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Re:U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6 on Friday June 26, 2026 @01:24PM (#48689280)
Sam playing the regulatory capture game.
Re:Tax Wrapped 2025 on Monday April 13, 2026 @06:13PM (#47758596)
we need to kill off fire departments. my house has never burned down and i will never get my money's worth.
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.
i would happily pay. i already pay for monarch.
Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @07:29PM (#45676465)
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.
Re:Magit Is Amazing on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @06:22PM (#45662467)
are you talking about the diff hunk view? you can generally just smash Esc to back out of everything in lazygit
Re:Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN? on Thursday September 18, 2025 @02:41PM (#45293413)
i forget where i found this in an HN comment, but you can use this in uBlock Origin under Filters:

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Re:Why I Hate the Index Finger (1980) on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @02:37PM (#42187252)
This article is giving Kurt Vonnegut and I love it.
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.
Re:OpenAI to Become For-Profit Company on Thursday September 26, 2024 @06:57PM (#41664453)
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.
Re:The secret inside One Million Checkboxes on Friday August 30, 2024 @01:51PM (#41402972)
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 inspections had to be scheduled online during COVID, and there was similar supply & demand to what you describe for parking, so I wrote a bot that notified me (also via Pushover) when a slot became available.

Once I got the reservation I had to tow the boat 9 hours, praying the whole time I didn't have a drop of water on the boat, for which most inspectors will immediately fail you and send you away. The inspection crew there turned out to be pretty awesome though, and they actually washed my whole boat down with hot water which apparently kills any (baby? egg? idk) Quagga muscles.

Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E work. On macos w/ Karabiner you can remap Home and End to those for the Slack app.
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.
Neal Stephenson wrote a book in 2021 aptly named "Termination Shock" where sulfur is intentionally added to the atmosphere to influence the climate.
Re:Why Elixir (2014) on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @12:20PM (#39841209)
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...
Re:Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS on Thursday November 30, 2023 @10:34AM (#38474754)
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 component is plenty for me. see an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRJ0477KFp8

Re:SMS phishing is way too easy on Friday June 24, 2022 @12:09PM (#31864557)
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.
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 opportunity of a dedicated architect to help them with the tech portion of pitch decks.
Re:I'm all-in on server-side SQLite on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @05:28PM (#31332960)
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.
Re:UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @05:18PM (#31332852)
Ha! I fell into the same trap. I meant crypto is not a low-risk investment.
Re:UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg on Monday May 09, 2022 @08:25PM (#31321762)
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.
Re:Detect people around you using Magnifier on iPhone Support on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @04:42PM (#30783086)
"Why are you taking my picture?"

"I'm not, I'm checking if you are too close to me."

Re:Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate on Friday March 11, 2022 @08:08PM (#30648018)
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 temperature.
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.