davidlumley

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by davidlumley 22d ago
Visa renewals are processed at a US consulate. You can extend your status (ie you ability to legally be in the US) while staying in the US, but if you want to renew your visa (your ability to leave and re-enter) you need to visit a consulat
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by davidlumley 2y ago
Can you explain what bar has been raised unless you were planning to sell PII as part of your business model?
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by davidlumley 2y ago
I'm the person who originally set Cara up on Vercel in late 2022, before I stepped away to focus on my own startup. I chose Vercel for a few reasons: 1. When you have 0 users, worrying about scale is a huge time sink. I wanted the team
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by davidlumley 3y ago
> You couldve accomplished this at the webserver level That's true, but only if you have access to your web server! If you're using something like Vercel (or some other hosting service) to run your application, having a little
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by davidlumley 4y ago
If you're curious what an implementation looks like: Charlie Gerard's article[1] shows how to accomplish a similar effect in-browser. It's pretty straight forward although not sure what performance looks like in large scenes.
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by davidlumley 4y ago
Similar! The biggest difference in my mind is that any website using FLoC would be able to know what cohort I belonged to. FLoC is definitely more anonymous than "davidlumley visited nytimes.com twice on December 1st 2022". Howeve
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by davidlumley 4y ago
My understanding around how this works (and I might be wrong!) is that Apple tracks a variety of usage on device and your device itself knows which ad to serve, versus say Google or Facebook collating your data on their own servers. I&#x2
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by davidlumley 4y ago
To be clear: taxes are due when you receive the shares. For options, that's when you execute/purchase your options not when they vest. edit: (in the US at least)
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by davidlumley 4y ago
In this case I think they mean "update your version of iOS" because there was a recent and important security fix: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213412
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by davidlumley 6y ago
What's the unique thing about Tipe compared to other headless CMS products like Contentful?
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by davidlumley 6y ago
Robert Evans and Jason Wilson have a pretty good overview here: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-move...
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by davidlumley 6y ago
Name changes of popular OSS projects feels contentious, but like anything built on language it's inherently political and full of bias. As with anything, it's worth striving to improve things where we can. There are a few great ex
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by davidlumley 7y ago
> Get specific about the concern, otherwise it's easy to get afraid about everything. There are many reasons to be afraid about a private corporation from a country with little regulation providing a utility to areas with no other c
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by davidlumley 7y ago
Private corporations owning more and more utility infrastructure really concerns me. Is there a world where nations band together and launch this as public infrastructure rather than private corporations lobbying a USA government agency for
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by davidlumley 8y ago
To be clear, Clearbit can only transform IPs into company data.
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by davidlumley 8y ago
clearbit.com | San Francisco, CA | Engineers | In office or Remote | Visa (E3, TN and similar) At Clearbit, you'll help build the backbone for modern sales and marketing teams across the world. We believe in autonomy, automation, the p
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by davidlumley 9y ago
> Which makes me wonder where this demand came from. My local coffee shop trialled Oatly and as someone who usually drinks soy or almond milk, it's a really nice alternative. Much easier to work with, and tastes better too.
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by davidlumley 9y ago
Two points: 1) The fact in a latter comment you seem to have priced yourself out of being unable to afford this service doesn't make it not worth while 2) I imagine if you're looking at 500k rps you probably qualify for an enterpr
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by davidlumley 10y ago
Close! It's Drift (drift.com), not Intercom.
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by davidlumley 10y ago
You still have complete control over what you do to your own body in your own privacy. This gives other people complete control over their body too – in terms of not having to breathe in your smoke.
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by davidlumley 10y ago
> I have never seen anyone fined for smoking in any of the places where it isn't allowed (sporting fields, bus stops, etc), and I see people smoking at these locations literally every single day - especially at bus stops. The whole
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by davidlumley 10y ago
I don't know if Mumble (or Ventrilo, or Teamspeak, or Discord) are really comparable. They require you run your own server (although Discord abstracts that), that everyone know the server details, and that everyone be authenticated for
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by davidlumley 10y ago
No. I looked into it at one stage between jobs but didn't qualify for it because I had savings. I've had numerous friends who have been on and off various forms over the past 10 years though. I'm not implying it's not do
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by davidlumley 10y ago
> anyone that isn't earning much (or doesn't have a job, or has never had one) can get around $250 per week. Forever. Very few strings attached. Sorry but that's just flat out incorrect. The maximum payment possible is $52
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by davidlumley 10y ago
#9 Gears of War: Ultimate Edition uses UE FYI
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by davidlumley 10y ago
> If you want to charge your laptop, you have to bring your charger. That's not really correct regarding MacBooks. If you've got the same Magsafe adapter (gen 1 or gen 2) the charger will work. It just charges at a faster or sl
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by davidlumley 10y ago
Drawing a penis on a ballot paper is frustrating for people who actually care about the country – you've registered to vote so perhaps you could have spent 5 minutes becoming informed, and then making a proper vote rather than drawing
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by davidlumley 10y ago
It's not compulsory to register to vote. edit: apologies, that's completely incorrect. While it is compulsory, you are incredibly unlikely to be fined for not registering. The AEC typically sends a reminder every few years if they
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by davidlumley 10y ago
Because they also make apps that integrate with the fitness trackers housed in some of their shoes.
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by davidlumley 10y ago
> Social media is becoming so much of a "safe space" that having a place to freely express ideas has become a liberal echo chamber I don't think this is true at all. Racists, fascists, sexists, and general bigots make avid

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