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by tristor 1y ago
I empathize with that situation, it's something that weighs on my mind a lot as well. One of my goals is definitely to get the mortgage cleared out sooner rather than later. In some ways I'm rolling the dice, but I also feel lik
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by tristor 1y ago
> shitposted from my 8yo phone while driving my $500 car through traffic on bald tires I mostly agree with you, but some of those "needless" expenditures have negative externalities when avoided. Whether that's processed
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> Of those who carry credit cards in the US, 60% of them carry a balance [0]. Carrying a balance is not automatically the worst choice. I have a massively positive net worth (for a working stiff), so could effectively have $0 debt at an
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by tristor 1y ago
I have been using ZSH + various add-ons for ages, originally oh-my-zsh, and lately Prezto. I also somewhat maintain a fork of Prezto with improvements for Mac, mostly for my own personal use (although apparently quite a few others are usin
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by tristor 1y ago
No, not technically, however in the US there are the SLAPP statutes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...
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by tristor 1y ago
That's good to know. I'm not an image format expert, but I couldn't see any loss that was visually discernible at any rate.
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by tristor 1y ago
For my extensive collection of photography, I export to JPEG-XL and then convert to JPEG for use online. Most online services, like Flickr, Instagram, et al don't support JPEG-XL, but there's almost no quality loss converting fro
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by tristor 1y ago
> It's like working with someone on their first day. This matches my experience exactly, but worse than working with a human on their first day, day 100 for an AI is still like working with them on their first day. Humans have effe
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by tristor 1y ago
Very interesting analysis and as someone who practiced reversing/cracking in my youth, it helps me to understand why Denuvo is so effective. I have, for awhile, had a policy that I will not buy any game with Denuvo, and I continue to
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by tristor 1y ago
Honestly I wouldn't change much. I think I'd have kept some relationships going that I let fizzle away. I would have done more academically earlier in my life. But otherwise, I think I've made good decisions, served my fam
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by tristor 1y ago
I do the same thing, but I only ID photos that I consider good enough to post, once posted they're accessible from my phone (Flickr, IG, et al) so it's no big deal to grab them and insert them into the app.
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by tristor 1y ago
I really love Merlin as a hobbyist nature photographer. Not just the sound ID, but even more importantly it has a wonderful function that allows you to visually ID a bird from a photo. I don't know much about birds, other than having
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by tristor 1y ago
My typing speed has degraded over time. I used to type ~130wpm and now I'm closer to ~90wpm. Throughout that though, I've tried many different keyboard configurations to address growing issues with my hands and wrists and found
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by tristor 1y ago
With the case of M&S, and in many other cases in UK tech history that have gone poorly, it's mostly examples of the failure of hiring outside consultancies in India to do everything. Business executives continuously fall afoul of
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by tristor 1y ago
I used Mercury for a side project / startup, and once I wound it down it was impossible to cancel my account. My account was eventually canceled because I refused to respond to KYC more than a year after I had wound down the company a
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by tristor 1y ago
> If you had a digital camera that perfectly mimicked output of film camera, you could take a "filmmaker" from 70s, give them the digital camera and they will successfully create a film of equal quality. Yes, one needs to under
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by tristor 1y ago
This feels weird to me. Capital One is an everyman's card company, where Discover was always a niche player for upper middle class people, primarily competing with American Express. I have a feeling that Capital One will degrade the
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by tristor 1y ago
> Appearantly in the USA, at least as of 2008, around 90% of all track was still using wood [1]. I didn't expect that. For most of the world we have used concrete sleepers for a long time already. Plastic sleepers are also common no
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by tristor 1y ago
I am not saying the proposal is bad, I'm saying I automatically don't trust the authors because they use the term "latinx" in something that's theoretically intended to help the Latin American community. Additional
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by tristor 1y ago
I think you are incorrectly assuming that I am somehow supporting cutting science funding and/or that I am "anti-woke" (I am a little bit, but more because I think it's unhelpful than because I think the goal of helping
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by tristor 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latinx#Among_US_Hispanics/Lati... It's language colonization. The correct term, if there is even a need for an alternative for "latino" is "latine", which ha
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by tristor 1y ago
> So people with a Latin background are not part of the public? Hispanic people don't like being called "latinx" so anything with that word in it is pretty much automatically invalidated as being credulent, especially if i
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by tristor 1y ago
Tool quality has definitely improved over time, but... and this is a big but... many people buy lower quality tools now than were available previously because of their low cost. I would put any of my Japanese or German/Czech hand tool
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In some ways, actually yes. College has gotten more expensive over time, partly because demand for college has outweighed the benefits of college on the other side. It is a shift in the education market away from the cost profile being al
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by tristor 1y ago
Correct, however that doesn't mean that bringing tariffs back will have any immediate impact to reverse this change. 2025 is not 1980.
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I think phones/snapshot culture definitely creates a lack of engagement. It's more of a photo to say "I was there" than for any particular purpose. But creative photography, as an artform, actually connects you to your
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by tristor 1y ago
Just figured I should reply here as a follow-up. I had a friend see my comment on HN and reach out to me directly. I found out I had enabled some option somehow that disabled the use of credits. I fixed it, and now everything is working
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by tristor 1y ago
Hey, just wanted to say thanks for this comment. This is a substantive rebuttal that doesn't make any claims of what he said that are untrue, and I pretty much consider it also a response to my sibling comment in reply to you. I also
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by tristor 1y ago
> The article you linked is written by a prominent Republican blogger. You have to be pretty right wing to think its a good piece. My dude, you have me confused with someone else. I didn't link any article in this subthread. > Y
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Damore is not the one that leaked the doc to Gizmodo, as far as I am aware. The controversy that ultimately lead to him being fired, cancelled, blackballed, and literally leaving the country were directly a result of the internal memo inte

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