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by skrtskrt 3y ago
Edit: nevermind. Saw the rest of your comments it's all bad faith BS about how the affordable education = government coercion. But also, somehow you went to school for $5 a year. No. For 95k a year for a four-person household you certa
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
> People from low or mid-income families have access to scholarships and funding It might be relatively common for low income to get full rides or near full rides, but anyone in mid-income is getting saddled with tons of debt. I applied
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
I've recently noticed on TikTok a big trend of food scientists, and chemists that basically just aggressively "debunk" anyone saying any sort of preservative or processed food ingredient is bad for you, and they always fall b
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
it would be amazing if more people realized that keeping the car you have is still the most environmentally friendly solution. I'm going to keep my ICE car until it is unreasonably old or impractical for me, which is probably at least
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
I think the vast vast majority of people (non HN techies) at this stage don't care that nearly as much about self driving as they do about having an electric/Hybrid/PHEV car that's just a great total package of a car - s
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
there have been a bunch of scripts going around to automate this, unsure how many people have actually used them
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
Ding ding ding The real reddit app doesn’t even have an option to block a particular ad account so when they serve you evangelical right wing ads all day you just have to swallow it.
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
Often involves buying otherwise-worthless IP from defunct companies with the sole purpose of using it to sue others
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
yeah I boosted docs.rs so I would stop getting crates.rs at the top, that has been nice.
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completely different companies
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
Kagi Search search engine. Unless I’m doing “food near me” type searches, Kagi is 100x better than the garbage heap Google is now. Then Jetbrains. Then one of the ProtonMail subscriptions although I only use the mail and sometimes the VPN
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Ask HN: Resources to Learn About Query Languages and Querying Distributed DBs?
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or replication if you're not erasure coding. So yeah you need more storage-optimized server racks and all the associated manpower and maintenance, you also need them to be distributed across different datacenters and zones which of cou
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
VSCode config files use it
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
if you think there's a "lack of diversity in music production" you're just not listening to enough music. Not only are people taking newer music production technology in every different possible direction, they're s
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
well it obviously depends on your usage patterns. But at a certain point any technology is going to reach the limits of what current hardware and operating system primitives can do. fsync vs. distributed consensus vs. other tradeoffs w.r.t
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
you have never signed anything when starting a job?
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
WFH is completely independent from the idea of moving to a suburb to afford a bigger house. You're literally just making up an imaginary scenario of people moving just because they can WFH and then acting like that's "compens
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
Kafka is used widely as a persistent event store, and its development features reflect that. Why would I not just turn on fsync or deploy in a distributed pattern for reliability so I can just continue using it instead of ripping it out, be
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
I think people tend to miss an important aspect of this conversation: Cars as a whole are massively much more reliable for a lot longer than they used to, making used cars way more viable for most people. Even the traditionally less-reliabl
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
Toyota's hybrid tech is and has been the best and most reliable for a very long time. I think it's a shame that the EV regulations and incentives (at least in America) are not as friendly for traditional hybrids and plug-in hybrid
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
Is anyone using the newer Grafana Cloud Mimir/Tempo/Loki stack that can compare pricing for real usage? I know Datadog probably has a hell of a lot more add-on features, I'm more interested in head to head of comparable produ
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
on a 13 inch laptop at that
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
"bystanders were struck by bullets as police responded"
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
funny side note about Tailscale/iOS: one of the first things I tried with Tailscale was TailDrop-ing a random file to my iPad. I chose a dotfile like .gitconfig, but then the iOS Files app wouldn't show it to me. It would show me
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
their clients have to do a lot of platform specific configuration to make it appear magic- OS/distro-specific network configuration is always going to be a hairy, moving target - open an issue on their GitHub and they'll probabl
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
you are not the parent comment to my comment - not sure if I used "parent comment" clearly
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
parent comment was edited, originally said "i thought they [Tailscale] hated that thing [Headscale]" they literally have on their website that they encourage people to use Headscale if they want an open source solution for the coo
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by skrtskrt 3y ago
> RabbitMQ isn’t a good fit for long running tasks yeah I've seen 3 different workplaces run into this exact issue, usually when they started off with a default Django-Celery-Redis approach all of those cases were actually easily
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by skrtskrt 4y ago
hacker news sees creating a company and tearing up regulations as the ultimate form of altruism and bravery add in a side of guzzling right wing talking points from a fire hose and claiming to be a philosopher-economist and you've got

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