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by vonunov 2y ago
I'm pretty sure everybody (for certain values of "everybody") visualizes things as schemata; being able to imagine only specific, known, real examples instead of representative composites is a feature of autism. But here it s
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by vonunov 2y ago
I assume they just happened to scoop this one because they probably obsessively monitor the SEO metrics (including indexed pages) and were uniquely positioned to immediately report on it to a large audience
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by vonunov 3y ago
(also note it will use any available cell tower operated by any provider and will preempt normal calls if the station is too busy, so the appearance of no signal/"bars" shouldn't discourage trying to call 911)
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by vonunov 4y ago
> low quality content that gives the uncanny valley feeling or just annoyance by the repetitiveness of the writing style. This is already a thing, courtesy of hordes of people who are heavy on "content marketing" and light on a
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by vonunov 4y ago
Hubski turns out to be an aggregator ahead of its time
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by vonunov 4y ago
Flowroute: DIDs -> select number -> Choose a DID Action -> Set callback URL -> Apply action -> check SMS Callback, SMS DLR callback (?) -> enter URL complying with https://developer.flowroute.com/api/n
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by vonunov 4y ago
It took 3-4 BS replies before I got it to admit it hadn't actually read Animorphs at all!
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by vonunov 4y ago
FYI, it wouldn't take my Gvoice number (natch) but it does accept Flowroute DID numbers. This was what finally made me get around to figuring out how to accept SMS over callback/webhook/whatever it is (instead of paying howev
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by vonunov 4y ago
I feel like Kukhnya (The Kitchen) (fiction comedy) is pretty good for Russian, but I'm the one learning Russian, so how would I know, probably.
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by vonunov 4y ago
The worst incident I can remember from several years of running an Arch VPS is when they had relocated some /lib or /usr/lib files and it required intervention, and I did a pacman -Syu and rebooted without reading the news. J
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by vonunov 4y ago
https://everything2.com/title/C%2521
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by vonunov 4y ago
I have little to nothing to contribute as usual, but I feel compelled to come out of the woodwork to state that I, for one, am stoked to see E2 appearing on HN in currentyear.
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by vonunov 4y ago
Is it possible to do all of that without being so embarrassed at yourself that you die, or do you have to work up to it?
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by vonunov 4y ago
Gee, that's bold, I feel like "try writing in plain English" is already asking a lot of the legal profession (fortunately some of them are taking care of asking it of themselves). I wouldn't want to push it!
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by vonunov 4y ago
I thought this said "Hellinabox" and I was like, "yep"
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by vonunov 4y ago
https://improvmx.com/jobs/
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by vonunov 5y ago
Turning your hobby into your business is a very different move from getting a job in the field that your hobby suggests
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by vonunov 5y ago
Look up Sean Wrona -- one example of typing skill that can't be improved by changing keyboard layouts. People looking into Dvorak are often warned that it isn't a magic bullet to make them faster, only possibly more comfortable.
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by vonunov 5y ago
Ask me 20 years ago!
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by vonunov 5y ago
I tried to do this for my rambling half-hour in-car voice "notes" using AWS S3 -> Lambda -> Transcribe. I got the flow working but the transcript is literally unplayable and I'm not sure how to get it to a usable qualit
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by vonunov 5y ago
Fair I guess, ideally you wouldn't say "I'll never kill myself and if I do I didn't" and then do it, but he probably wasn't the most stable and reliable person. It sucks if he really didn't do it because n
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by vonunov 5y ago
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/120086428376625152... >Getting subtle messages from U.S. officials saying, in effect: "We're coming for you McAfee! We're going to kill yourself". I