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by phatskat 3y ago
I mean a “Hitchcock moment” could also be a moment when you “prank” your cast and crew in ways that range from honestly funny to downright psychopathic. I know that’s not it, and he was a brilliant artist, and also a horrible person.
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by phatskat 3y ago
“When I was a young lad growing up in the English countryside, my mother’s Homemade Apple Brown Betty was a constant salve to life’s many scrapes and scuffs - both emotional and physical. I remember the day my uncle passed, and her Homemade
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by phatskat 3y ago
Thanks! I forgot that that part was from the book by Musk and Isaacson and is clarified shortly thereafter. I’ve updated my comment to reflect the actual impact (which I still don’t agree with)
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by phatskat 3y ago
No, I think the implication is that if a major manufacturer lets something Bad™ slip in, they can be held liable. xXFoneBoi93 could slip in a root kit and the custom ROM they contribute to probably wouldn’t be held accountable in any meanin
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by phatskat 3y ago
There was an article here just the other day talking about how a mass of older android devices spanning many different sectors (phones, TVs, chromebooks, etc) had been found to have malware that was installed between the refurb/shippin
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by phatskat 3y ago
Obviously not, but when your engineers are leveling lawsuits left and right it certainly doesn’t help with confidence in your company. Add to that the kind of person Musk is and Twitter is on a nosedive, it just has an absurdly long way to
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by phatskat 3y ago
I mean I get that and hooray competition I guess? Personally, I don’t want either of those men in charge of a utility like that. ~Elon has already shown that he’ll mess with Starlink out of spite~, and Bezos is a person who does not underst
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by phatskat 3y ago
Oh man I missed it, what did Twitter do this time?
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by phatskat 3y ago
Hmmm, I’ll admit I did a cursory amount of research and tried a source that looked as unbiased as I could manage without diving super deeply. I have smoked cocaine before (on a blunt with cannabis) and it felt like I felt something but who
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by phatskat 3y ago
Just want to say, as a somewhat new HN user (l would end up here occasionally via search or Reddit, which I jumped ship after the API changes so HN is my home now), it’s really great to see you and the founder (iirc) of windmill both here i
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by phatskat 3y ago
Would like to know this as well. I switched from my last company’s WordPress app over to our Laravel side of things (with Vue/Inertia on the front end) and I really liked it. I’ve heard of Next.js here and there but seeing in the conte
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by phatskat 3y ago
Kind of? The two are chemically the same - the big difference is that crack is often smoked which makes it fast acting. However, the high last about as long as it takes to kick in, so it’s pretty much a quick up and down. It was believed to
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by phatskat 3y ago
I would like to note that the terms “possession”, “sale”, and trafficking” are a bit tricky when it comes to drug law. My home state could consider anyone with over a quarter ounce of cannabis to have “intent to distribute”. I would regular
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by phatskat 3y ago
Behind the Bastards has a good couple episodes about Walter Freeman[1]. If you want a good review of exactly how fucked up lobotomies are and what kind of person decides “yeah I could jam an ice pick in a brain”, take a listen. [1] https:&
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by phatskat 3y ago
I’ve been integrating humor into our unit tests for a bit now and have gotten feedback from a few engineers who really seem to appreciate it.
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by phatskat 3y ago
I’ve really enjoyed AstroNvim and have used it pretty regularly for more than a year now. No major breaking upgrades, and very good support and user manual.
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by phatskat 3y ago
Did you read TFA? It does mention AI, and also mentions that this is less about AI and more about the fact that the AI researchers had a TON of data to share, and their method for doing so was poorly configured SAS tokens… Which also, in th
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by phatskat 3y ago
What is the real 2038 problem?
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by phatskat 3y ago
This boggles my mind. I know doing it by hand, or using a tool takes more time and effort, but if you’re going to automate it away _anyway_ you should be doing it in a reliable and retractable way. I had a vim session saved that had a comma
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by phatskat 3y ago
God I miss my pebble. The buttons, the battery life, the dev platform - probably rose colored glasses and nostalgia, but damn it was good
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by phatskat 3y ago
I had Pebbles forever until they stopped making them. The eink display was so great for battery life and it was highly functional compared to other wearables at the time. I was even coding apps for it because they made the ecosystem so deve
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by phatskat 3y ago
Mine has changed over the years - usually I see blue and black, but occasionally I see white and gold.
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by phatskat 3y ago
Bureaucracy = $$$
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by phatskat 3y ago
They can’t be arsed to moderate their platforms in an effective way. Facebook has been a tool for genocide. Instagram harms young people (especially women). At the end of the day, Meta does whatever it can to make money, full stop. As to yo
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by phatskat 3y ago
Remember the Defund the Police thing? Turns out that places that diverted money to non-police alternatives for things like mental health calls have been doing well so far. So, get rid of the bad cops and give that money to people who can he
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by phatskat 3y ago
I mean, you can murder, rape, steal, lie, and more with a badge. If you want accountability, you have to get rid of the unions
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by phatskat 3y ago
This doesn’t ruin it, lack of communication and compromise does. This is a symptom.
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by phatskat 3y ago
I don’t honestly think Microsoft cared all that much. To them, having windows on a machine means far more than having a license fee paid for (at least for general consumers).
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by phatskat 3y ago
This is super broad - what are your qualifications? What field? Remote or in person? Etc.
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by phatskat 3y ago
So, full disclosure: this is something I’m familiar with from an ad on one of my favorite podcasts. I have not investigated this product or its claims. There’s a product called the Pod Cover by 8 Sleep, and allegedly it helps regulate your

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