zapatos

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by zapatos 4mo ago
> Everyone is afraid of a catastrophic 1M$ one time event. That was my thought, too, until I researched what a catastrophic event can cost and in the US it's a lot more than $1M!
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by zapatos 4mo ago
I have a filter to never send email to the spam folder if it contains the word "settlement" in the subject, to work around this annoying issue.
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by zapatos 6mo ago
Heard a job ad for a TikTok senior data scientist on FM radio at 11am last week.
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by zapatos 2y ago
Same story here. Everything goes through MQTT, and a single python script has my automation logic. All redeployable via Docker Compose. I never need to worry about updates breaking things, and there’s much less context for me to try to reme
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by zapatos 2y ago
Similarly there was We Are Hunted ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_Hunted ), before they got acquired by Twitter
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by zapatos 2y ago
I had some custom triggers I set up in Google Home to trigger streaming NPR on my Sonos. Every dang month I had to pick a new, more obscure trigger phrase because I’m guessing someone at Google would look at a list of phrases they couldn’t
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Ask HN: What niche business domain do you find fascinating?
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by zapatos 3y ago
Of all the "big tech" companies, Amazon's monopoly position is the one that worries me the most. Google, Apple, Netflix, Facebook - you can imagine how a clever competitor can get a foothold to compete in those markets. But A
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by zapatos 3y ago
Enpass is like Keepass but with a better UX. Which is exactly what I wanted, and it hasn’t let me down on iOS + Linux, synced via Dropbox.
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by zapatos 4y ago
> It used to be 1.25 cents per search. Microsoft recently increased Bing search results API cost to 2.8 cents per search I guess Microsoft decided to switch their strategy from "help startups take market share from Google" to &
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by zapatos 6y ago
> I also tried to enable less secure apps to access email option in google settings. But keep getting the Authentication error. Turning on 2FA and using Google's "app-specific password" eliminated errors of this sort for m
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by zapatos 6y ago
I've heard that the online betting platforms quickly stop taking your money if you have a consistent positive return. Any truth to that?