onelesd

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by onelesd 3mo ago
Sam playing the regulatory capture game.
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by onelesd 5mo ago
we need to kill off fire departments. my house has never burned down and i will never get my money's worth.
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by onelesd 5mo ago
data can also be treated as signal. for example, if they know you are claiming a different income than is verifiable it signals something - good, bad, or indifferent - that they will use in algorithms.
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by onelesd 10mo ago
i would happily pay. i already pay for monarch.
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by onelesd 11mo ago
it means the person/people firing you are so far removed from impacting the business they don't know why you were hired in the first place or why they are firing you now.
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by onelesd 11mo ago
are you talking about the diff hunk view? you can generally just smash Esc to back out of everything in lazygit
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by onelesd 1y ago
i forget where i found this in an HN comment, but you can use this in uBlock Origin under Filters: news.ycombinator.com##body:style(background: black) news.ycombinator.com##td:style(color: #fafafa !important) news.ycombinator.com##t
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by onelesd 2y ago
This article is giving Kurt Vonnegut and I love it.
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by onelesd 2y ago
My own (anecdotal) experience tells me that increased social media use is directly proportional to increased bad feelings. Common sense tells me that increased bad feelings over time leads to bigger, worse bad feelings.
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by onelesd 2y ago
Sam and all the others. At this point, there should be required courses in college to teach this seemingly required skill to future corporate USA.
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by onelesd 2y ago
I had to do similar during the first summer of COVID to get my boat onto Lake Tahoe. Lake Tahoe (and most lakes in CA) requires boat inspections immediately prior to getting onto the water (mostly to prevent Quagga contamination). Those ins
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by onelesd 2y ago
Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E work. On macos w/ Karabiner you can remap Home and End to those for the Slack app.
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by onelesd 2y ago
I guess it depends on how and why they are used by the developer. Most of the code I write isn't bleeding edge stuff, and using a copilot as a thought partner is pretty useful.
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by onelesd 2y ago
Neal Stephenson wrote a book in 2021 aptly named "Termination Shock" where sulfur is intentionally added to the atmosphere to influence the climate.
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by onelesd 2y ago
Here's a nice series of articles if you haven't seen it before, which can help you to reduce your compilation times: https://medium.com/multiverse-tech/how-to-speed-up-your-elix...
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by onelesd 3y ago
try hammerspoon. it isn't a tiling window manager, per se - it's more of an all-purpose desktop extension framework. it is fully customizable, has a well-documented API, and a large community. for window arrangement the hs.grid co
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by onelesd 4y ago
Telecoms lobby against this because they generate big revenues servicing SMS spammers whom end-users aren't able to effectively block since the ID is trivially spoofed.
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by onelesd 4y ago
If your org has a software consultancy sales arm, you can make this shift by becoming a solutions architect. You'll get to work with sales and product to create solutions for prospective clients. A good product person will jump at the
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by onelesd 4y ago
Instead of running each small write query as the event occurs (a vote), collect them in memory and at some time interval (1m, 5m, or whatever your UX will tolerate) write them to the DB in batch with one (or a few) writes.
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by onelesd 4y ago
Ha! I fell into the same trap. I meant crypto is not a low-risk investment.
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by onelesd 4y ago
What is your definition of safe when it comes to investing in crypto? In the broader sense of the word, it is absolutely not safe because crypto is not safe.
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by onelesd 4y ago
"Why are you taking my picture?" "I'm not, I'm checking if you are too close to me."
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by onelesd 5y ago
This is awesome. You'll probably want to at least cross-reference this with the dew point, as temperature is only part of the story when it comes to being a comfortable human. Humidity has a large effect on how we perceive a given temp
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by onelesd 5y ago
I remember picking these out of the sand on beaches in Southern California in the late 80s. We even called them nurdles then, but I thought us cool kids had come up with the name.