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by morley 3y ago
I've read before -- though right now I can't think of the source -- that if a group of interviewers are weakly against a candidate but one is strongly for them, you should trust the instincts of the person who's "strongl
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by morley 3y ago
Obligatory wisdom from The Dude: "Hmm... well, I still jerk off manually."
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by morley 3y ago
The article is making it seem like trap-neuter-release is a completely new strategy, but groups in NYC and elsewhere have been employing it for a long time. What's new is that Flatbush Cats is building a new vet clinic to provide more
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by morley 3y ago
Are all the hooks on the site made by ui.dev? It'd be great if each hook linked to the Github code for that hook, as the first thing I thought of was (a) what is the hook doing, and (b) is it easier to adapt my existing hook and reduce
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by morley 3y ago
Interesting thoughts. I was actually going to say that _Uber_ had the advantage in this deal, since it owns the customer relationship and can shape demand toward or away from Waymo. Google has a distribution channel via Android, but I don&#
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by morley 3y ago
> Mobile games are filled with ads and in-app purchases and I never found a simple game I could play and enjoy while waiting for public transport. I bought Threes for $3 in 2014, and I still play it for hours each day -- on the subway, w
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by morley 3y ago
Wow, I didn't realize they produce a Synology package!
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by morley 3y ago
I see a lot of love for Tailscale, but I'm curious what people use Tailscale for? Is it mostly to access services running on an internal network? Do you use it for work or for fun? The use case I can see is streaming from my personal P
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by morley 4y ago
No. Zoom bought the company during the pandemic -- after a period of being criticized for their security practices -- to beef up their security engineering team. (I worked with several Keybase members when they worked at OkCupid, and later
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by morley 4y ago
Hi! I'm hiring right now for a backend role (and have hired for more than eight years). I'm happy to give constructive feedback about your resume. morley - at - daylight.xyz.
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by morley 4y ago
As a counterpoint, I think context matters the _least_. I've read a lot of business writing where the writer's mindset is clearly:I am writing for business, therefore I must sound business-like. Lots of "in terms of", &q
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by morley 4y ago
My impression of the gas stove hubbub was: > First they made specious claims about gas stoves, and I made a big stink about it because it got me activity on social media.
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by morley 4y ago
Notably absent from this list is L'Industrie in Williamsburg!
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by morley 4y ago
Is it that much crazier than previously, when a movie was shot on film, scanned to a digital intermediary, then printed back onto film for distribution? EDIT: Now that I've read up on Greig Fraser's reasoning, it makes a lot more
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by morley 4y ago
I hate to ask a stupid question, but I'm new to administering a Postgres database. Do admins usually upgrade their DBs with each major release? I'm guessing it's highly contextual and depends on how easy it is to do so, but
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by morley 4y ago
I'm surprised how widespread nonalcoholic beers have become. I was back in the Czech Republic a couple of years ago -- maybe the last place I expected to sell N/A, given they have the highest beer consumption per capita -- but Sta
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by morley 4y ago
In particular: if you load an SVG in Chrome via an img tag, the webfont is not run because the environment tries to execute as little as possible. It'll instead use whatever fallback font is present on the system. Source: I just dealt
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by morley 4y ago
> slightly different every time we look back, but with no way of knowing what's changed This is already the case with different image compression algorithms improving on one another. Users couldn't and shouldn't tell the d
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by morley 4y ago
Design is highly contextual, so I think it'll depend a lot on how they're used. These fonts seem a lot more polished than what you would find in old-school clip art packs. I can imagine some interesting use cases for these. And ev
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by morley 4y ago
I've used the weather.gov site for the last ~5 years, and it has been great. I bookmark both the 7-day local forecast[1] and the hourly dashboard[2]. [1] https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.71234500000...
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by morley 4y ago
Leveled thinking is common in competitive games, for obvious reasons. There's no better illustration of what you're talking about than the poison scene in Princess Bride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMz7JBRbmNo
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by morley 4y ago
IIRC when Rock tries out material, he deliberately speaks in a dull monotone. He's such a great performer that if he uses his normal standup instincts, he can get laughs off of weak material.
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by morley 4y ago
And video games cause violence, and DnD leads to Satanism, and TV rots brains, and movies lead to illiteracy, and books lead to dangerous thought.
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by morley 4y ago
> though not the cleverest engineer, [I] was one that worked quickly to prototype new ideas and took on some of the gruntwork that not every engineer wanted to work on. This is basically all I want from anyone I work with.
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by morley 4y ago
George Saunders' recent book "A Swim in a Pond in the Rain" is great: he goes through four classic Russian short stories and dissects how they work. He also has a Substack where he does the same for other stories, in addition
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by morley 4y ago
The full quote for context: > Ferrari and some of the other high-end car manufacturers still use clay and carving knives. It’s a very small portion of the gaming industry that works that way, and some of these people are my favourite peo
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by morley 4y ago
This is stating the obvious, the HN community generally leans against blockchain. That coupled with negative news traveling further than positive news means that HN mostly sees negative stories, and comments on both positive and negative st
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by morley 4y ago
If I were designing a system like this, I would not trust clients to perform legitimate analysis nor report legitimate results.
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by morley 4y ago
I remember reading in the last year about one of the crypto companies that hired an anonymous employee. (Maybe it was the Zcash Foundation? I can't for the life of me find the article about what they did.) Basically, they kept as low a
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by morley 4y ago
I've also heard this topic referred to as "results-oriented thinking," which is generally what you don't want: you shouldn't judge a decision based on its result, but on the information you had at the time. The key

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