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You missed one of the best parts. Build yourself a robot to retrieve product from the crawl space under the house: Check!
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Can and "wants to" are two different things. On iPhones and iPads, there's very limited access to extensions. So anybody on those platforms can't . (For now. The EU decision may change things.) As far as keyboard browsi
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Does it have to though? Think about startup fundraising rounds. At the very beginning, the founders own 100% of a $0 company. let's say they give up 15% for $150k at a $1mm valuation. 85% of $1mm is worth more than 100% of $0. So then
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Outside of tech, there's UCSF, a prominent medical institution, a large part of which can only be done in person and not remotely, as well as Genentech and similar, which is in south sf and not sf proper, but where do their employees
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There's no denying the userland's different, there's just this notion where one's called GNU/Linux and the other ART/Linux (Android RunTime) but the thing they share in common is the Linux kernel, hence the nam
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You have to rotate your thinking 90° to see things my way (you don't have to. your opinion is as valid as mine, I think my reasoning make me right, but I'm biased). But your moat is how you defend your castle, and, outside of havi
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4y ago
I don't know about "verge of collapse", but the city needs to take a long hard look at itself and ask "why do people live in cities", and one reason, other than work, which, no two ways about it, is moving out of th
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given the breath and depth and history of Bloomberg, that seems eminently possible to me. Why does that seem preposterous to you? Bloomberg news has been around since 1990 but Bloomberg itself was founded in 1981. They would have the rights
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At the risk of revealing which class I find myself in thanks to an unnamed startup, my most recent transaction had: Federal Withholding 37.00% California State Tax 10.23% Medicare 2.25% OASDI
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ahahaha those are great. Thank you! it gives me ideas on what other things to try and makes me feel less obsolete. sumplete ( https://sumplete.com/about/ ) really blows my mind, so it's nice to see some of the limit
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ah yeah that's a fair point. Look at Skype, they've been doing video calls since approximately the beginning of the public Internet. Yet zoom was still able to become the dominant cross-platform video chat app. So that "build
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Yeah but everyone's looking to make a buck because it means they can spend more time on a topic they're so passionate they started a blog on the topic. Don't let money ruin things for you. Just because Ms Green Thumb is selli
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4y ago
you could at least have responded with your own words, but you chose not to. Anyway, yes absolutely don't be a doomer. I'm not, despite how I presented above. Life's not even worth living with that attitude. But if you'
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So then they're able to stockpile and hoard it and then what? they get this stash and then are able to exist in a land of plenty when previously there was famine. it's like money. if you don't have any, things are really roug
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The problem is the stomping isn't uniform. Whatever's being used as an adulterant, the end product has chunks of adulterant, and chunks of fentanyl, and this is what ends up killing people, because they end up with a life ending s
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If you've been on medication, and know the effects of it on you well, and you're able to put systems in place to overcome the shortcomings this legally recognized disability has afflicted you with (as well as the blessings), then
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rewind.ai is able to capture speaker output without having to disable SIP, so it still sounds like this is a Discord-specific failing.
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where formats like YouTube make it easy to drawl on forever, loom gets it - they default to 1.25 x playback speed. But as they say, a pictures worth a thousand words. What's a better feeling when giving your status report? a sentence s
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where's the scream emoji when you need it? the other thing to note is just how spoiled we are with monitors these days. $400 for a giant fat pile of screen real estate, on something the thickness of a book (adjust the kind of book for
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But they're still based on that kernel that's hosted at that Linux website? Do you consider ChromeOS a Linux distro? it's based on Gentoo.
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This thread really needs pictures. https://www.wintips.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/image_thu... is what you'd come home from college to find on the family computer. Getting ads on individual page
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Anxiety is really the crux of it. My psych prescribing anti-anxiety meds was life changing!
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good catch! too late to edit. The one I'm thinking of is at https://rewind.ai
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Loom's lowered friction to making a screen share video is great. It supplants an email or a slack message or a voice memo when what really needs to be communicated is me clicking something on my screen. But while I'm holding this
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Doing a thing, and doing it well is a really good differentiator! The thing about software is that it scales way easier than a Korean bakery, so the brand itself is the important differentiation. If you can identify a need in the market a
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It's not. I'll be the first one to link to the list of falsehoods programmers believe about names: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... It should be required reading befor
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Respectfully, no. If you're trying to write a full blown language parser then regexps are the wrong tool, but a 50 line function doing the job of a regexp has a really funky code smell. Comment your regexps*, and use a parser when yo
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That's great! Yeah I got a job in the incident response part of the industry because it turns out my brain will work if it thinks it's an emergency, and I'd like to think I've done quite well for myself.
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Could you please give a concrete example? It's not that I don't believe you, I just haven't been having the same experience with it and would live to see what I'm not picking up on.
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> nice system for playing back audio you missed For something that's in a similar space as this (seriously, async meetings are pretty great), http://loom.com is pretty great. (don't work there, not even a paying cus
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