When I was stuck in some distant suburb and had to use taxi companies, the way I "hacked" them to reliably come was to tell dispatch to tell the taxi driver I will tip an extra $20 for the ride. Basically, a form of bribery s
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by mcny 5y ago
Big companies could also simply include their own networking equipment and data plan. My understanding of the fake/non-mmWave 5G is it dramatically decreases cost for network operators. If that is true (please correct me if I am wrong)
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by mcny 5y ago
> WSL won't save you from MS forcing updates down your throat There was only one corporate laptop running windows 10 I've encountered during the pandemic that does not use policy to disable automatic updates and that is Microso
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by mcny 5y ago
article archived at https://archive.fo/wxVkC Mediatek press release archived at https://archive.fo/HkrUf > Here are some of the key features expected in WiFi 7: * Up to 40 Gbps link * Bandwidth up to 320
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by mcny 5y ago
I have that problem as well. Don't press the notification. Go directly to the fdroid app when you get a notification and update within the app. It will work.
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by mcny 5y ago
I was and still remain pretty confused. From an outsider's perspective, my thought was Intel had incredibly massive profit margins pre Ryzen. So my thought was all Intel has to do is slash margins and it can continue to sell chips. Is
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by mcny 5y ago
> Cuts both ways IIRC The Fraternal Order of Police always reminds its members to not talk to the police. When administration asks questions, members should ask whether answering the question is required as a part of their job. If the an
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by mcny 5y ago
I think people just don't know what they don't know. Firefox containers is awesome. I can type amazon.com and it will automatically open in my shopping container (after some configuration). I can type messenger.com and it opens in
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by mcny 5y ago
» Most Georgists support extending the land value tax to other kinds of economic land e.g. slices of radio spectrum. This makes me wonder, do roads pay land tax? I think railway tracks do but I'm not sure about roads. Personally I thin
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by mcny 5y ago
» Being cheaper means you can have more of them, which then could mean you don't even need to worry about the expensive stealth features. So what if the enemy detects one and shoots it down? The four other drones can carry on with the
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by mcny 5y ago
» * It’s is under user’s control. You run it with a schedule that you want. I don’t have to run a closed source app continuously scanning my computer A few years back, around 2016 I wanted to see how One drive syncing worked. So I set my IR
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by mcny 5y ago
» Private companies can sometimes get away with it, as long as the people backing them don't start to see them as investment vehicles like any other public company. I don't know if anyone has any chance if Stack Exchange can'
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by mcny 5y ago
I got to the second last paragraph before I realized LC = leet code.
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by mcny 5y ago
Before the pandemic, I did a round of interviews on site with a bank. Not a very senior role, just a developer. Everything went well or so I thought and then radio silence. Got a text months later from the recruiter who told me the whole gr
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by mcny 5y ago
The article is from October. Has anything changed recently? https://archive.fo/ig59W » The new CDMA shutdown date is scheduled to take place in March 31, 2022.
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by mcny 5y ago
» which made it illegal except as punishment for a convicted crime It is time to revise this in my opinion. Just because I am in prison does not mean you can require me to work. If you can't afford to feed, clothe, house, and provide n
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by mcny 5y ago
» any reasonable Android device lets you disable far more tracking than iOS I have used Android for a decade now. I recently got a Poco X3 pro. Having had a chance to use MIUI, I immediately unlocked the bootloader and installed Lineage. No
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by mcny 5y ago
Not OP but two main things: 1. Access control - you can create new SQL accounts and only give them access to select from specified views 2. Encapsulation and implementation hiding - the underlying table structure can change as long as the v
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by mcny 5y ago
Please correct me if you think I am wrong (disclaimer, never been to India) but my understanding of the situation in India is "vote banking". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votebank » Votebank (also spelled v
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by mcny 5y ago
Of course. I walked four miles in an hour and half for this game called pikmin something but it was in a flat, suburban sidewalk in Colorado. I think most people can easily walk a mile every half hour all day under these conditions. Probabl
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by mcny 5y ago
» Imagine you're 75, retired, and suddenly your property tax spikes and the house you bought 20 years ago for 150 is now worth 750K, and now you're on the hook for 30K. I propose a complete overhaul to this tax. We make this tax a
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by mcny 5y ago
Thank you. To continue this conversation, how would one implement searching and filtering? My use case is an online ecommerce store (think amazon.com or newegg) where you sell multiple different categories of items. For example, if someone
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by mcny 5y ago
» This is just one of those situations where something goes so strongly against my intuition that I can't imagine how it could possibly be correct. I think there are a few things at play here 1. Principal agent problem https:/&#x
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by mcny 5y ago
» I don't think there's quite as much malice as you seem to read into it. Requiring signing into my Microsoft account (with two step authentication code) every twenty four hours on a company laptop you control is obnoxious. You sh
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by mcny 5y ago
» It’s a minefield buying a car and ensuring you get all the right features (a key, a spare wheel, physical buttons for controls) Hi, have you found any small car (I am thinking Toyota Corolla/Camry Honda Civic/Accord sedans) that
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by mcny 5y ago
However, a bank should not ask you to verify your identity when they call you. This is the missing piece. If anyone calls me, I should not give them any information they don't already have. If they are the fraud department, they alread
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by mcny 5y ago
On that note, I should name and shame T-Mobile USA. They called me back after my line got disconnected and proceeded to ask security questions to verify me and pretended to not understand my concern when I said how do I know you are who you
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by mcny 5y ago
» I decided to stop trying to fit my tastes to what's popular Funny enough, for me it was the inexpensive (~ USD 25) no name "blue" switches keyboard that I like best. They are very clickity clackity. However, I work from hom

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