shagie

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by shagie 7mo ago
> Well, for one example, it inhibits your desire to improve against those very blind spots. I'd contend this is not true. Even professional authors go to an editor who identifies things that need to be fixed. As the author of the t
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by shagie 7mo ago
I thought the guillemet was French rather than German and the other way around. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table
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I was amused that Dank Mono wasn't in the lineup (though there was one that had some of its aesthetics) https://philpl.gumroad.com/l/dank-mono The one use case I've seen for Dank Mono was presentations with
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by shagie 7mo ago
> It is a shame there isn't a preview button when composing posts. The delay setting in your profile (mine is set to 2). New Feature: Delay - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=231024 There's a new fiel
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I suspect you're referring to Massachusetts - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_call_recording_laws#... Massachusetts (only "secret" recordings are banned, but is the only state without a &qu
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A news broadcast for a commercially run news network does not need releases nor does it need to compensate people who walk through the background. Likewise, journalistic photographs (for commercial use) are legal and don't require rele
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The regular site (rather than aggregator): https://apnews.com/article/airports-shutdown-long-lines-trai... This also includes some images that aren't part of the netscape.com version... which is probably part of t
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They'd be a couple years late on that. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/foreign-hacker-2023-comprom... (reported last year)
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Is this a reference to https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-asked-russia-to-... > "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you w
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This tickled an old memory... while some of those are classic designs, I don't think they're the old ones that I had as a kid in the 80s. So I looked. I think it was things like "100 paper spaceships to fold and fly" ..
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by shagie 7mo ago
You're probably correct in that (edit: re-reading this... no, I'm not an AI - some people write this way and I tend to prefer to defuse potential arguments where two people are arguing for the same thing in a thread). Though I wo
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Consistency of interface. I've got the phone number of the mechanic I go to in my phone's address book... and the various medical services for appointments there. If they were to have an app on their website, I wouldn't know
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Voicemail alone doesn't have information about someone's schedule. "I'd like to schedule a smog check tomorrow or Wednesday?" rather than leaving a message and hoping for a callback that you don't miss either (
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by shagie 7mo ago
It's also a "how much exposure do people have if the private key is compromised?" Yes, its to make it so that a dedicated effort to break the key has it rotated before someone can impersonate it... its also a question of how
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by shagie 7mo ago
A key part of that is a that its dominated by kids. The video I linked is one to start with... https://www.takeaway-reality.com/post/roblox-demographics-st... There are 151.5 million daily active users on Roblox
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by shagie 7mo ago
For game dev, I believe that it is remiss to not include mention of the change in the gamer landscape. Ten years ago, it was console vs PC as the big game question... and various studios took bets on one or both sides of that. Today... i
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by shagie 7mo ago
Digging more into this... because why not... it appears that he (Kirk Thatcher) also wrote the song and there's a nice bit of real life lore in the Wired article. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/I_Hate_You
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by shagie 7mo ago
Could have also gone for Dogma (which of course references that clip) https://youtu.be/PpckOsftaP4?si=DDlDY3ZK7FoUcKrn&t=41
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by shagie 7mo ago
He returned in Picard (notice his reaction with his neck). https://youtu.be/r6wDR6heQcU What I did not know is that he was one of the producers for Voyage Home. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0857130&#
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Mankind will help restore your faith in mankind. https://youtu.be/7ssDFzesdn4
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Chicago is the home of the Chicago commodities exchange... and like New York has a bit of influence over businesses dealing with banking taking place in New York, so too does Illinois have influence over the regulations around the question
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Stack Overflow has verbatim copied GPL code in some of its questions and answers. As presented by SO, that code is not under the GPL license (this also applies to other licenses - the BSD advertising clause and the original json will cau
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by shagie 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_farm#United_States Small family farms are defined as those with annual gross cash farm income (GCFI) of less than $350,000; in 2011, these accounted for 90 percent of all US farms.
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The 80 year old house on a woodlot that a teacher is living in should be closed so they can buy a more expensive one in town? This isn't (all) new construction of people deciding to cast off the shackles of urban living and shoveling s
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by shagie 7mo ago
The area south of Highway 19 in Dane County to north of Highway 39 in Green county is still rather bare of awards.
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My parents have Starlink. They live in an area surrounded by dairy farms. It's half a mile between mailboxes. The nearest town is 7 miles away (though only 3 as the crow flies - lots of hills between here and there). None of the nei
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by shagie 7mo ago
That was referencing the killer in the Abundant Life Christian School shooting. This isn't the true crime of classic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_crime but rather people commenting on crimes. https:/&#
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HN is HN. From the Guidelines link at the bottom - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and s
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Digging back as far as I can... Computer Programmers (1997) https://web.archive.org/web/19971111101442/http://www.bls.go... Programmers often are grouped into two broad types: Applications programm
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It's only a little bit lower than salaries for non-Big Tech that are in the area. Again, for Madison compare it to https://www.levels.fyi/companies/american-family-insurance/s... Trying to make state governm

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