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Re:The Short Leash AI Coding Method for Beating Fable on Thursday July 02, 2026 @08:48PM (#48769304)
So you posit that humans are solipsistic by default, but some (most?) develop more and realize they’re not the only conscious being out there?
Re:San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz on Monday January 19, 2026 @11:33PM (#46687939)
Half a mile
Re:The Beer Can on Friday October 03, 2025 @03:25PM (#45466781)
They have a hard time staffing the IT roles usually. Throw an app in, you can just do a 90ish day ‘summer’ deployment at some stations.
Re:Restrictions on house sharing by unrelated roommates on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @04:03PM (#45352065)
Typically it’s two per bedroom plus one. The max occupancy is set on the lease.
Re:Restrictions on house sharing by unrelated roommates on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @04:01PM (#45352044)
Depends on where and local laws. In San Francisco you can swap roommates out one for one and they landlord can not reasonably stop you. They can request an application if they want but they can’t reject them unless they have a very good reason. Most landlords don’t bother to waste their time.
Re:The Machine Stops (1909) on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @09:40PM (#44057950)
This was the first prediction of The Internet. It’s such a great short story too. It’s pretty salient even today.
Re:People Who Hype Cursor Usually Lack Technical Skills on Saturday May 10, 2025 @12:28PM (#43946865)
Cursor with Gemini 2.5 pro has been really great.
I think there’s ways to get out there at night. I know people host ‘clandestinos’ aka parties out there.
Re:Making “Social” Social Again on Thursday December 12, 2024 @03:05PM (#42402851)
It’s a nice idea. I know someone who released something super similar called TreeTop. There’s also something I’ve been getting ads for called NomadTable. There’s an urge for connection out there.
It’s free if you get a job on a base there!
This is really cool. I also had similar frustrations with excel on big group trips and made an app called https://avosquado.app that is similar but also different.

I like the live save of input. I had some UI issues on mobile web but am curious to check it out more on my desktop! What did you use as a backend?

You mean the free product Microsoft Clarity that everyone uses?

Is someone trying to steal credit for inventing the eTicket?

The eTicket is what we use for flights today instead of physical, paper tickets printed on special paper.My understanding of the lore is that it was invented by Southwest Airlines or a company they acquired. That's what I heard on a How I Built This podcast episode with the founder of JetBlue. It's also mentioned in this research paper here...

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Re:The Lives of Others (2006 film) on Sunday June 30, 2024 @07:35PM (#40841333)
Super great movie. We watched it in our transitional justice class in university. Our professor was from the eastern bloc and grew up with the informants and the collapse of it all. It was interesting to study what happens after the end of an oppressive regime. The movie illustrated that pretty well in its timeline.
Re:Ask HN: How do you stay organized for solo dev? on Thursday June 20, 2024 @06:46PM (#40744272)
Asana! They have a board view and you can just create a project that is a 'sprint' by adding categories and putting it in the board view. And then add tickets from other projects to the sprint and drag them through different states. And it's free.

Mobile app is also very very good which means you can easily update or use it to make tickets while on the go...or in bed.

On mobile the phones are so powerful now that you can just make them do most of the heavy lifting :)
Re:K8s Service Meshes: The Bill Comes Due on Saturday March 02, 2024 @12:27PM (#39574065)
The docs are TERRIBLE once you need to actually use them in prod.
Re:K8s Service Meshes: The Bill Comes Due on Saturday March 02, 2024 @12:22PM (#39574024)
Spinnaker
Re:Antarctic English on Friday March 01, 2024 @12:50AM (#39558940)
Here’s a few a remember from my time at McMurdo Station

- The fry, fried > The accumulation of brain fry, mental fog, apathy etc that builds over time accumulated on ice especially during winter.

- The CRUD > a general cold everyone eventually gets and then is immune to on the base. Usually there’s a lot of congestion or ‘crud’. Probably exacerbated by the volcanic dust and dry climate.

- Ice Wife (or husband) A monogamous couple but only on the ice. May or may not be involved in other relationships off ice.

Re:Antarctic English on Friday March 01, 2024 @12:40AM (#39558891)
Pretty sure when you’re pregnant there you get shipped off ice. They pregnancy test you if you do a winter over. They’re not equipped to delivery babies there and pregnancies don’t happen quickly.
Re:The DIY Diggers Who Can't Stop Making 'Hobby Tunnels' on Sunday February 04, 2024 @02:10AM (#39248285)
Doug French
Money won.
The cafe culture is real in The Balkans. In Albania there would be five cafes side by side and they were all packed. Similar feeling in Serbia although I am sure there are some big differences I'm ignoring. I loved it.
Re:The Internet Free Zone (1997) on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @07:32PM (#36871172)
So innocent and naive. Now we just sell the user data to advertisers.
Re:Story Behind Hackathon Photo on Sunday July 09, 2023 @09:37AM (#36654355)
Did these participants sign a release on the photos or was this snapped without consent?
Re:Paper Money Diehards Refuse to Fold on Monday May 29, 2023 @10:58PM (#36120672)
iPhones are hardware locked now they can only be sold for parts.
My understanding is that some water sources naturally contain fluoride anyhow so this isn’t a great comparison. From the sources I read awhile ago they started fluoride additives because it was known that certain areas like Texas had bad teeth.
Re:New Nightmare, the Hammerhead Worm on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @11:03PM (#36053574)
The province of Alberta in Canada is famously rat free. They stopped the spreading westward wave of rats in the 1950s and have maintained this status.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/alberta-rat-free

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/15/alberta-rat-ca...

https://www.alberta.ca/albertas-rat-control-program.aspx

Re:New Nightmare, the Hammerhead Worm on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @11:01PM (#36053556)
‘Wormhole’ nice.

Ask HN: Best courses to learn React Native for a back end dev

Hi there, I am working on an app for a side project and I am building out the backend and doing some design with someone doing the frontend but I'm interested in jumping in and writing some of the front-end as well.I am going to take a course on Udemy most likely, but I already know a lot about back-end Python, Golang, and AWS and Infra so don't need a total beginner course.Does anyone have a...

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