CydeWeys

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by CydeWeys 5mo ago
Retiring TO something is important, but ideally it needs to involve a lot of in-person socializing, which many hobbies do not have. Golfing, for example, is pretty much the platonic ideal of a hobby that involves both socialization and old-
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by CydeWeys 5mo ago
Or maybe that's just the human condition? Retirement is a pretty recent concept anyway. Back when people were hunter/gatherers or subsistence farmers, you didn't have the option of retiring. You either kept working or you sta
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by CydeWeys 5mo ago
One other factor that others haven't yet covered is that the different lines had different capabilities, e.g. the T-89 had Computer Algebra System symbolic manipulation meaning it could pretty much solve many types of math problems on
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by CydeWeys 7mo ago
What are you envisioning exactly?
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by CydeWeys 7mo ago
I'm not really sure what the point of this article is. Yes, obviously, you need to implement systems that are secure and performant so that you don't get a backed-up line of people waiting an hour just to get into the office in th
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by CydeWeys 7mo ago
> especially when it comes to dynamic range You can solve this by having multiple cameras for each vantage point, with different sensors and lenses that are optimized for different light levels. Tesla isn't doing this mind you, but
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by CydeWeys 9mo ago
Beg for forgiveness, don't ask permission. I got Shingrix when I was under the age of 40, and at no cost to myself even, simply by scheduling a Shingrix vaccine at CVS. It wasn't until I went back for the booster shot months later
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by CydeWeys 9mo ago
Your average HN reader can absolutely afford paying a few hundred bucks to avoid getting a potentially life-changing disease, and should. I know multiple young adults who got messed up by shingles.
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by CydeWeys 1y ago
The deorbits are controlled to occur over nonpopulated areas (i.e. the middle of the ocean). I don't think it amounts to much of a concern, compared to, say, the sum total emissions of all factories, power plants, ships, airplanes, and
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by CydeWeys 1y ago
I'm amazed that the article doesn't discuss the end of ZIRP. The bursting of the art market bubble in mid 2022 coincides exactly with when interest rates started rising following the 'transitory' inflation caused by pan
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by CydeWeys 1y ago
Well, it's either that or a paywall. Pick your poison.
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by CydeWeys 1y ago
Link shorteners are old enough that likely more URLs that were targeted by link shorteners have rotted away than have link shorteners themselves. Go look at a decade+ old webpage. So many of the links to specific resources (as in, not just
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by CydeWeys 1y ago
One wonders why they don't, instead of showing down, display a 15s interstitial unskippable YouTube-style ad prior to redirecting. That way they'll make money, and they can fund the service not having to shut down, and there i
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by CydeWeys 1y ago
No, payroll is still down, it's just that labor is now being used less efficiently and thus less useful work gets done.
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by CydeWeys 1y ago
Sadly there's a bunch of interesting communities on there that aren't really available anywhere else, plus some of the competing platforms are even worse just in different ways (though their ads are for sure better).
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by CydeWeys 1y ago
Hey man, just wanted to let you know, I had to downvote a bunch of your comments in this thread, not because I disagree with you, but because your commenting style is unnecessarily hostile and abusive. You can politely disagree with someon
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by CydeWeys 1y ago
I curate a relatively tame Twitter feed, but X has been showing me animated advertisements of some fleshlight-like device going to town on a dildo. W. T. A. F. It's started making me worried that I can't even use the app in a pla
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by CydeWeys 1y ago
Ironically, most of his stories were blowing smoke. He wasn't actually nearly as successful at any of that as he was at making up stories and convincing everyone how successful he had been at it. When dealing with a con artist, rul
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by CydeWeys 1y ago
Yeah but in the mean time it's tying up a connection on your webserver.
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by CydeWeys 1y ago
I'm wondering why the hood is so big, given that it doesn't need to contain an engine? Is that where the batteries are located? Or is it just mostly empty space in the form of a frunk serving as a crumple zone to meet crash test
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by CydeWeys 1y ago
Surge protectors are not rated for lightning. There are protection systems for lightning (ham radio operators use them), but they're quite a bit more expensive and also involve driving a copper stake into the ground to establish a pref
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by CydeWeys 1y ago
It does seem like there's potentially some kind of bad electrical system / lack of grounding issue going on.
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by CydeWeys 1y ago
AliExpress shipping has gotten noticeably faster even over the five years that I've been using it. Just about everything arrives within a week now.
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by CydeWeys 1y ago
This is overly cynical. The target demographic for a really complicated Vacheron Constantin is a rich person who is a HUGE nerd about watches. Think about people who get into really high levels of nerd hobbies and acquire super expensive ge
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by CydeWeys 1y ago
These are luxury products. That's not the point. They use precious metals when steel would work just as well, and the really high end ones take hundreds of hours of hand labor to very finely decorated the dials and movements. Why? Beca
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by CydeWeys 1y ago
These fine-grained attempts at parsing the words to mean things other than how they are commonly used doesn't serve any purpose. Yes, of course the act of physically typing in characters in a programming language is not exactly the sa
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by CydeWeys 1y ago
All users of the service. Because RDAP has a fully specified format, your client can interpret it in predictable ways and then actually present the information to the user in a consistent format (or be used programmatically). WHOIS is jus
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by CydeWeys 1y ago
It's the same data. What's different is essentially the transport layer for the information. > Two protocols that have the same data would be quite redundant. When one is plaintext, underspecified, and decades old, they'r
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
It's just a different protocol for how to send the data. It doesn't affect requirements on the data itself.
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by CydeWeys 2y ago
It has already stopped working for domains on TLDs that have sunset WHOIS and over the next few months it'll stop working for a lot more TLDs and registrars. The command line tool is nothing more than a thin client that queries a serve

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