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by macintux 1mo ago
My mother was a teacher, and she once had to go to school and tell her students our dog ate their homework.
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by macintux 1mo ago
My concern has been that companies with a huge install base (hi, Meta) would take advantage of this: "in order to provide you with the best experience, you have to turn off the restricted flag to install the next release of our app&quo
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by macintux 1mo ago
Growing up, almost every woman I was related to was in education. Principal, office staff, teachers. Now, almost every woman I'm related to is in health care. I've been joking for years that eventually everyone will either be in t
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by macintux 1mo ago
Seems like it’s been solid lately, or at least not quite so obviously broken. I was thinking last week that I hadn’t seen a GitHub outage on HN in quite a while.
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by macintux 1mo ago
I’m intensely grateful that despite rumblings, the company I contract to hasn’t switched from self-hosted Jenkins to GHA. Hopefully the steady drumbeat of failure will keep it that way.
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by macintux 1mo ago
Hotmail redux.
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by macintux 1mo ago
Remarkable level of detail. Favorited so I can read sometime when I'm not at work, while I also ruminate on how many other submissions I've favorited for the same reason and never returned to.
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by macintux 1mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184755
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by macintux 1mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184755
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by macintux 1mo ago
Regrettable English nit: "complement", not "compliment".
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by macintux 1mo ago
There are many challenging questions that should have been asked, and weren't.
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by macintux 2mo ago
There was an article shared today about skilled laborers are in very short supply wherever data centers are being constructed, so that may not be a universal truth.
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by macintux 2mo ago
I've run for office (as a placeholder) as a Libertarian. I've voted Republican at times, although I definitely lean liberal. I'll never vote Republican again, at least not until the party faces down its demons and returns to
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by macintux 2mo ago
I’ll never stop using a case. Too clumsy, too careless. 2-3 days without my phone would be manageable but why?
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by macintux 2mo ago
For me, the primary value of my phone is the camera, and the telephoto on the iPhone Pro Max models has gotten significantly better in the 2.5 years since mine was released. Were it not for the camera, I could have stopped upgrading 10 year
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by macintux 2mo ago
That’s a scary read.
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by macintux 2mo ago
The current administration is not remotely shy about proclaiming its interest in a Christian theocracy.
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by macintux 2mo ago
> Question: if the news reports something you don't like, is it fake? One of Trump’s many talents is corrupting language. The phrase “fake news” was originally used to criticize his many outright lies about what was going on in the
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by macintux 2mo ago
They’re typically on the hook for making sure those tasks are accomplished, however. I’ve spent 30 years in this industry doing my best to avoid that role, because that’s a terrible place to be.
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by macintux 2mo ago
em dashes are also sometimes used to express interruption in dialog. "I was thinking—" "Well, there's your first mistake"
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by macintux 2mo ago
That bothered me decades ago, when I heard people suggesting we no longer needed animal trials, we could just simulate human biology for testing. Don't get me wrong, the way we collectively treat animals is evil, but the idea that some
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by macintux 2mo ago
I have a suspicion that Google and Android aren't going to just vanish.
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by macintux 2mo ago
I'd definitely prefer random disturbed violence by civilians over a government militia with zero accountability.
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by macintux 2mo ago
It seems like all home technology adds friction and inscrutable failure modes in order to gain functionality/flexibility. "Smart" seems to mean "powerful but complicated and frustrating." I get the functionality ben
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by macintux 2mo ago
Imagine how expensive it’s going to be for the world to help Russia if it collapses.
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by macintux 2mo ago
Are you sure? I can't find any reference indicating that. Update: Huh, TIL https://avro.apache.org/docs/%2B%2Bversion%2B%2B/specificati...
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by macintux 2mo ago
I had one of these in my bedroom as a kid. Clearly I slept more deeply than I do now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_ball_clock
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by macintux 2mo ago
I thought of middleware as sitting on one server, with the database behind it typically on another.
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by macintux 2mo ago
You're right, I should have referred to sunrise instead. For me, permanent DST would mean the sun doesn't come up until 9am in late December.
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by macintux 2mo ago
Given how many times in my life I've internally groaned at yet another corporate email or website that references "EST" during the summer, I'm convinced no one is paying attention. And that, if we do actually implement y

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