hackerbabz

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by hackerbabz 2y ago
Have you told your manager you hate what you're doing and want to quit? People are people sometimes and want to help. What's the sense in quitting before you try to fix anything?
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Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to make an email domain with an uncommon TLD?
29 points by hackerbabz 2y ago|91 comments
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by hackerbabz 5y ago
Herd immunity is easier when 1/3 of the herd died from the disease. But they also did figure out quarantines eventually. "Quarantine" comes from the 40 day waiting period imposed on ships as a result of the black plague.
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by hackerbabz 5y ago
Movie studios are conspiring to remove any last bit of guilt I had about pirating.
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by hackerbabz 5y ago
With global HIV deaths in hundreds of thousands each year, but less evenly distributed and more stigmatized, will this vaccine be given emergency authorization as well, or is it likely to go through the full 10 year process?
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by hackerbabz 5y ago
I tried that with my 10 year old and it wasn’t very fun or instructive. It teaches them about loops and functions, but it’s a lot easier to just brute force the mazes and there’s no incentive not to.
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by hackerbabz 5y ago
I don't even know what I use. It probably changes in different repositories. I've never cared enough to check or set it one way or the other, and definitely don't care enough to have a 20 minute meeting with my team to decide
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Oblique Wave Detonation Engine(newatlas.com)
3 points by hackerbabz 5y ago|0 comments
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by hackerbabz 5y ago
What’s the current understanding of the astronomical infection rate in Manaus, Brazil? Awhile ago scientists were worried it was due to reinfection. https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(21)00183-5/full...
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by hackerbabz 5y ago
I want to be allowed to do my work and then I want to go home. I can’t be weller than that.
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by hackerbabz 5y ago
Can you do this right now with the pandemic? I’d absolutely take my family for a summer in Italy.
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by hackerbabz 5y ago
Dogecoin will lead to a campaign of forced starvation and genocide?
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by hackerbabz 5y ago
Not completely related, but I also briefly consulted at Monasanto in an entire department that seemed composed of consultants hired to build something from scratch and ignore the normal bureaucracy. It was fun because we were hired to do th
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by hackerbabz 5y ago
Angkor Wat is not nearly as old as your Indian examples. It's similar age to Notre Dame cathedral. The main temple complex is the best preserved building in the area with some others that I think came later less well preserved. There a
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by hackerbabz 5y ago
Speaking as someone who’s parents when waited to get divorced until I went to college, I think I would have been less messed up if they’d been honest and mature enough to get divorced when they’d wanted to.
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by hackerbabz 5y ago
Isn't the expectation at this point literally, "better than nothing"?
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by hackerbabz 5y ago
This is something that has confused me for a long time. America definitely has mosquitoes (I’m from Washington, DC). How are there mosquitoes but no malaria?
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by hackerbabz 5y ago
Truly everything old is new again.
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by hackerbabz 5y ago
I only use Spotify because the Last Podcast Network went exclusive.
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by hackerbabz 5y ago
Why would a company ever default if it’s stock price can’t go down. Couldn’t it just sell more stock to cover it’s debts?
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by hackerbabz 5y ago
I liked the first one, but couldn't finish The Player of Games. The title was a little too accurate (at least for as far as I got) and imaginary boardgame play-by-plays are not so interesting for me.
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by hackerbabz 5y ago
XP was notoriously slow to start.
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by hackerbabz 5y ago
Works well enough that I use it everyday. I think it's less straining because you can move your monitors far away in visual space, so even though you are looking at a screen an inch away, your eyes are focused as if looking at a giant
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by hackerbabz 5y ago
ImmersedVR and an Oculus Quest 2. Up to five monitors right on your face.
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by hackerbabz 6y ago
A little extra kick during staging for Rocketlab :)
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by hackerbabz 6y ago
But there isn’t another character that anyone calls “hashtag”. It’s like if everyone nontech called “:” a “semicolon” only when it’s preceeded by “http”. There is something else called semicolon and its not the thing in the url.
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by hackerbabz 6y ago
That's not the same at all. Hash-tag is just a name for that symbol. It's not the original name, but it is a name. "/" is slash! "\" is a backslash! People who do not type windows paths have probably neve
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by hackerbabz 6y ago
Do you correct people when they say “back slash” when reading out a url? When it’s actually a forward slash? Is there a name for this phenomenon? Everyone knows it’s a slash except when its used for something computery. Then it somehow beco
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by hackerbabz 6y ago
What the heck did they do in that session?
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by hackerbabz 6y ago
Why did that happen?

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