duncangh

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by duncangh 7d ago
Alternatively you can play a round of hyper realistic frogger at any time
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by duncangh 1mo ago
Submersibles on the other hand don’t swim we’ve learned
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by duncangh 1mo ago
If I were a corrupt official in one of the departments I would simply use a vpn and submit a bunch of data for my specific specialty all across the country and then slightly fewer in my own department to drive demand and set market expectat
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by duncangh 1mo ago
Was it Bobby tables?
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by duncangh 1mo ago
Veganism is so polarizing because on some level I think most if not all people understand that they are philosophically correct and that veganism is thus the morally right thing to do and those (like me) who still refuse to do it must live
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by duncangh 1mo ago
“Hospitals in America are increasingly outsourcing the checking of insurance eligibility and filing of medical records to Filipinos packing AI tools. Mr Gallimore says” How is this HIPPA compliant? Please tell me there’s an aspect of HIPPA
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by duncangh 1mo ago
Yeah this seems to me similar to how the mortgage backed security risk concentration occurred leading up to the global financial crisis. Whereby the risk from exposure to low grade / risky single mortgages was eliminated via diversific
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by duncangh 1mo ago
Didn’t this happen to Jimmy Carter once?
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by duncangh 1mo ago
How about we meet in the middle and use pelicans on ZooTycoon
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by duncangh 2mo ago
“The elevator did hear you, it just has a lot to think about” Didn’t anticipate that my day would be bookended by relating to and empathizing with the plight of the elevators while I wait for one in a tall corporate building. Pressed the ki
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by duncangh 2mo ago
simonw has been correctly asserting that there is no deterministic way to prevent hallucinations. I’d argue that this obstinance could be the seed of a strong argument in favor of their capacity to eventually coalesce some form of conscious
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by duncangh 2mo ago
Yeah but space data center Econs are going to revolutionize the tulip marketplace
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by duncangh 3mo ago
Investing early in this hn post before it’s a banger. Instant classic
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by duncangh 3mo ago
Why doesn’t Apple just make a built in iOS native vpn that can be toggled (effectively) from the swipe down menu control and is paid monthly or part of iCloud
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by duncangh 3mo ago
My dad is an English professor and wrote his first manuscript turned book on a typewriter much to his editor’s dismay in the late 1990s. He used to compel me to type my Christmas wishlist / letter to Santa on it as well perhaps with th
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by duncangh 3mo ago
This and not being able to divide by 0 in math always drove me up the wall in school. Encountering a god level difficulty unsolved problem in the first 5 minutes of discussion around the basics of the field and then shrugging and continuing
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by duncangh 3mo ago
Prescient From the live updates of the war on the NYT 11 minutes ago and around 15 mins after you wrote this: “””Mideast Live Updates: Iranian Forces Say They Closed Strait of Hormuz Iran’s military command blamed the U.S., saying it failed
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by duncangh 3mo ago
I fear that at this rate the oligarchs will use medical breakthroughs to keep us alive and laboring against our and nature’s will like what industrial farming has done to chickens and other livestock
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by duncangh 3mo ago
An instantaneous measure of a sentiment undergoing an exponential decay I sense
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by duncangh 3mo ago
Idk I feel like Ansible and RHEL aim to give you that control in a way that’s not typically corporate icky in the way you describe but ymmv. Granted both are products based on FOSS; so in the broader sense that pattern may hold
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by duncangh 3mo ago
Interested to read more about this particular crossroads of copyright case law. Also does the last sentence reflect (at least in part) what you describe (in partial jest?) in the last sentence? Iirc artists previously had to call to get per
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by duncangh 3mo ago
Would it be possible to upload them all to YouTube as unlisted and then point Gemini to them? Not sure the limitations wrt unlisted videos. Maybe also could’ve been done with the @google photos operator if uploaded to Google Photos if not a
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by duncangh 4mo ago
Reminds me of the poem / song “All I wanna do” "All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die" Says the man next to me out of nowhere It's apropos of nothing, he says his name is William I'm sure he's Bill o
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by duncangh 5mo ago
Can we get the link to that TikTok? lol Also what do you think about goose
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by duncangh 5mo ago
I have a question about markdown on MacBook Pro. You know the preview feature - I think it’s called quick quicklook - how can I get that to work for markdown? I’ve associated .md files to always open with my IDE, but they still don’t render
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by duncangh 5mo ago
It’s kind of interesting that this happens so shortly after they proudly announced how easily they would’ve able to migrate all systems from Microsoft and US firms. Maybe next year will be the year of the Linux desktop
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by duncangh 5mo ago
I love this - watching the hurricanes game right now! Autorefresh would be nice and then it looks like a small bug in the faceoff percentage as they both say 100% which shouldn't be possible at any point in the game. Also would be sick
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by duncangh 5mo ago
Lmao I love this flavor of the ‘tism that always surfaces in hn comment threads exactly like this. Like moths to a flame
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by duncangh 5mo ago
Good news: this cat and mouse game is keeping some of our brothers / sisters in software employed at FAANG. I feel like the girl from the kombucha reaction gif weighing both sides in this back and forth rally lol
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by duncangh 6mo ago
This is my favorite type of interaction to see when browsing HN. I feel like this respectful mosh pit of ideas and practitioners is uniquely rad. Thanks for the serendipity dopamine this Sunday

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