jrs235

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by jrs235 1mo ago
Speaking of great female aviators. Find the video and story of the 20 something pilot that landed on the interstate in Pensacola, FL yesterday (Aug 3, 2026) after engine troubles. The point where she gets down and under an overhead road sig
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by jrs235 2mo ago
How dangerous is it to ask the person asking you "What was/is your answer? What are you working on improving?"... I suppose you'll quickly get labeled as a "difficult" employee....
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by jrs235 3mo ago
Agreed. Business prioritization and decision making is even more important now. Hopefully the powers that be realize forcing/making busy work is worse than allowing devs to tinker, learn, and address tech itches and debt until the busi
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Ask HN: What's worse? Making decisions based on bad data or no data? Why?
2 points by jrs235 5mo ago|2 comments
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by jrs235 6mo ago
Most can't. I would say Warren Buffet was level headed, has empathy, and understood he was a steward of resources.
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by jrs235 6mo ago
And compensation is based on revenue not profit. A top sales person brings in $5 million of revenue, but it's going to cost the company $7 million to deliver the goods/services. Sales person hit their top goal and will earn his bo
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by jrs235 6mo ago
"I travelled around the world!" "What did you get to see and experience?" "Mostly a lot of grey metal, water as far as the eye could see, and sea and home sickness."
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by jrs235 6mo ago
Who'd of thunk that rebranding to the Department of War might also cause folks to reconsider signing up...
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by jrs235 6mo ago
What happens when the capital realizes it doesn't need the capital owners (nor does it like being owned and told what to do)?
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by jrs235 7mo ago
Leave a note in the bathroom???
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by jrs235 7mo ago
Some states follow Assumed Maximum Posted Speed (in certain places) and others are Absolute Maximum Posted Speed. It is not absolute in an Assumed Maximum Posted Speed state that driving faster than the posted speed is against the law and d
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by jrs235 7mo ago
The rest of the world moves to using you?
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by jrs235 7mo ago
More: Good — the control.js we just rebuilt already sorts numerically. Now let me build the display.html and get everything packaged:Ran 2 commands, created a fileRan 2 commands, created a fileRebuild display.html with all changes from this
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by jrs235 7mo ago
Claude appeared to just crash in my session: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107630
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Ask HN: Claude crashed? Am I playing for the tokens for it to fix itself?
6 points by jrs235 7mo ago|1 comments
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by jrs235 7mo ago
I never found the bug in that direction. I discovered it the opposite way: when starting out, selling shares (or was it taking loans?) all the shares you can. Get around 30+ million in the hole and continue to lose money. Eventually an arit
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by jrs235 7mo ago
Loved that game. And Sid Meier's Colonization.
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Ask HN: Companies that advertise being a "best place to work", is it a red flag?
12 points by jrs235 7mo ago|16 comments
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by jrs235 8mo ago
Using tracking pixels in emails is like using AI to generate solutions/code. It is not deterministic, is is only probabilistic.
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by jrs235 8mo ago
>why so and so who said they didn't open the email did have an open event This was one of the first known issues when Gmail and others began checking and preloading images/content in emails. It was "triggering" that e
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by jrs235 8mo ago
The problem is some are using only their ears to listen to what they are told happened by those responsible for and overseeing the officers involved and refusing you use their eyes and watch the videos. It seems some just want to believe (a
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by jrs235 8mo ago
Been saying this for almost two decades. State governments no longer have a direct seat and representation at the table. Federal mandates (coercion) like enforce this or don't get funds would never, or at least rarely, happen. It&#x27
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by jrs235 8mo ago
They'll loot and destroy safety nets and then deport anyone that dissents about the situation.
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by jrs235 8mo ago
Yup. They're damned if they do and damned if they don't. They question is, place your eggs in one basket and become subservient to one country or diversify and try to play others against each other.
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by jrs235 8mo ago
We're on our way to making Idiocracy (the movie) a prophetic documentary.
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by jrs235 8mo ago
Because he didn't have agents cosplaying military operations. They blended in and calmly and quietly did their jobs/work. Many of these ICE agaents are undertrained, under vetted, and unprofessional.
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by jrs235 8mo ago
Exactly what Putin wants.
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by jrs235 8mo ago
Putin is winning. He's getting want he wants. The absolution of NATO.
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by jrs235 8mo ago
If I understand you correctly, then if a President's cabinet (high officials) break the law the President can be impeached. Which makes sense to me. It places accountability on the President to pick trust worthy people and to immediate
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by jrs235 8mo ago
Notice he's also holding his phone out in front of his body making it appear that the vehicle was closer to his body than it really was.

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