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by mcny 10mo ago
Merry Christmas
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by mcny 10mo ago
Also, it only takes one legitimate collect call from a jail from a loved one and now I'm all in favor of reform in our jail system. No, it does not cost over thirty dollars to allow someone accused to call their loved ones. We pay tax
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by mcny 10mo ago
I worked door dash for a couple of days and there were multiple people who wrote in all caps to not ring the door bell. Why? I have no idea.
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by mcny 10mo ago
(reposting because something ate your newlines, I've added comments in line) Im in this business, and used to think the same. It turns out this is a minority of callers. Some examples: - a client were working does advertising in TV com
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by mcny 10mo ago
It is funny you mention Microsoft s customer support because it is a publicly known issue at this point that I'd you are a Microsoft employee or a v dash, the first level of support you talk to is basically something you have to overco
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by mcny 10mo ago
Sorry, I am a little off topic but the word you are looking for is "peddling" as in peddle Peddle (verb) meaning: sell (illegal drugs or illicit goods). "he was arrested after trying to peddle guns"
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by mcny 10mo ago
Ah haha. I love this conversation of trying to find a product market fit in public. What if the input to the JavaScript (mermaid in this case) is not trusted to run on the end client machines but by running untrusted input on a sandbox (thi
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by mcny 10mo ago
I think the blog is strongly hinting us to focus on the real problem -- the electrical utility and I have to agree. The only other option I can think of is to build some kind of high density low power solar powered IoT network that is indep
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by mcny 10mo ago
Happy Dogmas to you as well
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by mcny 10mo ago
One thing that will always stick in my mind is one time I worked at a national Internet service provider. The log disk was full or something. That's not the shameful part though. What followed is a mass email saying everyone needs to u
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by mcny 10mo ago
Yes! I don't understand how any American can support this kind of hypocrisy. For those who didn't know https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Harry_Dunn
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by mcny 10mo ago
For today's lucky ten thousand, the joke is that > There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, off-by-one errors.
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by mcny 10mo ago
The exception proves the norm. The only major example I can think of is Amazon dot com which famously reinvested all its profits into itself for well over a decade. The fact that investors didn't punish Amazon dot com was seen as befud
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by mcny 10mo ago
There was also no expectation of process isolation in Mozilla Firefox when Google Chrome first came into the scenes. Electrolysis was painful for Mozilla and yet it was necessary.
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by mcny 10mo ago
Does anyone know if AMD 8845HS with 780M graphics (running fedora) can into this? Ideally very low system resources used, I only have 16GB RAM, also ideally very little storage space used, one or two frames per second is enough, ideally sho
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by mcny 10mo ago
> What could you suspect if a person born in 1987 got a new PN/SSN around 2022? Thank you for spelling it for me. For the readers, It leaks information that the person is likely not a natural born citizen. The assumption doesn&#x
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by mcny 10mo ago
That's the creation date of that guid though. It doesn't say anything about the entity in question. For example, you might be born in 1987 and yet only get a social security number in 2007 for whatever reason. So, the fact that th
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by mcny 10mo ago
Postgresql 18 released in September and has uuidv7 https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-uuid.html
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by mcny 10mo ago
Maybe I am thinking about this the wrong way so please correct me if I am wrong. 1. The civilian planes fly on pre published routes and communicate with air traffic controllers in plain text 1. Any covert military operation has access to th
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by mcny 10mo ago
tech meme and memeorandum for me
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by mcny 10mo ago
I think the simplest explanation is also the best one. Like you said, it is very difficult to tax wealth. I think we have no option other than taxing loans and other money movements like that in sufficiently large scale as ordinary income.
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by mcny 10mo ago
Previously on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38790754
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by mcny 10mo ago
> In NYC with clean 15+ year driving record my premium is $270 a month after discounts with USAA. Geico, Allstate, Progressive all quote me $400/mo minimum. Have driven everything from old beaters to brand new economy cars with litt
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I have not met a single softie who defended the decision to make ctrl shift c the shortcut to start a call in a group chat when ctrl shift v is paste unformatted. Especially given that the teams client doesn't allow disabling or editin
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by mcny 10mo ago
I think it would be interesting to see where these 56k people live.
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by mcny 10mo ago
Half of humanity is a lot of people though.
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Marco Rubio famously doesn't have the authority to do what is arguably his job. > Trump envoy Witkoff reportedly advised Kremlin official on Ukraine peace deal A more dignified Secretary of State would have resigned when this news s
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by mcny 10mo ago
> If You’re Going to Vibe Code, Why Not Do It in C? Or assembly, or binary Yes, this is a completely valid take and it is the ultimate answer to why vibe coding, the way most people define vibe coding is a dead end. The point is we want
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The problem is that it often doesn't get it right the first time. You have to sort of have a conversation and it eventually gets there but if you have no idea what the destination should be like, you can't guide it there.
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by mcny 10mo ago
It would be so easy to place ads based on page contents and not based on retargeting. It would be such a breath of fresh air. You wouldn't need to know anything about the person visiting the page. You can still do programmatic ads with

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