jbmchuck

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by jbmchuck 1mo ago
Here you go: https://forklog.com/en/former-coinbase-employee-accused-of-c... https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/corgi-the-buzzy-y-combinat...
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by jbmchuck 1mo ago
Sure - and knowing what is not possible with current tech is a nice datapoint to have.
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by jbmchuck 2mo ago
It's definitely pretty whiz bang but I'm curious how it would hold up to the dirt and grime of a backpacking trip. I'm also not convinced it is any better or lighter than poles (which can be pretty light with the right materi
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U.S. pedestrians are dead due to SUV/truck hood and pillar designs(seattlebikeblog.com)
28 points by jbmchuck 3mo ago|2 comments
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by jbmchuck 3mo ago
I'm guessing the op is referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string
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by jbmchuck 3mo ago
It seems to me a lot of people just really don't like to be associated with public transit or anything associated with anything remotely underclass. It's a class marker to be driven around in an autonomous 6000lbs tank rather than
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by jbmchuck 3mo ago
Enough that a 5% annual return is enough for me to get by. I'm certainly not done working - I want to get that to 3% or so - but it does make it a bit demotivating some days when I look outside and imagine the other things I could be d
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by jbmchuck 3mo ago
I have the same feelings as the original poster as I get further into middle age and have a good retirement nest egg - for me there are things more valuable - free time and the things I want to do with it but can't get paid to do - th
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by jbmchuck 4mo ago
Absolutely. The US' urban density problems, housing cost crisis - they all go back to car-based society.
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by jbmchuck 4mo ago
Reminds me of this onion bit: https://theonion.com/scientists-politely-remind-world-that-c...
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by jbmchuck 5mo ago
Agreed - once the ad-based profit model took off that no longer became possible.
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by jbmchuck 6mo ago
'Thought leader' has always been a code word for 'bullshit artist'.
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by jbmchuck 10mo ago
Honest question - what's your use case for needing GPS indoors? I generally know where I am when I'm indoors :)
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by jbmchuck 11mo ago
Regarding your first point - how about George Santos? I suspect Santos was more well known than any of the crypto-scammers, was clearly guilty, was derided by both ends if the political spectrum - yet Trump commuted him.
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by jbmchuck 11mo ago
He's also said we'd have humans on Mars in 2022...
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by jbmchuck 1y ago
> But again, here in the US we are an order of magnitude less likely to be hit by a car. Huh - do you have a source for that stat?
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by jbmchuck 1y ago
My guess/experience - because there are probably layers of management and executives who have an uptime # in their OKRs or whatever is fashionable these days. The decision to post anything about outages comes from the executive chain i
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by jbmchuck 1y ago
Should be easily doable with a semgrep rule, e.g.: ~> cat semgrep.yaml rules: - id: no-pattern-matching pattern: | match ...: message: | I'm not a fan of the pattern matching in Py
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by jbmchuck 1y ago
There were quite a few slave revolts in the 19th century.
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by jbmchuck 2y ago
I suspect that is true but here is the difference: organizations that benefit from fewer prisons have a multitude of other things they benefit from (and can lobby for). Private prison operators on the other hand really only have one thing t
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by jbmchuck 2y ago
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/pat...
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by jbmchuck 2y ago
They travel c in vacuo but not through different media.