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by powvans 1y ago
This is amazing! I am vacationing in Spain and rented, I think, the same model as you. A BMW X2 M something or other. Absolutely rock bottom by far the worst driving experience ever. Ultimate driving experience indeed. Insane and subtle ann
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by powvans 1y ago
Marketing mail is a significant (maybe 25%) portion of the USPS revenue and very profitable. They have a strong disincentive to reduce the stream of junk mail going to your home.
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by powvans 1y ago
There are thousands of Chinese characters and thousands of Kanji. Maybe we are destined to replace all existing written language with 10’s of thousands of emoji? I’ll be illiterate in that world, but my kids seem to grok it.
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by powvans 1y ago
I have shifted the majority of my search for products to ChatGPT. In the past my starting point would have been Amazon or Google. It’s just so much easier to describe what I’m looking for and ask for recommendations that fit my parameters.
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by powvans 1y ago
Spot on. There's something instinctual about this. My kids (13,10,8) all love making art. When I show them AI tools that they could use to generate art or riff on existing art, they are actively opposed. They tell me that AI art is not
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by powvans 2y ago
I vaguely remember this hot second you refer to. What is the HN equivalent where those conversations are happening today?
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by powvans 2y ago
Arthur C. Clarke famously predicted all of this in 1964. Basically: distance will become irrelevant to intellectual work.
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Tom Scott: The Problem with Time and Timezones [video](youtube.com)
1 points by powvans 3y ago|0 comments
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by powvans 3y ago
Sometimes the best shows are the ones with just two seasons. Great stuff, no filler, no suffering from trying to extend the run. I really enjoyed Men of a Certain Age. Highly recommend it. Rest in peace Andre Braugher.
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by powvans 3y ago
Infuriating when I need 12oz of a product for a recipe and now I can only buy it in 9.5oz cans. Way to go. Now you sold two. More packaging, more waste, more profits!
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by powvans 3y ago
Why even go to that much trouble? If it’s truly a throwaway I just use an email address like shitsinthewoods@mailinator.com, grab what I need, and go on with my life. If I ever happen to need to login again, I’ll just send a password reset
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by powvans 3y ago
Every. Single. Time. I open a Stackoverflow link, they ask me about cookies. Because my browser dumps them, I know, I know, but so irritating.
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by powvans 4y ago
“Deserves got nothing to do with it.”
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by powvans 4y ago
Eventually they’ll just route around this by connecting to your neighbor’s Ring doorbell or your Nest thermostat or whatever random internet connected thing that it can reach out and pass packets through.
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by powvans 4y ago
They would have just thrown them in the dumpster. The point of the bin was to stop people from filling the trash cans with their used books.
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by powvans 4y ago
Not just efficiently, safely .
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by powvans 4y ago
When I was in college I sold discarded text books on half.com. This isn’t my best income stream, but in many ways it was my favorite. After the Spring 2000 semester, I noticed that the bookstores had junk book bins. Students would dump into
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by powvans 4y ago
Anecdotally it feels like all of these sites are super fast right now. I even reinstalled the heinous Weather Channel app and it’s working wonderfully. With ads that app is essentially unusable on an iPhone 14.
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by powvans 4y ago
Yes, the desert hasn’t always been desert, though the shifts aren’t attributed to human activity. https://www.livescience.com/4180-sahara-desert-lush-populate...
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by powvans 4y ago
I’m so glad that I’m not the only one who thinks this is serious heavy duty dumb. Last night I saw an ad that seemed to imply Amazon Music would now be included with Prime. I thought, hmm, let me check if it still does the thing where you c
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Why JWTs Suck as Session Tokens (2017)(developer.okta.com)
91 points by powvans 4y ago|84 comments
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by powvans 4y ago
I think it's a confluence of a few things... 1) You lock your mortgage rate for 90 days, so 90 days ago rates were significantly lower. These will be rolling off soon and by early next year the prevailing rates will obviously be much h
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by powvans 4y ago
Celery supports solar scheduling, though it's not obvious how you would do +/- some time from the solar event. You would probably need to extend their implementation, but I don't think that would be too hard. https:/&#x
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by powvans 4y ago
I always use the Chase Debit cards stored in my Apple Wallet to access Chase ATMs. Works great. You can use the Apple Wallet cards to unlock the ATM vestibule doors after hours too.
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by powvans 4y ago
Elasticsearch has some functionality that does this: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/curr... More on the concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospective_se
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by powvans 4y ago
You're doing it wrong. You're supposed to correct them by telling them that Cunningham's Law doesn't apply. /meta
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by powvans 4y ago
This article feels like a poor retread of what Ben Thompson has been writing [0] and podcasting [1] about for at least the last 5 years. Even the rough sketch diagrams feel like a poor copy of what Ben does at Stratechery. The conclusion th
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by powvans 4y ago
Of course it matters! And yes, there are many aspects of who your kids are that just are. Nature is powerful. Nurture matters too. When I first became a parent I thought that all the things that I would do would build them up and make them
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by powvans 4y ago
I’ve freelanced off and on for 10+ years. You are 100% correct that this is terrible advice! I think it would be hard to compile a complete list of reasons why it’s terrible advice. I’ll add a couple though. People do not value what they do
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by powvans 5y ago
I think this is a great way to look at things and would just like to add that when you have a spouse and children, aka additional stakeholders, it's not exactly a business of one.

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