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by quesera 7mo ago
This happens in the US too, and even if you're wise enough to treat postal codes as strings (which they are) and not integers, someone is going to paste the data into Excel which will promptly blow things up on you anyway.
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by quesera 7mo ago
In English: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/... :)
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by quesera 7mo ago
> capitalisation is just unimportant Capitalization is the difference between: - helping your friend Jack off a horse, and - helping your friend jack off a horse. (Not original, but memorable!)
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by quesera 7mo ago
> As someone who lives in WA ... it took me 3 months to get a SSN States don't issue social security numbers. Your complaint is with the Feds.
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by quesera 7mo ago
Your argument sounds like a Smithian adaptation of the Brezhnevian "actually existing socialism". Neither system has ever existed in its purest theoretical form -- probably cannot, and even more probably should not. I don't t
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by quesera 7mo ago
He did! The database is the data, collected into a coherent structure. The database management system is (optionally) software. :)
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by quesera 7mo ago
> Capitalism precludes slavery. Hmm? Capitalism neither precludes nor predates slavery.
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by quesera 7mo ago
I think humanity did introduce evil. It requires a sense of morality to divide good from evil, and I don't think that existed on Earth before humans. Digging into the Hominid tree might add some qualifications, but I don't see t
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by quesera 7mo ago
I think you misinterpreted GP's emphasis. But still, egg and dairy animals are culled when productivity drops. The human equivalent would be killing all male babies, and females after age ~40. This does not seem more "humane"
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by quesera 7mo ago
In the US, Huy Fong was the only Sriracha that I ever saw (and commonly only on the west coast), until the very early 2000s. My understanding was/is that Huy Fong could have trademarked the name in the US back then, but they chose not
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by quesera 7mo ago
I think it is necessarily symbiotic. Society coalesces around sets of social expectations (some of which are regulations or laws), and these formalized expectations are a very strong defining factor of society itself.
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by quesera 7mo ago
> The government is not my guardian and does not do my thinking for me. This is a quaintly (US) American perspective. The government is and does literally both of those things, and the arguments in these threads are about the fine deta
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by quesera 7mo ago
But the critical question is whether it would be possible to create, staff, operate, publicize, and oversee such an "agency", at a cost that is sufficiently lower than a tiny fraction of a heavy explodey thing.
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by quesera 7mo ago
It's not clear to me that Anthropic is worse than Salesforce. Or Microsoft, or Google.
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by quesera 7mo ago
Something important must be different about our Slack environments. Maybe it's the number of users, or possibly the OS? We're a small company (about 150 Slack users), and I've run the Slack (Electron) app on a 16GB M2 (macOS)
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by quesera 7mo ago
Wait, what? You get ads in Slack? That sounds crazy to me, but the other interpretation (that Campfire has ads for Slack) seems even crazier.
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by quesera 7mo ago
I don't think "crash" is the right word for the Firefox behaviour. Yes it does pop a window that calls itself a "crash reporter", but in my observation it's a shutdown timer timeout that expires after ~60secs.
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by quesera 7mo ago
I see. Yeah, I've seen this. It seems more likely to happen when the profile has been running for a long time (a couple weeks?) and/or using a large amount of RAM. There's a 60-secish timeout before it gives up and pops that
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by quesera 7mo ago
Describe "demons"? I run four Firefox instances simultaneously, most of the time. No issues to report.
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by quesera 7mo ago
ssh in and shut down first (and/or just use a properly reliable filesystem). Mail transfer can tolerate multi-hour interruptions. Imagine the drama if it couldn't!
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by quesera 7mo ago
The Alto? I don't think that's accurate. Only 2000 devices ever shipped, and I used one at my parent's workplace back in the day. But I would have been far too young to remember that detail. It may well have been kicking arou
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by quesera 7mo ago
The Sidebery extension is the key, for me. Tabs are vertical, hierarchical, and searchable. I also set the color of specific tabs (another Sidebery feature) that have some special returnability reason. I don't love the color options, n
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by quesera 7mo ago
They were original in the 1984 Macintosh OS (before it had a name), and published in the first edition (1987) of the Apple Human Interface Guidelines. Just two of the things Microsoft copied successfully. :)
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by quesera 7mo ago
I use tabs as temporary bookmarks. It's still a lot, sure, but it comes at no cost. The browser with the highest tab count is the one I use for HN. 21708 right now. The oldest tab is about 3 years old, which reflects the last time I bo
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by quesera 7mo ago
No need to be obnoxious. I noted the tab count because it's a weak measurement of memory requirements, which is directly relevant to the topic at hand. I keep tabs because they're better in most ways than bookmarks. I'd be ha
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by quesera 7mo ago
Single thread performance is 50% faster, which is more important for most ordinary tasks.
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by quesera 7mo ago
You are so wrong. macOS manages memory much more successfully than whatever you are used to. I assume it's not Linux, because things are pretty good there too (aside from the poor behaviour when you reach OOM).
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by quesera 7mo ago
It's macOS. Yes, absolutely positively more than enough for web browsing plus a whole lot more, simultaneously. If you do serious development, you might need to think about it. I do serious development with local applications on my 16G
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by quesera 7mo ago
This is wrong. My daily-driver M2 16GB has been up for 54 days, running three web browsers simultaneously (all Firefox, which does help, about 30K tabs across them), plus a medium-sized Rails app and postgres, iTerm2 and tmux (about 38 pane
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by quesera 7mo ago
This product will be available in unlimited volumes until they replace it or discontinue it, with no quirks of used/older models. For an active market-watching technology buyer, sure, think about it. For 99.5% of the addressable market

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