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by nlh 4y ago
It is interesting. The techniques for creating dies has changed a lot over the millennia -- all the way from hand-engraving (then) to laser-engraving (now). I'm biased because I specialize in 18th/19th century US stuff, but I thi
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by nlh 4y ago
Oh man a numismatic story on HN...count me in! (See my bio item #1) One of my favorite things about the Byzantine solidi is that, although there are some great (and expensive) rarities among the ones mentioned in the article, they are in g
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by nlh 4y ago
I was just chatting about the “golden years” of Facebook with a friend today. I think it was about 10 years ago. Maybe we’re over-glamorizing the past, but at least the way we recall it: Around 2012-2014, the newsfeed mostly was just updat
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I'm working on a personal project that involves A LOT of scraping, and through several iterations I've gotten some stuff that works quite well. Here's a quick summary of what I've explored (both paid and free): * Apify
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This is fun and cool. Also, I kind of expect that DALL-E (or, a variation thereof) will be able to do this with the right prompts. Hope he doesn't get too attached to the manual process and keeps the project going when the AI comes f
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by nlh 4y ago
I'm leaning this way too. I've read and understand the counterargument - "if we tell the bad actors why we banned them, it will give them explicit help on new ways to scam us." You know what? Too bad. Here's my b
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by nlh 4y ago
I bought an espresso machine via Taobao last year and had to jump through SO many hoops to get it. But even with the hoops it ended up being an absolute steal - 1/10 the price of a US-based purchase. Any idea why Taobao goes through su
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by nlh 4y ago
Congrats on launching and site looks and works great. Care to share the stack you built it / are hosting it on? Always curious to hear the technical details :)
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I may be missing something but this looks like an open source project vs. Auth0 which, while it has a free plan, is part of Okta and is a commercial product.
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Look I understand you point from a legal standpoint, but do you really truly believe even a small fraction of FB and IG users actually “agreed to do so under the terms and conditions of that website”? They just clicked whatever was necessa
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Here's a mundane (but I hope helpful) take on a portion of this: > The most surprising thing is that you wouldn’t let anyone steal your property, but you consistently let people steal your time This line struck the strongest nerve w
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I might be a super weird use case BUT believe it or not I use both Tabnine and Copilot and I kinda like the combo. Here's how it works: I use Copilot for its multi-line code generation. It's vastly superior. (Sorry Tabnine). G
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by nlh 4y ago
Agreed. I was just thinking about it and I’d probably pay $100/month. Maybe even more. (Shhhh don’t tell GitHub!)
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I promise I am not a shill: Our team is on the verge of switching 100% to ClickUp. Are we crazy? Nobody really loves Jira, and we've gotten our Product, Design, Sales, and Customer Success teams using ClickUp and everyone is really h
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by nlh 4y ago
A great quote sticks in my mind, shared with me by a founder who was going through hard times with his startup. The company was going through a bad spot, and one of his investors suggested just giving up and returning the existing capital
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by nlh 4y ago
I agree with your thought. "Challenges" like this rarely exists in a vacuum -- I bet there's something coming where this is relevant, and this is a chance for them to crowdsource design options. BTW -- not implying there&#x2
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Maybe I'm missing something but how do I subscribe to the premium version?
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Just want to say this looks amazing, and I’ll both install and subscribe as soon as I get back to my desk. If this is even 50% as effective on my email writing as CoPilot has been on my code writing, then you’ve got a customer for life. Con
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by nlh 4y ago
It's good to be skeptical, but I think the role is critical if done right. Someone described a good PM as "a conductor keeping the orchestra in sync". And even as you described - someone needs to be the layer to gather feed
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Real, solid, genuine, wonderful heartfelt congrats on shipping. I know how totally and deeply to-the-core satisfying it is to put a labor of love out into the world (and a bonus for it to get a positive reception), so I wish you all the be
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by nlh 4y ago
To build on another commenter's mention of perverse incentives: I've thought about this a lot. I think, regardless of what we say, at a foundational level humans operate on incentives. Billing by the hour creates the following i
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by nlh 4y ago
In a similar vein, one of the charming things about my cat is when he chooses to step on my arm/hand/leg as he's walking around me or clamoring for attention. It's done so elegantly that it would be easy to say "oh
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by nlh 4y ago
So far, I just deal with the annoyance. It is indeed only a <5 minute operation, but it's just a pain (shut services down, shut instance down, resize, start instance, start services). The problem is it's the exact kind of pain
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Interesting - I'll explore! Thanks.
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I have not tried that yet (I was being lazy since it all ran so fast on my M1), but that's a good idea for something to investigate. That way I suppose I can run the whole thing on a less-beefy instance and avoid the scale-up/sca
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by nlh 4y ago
I'm using SQLite for a small personal project that's live in production and so far I love it (both for its simplicity in development and for its performance). But I've run into on prod that didn't exist in dev on my MacB
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by nlh 5y ago
Indeed! It's also worth noting that the USPS (at least my local office) requires any package sent via Registered Mail to be covered in its entirety with this and only this tape (water activated, not gummed). Registered Mail is their m
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by nlh 5y ago
Google, Wikipedia, Siri, Alexa, the iPhone, etc.
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Large chunks, yes, but all that means is that engineers will move up the abstraction stack and become more efficient, not that engineers will be replaced. Bytecode -> Assembly -> C -> higher level languages -> AI-assisted higher
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Thank you for answering! So it really just sounds like an impedance mismatch between Warp and the HN crowd.

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