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by neckardt 5y ago
> I've applied at probably 3-4 dozen places through my school's job board over the past month This isn't nearly enough. When I was in college I had maybe a 20% chance of hearing back anywhere I applied, and another 20% cha
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by neckardt 5y ago
Maybe the standard in Pakistan is above ground cables on telephone poles? I would assume an experienced professional would be able to tell which cable delivers power and which delivers phone service with a glance.
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by neckardt 5y ago
What's the problem with slowly drifting away from solar time? If 9:00am became 9:10am by the time I'm 100 years old I don't think I'd encounter any difficulties. Who requires this level of accuracy?
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by neckardt 5y ago
> I constantly come across as a dick because a friend will message me, and I'll think about what to respond with, hesitate because I want to come up with the BEST response, then get distracted by another task, forget to text them ba
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by neckardt 5y ago
It's not DDOSing, it's credential stuffing[0]. Hackers find leaked databases which contain username/password pairs. They then try username@protonmail with the password from that database (or they just try the top 1000 most co
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by neckardt 5y ago
> > "Either we fail or we change the world," > Well this isn't a selfie filter, if you fail you kill lots of people. I was under the impression that by "fail" they meant "fail to create economical supe
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by neckardt 5y ago
Unfortunately I use Firefox with privacy.resistFingerprinting set to true. This disables leaking time zone information, so when javascript tries to query the time of day it gets a time 7 hours ahead of my actual time zone. In other words, t
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by neckardt 5y ago
If you're ever in need of alternative methods of finding alternatives to services, you could always check out the alternatives to AlternativeTo page: https://alternativeto.net/software/alternativeto/
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by neckardt 6y ago
But if people have more money, wouldn't that mean producers could raise their prices and people would still be willing to pay it?
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by neckardt 6y ago
> About 95% of Bitcoin is controlled by just 2.4% of the accounts This seems obvious to me. Many people have bitcoin wallets with only a little invested. In my case, I have a few wallets just to play around with. I assume all of those w
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by neckardt 6y ago
> fictional tech at core, which is, lol, lossless compression of anything. We have plenty of lossless compression algorithms already[0], am I misunderstanding what you meant? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossle
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by neckardt 6y ago
Rather than telling us to "do our own research", could you post those sources here so they can be discussed?
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by neckardt 6y ago
It's coming from visa.com, somebody would have had to hijack their domain first to set up a phishing scam like this.
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by neckardt 6y ago
It feels like the most common workflow is pressing that button in the top right to open the label list, opening the dropdown, and selecting a label. I think this could be optimized. One idea: Bind the label list menu to a key like spacebar.
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by neckardt 6y ago
The government may be one of the older ones, but many cities are far, far older. Many cities in Europe have been around for thousands of years.
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by neckardt 6y ago
Is there some system in place which would send me a push notification or a text 5 minutes before the launch? I was distracted following livestreams all day trying to pin down the exact time the launch would be, not looking forward to doing
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by neckardt 6y ago
I have the opposite problem where I can't turn disappearing messages on by default. Every time I create a new conversation I have to manually set messages to disappear after a week which I often forget to do.
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by neckardt 6y ago
I had problems with wayland the first time I tried it with an AMD gpu as well, the solution was to simply install a new kernel. I was running debian stable so the old kernel wasn't exactly unexpected.
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by neckardt 6y ago
> > I went into Aerospace Engineering thinking that I'll be able to design radically different looking airplanes. > What is it you're doing as an entrepreneur you find so rewarding? The aerospace industry rewards making
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by neckardt 6y ago
> I have to politely refute this. "Rushing" is the word inexperienced players use for "playing in a more optimal way that prepares you to attack sooner." If you call it "rushing," what you're really say
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by neckardt 6y ago
What is the collection model?
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by neckardt 6y ago
Why do we only have 30-50 years of civilization left on Earth? I haven't heard of anything that would make the planet uninhabitable on such a short timescale.
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by neckardt 6y ago
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25044147
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by neckardt 6y ago
> I'm convinced that no centralized platform is able to provide true free speech Signal is centralized and provides true free speech. End to end encryption means they don't know what you're saying, so they have no way to k
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by neckardt 6y ago
A TV is something which is nice to have, but not essential. A phone is needed for calls, which are essential. Try fixing a billing problem or banking problem without calling the company.
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by neckardt 6y ago
A few problems with this. 1) You need to get access to this data first, which is hard. But certainly possible for a nation state to do. Not easy for random individuals. 3) You can't guarantee whether or not someone will vote. Voting tw
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by neckardt 6y ago
You mean a mask which filters both on inhale and exhale? N95 masks do a decent job of that, although I'd guess there's still some leakage on exhale (not designed for that). N95s are still sold out in my area, so I got some KN95 wh
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by neckardt 6y ago
That seems to support parent's comment. The surgical masks prevented much of the smoke from going out the front, the "cloth mask he borrowed from his wife" let much of the smoke come through the mask. Regarding the rest of th
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by neckardt 6y ago
I've heard some anecdotes that multiple monitors do reduce focus though[0]. I'm still on the fence though, the alternative to multiple monitors is often lots of workspaces, and switching between those can often feel just as jarrin
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by neckardt 6y ago
Back in middle school before I learned about youtube-dl I was ripping music from youtube by playing audio out of my headphone jack and routing that into the microphone jack, then capturing that with audacity. After that I would export to MP

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