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by zdragnar 8mo ago
New atoms form all the time, either through fusion or fission. The latter is happening right now all around you- either from potassium in plants breaking down, to radon gas that sept up from the ground, to carbon itself. All of these have u
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
Neat! Here's the project main page for those interested in more than the release announcement: https://blackboard.sh/electrobun/docs/ It certainly looks clean enough, and I'm more familiar with zig than
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
Coyotes are frequently part of criminal organizations. They take advantage of people in any and every way that they can. Slavery, sexual and otherwise, is not at all an uncommon result of being brought into the country under the radar, so t
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
Back when my wife and I were renting, we only found out our landlord was on the list because his parole officer stopped by and asked if he'd informed us as he was legally required to do. We moved out rather quickly after that. If we we
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
I think the reference was to Gentoo's wiki, which was indeed hacked and lost data iirc. But yes, comparing distros themselves, Gentoo will not out compete streamlined and prepackaged distros in the broader adoption metrics. The wikis t
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
Most software developers are not founders, but they like to hang out here for the news and community anyway. It used to be a lot more libertarian back when I joined (even more so when I only occasionally lurked) but things have shifted rath
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
Lawyers are getting in trouble because they use AI and submit fabricated citations about fabricated cases as precedent. A bunch of charges were recently thrown out in Wisconsin because of this, and it's not the first time such behavior
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True believers can make easy marks.
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Texting images and videos to iPhone users used to be much worse than it is now, but it's gotten better in the past few years if my (Android) experience with my family (iPhones) is any indication. The hard to tell part is I'm also
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> 2) stimulated Heroku's product roadmap by giving it a very large and loyal design partner This is very much a double-edged sword. I've seen products get killed because they had one outsized customer with outsized influence ov
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
A friend of mine (in an entirely different industry) went through five rounds of interviews with a company and got passed over for someone internal. A little while later, the same company reached out and encouraged him to apply again. Five
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
They are massive because of the cafe standards. There's plenty enough of a market for smaller trucks, even the Ford Maverick which is closer to a car with a bed sold out immediately. I like my big truck but when it dies, if there'
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
The tech used some variant of OCR, presumably
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Series would be perfectly fine, though out of context it might be a bit confusing because it's also used to describe data on a chart. Using the singular "Sequence" might also be appropriate for a component name, as the compon
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
Take a person who has marginally acceptable eyesight, who never drives, put them in an emergency situation where they need to drive and you've got a recipe for much higher odds of having an accident. Given that getting a license is an
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by zdragnar 8mo ago
A police officer would. The penalty for an accident might be negligent driving. The penalty for an accident without a license is, at minimum, driving without a license. You're also not likely to be covered by insurance without one eith
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by zdragnar 9mo ago
You wanted to make a mockery of that which he held sacred and you're surprised he didn't want to participate? Did you also suggest wearing blackface, telling women to get back in the kitchen, and burning the Quran?
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by zdragnar 9mo ago
I physically/literally squinted when I saw disk destroyer. I know it's useful for other things, but it has become a fearful instinct at this point.
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That's nice, but my response was to demonstrate that there are in fact people who think there's post petroleum industry, or at least desire it, not that none are foolish enough to stick around. The original tax passed by the counc
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Nope, GAF / Building Materials Manufacturing LLC: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-business/minneapolis-ro...
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by zdragnar 9mo ago
Your brain doesn't need to indulge in sugar to the point of becoming a poisonous vice. You can get more than a sufficient amount eating readily available whole foods. It's a bit like suggesting we are all addicted to water. Sure,
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by zdragnar 9mo ago
Nobody gets fired for choosing SAP, Salesforce etc. Spending tons of money to get a janky, unreliable system of record, or finding out too late it is missing crucial auditing capabilities, or that it has Big Money bugs, on the other hand, i
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by zdragnar 9mo ago
An asphalt roofing shingle company just closed in Minneapolis due to the city's new CO2 tax. The local environmental group held a little press conference crowing about it. Mind you, this won't change the demand for asphalt shingle
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Having participated in the build of an inventory system / system of record for a large national retail company, I can't see vibe coding helping anything more than the prototyping in the discovery / requirements gathering part
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You don't actually have to pick any of them.
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There's no legal definition per Congress. Generally speaking, braces are intended to stabilize a pistol against your arm [0], whereas a rifle stock is meant to stabilize against your shoulder. However, braces can technically be &quo
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by zdragnar 9mo ago
> The old rules of reputation and shame are gone. The door is open to people who will generate and spam bad PRs and have nothing to lose from it. The important part here is that reputation creates an incentive to be conscious of what you
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by zdragnar 9mo ago
A bit like Joe Biden complaining that a 9mm bullet will blow the lung out of a body, and crazier things from others, yeah.
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Wikipedia has much better information about guns than most of the people talking about them in politics, generally speaking. It's not too surprising, considering the way the rules are written at the ATF. There's basically zero log
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by zdragnar 9mo ago
> I do business in Europe. By paying actual laywers. Then why are you asking for legal advice on HN? > How far is "very, very far"? Is it far enough that, if there were a lawsuit, my liability would truly be capped at €10,00

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