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by tyrust 6y ago
>a number of these people donated money years ago to avoid taxes This isn't how taxes work. If you donate money then you've only reduced your taxable principal. You "avoid taxes" in the sense that it's as if yo
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by tyrust 6y ago
>The study doesn't cover the many other ill effects of breathing somebody else's cigarette smoke, of course, which include asthma and possibly cardio-pulmonary disease. >Previous cancer studies have had mixed results, the re
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by tyrust 6y ago
Doh, thanks!
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by tyrust 6y ago
Context, since I had never heard of this: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13144713 * https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon/issues/47#issuecomment-277081725
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by tyrust 6y ago
I don't really do much frontend web programming, so those examples don't resonate much with me. I see your point, though, with your last examples. It's still very difficult for me to imagine how I would translate interfaces
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by tyrust 6y ago
Programmers work with text and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Terminal based editors are powerful, so properly displaying terminal is a great goal. What would a non-rectangular UI for manipulating text look like?
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by tyrust 6y ago
>lately This has been the case as long as I've been here and probably long before.
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by tyrust 7y ago
All of the jackbox games should work. My friends and I played Drawful 2 (which is free right now [0]) over Zoom and it worked great. [0] https://www.jackboxgames.com/
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by tyrust 7y ago
>Peter Gollwitzer, Paschal Sheeran, Verena Michalski, and Andrea Siefert published an interesting paper on this topic in the May, 2009 issue of Psychological Science. They argued that important goals like pursuing a career path involve a
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by tyrust 7y ago
One can exercise motivation outside of work.
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by tyrust 7y ago
I think that person's reply was prompted by you saying that Telestream was "way better for you" but then listing all but one feature provided by OBS. Note that I don't have a horse in this race. I've only used basi
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by tyrust 7y ago
It's not really ironic on either side. The US is well aware of its healthcare issues. The damage from the pandemic will not be due to a failing healthcare system, but the fallout from much of the economy hitting the pause button for
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by tyrust 7y ago
My feeling as a layman is that the scale of globalization an industry uses will emerge naturally as a result of the trade-off between the costs and benefits. So far, the benefits have been worth it, otherwise companies wouldn't do it.
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by tyrust 7y ago
This is like every other service that supports screen sharing, is it not?
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by tyrust 7y ago
They used to run an IRC relay, too, but got rid of it years ago.
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by tyrust 7y ago
I read your comment as sincerely saying that such an arrangement would be "brutal". Looking at your downvotes maybe people think you were being sarcastic?
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by tyrust 7y ago
If you ignore alerting then it's likely that your alerts are too noisy. See "alert fatigue".
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by tyrust 7y ago
>That's not a problem with dashboards. That's a problem with training and staffing people. Training and staffing people to look at dashboards? I've never heard of this and it sounds awful.
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by tyrust 7y ago
Contributing to the destruction of online trust is a pretty uncool method of growth hacking.
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by tyrust 7y ago
>Hacker News spends half its time making fun of moral panics and half its time participating in them. HN isn't one person, so this is a good thing.
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by tyrust 7y ago
Yes https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#workspace_screen
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by tyrust 7y ago
You're probably right, but Burger Records is a moderately successful independent record label.
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by tyrust 7y ago
Perhaps you're right, I've not used any driver assist before so I'm not speaking from experience. Second-guessing the system while driving just does not sound like something I'd want to deal with (as someone pointed out
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by tyrust 7y ago
I agree that it should be improving. I don't think that said improvements should be so dramatic that they are easily perceived by humans, for that implies that the shortcomings are perceivable.
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by tyrust 7y ago
>It has improved a lot in the 9 months I have had it. A system like this should not have noticable changes in behavior over such a short period of time. In other words, I don't think they should launch it (let alone call it "a
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by tyrust 7y ago
Note that Fortran on the Flusher last year's April 1st edition of Testing on the Toilet.
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by tyrust 7y ago
man pages are first-party, are they not?
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by tyrust 7y ago
>Everyone is suddenly twice as rich Not everyone makes makes minimum wage.
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by tyrust 7y ago
>I somehow doubt Dorsey doesn't know about ActivityPub Your doubts are correct. From the thread: >@halcy: So, ActivityPub? >@jack: Team will have charge to choose whatever is best, be that what exists today or start from scra
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by tyrust 7y ago
Black Mirror is pretty good, but tends to be more grounded in reality than wild imaginations from the 80s. Whether or not this makes them more accurate is to be seen :)

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