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by wlonkly 2y ago
I think it's "If someone I already trust says 'trust me on this one', I will."
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by wlonkly 2y ago
You've reinvented the portative!
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by wlonkly 2y ago
"Ok, I clicked 100 times, but I just did it with the mouse pointer on my desktop." "Did I stutter?"
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by wlonkly 2y ago
> Why is everyone so eager to move from one centralized platform to another? There's good content there. Distributed is better than centralized, but it doesn't matter if the people I'm interested in talking to and hearing
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by wlonkly 2y ago
Canada also has private copying (and pays a levy on blank media to pay for it, although at this point we're pretty firmly out of the blank media era). https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/strategic-policy-sector/e
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by wlonkly 2y ago
> make youtube great again I wish we would all just stop doing this. At least fora bit.
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by wlonkly 2y ago
And is firmly Generation X, too.
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by wlonkly 2y ago
Yes, it's been replaced by an LLM.
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by wlonkly 2y ago
Their status page still says "Uptime for the current quarter: 99.996%".
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by wlonkly 2y ago
It really didn't -- we (Slack customer and integration) had our first internal reports of issues at 09:59 ET and the status page was updated at 10:27. For this broad an impact, that's a long time.
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by wlonkly 2y ago
At a previous company that focused on small-business finance, we had an error page that said something like "We couldn't process your request, but we're working on it! In the meantime, here's a video of a puppy." w
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by wlonkly 2y ago
It might be Settings Sync trying to restore it?
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by wlonkly 2y ago
Think of it as pre-rendering. Of pre-rendering and JIT collecting, pre-rendering means more work but it's async, and it means the timeline is ready whenever a user requests it, to give a fast user experience. (Although I don't un
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by wlonkly 2y ago
I almost feel like it's two things -- the recruiter interface that you mention, and separately a social network where people are posting about their professional, and even personal, achievements and adventures -- true or imagined -- co
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by wlonkly 2y ago
This was also pointed out in the article, but the point at which it became a physical standard, and not a lettering style, was with the Gorton engravers. (The tail of the Q is a tell -- not a straight line, not a simple shape, but identical
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by wlonkly 2y ago
Wool doesn't have to be warm! Tropical weights of wool are very light. But yes, lined pants are definitely warmer than without. Definitely less warm than a suit jacket, though.
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by wlonkly 2y ago
Nice! I hadn't really thought about audiobook versions of free books. I wanted to see how many modern books it has (Gutenberg etc. is valuable, but often I'd prefer modern writing), but it says that eg. Shelley's "A Defe
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by wlonkly 2y ago
And the lining! Temperature permitting, of course, but having a satin lining to your soft wool pants? It's not far off from pajamas. Of course it's often with some other clothes that are a little unpajamalike, like a stiff collar
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by wlonkly 2y ago
I am a fan of this plan for the nominative determinism alone!
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by wlonkly 2y ago
Vegas has Dig This: https://digthisvegas.com
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by wlonkly 2y ago
Not sure what made the diagrams, but I think you've correctly identified the Excalidraw handwriting font. There's two versions, Virgil[1] and Excalifont[2], both under the MIT license. I think the monospaced font is Comic Mono.[3]
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by wlonkly 2y ago
It doesn't have to be controversial, even. It might just be a little bit private. I'm on a social tech Slack that uses the CHR. It means if someone asks a question about, I don't know, how my company does something, I can say
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by wlonkly 2y ago
I remember, as a little kid, being "in charge" of telling my father when to dip the headlights because I saw the glare of a car coming over the next hill or around the next curve. Of course he saw it too, and wouldn't blind a
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by wlonkly 2y ago
I don't know if that's correct or not, but if I were to prioritize, I'd put safe passenger evacuation ahead of the recorders.
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by wlonkly 2y ago
Another common mixing/mastering speaker back in the day, not sure about now, was the Auratone Sound Cube and its descendants -- tiny enclosure with a single driver, not full range, but "unforgiving midrange". https:/&#x
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by wlonkly 2y ago
I love the format of this. I can tuck it away and whenever I need to think about SSE, refer back to it, ah, okay, now I'm all caught up. Also, surprised nobody's brought up PointCast[1] yet. Dotcom bubble, or ahead of their time?
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by wlonkly 2y ago
Absolutely. If one was uncharitable, one might suggest the reason that some of those group-buy-powered companies run their own storefront instead of Kickstarter is so that their customers associate them with "buying" and not with
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by wlonkly 2y ago
It's both, I think, depending on the conventions around the thing being group-bought. What you describe is unquestionably a group buy, but in, for example, the mechanical keyboards community, a "group buy" is paying the desig
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by wlonkly 2y ago
Puppet and Chef are still broadly used, but much less so in younger companies, and they're Boring Technology now -- so they'll be underrepresented in the kind of companies that HN likes, that give conference talks, and so on. Over
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by wlonkly 2y ago
I know what you're getting at here and I agree with you in spirit, but: A lot of life-alteringly physically disabled people can drive cars. For example, lower-body paraplegics and double amputees can use hand throttle and brake control

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