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by phnofive 5y ago
That closing paragraph got me too - same technique the author describes using throughout the article on clients, but it hit me where I am.
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by phnofive 5y ago
Apply! https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/y-combinator/jobs/7D3d...
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by phnofive 5y ago
It can be a challenge.
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by phnofive 5y ago
> Substack is selling soap operas to people who think they’re above soap operas. I would love to see this in Substack’s About page with the other media quotes. I was curious to know what editorial decisions are made by Substack staff;
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by phnofive 5y ago
They likely wouldn’t have cooperated with study, but advised that there is no point to it as there is no mechanism to catch the behavior they described. It sort of like asking “What if we volunteered for the parks department and slipped a l
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by phnofive 5y ago
It appears this behavior was introduced in Catalina, so I’d assume a complimentary fix to 11.3 will be available for 10.x - no word on timing AFAIK.
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by phnofive 5y ago
Deaths have crossed 1700 per day, also a record high.
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by phnofive 5y ago
We have enough of the others, for now.
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by phnofive 5y ago
> See why, it’s probably an extra word you can cut. Or at the very least, a convoluted phrase you can simplify. This advice is backwards, for example. Try: > See why, it’s probably a convoluted phrase you can simplify. Or at the very
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by phnofive 5y ago
Then again, there are vaccines which don’t have this side effect, and are considerably more effective.
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by phnofive 6y ago
The children were playing with it unsupervised - presumably this is why there was a camera trained on them, but no one was actually watching.
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by phnofive 6y ago
To be fair, the previously published genome gave a big head start - not sure how long that took though.
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by phnofive 6y ago
This is an excellent answer, thanks. Reading between the lines a bit - biometric authentication was deprecated (from ‘for Mac’) as it was broken or at risk of breaking, and further dev on legacy code was moot due to the transition?
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by phnofive 6y ago
Can you explain why this was removed, and why it was re-introduced on a platform other than OS X (given that biometric identifiers have become standard in Apple hardware)?
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by phnofive 6y ago
Similar to AZ, all six were women between the ages of 18 and 48.
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by phnofive 6y ago
Discussed a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26765084
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by phnofive 6y ago
I was curious - just going by the same blog, there’s really not much to talk about (continued improvements to block tracking, an Android refresh, PiP support, VPN), but the tone suggests that delivering particular features is beside the poi
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by phnofive 6y ago
The recursive irony here is that Alphabet implemented FLoC to put a moat around tracking adtech, and Brave consumes Chromium for its own means of generating revenue from vending a browser (BAT), so of course there’s no reason to propagate
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by phnofive 6y ago
The appropriate level of sentimentality or depth of emotional gratification are of course subjective. I don’t think Maya Angelou’s fans appreciate her work ironically.
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by phnofive 6y ago
This is closer, although it’s possible the cats didn’t pity an owner as readily as a dog, or that the cats perceived the owner was faking the disability to open the box. Disclosure: I think I have observed the latter behavior on many occasi
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by phnofive 6y ago
I feel the same way about a lot of poetry, but I think kitschiness is a cultural thing, not a personal perspective. How would you define it?
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by phnofive 6y ago
That was the same (third-party) experience I had - the psychological side effects are woefully underplayed. Still searching for a more creative provider to try steroids or biologics - Sjögren’s gets dismissed as manageable so easily, but I
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by phnofive 6y ago
As in HCQ? Why (if you don’t mind talking about it)?
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by phnofive 6y ago
There is no evidence to suggest millions of bicycle commuters are waiting in the wings for more green paint.
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by phnofive 6y ago
The headline claim as laid out in the article: > we found that emissions from cycling can be more than 30 times lower for each trip than driving a fossil fuel car, and about ten times lower than driving an electric one Assuming we’re com
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by phnofive 6y ago
Try reading the last two paragraphs of the article first; it won’t make much more sense unless (I suspect) you already understood the point it was intended to convey, but you’ll save some time being confused: > By now it’s probably worth
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by phnofive 6y ago
> I don’t think that’s a president you want to set. Typo?
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by phnofive 6y ago
> caught in the wurlitzer Never heard that one before. Sorry for the tangent, but is this a reference to the CIA’s “Mighty Wurlitzer”?
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by phnofive 6y ago
Classic error message as well for the extension page in CWS: > The requested URL was not found on this server. That’s all we know. I suspect suspending an extension could be done with slightly more tact, if that was a goal.
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by phnofive 6y ago
110Mbps down/20 up, 50ms. Not bad for the price - maybe FttH is a myth after all.

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