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by strict9 3y ago
What is so incredible with successful multiple decade-spanning careers like the one Tony Bennett had is that you must continuously reinvent yourself and adapt to remain relevant. All while not straying too far from your self as to not alien
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by strict9 3y ago
Ask someone who has worked in a restaurant about the habits of diet coke drinkers. They always require 10x or more refills than water or soda.
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by strict9 3y ago
Clicking the link for past records redirects me to a landing page to purchase turbotax products. I haven't used them in years.
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by strict9 3y ago
Yet it's impossible for me see my own prior tax returns from a product I already paid for. I can't contact support for help without paying additional money to turbotax. I realize this article doesn't match turbotax specifical
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by strict9 3y ago
Instagram devs have given a lot talks about python and django at conferences. As far as I know IG is still running on django so it makes sense that the dev team would stick with it for something new.
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by strict9 3y ago
HN is the only social network that I still use, if you can even call it that. Effective moderation, thoughtful content, and a simple design that gets out of the way. It's the only content source that hasn't been poisoned by demand
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by strict9 3y ago
Remote work with lots of PTO available (no questions asked) is an order of magnitude more important to me than salary. I'll happily settle for a medium-sized company with a decent tech stack that offers freedom and flexibility. There i
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by strict9 3y ago
> Every now and again (say I enter a house which has a no-shoe rule), someone will spot them and find the concept strange, I find it more strange that people wear outside shoes inside. The same shoes that go on dirt, mud, who knows what
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by strict9 3y ago
Glad to see this for the precedent, though Prime is far from the worst offender of employing dark patterns to cancel memberships. I'd love to see FTC target cancellations that require you to call a phone number and speak with someone.
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by strict9 3y ago
RFK Jr, presumably because he likes bitcoin.
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by strict9 3y ago
I don't know. With Jack confidently predicting a conspiracy theorist will win the presidency, it tells me Bluesky isn't going to be my destination. In fact I'm at a stage in my life where the idea of social media participatio
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Radioactive Fountain of Youth(atlasobscura.com)
3 points by strict9 3y ago|0 comments
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by strict9 3y ago
I am of the same generation as you with a slightly different story but also found computers as a means of escape. But then it was more exploratory. Learning about computer internals and talking to others on a BBS is not in the same galaxy a
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Bowlero faces dozens of discrimination claims that feds want to settle for $60M(cnbc.com)
1 points by strict9 3y ago|0 comments
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by strict9 4y ago
> They would roll out software updates and vehicle locks on 4 million cars across the U.S. > In a statement, Kia said it has distributed more than 23,000 locks so far and would continue providing locks to affected owners. In large c
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Superhero films: Is this the end of the road?(bbc.com)
2 points by strict9 4y ago|0 comments
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by strict9 4y ago
Starting with This American Life, podcasts were a daily part of my life at home for more than 15 years. Then the pandemic happened and for reasons I can't fully explain I just stopped listening to all of them. Part of it was the subjec
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by strict9 4y ago
It was a masterpiece. Apple deleting Dark Sky something I will never forgive them for. Maybe not enough to make me switch phones, but enough to make me look elsewhere when needing peripheral items. The statement that Dark Sky features wer
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by strict9 4y ago
I've been feeling a lot better about ignoring the countless recruiter contacts from the major tech companies the past couple years. On one hand I felt like I was blowing major opportunities by not trying. But something just felt off wh
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Europe’s Oldest Map Shows Tiny Bronze Age Kingdom(atlasobscura.com)
3 points by strict9 4y ago|0 comments
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by strict9 4y ago
Great article, particularly agree with the tests part. Sanity check tests (function doesn't throw an exception in common path) are essential but following all possible paths and verifying all outputs is the road to diminishing returns
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by strict9 4y ago
> “Don’t Repeat Yourself” often gets interpreted as “Don’t Copy Paste” or to avoid repeating code within the codebase When I think of the most difficult to understand code I've come across it was probably written by someone who liv
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by strict9 4y ago
> They completely butchered the contrast and initial readability to appease the 'flat' trend style. The personality died. This line like most of the others in the article is hyperbole and subjective opinion presented as a stat
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by strict9 4y ago
lodash and other utility libraries can be helpful when backend devs who don't usually work in JS need to do something complicated on the front end. That said, if focusing on front end dev work I think it removes knowledge of underlying
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by strict9 4y ago
> Even packaged breads, including those high in nutritious whole grains, qualify as ultra-processed in many cases because of the additives and preservatives they contain. However much I'd like to alter my diet to be more healthy, i
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by strict9 4y ago
Also a full time pedestrian. While I have near-zero trust for drivers, autonomous cars are not the savior. At an intersection you can usually see where the driver is looking to help inform your frogger-like quest to not die. There's no
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by strict9 4y ago
Sending from US to Ukraine. I tried Wise (and WU) but the UI presented generic errors when attempting payment that didn't indicate what the problem was or how to correct it. The chat assistant was equally vague as to what the problem w
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by strict9 4y ago
> The only use-case for it now is for the criminal underworld You must not have a need to send money to recipients in other countries. I tried every option I could find until giving up in frustration and sending crypto instead. Not deny
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Was the Nord Stream 2 Rupture an Accidental Catalyst?(oalexanderdk.substack.com)
50 points by strict9 4y ago|82 comments
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by strict9 4y ago
Weird side angle to get in your political views known on HN, completely unnecessary.

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