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by phony-account 1y ago
The company I work for expanded enormously from 2021 onwards, aiming to recruit the absolute best talent available regardless of location. None of this was ‘offshoring’ - we just cast a broad net over Europe and genuinely hauled in the high
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Social media: a mother's fight for the truth about her son's death(theguardian.com)
1 points by phony-account 1y ago|0 comments
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The Sky's the limit: AI automation on Mac(taoofmac.com)
123 points by phony-account 1y ago|71 comments
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Chicago Sun-Times confirms AI used to create reading list of nonexistent books(theguardian.com)
7 points by phony-account 1y ago|0 comments
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by phony-account 1y ago
Is this the wrong time to rant about font licensing though? I’ve always bought and paid for fonts, but as I’ve gradually transitioned to mobile app development, I one day realized that all the fonts I bought for print are now worthless to m
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by phony-account 2y ago
> There's strong signs you didn't read the article you linked. What could possibly indicate I didn’t read the article? Of course I read it. Isn’t your assumption of my bad faith also explicitly against HN’s guidelines? > On
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by phony-account 2y ago
This is so utterly frightening. And disturbing to see how quickly stories like this are flagged into invisibility on HN. edit: luckily enough people vouched for the story to be rescued.
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by phony-account 2y ago
> I know someone in adtech and I'm pretty sure Apple allows a similar app manifest that allows you to check for specific apps. I could be wrong. On iOS an app developer will need to register in advance which external applications th
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by phony-account 2y ago
> There's no path shown with hits I guess you do know the path is shown at the bottom of the window if you select the filename in the list of results?
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by phony-account 2y ago
Almost the worst thing about Amazon and this gouging way of renting books is that it ‘legitimizes’ piracy. My partner works in publishing and we know a lot of authors. If you think piracy is going to sustain that industry and give you and y
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by phony-account 2y ago
> How it it different from what banks do? I often read this sort of comment from crypto-defenders, but is it what banks do? I’m relatively naive about these things, but my impression is that a bank losing this proportion of their assets
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by phony-account 2y ago
Aw come on - the money is obviously much better spent on some armored Cybertrucks.
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by phony-account 2y ago
> “so and so is literally worse than hitler" Can you give citations for where you’ve seen these sorts of statements? However bad Musk is, I’ve yet to see anyone saying he is “literally worse than Hitler”
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by phony-account 2y ago
> Why $6,2999 when the article says he payed around $900? In the fifth paragraph: “Admittedly, it did not cost me the $6300 from the article's title, much closer to $900. Nonetheless, everything I'm describing translates to eve
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by phony-account 2y ago
As usual I wonder about cause and effect in these articles: balance is an indicator of health, so does practicing standing on one leg actually improve that?
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by phony-account 2y ago
There are so many “so what?” responses to this that I can’t help wondering what an analogous situation would be for programmers? Maybe something like “I don’t see the problem with this app being buggy and almost unusable - I just like havin
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by phony-account 2y ago
This article makes it sound like Sweden is enjoying almost ‘free’ electricity, but that’s very far from reality. The house I live in (with 20 apartments) has seen prices rise by 17% this year, and that follows 3 years of similar rises. As u
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by phony-account 2y ago
> MacOS will gladly serve Taboola ads in first-party apps and beg you to use Safari in push notifications You may think you are ‘sticking it to Apple’ by making-up this sort of thing, but what you’re actually doing is ruining the debate,
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Topic Blockers(manuelmoreale.com)
1 points by phony-account 2y ago|0 comments
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by phony-account 2y ago
The ‘antiqueness’ and alleged difficulty of scanning with Nikon Coolscans is very overstated in this article. I’m using a Coolscan 9000 with a single adapter on an M3 Pro MacBook running Sequoia (latest MacOS). No exotic hardware needed wha
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by phony-account 2y ago
> Macbook Airs that are only 3-5 years old MacBook Airs from 2020 support Sequoia - so just the very upper limit of your range is relevant.
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by phony-account 2y ago
> (and no, a $5,000 MacBook Pro is not attainable) I know we all love dunking on how expensive Apple computers are, but for $5000 you would be getting a Mac Mini maxed-out with an M4 Pro chip with 14‑core CPU, 20‑core GPU, 16-core Neur
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Appreciation of the mark-all-as-read button(manuelmoreale.com)
54 points by phony-account 2y ago|37 comments
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by phony-account 2y ago
> Teslas can go fast real fast, so naively this is the result I would expect given how they have filtered the data. In other words, unless they controlled for this… Explain to me why you would want to filter out fatalities caused by goin
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by phony-account 2y ago
> Hmm. 3km underwater, sunken 100+ years ago, and the flare gun is still just resting there I’m not sure whether you’re suggesting they just made up this detail? In another HN discussion about this, there was a link including the close-u
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by phony-account 2y ago
> When I saw "drug-free" the first thing that jumped to mind was a placebo. Which would not have shocked me Because people dying of covid are just “imagining it”?
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by phony-account 2y ago
That $19,000 fine is sure gonna hurt their $1.1 billion profit.
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by phony-account 2y ago
Would it be bad form if I linked to this story every time someone here says RTO is essential for ‘vibrant and lively’ communication between colleagues?
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by phony-account 2y ago
> Are we all beholden to the Apple marketing department style guide? He should go the whole hog in this radical stance of civil disobedience and just spell the names entirely wrong!
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by phony-account 2y ago
I’ve had the Scribe for about six months and absolutely love it: I actually relish using it every single time I open it up. I’ve had Kindles for probably 10 years, gradually upgrading until the latest warm-screen version Oasis. But reading

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