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by kochb 4mo ago
Yes, the audio speed can be adjusted. Whether that control you see visually is actually accessible to a blind user is a different matter entirely. Further, it maxes out at 2x, but a blind person would typically screen read at the equivalent
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Span to launch distributed AI data centers for edge compute(latitudemedia.com)
3 points by kochb 5mo ago|0 comments
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by kochb 10mo ago
The J&J vaccine (which I received) was ultimately pulled due in part to blood clots which resulted in one documented death [1]. The AstraZeneca vaccine suffered the same fate. It has been affirmed that the risks of the vaccine are less
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by kochb 1y ago
LeVar Burton hosted a podcast marketed for adults where he read short stories. Though it ended last year, there are almost 200 episodes in the archive. He’s still been at work encouraging lifelong reading all these years later. https:&#x2F
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by kochb 1y ago
Don’t miss this bit. Currently enrolled students are going to need to find a new university. > In a news release, the Department of Homeland Security sent a stark message to Harvard’s international students: “This means Harvard can no lo
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by kochb 1y ago
Either it is able to fully fund itself through sender fees and other operations, or the net losses are ultimately paid for by other government revenues, primarily taxes. I enjoy Christmas cards and personal letters as much as anyone, but wi
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by kochb 1y ago
The exact growing conditions for olive production aren’t common in the US, so most of the production comes from California - west of Sacramento and south along the San Joaquin river. There are a lot of barriers in bringing specialty crops t
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by kochb 3y ago
While I’m not personally familiar with them, Redeemer Presbyterian Church[1] in New York City (previously pastored by Tim Keller[2]) comes to mind. [1]: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/life-and-times-of... [
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by kochb 3y ago
Here’s where we ended up: Apple resolved the issue after 48 hours of performance disruptions. Though I further noted one five minute disruption on 4/3 at 6pm ET. They still haven’t responded to our initial ticket. We’ve worked around t
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by kochb 3y ago
The historical limitation should be emphasized - requests for dates before August 1 2021 will return a success status, but always with the data for 8/1.
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Ask HN: How is your Apple WeatherKit transition going?
6 points by kochb 3y ago|5 comments
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Increase in Apple WeatherKit response times and number of 5xx errors(developer.apple.com)
1 points by kochb 3y ago|1 comments
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Hertz to pay $168M to customers arrested due to Hertz’s false police reports(viewfromthewing.com)
284 points by kochb 4y ago|173 comments
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A navigation app that illuminates public land within privately held property(nytimes.com)
169 points by kochb 4y ago|181 comments
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by kochb 4y ago
I agree that judicial candidates draw bipartisan support more often than most would realize, but you might be overstating how often this happens. In our current political era, Connolly falls into a minority. https://crsreports.co
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by kochb 4y ago
Nominated Delaware DA by George W. Bush. Recommended to Delaware District Court by Senators Coons and Carper. Appointed by Trump. Confirmation approved by voice vote (which generally means no Senator expressed the desire to register opposit
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by kochb 4y ago
For this clause to have any positive effect, you need to 1) be willing to pursue legal action against violators and 2) actually notice that the clause has been violated. Such language must be carefully written. What is the definition of “co
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by kochb 4y ago
I also founded a company which built a large portion of our backend on Clojure, using it through Series C. Your experience matches ours verbatim.
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by kochb 4y ago
This podcast covers most of the important points: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/tsmc
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by kochb 4y ago
The context, from Mauro’s previous message: > Only an application that handles video should be using those controls, and as far as I know, pulseaudio is not a such application. Or are it trying to do world domination? So, on a first glan
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Ford Plans Up to 8k Job Cuts to Help Fund EV Investment(bloomberg.com)
1 points by kochb 4y ago|0 comments
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by kochb 4y ago
There’s plenty of quality content on YouTube. But there’s plenty of low quality knockoffs, and even outright dangerous videos like Blippi smashing things with hammers or Peppa Pig murdering her friends and family with a knife. YouTube has
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docs.celeryproject.org and celeryproject.org are down(github.com)
2 points by kochb 4y ago|0 comments
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by kochb 5y ago
Bushel | Backend Software Engineer | Full-time | Remote | Fargo, ND Bushel’s ecosystem powers APIs, apps, websites, and digital solutions to support ag businesses and build the digital infrastructure of the entire agricuture industry. Our t
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Breaking change in markupsafe makes flask crash on service startup(github.com)
2 points by kochb 5y ago|0 comments
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by kochb 5y ago
All python projects using Flask<2 that failed to pin their transitive dependencies (which is unfortunately somewhat common) are failing builds due to a breaking change, as of today.
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Flask fails after itsdangerous module’s update(github.com)
5 points by kochb 5y ago|3 comments
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by kochb 5y ago
When old equipment pops up on small farms, it's usually someone operating on a small scale (~300ac or so), making a profit off land they own by keeping their costs down. Definitely not a great way to earn an income, and it probably doe
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by kochb 5y ago
Many readers here came from a farming family, but pursued careers in technology. They might still be actively involved in farming, and some ultimately return to either take over the farm or manage the land. Some of us have also founded or w
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Freespeech: Universal Keyboard for the Non-Verbal(freespeechaac.com)
2 points by kochb 5y ago|0 comments

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