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by names_are_hard 2y ago
As a flesh and blood human I take some comfort in the fact that the comment I'm replying to is still identifiable (with high probability) as written by a non-human. I wonder how long it'll take until that's no longer the case
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by names_are_hard 2y ago
What fifteen minute delay? I'm pretty sure all of the retail brokers I have an account with (I have three, for historical reasons) give me instant (less network and computing latency) live data when I'm logged in. Google/Yaho
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by names_are_hard 3y ago
I've seen it, but rarely and maybe ironically. I've never seen למאו and probably wouldn't get it if I did.
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by names_are_hard 3y ago
I don't know about routing, but in conflict areas they do add generic disclaimers / warnings that information may be outdated, conditions may be rapidly changing and that users should pay attention to "real-world conditions&q
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by names_are_hard 3y ago
I have a little dreidel I'm printing it 3D When it's done and ready Oh dreidel I shall play It kinda rhymes if you have a southern drawl. After all, Luke Bryan rhymes "weatherman complains" with "rain is a good thin
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by names_are_hard 3y ago
When I was little and we'd get ice cream, my mother would get each of the kids a cone but not for herself. Then she'd do rounds and eat a little from each of ours. We were annoyed, but she explained that this process is called &qu
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by names_are_hard 3y ago
Almost as if what? If you have something substantive to say, say it. It's not a secret that Hebrew and Arabic share a common ancestor, and that the languages are related. It's also not a secret that Arabic played significant role
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by names_are_hard 3y ago
Thanks for replying in length and with sincerity. I'm not going to address everything in your comment not because it isn't worthy of a response but because I personally don't have a response that is substantive and thoughtful
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by names_are_hard 3y ago
I agree. And on top of that, neither of us have actually met John Brown face to face. Our _entire_ knowledge of him is based on indirect interactions. We've seen things he's (ostensibly) done, artifacts of his work, we've d
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by names_are_hard 3y ago
Lofty even-handedness was not my intention, I have a definite side in this conflict because it personally affects me. I'm not unbiased and make no claim to be. I live in Israel and I'm scared of how this will end because I have sk
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by names_are_hard 3y ago
As soon as the story broke, it was clear to me that whoever did it, it was an accident. So in that sense, it doesn't really matter. It's an unfortunate casualty of war, in which innocent people suffer even when it's not inten
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by names_are_hard 3y ago
I didn't read the comment in any way like "not every man is a sexist", mainly because what the comment says is true - Israeli society is made up of very particular groups, and the political map is complex, its not a single v
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by names_are_hard 3y ago
Israel is indeed a confusing place. The Haredi (aka ultra orthodox) parties are not the key drivers of the settlement enterprise. They are mostly ambivalent to the whole thing, their primary focus is preserving their lifestyle, which is le
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by names_are_hard 3y ago
Even egalitarianism isn't necessarily an unequivocal good, it depends on your goal function. Individual self actualization isn't universally accepted as an appropriate goal for society, neither is the idea that all people are born
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by names_are_hard 3y ago
If all that comes off this entire HN post is that you get a good set of JIS screwdrivers, it's all worth it. It'll save you trouble down the line. Don't try to open the brake reservoir [0] screws with a Phillips. Ask me how I
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by names_are_hard 3y ago
Incredible. I sent that to Google translate and it translated fairly well. (For those who can't read it - the text is English transliterated into Hebrew script, not actually Hebrew. I'm impressed that Google managed to make sense
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by names_are_hard 3y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding was that GP is partially correct, in that the lunar sighting is not an individual thing, but done at the communal level by the central authority. It's just that like most religi
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by names_are_hard 4y ago
There were a few words about it, actually. TFA mentions that "someone familiar with the matter" told the journalists that a secret Israeli agency once purchased supposedly hacked financial data from Jorge but the data turned out t
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by names_are_hard 4y ago
> As part of that, if you are just starting your work day, please feel free to work from home today. This closing line is what stuck out most to me. Is there really such a strict WFO culture there that this needs to be said explicitly?
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by names_are_hard 4y ago
You can buy a Casio watch for about 20 USD that claims to resist water to 100 meters. The battery replacement requires a small screwdriver, does that count as user-replaceable?
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by names_are_hard 4y ago
Have you managed to find an alternative? Your concerns resonate with me but I still don't know the best way to automatically backup all the photos I take on my phone, search them later, etc
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by names_are_hard 4y ago
It's a cloud-based product. So processing is a core part of the value proposition - the provider (Google, Microsoft) stores a copy of the data and exposes APIs that the frontends use to download the documents to the users' machine
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by names_are_hard 4y ago
I'm not GP so I don't know what they meant, but a key upside to complex logic in the application layer vs the database is that the application layer is often much easier to scale out than the db. Where I work, if I run out of memo
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by names_are_hard 4y ago
> Note that allowbox and denybox are not acceptable substitutes here Hmm...opaquebox and transparentbox? clearbox?
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by names_are_hard 4y ago
Obviously everyone's preferences are different, so this isn't a direct response but just another anecdote. I tried VS Code and couldn't get used to it. So now I use Rider for C# and Webstorm for JS. Sometimes I open Visual St
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by names_are_hard 4y ago
Why do you think 100 light years is the edge of "reasonable travel distance"? I put to you that you are imposing your human standards on other species, assuming that what seems to you to be a long time would also be a long time to
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by names_are_hard 4y ago
> Who gave the mail server permission to access the page? The recipient of the email, or their employer's IT department that is paying another company for mail services. If you send me an email with a link then I do believe I have t
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by names_are_hard 4y ago
I'm not sure if you're talking about at the executive level or at the engineer level, but here's some anecdata: At the big tech (household name) I work we definitely spend a lot of energy talking about COGS a engineers. We h
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
The solution is to separate "we use" from "we're looking for". Eg, a job post can say: We use kafka, big-scale-databigness, BuzzwordDb, and CoolFramework. We're looking for smart engineers with an open mind and
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by names_are_hard 5y ago
kkndve English speaker checking in, I did not know that the phrase "sour grapes" comes from Aesop. Honestly I only vaguely recall reading a few stories from Aesop when I was in second grade or something. Maybe a story about a wolf

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