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Re:DoorDash to Acquire Instacart on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:59AM (#50291157)
disabled people who can't have a drivers license would like to have a word with you
it really feels like that not progressing past the loading animation all of a sudden has gotten worse. like yea, used to happen like once a week for me, but now it's probably once a day
But if you don't have the money for a photoshop license, learned photoshop, and don't want to pirate, this is a good middle ground.

Photopea is also a good solution

I think dad wanted some extra money one year and he took my brother and I out and delivered 100s of phonebooks in our area.

i think we got a season pass to 6 flags out of it, but i'm not positive

Re:"Make in India" Relies on "Made in China" on Sunday June 15, 2025 @11:27AM (#44282785)
Not entirely surprising. Dustin (Destin?) from smarter every day tried to get some chainmail from India. Ended up being drop shipped from china
Re:Tesla shows no sign of improvement in May sales data on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @01:05PM (#44182928)
there have been video after video about how they aren't high quality. both on the software front and the build quality
also available on youtube. same channel
Re:Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over on Thursday April 24, 2025 @11:53AM (#43784206)
you can't. they don't give you a filter to show just friends. you have to slog through all the "recommended" posts
Re:A new form of verification on Bluesky on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @09:16AM (#43761749)
>When Elon took over; the rules were clearly laid out: buy your checkmark for $7/month (not sure of the price). Pay and you get it; stop paying and you loose it. Everybody knows exactly what it means.

except then he was also randomly giving out checkmarks to people who didn't want them and specifically told him to remove them

Re:Gardener wins £1M payout caused by software bug on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @02:27PM (#43271090)
i took that as more that the daily jackpot is won daily, but this bug saying they won the mega jackpot happened 14 times in 48 days
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025) on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @04:56PM (#43260210)
wrong thread, you want the "who wants to be hired" thread, not who is hiring
musk turned anti-CA. but also, if you read the article, the plant is owned by a company in texas.

>Vistra Corp, the Texas-based company that owns and operates the facility,

Re:Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @11:51AM (#43185449)
how is there not a single screenshot of what it looks like either in the repo or on the marketplace page? Or did I just miss them?
i'm making it a point to check out alaska about once a year because who knows how long it will remain like it does
Re:United States Power Outage Map on Sunday February 16, 2025 @02:46PM (#43071007)
i think the creator is good. I think they are just scraping different power company outage maps. If you look in some places there's 0 data because the power company doesn't have a true outage map
Re:The year I didn't survive on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @11:22AM (#43026850)
something of note though, if it's with a specific funeral home, plan to follow up with them yearly to make sure they are still around. Dad found that out the hard way when his mom passed. He called up the funeral home and the number was disconnected.

He had to scramble NYE to find somebody to take the body and then scramble and replan everything because the funeral home had been investigated by the state after a fire and was no longer operational

Re:Macrodata Refinement on Sunday February 02, 2025 @07:31PM (#42913453)
isn't that a different site? that's lumon.industries, this is lumon-industries.com
remember, gender is a human concept. sex is gene based
Re:Find the oldest line in your repo on Thursday January 30, 2025 @03:11PM (#42881690)
we hired contractors to move us from source gear to git and they said "moving the history would be too hard, so we didn't"

lost probably 10+ years of history

Re:dnSpyEx: .NET debugger and assembly editor on Thursday January 16, 2025 @10:06AM (#42726248)
not everything needs AI
Article calls that out specifically

> On the other hand, the housing shortage is still ongoing in the Northeast and Midwest, "areas the builders ignore," Gerli said. "You can see active listings in the Northeast/Midwest on re-sale market are still in a big deficit to pre-pandemic."

Re:Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @09:16AM (#42450578)
tweet reference by another poster makes it seem like they've been around since '96 in some form
Re:Dear OAuth Providers on Thursday December 12, 2024 @12:36PM (#42401291)
>And which email provider are you using? You rely on them too, right? If you use a free email provider like Gmail or others, you are relying on them.

today gmail, next month fastmail, next year self hosted.

once I move off of gmail, all the google oauth stuff breaks. So yea, you might today be beholden to one, but that can easily change

they have families? They need a job while they find a new job? I would be surprised if a large part of the workforce could just up and quit and then try an find a new job
Re:How Honeycrisp Apples Went from Marvel to Mediocre on Saturday November 30, 2024 @12:20PM (#42282726)
Helped a friend film a video about what happened to red delicious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgZNDTJSvJQ
Re:Netflix is removing nearly all of its interactive titles on Friday November 08, 2024 @01:13PM (#42089089)
Could it also be over a lawsuit? They settled back in 2020 with chooseco llc who owns the "choose your own adventure" trademark

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/25/21720533/netflix-banders...

Re:Monorepo – Our Experience on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @03:52PM (#42069189)
did I say prod went down? I just said it failed in prod. it was a logging change and only half the logging went out. To me, that's a failure
Re:Monorepo – Our Experience on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @11:25AM (#42064679)
ironically was gonna come and comment on that same second block of text.

We went from monorepo to multi-repo at work and it's been a huge set back and disappointment with the devs because it's what our contractors recommended.

I've asked for a code deploy and everything and it's failed in prod due to a missing check in

Re:How do you deploy in 10 seconds? on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @10:49PM (#41991529)
as andrew mentioned, microsoft's server. we are a .net shop

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