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   by pushcx 5y ago

   There's a great history of this, The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette. It's a quick read, almost entirely original reporting. Aside from the colorful characters, it's really
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   by pushcx 5y ago

   If anyone from the GitHub social media team is reading this, you have a bug on this and other ReadME pages that causes high-frequency strobing in some browsers. It's likely to trigger photo-sensitive epilepsy. Please contact me at the
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   by pushcx 5y ago

   The new system won't permit a + in email addresses, so perhaps they didn't bother emailing existing accounts that use it. I checked; they did not go to my spam folder.
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   by pushcx 5y ago

   I don't know if it's traffic from this announcement or general bad design but it's currently impossible to migrate. I mention bad design because they didn't even bother emailing about any of four accounts I set up for my
5. 155.▲
   by pushcx 5y ago

   Can you find any contemporary reviews or commentary mentioning it?
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   by pushcx 5y ago

   I think this criticism undoes itself. The thesis is that CGI visual effects are not convincing, not "weighty", implausible, unconvincing. But there's no mention of CGI being pervasively used outside of blockbusters! I'm
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   by pushcx 5y ago

   I had something similar happen to me at IBM in the late 90s. I came to my cubicle one morning to find the PC case slightly ajar. I set the monitor aside and opened it. The sole 8 MB RAM stick was gone. I reported it to my boss who explained
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   by pushcx 5y ago

   Connections are pretty flaky, unfortunately. Every couple years Facebook bans my spouse's account for, I can only guess, having the last name spelled more phonetically as "Bot" instead of transliterated as "Bhat". (
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   by pushcx 5y ago

   I moderate https://lobste.rs ; people mistake it as a site about a self-help guru. (both fans and anti-fans) We added a note about it: https://lobste.rs/about#michaelbolton People still make the assumption but at
10. 160.▲
    by pushcx 5y ago

    Here's the correction: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/media-washing... This article doesn't seem to add any context or new reporting, might be an improvement to just swap in the link to w
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    by pushcx 5y ago

    > That way the company’s Saudi owners could raise investment capital from subsequent “investors” (AKA “suckers”) all the way up to the IPO, cash out, and walk away, whistling innocently. The rest of the article is debatable but reasonabl
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    by pushcx 5y ago

    iOS also isn't as good at home screen layout; moving an icon causes others to jump around. Despite visually being a grid, the icons are internally modeled as single line that wraps like text. If you add or remove an icon from a higher
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    by pushcx 5y ago

    A non-obvious convenience is that triggering this (with or without auto-call), it disables Face ID. It's an easy and subtle gesture if you're in a situation where someone might activate Face ID without your permission, like a thef
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    by pushcx 5y ago

    One small externality of Amazon's approach to business optimization: Amazon so closely tracks its drivers that they're strongly incentivized to shave seconds off of every delivery. When they come to smaller apartments with push-bu
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    by pushcx 5y ago

    This is a rewrite of a story already on the front page and adds no new info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27842648
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    by pushcx 5y ago

    Does anyone have an upgrade guide for playbook maintainers?
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    by pushcx 5y ago

    A privacy precaution would be to `ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=password -o PubkeyAuthentication=no jobs.hackclub.com`. By default ssh will send all its public keys to a server unless given an identify file to use as an arg or in ~/.
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    by pushcx 5y ago

    Thanks for sharing this. We filter some of these from submissions to Lobsters ( https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/blob/f25fc62d7603c1bf70... ) and I'd be glad to expand it. In your second list, are thos
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    by pushcx 5y ago

    CS researchers at the University of Chicago did a similar experiment on me and other maintainers a couple years ago: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/517 And similarly to U Minn, their IRB covered
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    by pushcx 5y ago

    They're called neo-nazis because they're neo-nazis: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/proud-boy-6mwe/
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    by pushcx 6y ago

    Morale probable relates to how well employees' politics line up with recent events. To get an idea of where the business's are, look at what they promote: https://twitter.com/FacebooksTop10 (Context on the promoti
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    by pushcx 6y ago

    Or in context, they estimate NYC lost a net 0.8% of its residents and the average income of the incoming and outgoing cohorts differ by -$8,055/y. It multiplies to a big dollar figure because NYC is big and rich. The original content m
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    by pushcx 6y ago

    This is a blogspam rewrite of a blogspam rewrite of this article: https://www.asiaone.com/asia/obsessed-fan-finds-japanese-ido...
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    by pushcx 6y ago

    I can't speak to Denver, but reposting from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25000078 - no, Chicago voters did not do this: Hi, Chicago voter here. The question wasn't about public utility, it was "Should
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    by pushcx 6y ago

    Hi, Chicago voter here. The question wasn't about public utility, it was "Should the City of Chicago act to ensure that all the City's community areas have access to broadband Internet?" which can imply a number of contr
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    by pushcx 6y ago

    Here's some logs + a writeup of when they spammed Lobsters on behalf of LoadMill: https://lobste.rs/s/utbyws/mitigating_content_marketing My first name @push.cx if you want to share notes on these or other ab
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    by pushcx 6y ago

    These are the same people who made dedicated effort to trick Lobsters users into giving them invites so they could spam our site back around the start of 2020: https://lobste.rs/s/utbyws/mitigating_content_marketin
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    by pushcx 6y ago

    The author is a spammer. I banned this guy from Lobste.rs for endlessly posting terrible, thin retreads of Ruby docs and idiotically vague motivation porn. He had zero interaction with any other post and nothing mattered to him except that
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    by pushcx 6y ago

    Indeed, the site admits it: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/commit/d14ae625edd685f7...
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    by pushcx 6y ago

    I apologize, that didn't seem to be the case from the bio you give on the site. the bio you link to, or your published research. Obviously you know your background better than I do, but you're not putting your best foot forward to