Philadelphia

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by Philadelphia 20d ago
That’s interesting, because every time there’s something about a money transfer service, there are a ton of posts saying “Oh, the United States is so backwards, in Europe you could do this forever.” Apparently, by Europe, they mean the part
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Users lose $9.5M to fake Ledger wallet app on the Apple App Store(web3isgoinggreat.com)
2 points by Philadelphia 5mo ago|0 comments
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by Philadelphia 5mo ago
Ralph Archibold, the Ben Franklin impersonator the article mentions, was a legend in Philadelphia and a really nice guy. I met him back in 1999 when I was working for a city tourism agency.
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Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week(inquirer.com)
416 points by Philadelphia 6mo ago|210 comments
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by Philadelphia 6mo ago
The page you link to doesn’t say that. “As of February 2026, Khelif had not described herself as intersex or as having a DSD.”
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by Philadelphia 6mo ago
The Yahoo article linked says that exceptions will be made for people with conditions like that: “Athletes diagnosed with Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS) ‘or other rare differences/disorders in sex development (DSDs), w
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US jury finds Meta and Google liable in social media addiction trial(reuters.com)
4 points by Philadelphia 6mo ago|0 comments
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by Philadelphia 6mo ago
This is entirely incorrect about Jewish belief.
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by Philadelphia 7mo ago
Speed dating is a scuzzy industry and would seem likely to get chargebacks. They often lie about who will be attending and what the criteria for setting people up with potential matches is. There are a lot of unsatisfied customers.
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by Philadelphia 7mo ago
Apple put Barenaked Ladies’ The Old Apartment video on the Mac OS 8 CD as a QuickTime demo
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by Philadelphia 7mo ago
(2022)
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by Philadelphia 9mo ago
We never had anything different, though. Computers always became so obsolete after a while that there was no longer any point in trying to upgrade them. I think I got eight years out of my 1997 Power Mac G3, including a CPU upgrade to a G4,
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by Philadelphia 9mo ago
You don’t become one of the wealthy just by going to school with them. You’re still an outsider, lesser, just one of the little people, not their sort.
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by Philadelphia 11mo ago
People have a very poor conception of what is easy to find on the internet. The author is impressed by the story about Chat GPT telling his friend how to enable the sprinkler system for his kids. But I decided to try just googling it — “how
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Maryland's new privacy law puts strict limits on how companies use your data(technical.ly)
11 points by Philadelphia 11mo ago|0 comments
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by Philadelphia 11mo ago
It now takes four clicks to delete an app on an iPhone, and four clicks and a swipe on an iPad.
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by Philadelphia 1y ago
Do you have a pointer to documentation on that, or a keyword to google? Would like to find out more.
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by Philadelphia 1y ago
You can also hold down the hyphen key and select it from the popup menu. En dash lives there, too.
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by Philadelphia 1y ago
Most companies, even fairly small ones, already have a substantial number of contract tech employees in India, Eastern Europe, or South America.
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by Philadelphia 1y ago
On iOS, you can also hold down the hyphen and get a popup menu with an em dash option (along with en dash and a bullet). On Macs, you can get an em dash with option-shift-hyphen.
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by Philadelphia 1y ago
How is javascript required for accessibility? I wasn’t aware of that.
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by Philadelphia 1y ago
We were taught to use em dashes as reporters 25 years ago, and I use them all the time in personal writing.
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by Philadelphia 1y ago
And workers should be paid to have space to work from home and internet service and food and office supplies and electricity.
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Brain-computer interface helps paralyzed man speak(nih.gov)
2 points by Philadelphia 1y ago|0 comments
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by Philadelphia 1y ago
Mac OS 8 was new in 1997 and was pretty innovative for user-facing features, if not the underlying operating system. It blew Windows 98 out of the water as far as that went.
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by Philadelphia 1y ago
Apple needs to be broken up. They’re much worse than Microsoft in the 90’s.
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by Philadelphia 1y ago
I know at least that it was back to that from 2008 - 2010, because I was involved in hiring then. The small company I was working for got swamped with new graduates. We ended up hiring more than we planned to, because they would work for so
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by Philadelphia 1y ago
That doesn’t seem to be particularly unusual at the start of a career. When did you leave college? When I graduated 22 years ago, basically no one in my (Ivy League) class had a job lined up, and a lot of us didn’t find one until a year lat
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What happens when software developers are (un)happy (2018)(sciencedirect.com)
1 points by Philadelphia 1y ago|0 comments
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Mental Wellbeing at Work: Perspectives of Software Engineers (2023)(dl.acm.org)
1 points by Philadelphia 1y ago|0 comments

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