lucasjans

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by lucasjans 8mo ago
I have a Vietnam bank account tho I live in the States now. I recently enabled developer mode in my Android phone, didn't think much of it. But later when I open my mobile banking app it told me to disable developer mode in order to op
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by lucasjans 1y ago
I appreciate the link to differences in differences, I didn't know what to call this method. The OP's point could still be valid: it’s still possible that macro factors like inflation, interest rates, or tariffs land harder on the
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by lucasjans 2y ago
I want to build my own agents so I can my private domain specific awareness in the coding environment: PRDs, product docs, API docs, business goals, etc. I'm assuming I could point this to any API compatible endpoint and build my own a
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by lucasjans 2y ago
I'm getting an SSL error in Chrome for Android. This is due to NextDNS, possibly the domain is on a blocklist.
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by lucasjans 3y ago
The article mentions this.
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by lucasjans 3y ago
> "Detroit's police chief said their facial recognition technology, when used alone, fails 96% of the time, Insider previously reported." When it fails 96% of the time, are they given a hundred possible matches to scroll t
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by lucasjans 3y ago
Seattle's air pollution quality is so low because there's a vast ocean separating the Seattleites from the manufacturing that supplies it with new phones, appliances, furniture, clothing, building materials and just about everythi
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by lucasjans 3y ago
That's every day in much of the world. I lived in Southeast Asia for 8 years and 9/10 days the air was unhealthy.
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by lucasjans 4y ago
Agreed. This new title strikes me as washing away the true meaning of what's happening. There's no mention of Taiwan, which is is specifically related to. Who can rewrite titles on hackernews? Can we get an explanation who made th
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by lucasjans 4y ago
This company pretends it has the moral high ground, but like most of corporate America, they always have an eye on Chinese profits. America's future is at stake and we won't wake up until it's too late.
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Apple warns suppliers to follow China rules on 'Taiwan' labeling(asia.nikkei.com)
408 points by lucasjans 4y ago|449 comments
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by lucasjans 5y ago
Hacker News: Big tech stiffles competition, the little guy can't compete Also Hacker News: small independent publishers leveraging email for publishing shouldn't get engagement data on their independent newsletters. Aggregate open
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by lucasjans 5y ago
According to the status page, no issues in the last 180 days. But I can't login. https://status.twitterstat.us/pages/history/564314ae3309c22c... Why the lack of transparency?
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by lucasjans 6y ago
As a PWA on Android this is great! I can share from Spotify and then it opens a Songwhip link to share. Solves a minor problem I have about sharing music links.
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by lucasjans 6y ago
She reported this issue on April 3rd. Google marked it as a duplicate on April 21st, meaning someone else had already reported it. After it was not fixed, she publicly disclosed the issue and within 7 hours it was patched. What broke in the
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by lucasjans 6y ago
I'm also an expat here and I can second this. Trust in the government is at an all time high. Domestic travel is up 25% over last year. While many retail businesses suffered during the lockdown, life has mostly returned to normal. Albe
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by lucasjans 7y ago
I'm surprised no one mentioned it here: before Front Page was a Microsoft product it was created by an independent company, Vermeer. But as many pointed out it produced horrible code. My favorite editor of the day was a "hand code
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by lucasjans 7y ago
After living in Vietnam for 6 years I can second this. Even my Vietnamese team jokes that "sharks bite" before each major national holiday. Fortunately, I've also noticed that the effects are not as disastrous as before. Prev
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YC startup can spot signs of human trafficking in sex ads(fastcompany.com)
2 points by lucasjans 7y ago|0 comments
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When Your 11-Year-Old Says No to a Smartphone(vogue.com)
200 points by lucasjans 7y ago|131 comments
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by lucasjans 7y ago
That's progress! Though it's sill in beta - which might be OK for a side project but does make me nervous any critical aspect of a production application. https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/configure-serv
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by lucasjans 7y ago
>What is the pace of innovation one can expect from GCP platform? How committed are its leaders as a public cloud service provider? Has a customer GCP for the last 3 years I am concerned about the pace of innovation. For example, CloudFu
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Try Micromastery(elemental.medium.com)
52 points by lucasjans 7y ago|40 comments
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Google's Waymo risks repeating mistakes of Xerox 40 years ago(arstechnica.com)
16 points by lucasjans 8y ago|2 comments
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by lucasjans 8y ago
Or perhaps not. Perhaps there's value in the community that rewards its owners in other ways.
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by lucasjans 8y ago
You would be surprised how prevalent these problems are even with supposedly reputable registrars. A commonly recommend option here in HN was NameCheap. Earlier this year without any notice they modified our DNS servers completely taking do
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Satanic Temple Protests Ten Commandments Monument with Goat-Headed Statue(npr.org)
22 points by lucasjans 8y ago|2 comments
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by lucasjans 8y ago
The political challenges sound immense. The last paragraph in the article sums it up nicely. > "The hurdles are minimal and the negotiations simple, as long as everybody agrees with Nevada" Besides the Hoover Dam/Lake Mead
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by lucasjans 8y ago
Ugly: no VPC secure access to Cloud Functions basically making it worthless to connect with legacy database systems hosted on GCP.
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by lucasjans 8y ago
If you focus on the risk management side of personal lines I think you're going to have a hard time to scale. The problem is most consumers don't care enough about coverage to shop for it. What attracts new clients is price, price

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