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by oldandboring 11mo ago
Almost nobody who works in software development is a licensed professional engineer. Many are even self-taught, and that includes both ICs and managers. I'm not saying this is direct causation but I do think it odd that we are so utter
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by oldandboring 11mo ago
100%.
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by oldandboring 1y ago
After reading the first couple paragraphs I realized it was structured like marketing content. Then I saw the first emdash and nope'd out. Control-W, get that slop out of my life.
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by oldandboring 1y ago
If you look at the article, you can see that games have been getting progressively slower since records started being kept back in the 1920s. The recent rule changes have managed to cut the duration back to what they were in the early 80s.
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by oldandboring 1y ago
While I also dislike the ghost runner, I can't deny that it's been a net positive for the game. By mostly eliminating marathon extra-inning slogs, not only does it speed up the game, but it also makes it much harder for teams to r
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by oldandboring 1y ago
The pitch clock is undoubtedly the most impactful of the changes made recently to speed up the game. However, other changes were implemented alongside it that have contributed in meaningful ways: - Limit on the number of times per plate app
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by oldandboring 1y ago
I don't support what the Trump administration is doing. But saying it's "categorically, scientifically, absurd" to lay people off is some next-level stuff. I can guarantee to anyone reading this, that this person has nev
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by oldandboring 1y ago
The article also misspelled her last name.
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by oldandboring 1y ago
I am reminded of an episode of Seinfeld where Jerry gives his dad an expensive, multifunction PDA called "The Wizard" but his Dad doesn't immediately see the use. Jerry explains it can do all kinds of things, for example, it
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by oldandboring 1y ago
Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article.
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by oldandboring 1y ago
> The way they can afford to make it cheap for people who can't pay is by charging high prices for insured Americans This is a hugely underappreciated aspect of why the cost of health care, including insurance premiums, is so high i
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by oldandboring 1y ago
I just turn off all the news, ads, crypto wallet, etc. stuff in Brave and it honestly feels just like Chrome but with really good ad-blocking. I'm just a little disappointed to see that it isn't as good at blocking fingerprinting
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by oldandboring 1y ago
As a Jewish American my experience has lately been that about 25% of the Jews in my circle have always been Republicans and are all-in on this administration, believing that Jewish people and the State of Israel have no better friend than D
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by oldandboring 1y ago
Read what I wrote again please. You didn't understand it the first time.
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by oldandboring 1y ago
I see where the author is coming from. The author's main gripe is that non-factual right-wing stories are being presented as left-wing blindspots. The author would seemingly prefer that those stories be flagged as being untrustworthy
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by oldandboring 1y ago
You'll have to forgive me because I know literally nothing about competitive poker. Are there players whose experience is primarily online, who show up at in-person tournaments and lack the "soft skills" necessary to excel in
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by oldandboring 1y ago
I can't get past the fact that you created that account just to write that comment.
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by oldandboring 1y ago
> uncapped yolo billing This made me laugh out loud, thank you for this!
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by oldandboring 1y ago
See above
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by oldandboring 1y ago
Settings > Extensions > Git Blame: Status Bar Item Enabled (check this) Blame: Status Bar Item Template (use this value) ${authorName} (${authorDate}) ${subject} There's no secret sauce, all these variables are shown right above
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by oldandboring 1y ago
Interesting. I've been using Gitlens for years without issue. Today I tried the built-in blame decorations and I found they were so responsive and fast that they were distracting. With Gitlens there's a delay before the decoration
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by oldandboring 1y ago
Thanks for calling out Rippling. Pretty poor experience for me as well.
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by oldandboring 1y ago
Meanwhile, as I read this, the very next link on HN after this one is: https://windsurf.com/blog/windsurf-wave-9-swe-1 in which Windsurf is forging ahead with an agentic LLM product that endeavors to not only replace s
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by oldandboring 1y ago
It's because the experience of so many parents these days is exhaustion. There just aren't enough hours in the day. In my experience it often turns out that if a fellow parent has significantly more personal time than me (for sid
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by oldandboring 1y ago
> refer to buying pre-owned goods as "buying someone else's problem." I suppose this is true enough, in terms of risk, when you're talking about yard sales etc. But I'm perfectly comfortable buying from places th
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by oldandboring 1y ago
I am 99% sure the NY Times Games app on Android is blocking input until fully rendered on its 'home' screen where all the games are listed, and it drives me nuts. I tap on the element I want and nothing happens, I have to tap agai
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by oldandboring 2y ago
https://archive.ph/6uANR
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by oldandboring 2y ago
Very timely for this to come up. Just this morning I was wiring up a personal blog with Obsidian -> Hugo -> Github Pages. I might swap Github Pages out for Pico.sh, it's definitely my kinda service. Well, either that or self-ho
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by oldandboring 2y ago
Yup. Sacramento has lots of this. LA county. Boise, Salt Lake City. List goes on.
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by oldandboring 2y ago
Agree. Lots of US cities have neighborhoods like this outside of the downtown business districts. Even in NYC, famous for concrete-jungle apartment dwelling, you find this in Staten Island and in parts of Queens.

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