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by pacoWebConsult 1y ago
From a purely utilitarian perspective, funding research like this is not an effective use of dollars at the margin. How many people could we save if an equivalent amount was put into reducing obesity, smoking, and drinking? How many people
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by pacoWebConsult 1y ago
It's been about 100 years of congress abdicating their responsibility and delegating rule-making to agencies under the control of the executive, as well as the federal government coalescing power through the commerce clause and various
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by pacoWebConsult 1y ago
It's a very complex system. Implementations cost hospital systems on the order of tens of millions of dollars. They have a near monopoly in the market. 2023 revenue was almost $5B [1] 1: https://prospect.org/health&#x2F
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by pacoWebConsult 2y ago
It's pretty baseless to claim that modern dotnet is inherently shitty. They've made tremendous strides in the dotnet core era. F# making you unemployable is debateable, but I don't see what makes F# any less employable than m
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by pacoWebConsult 2y ago
And once a team reaches that point, less citizens will want to work on a team where they're the outsider anyways.
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by pacoWebConsult 2y ago
Case in point for why socialized medicine leads to government overreach in many other facets of our lives. Milton Friedman had a great point during this talk [1], same argument from 50 years ago. 1: https://www.youtube.com/w
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by pacoWebConsult 2y ago
At the very least, GitHub Copilot will have an easier time with an SDK loaded into context than an API documented only on the web. If the customers are using typescript then they'll have some red squiggles that at least some of these p
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by pacoWebConsult 2y ago
Maintaining an OpenAPI spec when you make changes to your API and regenerating the client SDKs through CI is really not a ton of extra work. A template to show a dead simple usage of your API can pay dividends as it lowers the barrier to a
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by pacoWebConsult 2y ago
Seems to me like you have an opportunity to develop a couple SDKs in your customers' favorite languages (probably python and typescript) and a simple "Get Started" template that could alleviate a lot of these requests. Show t
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by pacoWebConsult 3y ago
That's because TSA doesn't do the security at SFO [1] SF has had issues with drug trafficking through the airport due to this [2]. [1]: https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/answering-holiday-trav... [2]
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by pacoWebConsult 3y ago
The impact doesn't appear to be limited to just the home console.
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by pacoWebConsult 3y ago
The one in Asheville, NC? I'm glad it was a flat fee because some of those oldest pinball machines they have are just plain terrible game design. Very unforgiving if you make the slightest error, the ball is out of play. Really cool pl
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by pacoWebConsult 3y ago
Not to mention it was the fact that we are giving children loans that are risk-free to the lender due to the government's guarantee is what resulted in the costs skyrocketing to begin with. Colleges were always going to use that consis
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by pacoWebConsult 4y ago
Any update on a local-first SDK for Tidbyt? Looked recently but it didn't look like there was any news on that front. I want to build an integration with a game running on a PC and communicate locally with my Tidbyt to send updated ima
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by pacoWebConsult 4y ago
Agree there's definitely some quirks with building and making things not via work orders. Even for queuing up a couple of copper greaves at a metalworker's shop (because my king is obsessed with demanding their creation and bannin
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by pacoWebConsult 4y ago
Twitter is used by sex workers all the time for pornographic images. What specifically about them violates the rules? Is it the fact that the person did not intend on those images being released? Do they have a claim if those images were no
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by pacoWebConsult 4y ago
Frankly, the only valid use of powerpoint animations these days is to implement an entirely new application [1]. [1]: http://tomwildenhain.com/PowerPointTM/Paper.pdf
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by pacoWebConsult 4y ago
If you spend any time reading their retail forums [1], you'll see almost everyone lambasting Amazon constantly. Either disgruntled sellers who broke the rules and got terminated, or normal, hardworking mom-and-pop stores that were all
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by pacoWebConsult 4y ago
A lot of Runescape resource to XP / hours calculators. What they really need to do is replace VBA with a proper programming interface. Rubberduck VBA [1] Adds some essential features into the VBA IDE but they really just need to add C#
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by pacoWebConsult 4y ago
I've watched Armageddon. All you need is a nuke and Bruce Willis.
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by pacoWebConsult 5y ago
Lighthouse [1][2] Accessibility audit/ scores can be a good tool to check A11Y issues automatically, and it is fairly easy to integrate into your CI/CD Pipelines to get the report automatically to check for issues/ regression
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by pacoWebConsult 5y ago
Definitely the gist of it. You can also make .NET framework custom actions to put into your workflow. I dabbled in it for several projects and although its fairly powerful. Working in a GUI workflow designer is cumbersome for anything even
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by pacoWebConsult 5y ago
Firstly, you're being underpaid and living in a high COL area. Find a new position either remote or with correct market valuation for your level in NY if you don't want to move. Secondly, you can pretty much follow the typical lin
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by pacoWebConsult 5y ago
Don't get me wrong, plenty of griftcoin junk tech exists, but Ethereum is the most capable platform and moving away from Proof Of Work is a significant step.
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by pacoWebConsult 5y ago
Because the international olympic committee is quite possibly the most corrupt sporting organization on the planet, which is saying something when FIFA exists.
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by pacoWebConsult 5y ago
Automapper solves this. Composable projections to your DTOs/ endpoint return types. You can do some very powerful things with it. For example, in a past project I encrypted/unencrypted a property containing a secure message by def
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by pacoWebConsult 5y ago
Current resident of NC so I was curious. Looks like we have several, but I don't see any for KS or KY at first glance [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...
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by pacoWebConsult 5y ago
Anecdotally, After my one and only use of Psilocybin where I cried for about 5 hours straight, I did not feel the desire to do it again.
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by pacoWebConsult 5y ago
I need to reboot my Vizio TV weekly through a hidden system menu to fix audio desync issues. Simply power cycling from the remote does not work, as far as I can tell that's a sleep mode. Absolutely terrible device and I will not be goi
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by pacoWebConsult 5y ago
Even worse than I thought. OP should probably get a warning if not ban that site outright. Especially since they're clearly attempting to astroturf HN.

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