sossles

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by sossles 1y ago
I have an email forwarder on my personal domain that forwards to my gmail address, and gmail lets me send email as if it were coming from that address. Seems like it's the same result, and they're not blocking that.
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by sossles 3y ago
Wow, that's terrible. That would be nearly impossible for me to produce, because GPs around me are sometimes booked out a week in advance.
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by sossles 3y ago
Who goes to a GP for a cold? Your symptoms would have to be pretty severe to do that wouldn't they? And if so, maybe it's not just a cold.
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by sossles 3y ago
Just counter this with a little more anecdata, I'm a regular GP visitor in Australia and have found them to be great. The only antibiotics I've been prescribed in the past decade were for a particularly persistent parasite infecti
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by sossles 4y ago
Woodworking can be a good hobby for an engineer as there's a lot of problem solving - both design problems or construction problems (like how to set up a particular cut to make it more accurate or efficient). Combining those worlds is
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by sossles 4y ago
4. is underrated and mysterious. I've dealt with periods of anxiety by playing an online competitive card game, something that "should" be stressful, but having played it hundreds of times before, the steady stream of famili
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by sossles 4y ago
I'm a long term employee of a large software company. When I had kids I asked to go down to 4 days so they wouldn't be in childcare for the whole week. Now the kids are all in school but I've kept the 4 day week as I'm
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by sossles 4y ago
At one point does AI recreating patterns it has seen from reading source code count as a derived work? What if a human learns to code by reading only GPLed code, does all the code they write fall under GPL as a derived work now?
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by sossles 4y ago
Got roasted for "I deleted my coworker's unit test because I thought it was a bad test." The blue AI ranted at me about never ever deleting tests, and the green AI failed to absolve me because of an error. I'm sure it&
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by sossles 5y ago
The game Twenty that I posted on here many years ago as a ShowHN[0] post took off from that very post and is still earning in that ballpark. I keep trying to find more time to work on it and other projects too, but somehow as my kids have
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by sossles 5y ago
As a kid I always wanted the 8860 set: http://www.technicopedia.com/8860.html . It was well beyond the means of my family at time, and I had almost forgotten it existed until I discovered my wife's family had it in the
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by sossles 5y ago
Dick Smith Electronics was a huge part of my childhood. The "Fun Way" electronics books (written by Dick himself) was fascinating to me and the VZ-300 computer they sold was how I got into computers as a kid. It was great to dis
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by sossles 5y ago
This is an inevitable side effect of people's tendencies to over-subscribe to information sources. Once it's normal to try and follow 200+ people on Twitter, you're in need of an algorithm to prioritise content, and from the
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by sossles 5y ago
Same here. The website is bizarrely uninformative. A Windows logo, but it's called MacType with a Mac-style download button, with zero explanation as to what the product actually does. The tagline "the way texts should be"
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by sossles 5y ago
If a glove comes into contact with a spinning blade, there is a good chance it will pull the rest of the glove, and the hand within it, right into the path of the blade.
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by sossles 5y ago
I assume "Guru Mediation" is supposed to be "Guru Meditation", a reference to the way AmigaOS used to describe system failures.
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by sossles 6y ago
I've read a few older books with my kids that contained mildly questionable things, like a boy saying that girls can't do certain things, but I much prefer having that awkward conversation about how things used to be, over tossing
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by sossles 6y ago
It's easy to disbelieve what you read on the internet when it's one voice in a thousand. But increasingly, all thousand voices are telling you what you want to hear.
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by sossles 6y ago
True for most, but it wouldn't be so great on the spreadsheet one due to the data structures involved. c# would be my pick.
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by sossles 6y ago
I imagine Google would rather continue to serve up those search results if possible. And if they did omit the search results their argument that they treat content fairly falls apart.
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by sossles 6y ago
I'm no social butterfly but I feel the same way. Working in an office gives me regular light social contact that would be very tiring to get otherwise.
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by sossles 7y ago
I've always wondered: Does encouraging women to pursue STEM subjects send the subconscious message that it isn't something they are naturally suited to? Ironically having the opposite effect?
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by sossles 7y ago
It also checks you're looking at the screen which is pretty neat (though it's got a pretty wide margin for error).
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by sossles 8y ago
Ok, now I'm tempted to rewrite Twenty to work in the terminal. It's already c++!
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by sossles 9y ago
The article makes many good points but (as many others have noted) it really misses the mark on rules and obedience. Rules and obedience are an essential abstraction to allow larger organisations of people to function and interoperate. Th
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by sossles 9y ago
That works on phones because app developers desperately want their (typically) free app to be installed and permissions is one thing that turns people away, so they try to minimise permission requests. Additionally, apps (at least on iOS)
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by sossles 9y ago
> To say that a person's phone choice defines them in any sort of meaningful way is extremely silly to me. For someone buying a mainstream product like a Samsung or Apple phone, I'd agree that it doesn't mean very much. To
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by sossles 10y ago
That's on Android, and maybe half that again on iOS. It varies a little, but it's $500-$1000 a month at the moment (even split between iOS and Android). I'm pretty sure I could do better but I could never bring myself to do h
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by sossles 10y ago
My web/mobile game called Twenty ( http://twenty.frenchguys.net/play ) blew up when I put it on hackernews. But before and even after that, emails to game review sites were universally ignored (with Rock Paper Shotgun as
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by sossles 10y ago
They are dependent on developers as a whole, but not on any individual developers (with perhaps a few exceptions).

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