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by tomwheeler 7mo ago
In my state, you can buy products with pseudoephedrine over the counter, but the law requires you to show ID to the pharmacist who then logs your name and address. There is absolutely nothing in the law that requires scanning or storing the
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by tomwheeler 7mo ago
> it's 'do I have faith in all future forms of government who will have access to this data' And even this assumes that the government can and will protect the data from the various bad actors who want it, something they h
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by tomwheeler 7mo ago
The article title ought to name the company (Umart). I assume they didn't because they want the clicks, but I'd argue that giving Umart the bad publicity they deserve would make companies reconsider whether to implement anti-custo
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by tomwheeler 8mo ago
And eventually, future calculations from CBS about whether they have more to lose by suppressing the story or airing it will favor the latter. Or so few people will still watch CBS that their business fails. Either way, it's a win.
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Temporal valued at $5B in Series D round led by A16Z(temporal.io)
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by tomwheeler 9mo ago
This is insufficient, since the 22nd amendment only limits the number of terms to which a president can be elected. A president can legally serve longer than that. For example, consider a president who dies in office a few days into the ter
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by tomwheeler 9mo ago
While I certainly understand the appeal of tax arbitrage, California has at least one thing going for it. Unlike most states, it generally disallows non-compete clauses as a matter of public policy. Tech thrives on the mobility of talent, s
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by tomwheeler 10mo ago
Much like an operating system promises to make everything easy if you use its APIs for file I/O instead of implementing your own low-level code to control the hardware yourself. Personally, I'd much rather think about storage in t
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by tomwheeler 10mo ago
> It'd be an interesting experiment to take memory snapshots after each step in a workflow, which an API like Firecracker might support...I think some durable execution engines have experimented with this type of system before, but
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by tomwheeler 10mo ago
One day I'll retire, and the day after that I will still write code even though I'm no longer being paid to do it. And I'll still play my guitar every day even though I have no interest in being famous. I'll do both of t
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by tomwheeler 11mo ago
For all of these same reasons, I never signed up for the "member rewards" program at the local grocery store. I did read the terms and conditions once, when I needed a good laugh.
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by tomwheeler 11mo ago
At least they gave me a free battery every month. I feel sorry for their database because I was a teenager with a bunch of guitar pedals and an ongoing need for 9V batteries. I made up a LOT of phone numbers.
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by tomwheeler 11mo ago
A $5M home in Palo Alto is hardly a mansion.
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by tomwheeler 11mo ago
> I vaguely remember, back in 2010, when I wrote my app, you couldn't style a button consistently across all browsers. They were grey boxes in firebox, or used other OS standard styling. I'm sure I'll trigger a lot of desi
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by tomwheeler 11mo ago
> selecting text is scarcely possible I find non-selectable text maddening, but I recently found an macOS app called TextSniper that restores my control. It lets you select an area with the mouse (as you would when taking a screenshot) a
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by tomwheeler 1y ago
I have an M2 Max MBP for work and a Framework 16 for home. Build quality of the MBP is better. The machine feels more solid. The battery life is better, although to be fair, I run Linux on the Framework so the hardware itself isn't the
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by tomwheeler 1y ago
> But in fact, customer call centers tend not to be able to even know that you called in yesterday, three days ago and last week. Nor what you told the person you talked to three minutes earlier, during the same call, before they transfe
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by tomwheeler 1y ago
In 1995-1196, I worked at an ISP. Our first step when trying to troubleshoot an access problem for a new user was to run the finger command on our server to see if the account had been provisioned yet. 30 years later, I still recall the tim
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by tomwheeler 1y ago
Ian Murdock, who grew up in Indiana, joined Sun Microsystems in early 2007 to lead Project OpenIndiana.
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by tomwheeler 1y ago
Not much of a user-agent ...
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by tomwheeler 1y ago
> The music industry figured this out: I pay Spotify, they have 95% of music content I could ever way, the UX is good enough. I have no reason to pirate music anymore. > Why is this so hard for the film industry? My theory is that the
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by tomwheeler 1y ago
> FM radio uses the headphone cable as an antenna, so with the move to bluetooth I assume it got squashed for similar reasons. Some may prefer Bluetooth headphones, and there are countless apologists who now retroactively parrot the manu
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by tomwheeler 1y ago
Lobbyists
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by tomwheeler 1y ago
Cows can jump a lot higher than people expect. They can also throw their weight at a fence and break through.
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by tomwheeler 1y ago
These hand signals are known as arb. I was told (when I worked for a brokerage firm) that the name stems from people involved with arbitrage needing to communicate quickly, before the rest of the market caught on to what they were doing).
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by tomwheeler 1y ago
It happened to me last week at a small Thai restaurant in Las Vegas.
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by tomwheeler 1y ago
I have fond memories of the manager letting me play with the computers for hours. Our Radio Shack was in the mall and I'd drop in and start writing programs on the TRS-80 display models while my parents were shopping. The manager not o
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by tomwheeler 1y ago
Obviously so they could track your purchases. Thankfully, I learned a valuable lesson as a kid when my parents told them "None of your business." Too bad this question has become so commonplace that few people seem to challenge it
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by tomwheeler 1y ago
It felt like malicious compliance. Oh, you want security? OK, here you go, hope you choke on it.
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by tomwheeler 1y ago
Perfectly stated. It was more stable and had better UX than NT4, but didn't have all the unwanted anti-features that came in later versions of Windows. It was the last version of Windows that didn't get in my way.

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