hallman76

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by hallman76 2mo ago
Obligatory video from theonion: Blockbuster Offers Glimpse Of Movie Renting Past https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TrPwOrf4sM "What's so poignant about this time is the uncertainty"
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by hallman76 2mo ago
> a) a sizeable fraction of voters are not able to recognize AI-generated text b) many who notice don't care, or are willing to overlook it if the premise is interesting enough. agreed. For me, the issue I have is that a vocal group
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by hallman76 3mo ago
My brother in tech. If anyone wanted to prove voter fraud it's President Donald Trump. Trump's campaign filed 62 lawsuits. 61 were lost, dismissed, or dropped. The other was a technicality. IANAL. Get the vagueposting out of here.
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by hallman76 3mo ago
I've always wondered if we could find a way to add content website's content without it turning into a shitshow. MLS listings / Zillow is an interesting use-case. A realtor might describe something as "sun-filled" b
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by hallman76 8mo ago
Go a step further and switch to Mint, T-mobile's pay-as-you-go subsidiary. I'm paying $180/year for a single line. I've been on mint for ~3 years now. On Mint your traffic is routed with lower priority than T-Mobile&#x27
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by hallman76 11mo ago
I inherited an S3 bucket where hundreds of thousands of files were written to the bucket root. Every filename was just a uuid. ls might work after waiting to page though to get every file. To grep you would need to download 5 TB.
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by hallman76 1y ago
There is a nascent movement of families bringing back landlines for exactly this reason
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by hallman76 1y ago
We will never get back the collective man-decades of time that has been burned by this format. When will the madness stop?
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by hallman76 1y ago
TIL that there is a W3C WebMonetization spec - thanks for sharing. Taking a look, it seems quite underwhelming[0] :( Lack of monetization on the web gave us the ad-driven content model that LLMs are now hovering up. Have there been any othe
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by hallman76 2y ago
For desktop folks, I use the Stylebot Chrome Extension https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbmk... I crank up the font size and set a serif font on the index page to make it easier to scan.
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by hallman76 2y ago
I had the same issue. Was able to use it to join via the discord app ("add a server").
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by hallman76 2y ago
> because say the CEO of a company is friendly to the President OP didn't give say politics had anything to do with it. Let them nerd up if they want to. Centralization around specific platforms has plusses and minuses. Having alter
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by hallman76 2y ago
He's flooding the zone and media is once again failing us.
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by hallman76 2y ago
I really like this idea! Could you share more about your letters? What sorts of things do you include? I assume different topics for different people. Do the loved ones know that these letters exist?
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by hallman76 2y ago
I'm pretty sure that the owners of Belmont Books in Belmont, MA also opened their store out of a love of bookstores & the community surrounding it. Best of luck to you! https://www.belmontbooks.com/ (no affiliati
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by hallman76 2y ago
Gatsby gets shit on a lot - which I think is a but unfair. I find it to be a solid, well-documented platform. It has some rough spots, but show me a platform that doesn't. The author also complains that: > I couldn’t build the site
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by hallman76 2y ago
Mineis called README.md or notes.txt I use a similar hierarchical format - I use tabs for the hierarchy. I use markdown for most notes, but I find it somewhat incompatible with the tab-based note-taking that I prefer. I share this in case t
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by hallman76 2y ago
Keynote has had real time collaboration[0] for years. It's great. [0] https://support.apple.com/guide/keynote/intro-to-collaborati...
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by hallman76 2y ago
dumb question - why not create smaller language-specific models?
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by hallman76 2y ago
> Android tablet is a tough sell for my employer due to compliance, security, and such From a compliance POV what's an acceptable alternative? Would some unix variant be any more palatable?
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by hallman76 2y ago
> Self hosted option? I'm sure that would drive people to adopt the likely great tech behind this. It's a pretty compelling product. At my org we have a ton of components that we'd need to "brickify" to make them
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by hallman76 3y ago
As does SourceTree. Also recommended.
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by hallman76 3y ago
There's no lens of "good" or "interesting". Its just whether something is in wikipedia. This site is showing us that existence is wikipedia isn't that high of a bar to distinguish that something is actually int
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by hallman76 3y ago
Just in case folks aren't familiar, this site breaks down jQuery features into web standard code: https://youmightnotneedjquery.com/
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by hallman76 3y ago
I set up a raspberry pi + SDR antenna to publish a streaming audio feed just so I could listen to Red Sox games on my Sonos.
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by hallman76 3y ago
Has anyone tried using custom types for ids in java? I considered doing it on a recent project, but it doesn't seem very common so I was reluctant to introduce it.
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by hallman76 3y ago
Thanks hn for doing what you do! I'm so glad to see this here. A few months back I noticed '[' under /bin on my mac. I tried googling to understand what it was, but my google-fu came up short. It felt like one of those u
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by hallman76 3y ago
There's a lot of epoch love in the comments. For me, it's never "clicked". I assumed that after seeing a ton of timestamps that I'd have a Neo-seeing-the matrix moment with timestamps but it just hasn't happene
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by hallman76 3y ago
This sounds awesome - pretty disk-heavy but worth it. How long do you retain these logs? What sort of user/request volume do you deal with? Do you have any resources/blog posts/keywords for learning more?
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by hallman76 3y ago
I've always wished we could all agree on something like "timeout Tuesdays" where everyone everywhere paused on new features and focused on cleaning something up.

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