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by pwinnski 4y ago
I have close to 18k ebooks in a library, and every other program I've tried to use in the past falls over dead when facing that. Calibre doesn't fall over. Instead, it happily and quickly sorts and searches and downloads metadata,
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Hi! Parent of a 12-year-old here. This summer I received an email about the intention of my local public school district to teach a unit on sex education in the fall, in SEVENTH GRADE. Meanwhile, my daughter has had her period more than a y
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I don't mind ordering from a kiosk, but I don't want to be conversational with said kiosk. Either give me a person to talk to, or give me a list from which to choose. A chatbot sounds like the worst of all possible worlds.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Pretty sure you could not, and your confidence is terrifying.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
"I will continue to openly demonstrate my willful ignorance" doesn't support your position well, and doesn't seem in line with the general tone of HackerNews, IMO.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I think most people are expecting something along these lines: C++: reverse(str.begin(), str.end()); Dart: str.split('').reversed.join(); Java: new StringBuilder().append(str).reverse().toString(); JavaScript: str.split('&#x2
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I paid $7k for my EV, except actually I traded in my Prius and wrote a check for $27. Not everybody buys new. Not everybody buys the more expensive models.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
They're probably being flagged by people tired of seeing the same thing over and over and over and over again, with much heat and little to no light.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Or--and this would line up with countless other examples over the centuries--people see patterns and project means where it wasn't intended.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
It's a famous quote in response to the introduction of Dropbox.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The "dream" of web3 sounds horrifying--monetizing absolutely everything--even without 95+% of it being a scam.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I think people around the world underestimate just how much support there is in the US for things like "broken English" and immigrants generally. There are some high-profile political counter-examples, of course, but by and large,
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> Any discussion of monopoly must demonstrate harm to the consumer. Breaking up companies for breaking ups sake is not the spirit of antitrust law. Historically this was not true, although it has been true in the U.S. since the 1970s. Hi
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Huh? You're saying that participating in the hiring process means you don't trust everyone else participating in the hiring process? That's... certainly an opinion. As it happens, each interviewer focused on different things,
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by pwinnski 4y ago
First call was 45 minutes with hiring manager. Second round was the following week, four almost-back-to-back 45-minute sessions, each with a different person. The last was hiring manager's manager. Third round was the following week, a
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by pwinnski 4y ago
This is why the last couple of generations of iPhones have supported "magsafe" charging, so the magnets line things up every time. Amazon has plenty of "magsafe" chargers for iPhones. To be clear, wireless charging with
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by pwinnski 4y ago
This story would make more sense if you mentioned that he did not have a lightning cable with him. My iPhone X is currently plugged into a USB-C charger, no problem, but it's using a USB-C -> Lightning cable. It's the cable tha
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by pwinnski 4y ago
There is zero chance that an iPhone with a USB-C port is going to allow phone-to-phone file transfer. You have the cause and effect reversed.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The word was homogeneous, which means "of the same kind."
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by pwinnski 4y ago
USB-C is perfectly fine, and I'm happy to switch, but let's not go overboard. Lightning is still arguably better than USB-C. USB-C exists because Apple was in the process of creating Lightning. Also, in my experience, you seem to
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The vast majority of school shootings in the US have been perpetrated by people who bought licensed guns legally.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Can you not... disable FaceID? You can set any iPhone to use a passcode every time, disable TouchID, FaceID, whatever.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> the bottom 80% have a very slow rising tide This was true until the 1980s in the US. I remember a very popular national politician showing that it wasn't true that the poor were getting poorer, they were just getting richer at a m
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Left unanswered is: What is China? China seems to manage largely-decentralized decision-making in a socialist society. There are exceptions, of course, as Jack Ma is finding out, but then, there seems to be more exceptions in the USA righ
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by pwinnski 4y ago
A single version, with digital replacement of visuals. And that's due to a trademark issue in the US, unfortunately.
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by pwinnski 5y ago
You're saying that land taxes should supply 100% of federal tax revenue, but 0% of state/local revenue? Currently most property taxes are local, not federal. You're also missing the bit about a citizen's dividend which s
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by pwinnski 5y ago
Absolutely not. Most of the appeal of digital comes from the lack of scarcity. Artificially introducing faux-scarcity is asinine.
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by pwinnski 5y ago
So I've been coding a few more years than you have, but not many. As a backend dev, this bug makes no sense at all. Having spent a few years with companies using things like Angular and React, I've seen bugs of this type / in
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by pwinnski 5y ago
> This explicitly programmed behavior can NOT be a bug Um, I know you said you work in software, and the rules say not to doubt you. So I'll press Y and move on. There are so many levels of bugs that almost nothing would surprise me
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by pwinnski 5y ago
Apple's search is run locally, and requires each app to make its content metadata available to Apple. Plex will not--cannot by design--do that. Apple could pass the search request to each service/app and collate the results, but

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