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by wlonkly 3y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31104691
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YouTuber Trevor Jacob Sentenced to 6 Months (for intentional aircraft crash)(flyingmag.com)
1 points by wlonkly 3y ago|3 comments
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by wlonkly 3y ago
The main claim, as I understand it, is that they are not capable of hitting the promised performance numbers.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
> Is there something in the sky and where is it relative to me? One service that continues to capture this really well is the AR mode of FlightRadar24. I understand all of the individual bits of technology involved just fine (and run my
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Not just cancelled, but calls it a lynching too.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
On the other hand, he kept running it mostly successfully for years despite having been banned from some sites. Why put in more effort? I imagine after a while you start to be overconfident, too.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
They've done it for several years now, and the fake women have always pulled out of the conference at the last minute, so I think we already know how far they would have gone. There's another post about how the organizer has run a
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by wlonkly 3y ago
What I don't get is that you can see the code, and it is clearly more than two lines, but you still claim that it's two lines of code. Yes, it's not that complicated (about 160 lines of low-density python), but it's port
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by wlonkly 3y ago
A library is a good place to put (even simple) functions that are shared between a lot of programs.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
As a cyclist and motorcyclist, I've always found that bicycles will let you get away with not knowing you're countersteering, but on motorcycles you really need to be explicit about "push harder to turn tighter".
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Excel!
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Tag's Trance Trip internet relay chat.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Here is the native Mac app: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/somafm-radio-player/id44915533...
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by wlonkly 3y ago
I had the same experience. Travelling for work alone, I used to always get takeout to bring back to the hotel, or maybe eat in a counter service type place, but now I'm used to eating in restaurants alone, it's no problem. Someone
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by wlonkly 3y ago
For starters, both the developer and the code have, shall we say, a Reputation.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
It's also that the market for "font customers" (for typesetting, design, etc.) and for developers who want a font in VSCode is very, very different. What I'm seeing in this discussion is that the developer market is pr
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by wlonkly 3y ago
just having a little chat on irc here nothing too crazy
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by wlonkly 3y ago
But in this case they know where the container is. Knowing where it is isn't making it easier to retrieve.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
I think the freight-specific job board is the app here.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Worth noting that it is not Craigslist itself, though - they made an analogy that the freight hiring website was like the Craigslist of that industry (possibly ubiquity, possibly user experience, who knows?).
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by wlonkly 3y ago
I know you were asking the GP, but that matches AP style: https://blog.ap.org/announcements/why-we-will-lowercase-whit... And The Atlantic wrote an interesting article on capital-Black, lowercase-white in 2020, when Bl
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Those things make the device more accessible. You don't have to be profoundly disabled to find accessibility features useful.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
I've heard good Hobbesian things about Frazz[1], too. [1] https://www.gocomics.com/frazz
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by wlonkly 3y ago
In the same way a highway cop's lidar gun estimates.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
The article talks about the specification and it's more... specific than that: > “In 1973, the government mandated through a cabinet order that traffic lights use the bluest shade of green possible—still technically green, but notic
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Walgreen was the last name of the founder. At some point the apostrophe went missing.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Or, presumably, using other people's internet peering, since the MITM was outside of the XMPP server host. I think jurisdiction games is all you have, because outside of that there's going to be _someone_ close to you network-wise
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by wlonkly 3y ago
I believe that's AirPlay (video streaming) and not AirDrop (file transfer).
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by wlonkly 3y ago
Roundup even sells an "Advanced" formula which is essentially vinegar, salt and a surfactant! I've used it, it successfully kills what it touches but it doesn't kill the roots.
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by wlonkly 3y ago
I've been calling it bullshit too, because the thing about bullshitting is that the truth is irrelevant to a good story.

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