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by nlh 6y ago
Very cool! Sorry for the novice question but I checked the docs and FAQ and didn’t see an answer: Can you explain a bit the dynamics of streaming from your own server? How does bandwidth / broadcast work? Do you need enough upstream
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by nlh 6y ago
I presume this is indeed what they're doing given the wording of the post: "(And of course GitHub still does not use any cookies to display ads, or track you across other sites.)" That exactly leaves out "track you on ou
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by nlh 6y ago
None seem to work on Safari 14.0.01 :/ Not sure if I need to enable anything for WebGL. On vanilla Chrome 87, I get "Unable to initialize the shader program: Vertex shader active uniforms exceed GL_MAX_VERTEX_UNIFORM_VECTORS(256)
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by nlh 6y ago
I think your sentiment is in the right direction but I don’t think it’s as explicit as you’re proposing. Landlords don’t “prefer” homelessness to exist. Their position, as capitalists, ends with their interests. Many (not all!) landlord are
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by nlh 6y ago
Yes! I totally get it and love that. Sincerely, --A guy who built his own Asterisk PBX-in-a-linux-box that sat on his desk in 2004 and had 2 physical phone lines plugged into it and today, 16 years later, is still running slight variations
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by nlh 6y ago
Yeah Mercury and some other startup banks looks great, but at least Mercury appears to be business-only. I need something that works for business & personal. (And I have no doubt they'll all expand to handle both personal & bu
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by nlh 6y ago
This is SUPER cool - congrats on the launch! A few questions: Do you plan to offer Stripe Treasury to non-marketplace small businesses / individuals? I ask because the #1 thing I've been wanting for the past few years is basicall
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by nlh 6y ago
Hear hear. That's exactly why I occasionally buy a lotto ticket or 20 when the number gets REALLY big. I consider $20 every year toward an hour of fantasizing about what I'd do with a $500M lump sum a worthwhile investment. ($50
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by nlh 6y ago
I found myself brewing with rage while reading this article. The approach of closely inspecting a student's words & physical actions while taking a test just feels...dated. Ancient. Anachronistic. Embarrassing. In the real worl
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by nlh 6y ago
"I'm TOTALLY gonna buck this trend and be that guy who writes his own static site generator AND posts a lot!" --Me, looking at my list of.....1 draft, unpublished blog post. sigh
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by nlh 6y ago
> Is that something that's going to make them reconsider sharing details in future stories? It's a fair question, but I doubt it. While getting a hot scoop and dropping it with a bang is something that feels good (and sells pa
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by nlh 6y ago
Yes you are absolutely correct. I meant D2 as in that’s what I flew when I flew AA.
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by nlh 6y ago
My friends tease me that this is one of my (few) superpowers - I can sleep comfortably for 5+ hours on long-haul flights in coach. Honestly, it's been a trial-and-error process. I discovered a few things that work for me (YMMV, of cou
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by nlh 6y ago
Story time :) I have a relative who used to work for American, so I had the opportunity to fly on standby for a few years (D2 for anyone who plays the nonrev game). They have reciprocal agreements with a bunch of airlines around the world.
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by nlh 6y ago
Yes, almost exactly that (I’ve only visited Istanbul so I can’t speak to other parts of Turkey, but basically yes.) The overall picture I got is that the cats of Istanbul do seem to be uniquely loved and well-treated compared to the street
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by nlh 6y ago
I did not walk away from watching Kedi (or leave my recent visit to Istanbul) thinking that the cats live anything but an excellent life. I think it's inhumane how cats are treated basically everywhere else! In Istanbul, cats are love
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by nlh 6y ago
I have to respectfully disagree with you. I think Apple controlling the App Store is one of the best decision that's ever been made for 95% of consumers. My 82-year-old mom's desktop computer is riddled with spyware, browser tool
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by nlh 6y ago
The thing I find so deeply frustrating about the narrative here are statements like this, FTA: > “Facebook started muting, deleting and labeling every conservative political post in my feed,” Mr. Adam said. I just don't buy it. If
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Fact-Checked on Facebook and Twitter, Conservatives Switch Their Apps(nytimes.com)
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by nlh 6y ago
I think you got this exactly right. The reaction of an uneducated manager here was probably “Wow this guy hacked our system by doing things he wasn’t supposed to do. You’re not allowed to transfer between cards. He broke the rules.” It’s
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by nlh 6y ago
Interesting! I recall reading about this before but I’d forgotten it. And I suppose one of the things that trips people up a lot about ruby is that the implicit return gives a different result — eg your example but without the “return true
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by nlh 6y ago
I’m a long-time ham (DE K2KD) but one thing I missed out on was the fun of building a mega vacuum tube amplifier. I remember fondly gawking over things like the 3-1000Z tubes and dreaming of having an amp like this on my desk: https:/
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by nlh 6y ago
> Blocks are one of the most confusing, yet most powerful elements of Ruby. They allow you to group expressions, save them to a variable, and even pass them to a method. I’m still getting used to blocks and realizing their usefulness, bu
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by nlh 6y ago
I think about this a lot. The answer, I think, is No, the distinction does not matter. The consciousness in the machine will think "Wow this worked!" and go on with life in the machine. The original consciousness (you) will say
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by nlh 6y ago
That's great! By the way, on a similar vein - I finally ditched QuickBooks / Quicken / all that crap and moved everything personally & for my consulting company over to hledger (which is just a slightly fancy version of
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by nlh 6y ago
I think that's probably the best to explain to others. Easy answer, truthful, and fits into the mold that many people think about.
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by nlh 6y ago
That's a good alternative! Personally, I don't even go there. By all measures, I haven't been "employed" since the late 90s (when I was briefly an employee of an investment bank for a summer internship). I've
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by nlh 6y ago
Agreed 1000%! I think ‘do the busy work’ can even be applied more broadly: Years ago I ran a small business in my mid-20s, and one of the critical mistakes I made was getting hopelessly behind in our bookkeeping (and by hopelessly behind I
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by nlh 6y ago
> People considered me to be quasi-unemployed On a related note, this is a mindset that I think is probably the biggest blocker to entrepreneurial success (and perhaps happiness?) I have a friend (you know who you are since you’ll probab
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by nlh 6y ago
Congrats! Quick endorsement (no connection to company): I discovered Retool fairly recently during a bout of frustration-with-our-designers-and-engineers-spending-too-much-time-on-internal tools. We were fighting very very elementary bugs

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