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The de jure minimium age to purchase tobacco is 21 now in the US, so I guess anyone see to sell tobacco products to those under that age could be held responsible as well.
Re:Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @12:11PM (#46694523)
I assume it would increase the storage usage, which they say they are trying to avoid in that example.
Re:America Is Slow-Walking into a Polymarket Disaster on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @09:31AM (#46692186)
The original paper would be: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.16648

The part the article OP linked to would be based off the line:

  To put these percentage changes in terms of interest to policy makers, a 10% decrease in gambling expenditure in NSW would result in 4579 fewer ASS offences; 2867 fewer BESD offences; 1380 fewer BESND offences; 1398 fewer MVT offences; 2361 fewer SFMV offences; and 3793 fewer FRD offences 2 each year
Re:Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? on Friday January 16, 2026 @08:49AM (#46646311)
Why are you refusing to state the cause?
Re:The most banned books in U.S. schools on Thursday December 18, 2025 @02:48PM (#46317668)
The point the OP made was specifically to call out what they deemed as doublespeak of the word ban. I made no comment on why any given book is justifiably banned or "filtered".
Re:The most banned books in U.S. schools on Thursday December 18, 2025 @02:33PM (#46317425)
Filtering content sounds like doublespeak for banning to me. The title is Top 52 Banned Books: The Most Banned Books in U.S. Schools, how is it that inaccurate?
Re:JSDoc is TypeScript on Monday December 15, 2025 @06:48AM (#46273250)
I don't understand how this an outrageous claim. You might say a luxury sports car is objectively better than a cheap minivan, but that is no good to someone who needs to transport around a family.

Or is you problem with the word any instead of many?

Re:Gregg Kellogg has passed away on Thursday September 11, 2025 @11:47AM (#45212983)
I think that is a misrepresentation of what the parent was saying. OP is not suggesting everyones gets to do what makes them happy, but rather they are free to say what is important for their happiness, even if others disagree.
This blog about an architecture change is about the Tudum website specifically, not the whole of Netflix.
There was a paper[1] that showed taking a 600 mg of testosterone lead with no-exercise lead to more gains in strength and muscle size than a control group who did exercise and took a placebo. So some gains may just be "magic", but of course you won't look like Arnold.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8637535/

Re:My favourite Git commit (2019) on Thursday February 01, 2024 @11:49AM (#39217992)
Overall agree with the sentiment, but I would add a more specific Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) such as: "Fix test issues caused by non-breaking space character \xa0".

Tells me exactly what the problem was straight away, but I'm still free to choose to read more if I want to know more.

Did you run the Go benchmarks on the same laptop to compare?
Re:The Ideation Flywheel (or how to get better startup ideas) on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @11:13AM (#38000332)
Maybe there is a better word than problem, but I think you can frame these all as solving problems. Facebook was created to have "a directory of information for college students". There was other social networks and other ways to get in touch with other students, but this way made things easier and funner. Apple's goal was to have a more user-friendly personal computer. Amazon wanted to make ordering books online possible.
Re:Five Kinds of Friends (2022) on Thursday October 05, 2023 @08:07AM (#37777555)
OP meant Advent of Code I assume, in reference to programming on Christmas Eve.
Re:Things you forgot because of React on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @08:48AM (#37133322)
For example if a better DX leads to faster development or less bugs. Especially when the difference between the delivered UX will likely be performance related rather than a functional/visual difference. Nearly all technology choices make trade-offs like this.
Re:Apple bans ChatGPT use by employees, report says on Friday May 19, 2023 @08:06AM (#36000813)
The OPs comment mentions the concern around data security multiple times. What gave you the impression they had a tenuous grasp on the situation? Feels like an unwarranted attack and that you only read what you wanted from the comment.
Re:Important Team and Business Changes on Thursday May 04, 2023 @09:21AM (#35814865)
> But now we are at the dawn of the AI era and the new capabilities that are unlocked by that are unprecedented. Shopify has the privilege of being amongst the companies with the best chances of using AI to help our customers. A copilot for entrepreneurship is now possible. Our main quest demands from us to build the best thing that is now possible, and that has just changed entirely.

Most recent layoffs have been framed around needing to focus the company due to economic and market headwinds. This reads like AI has transformed the mission.

What does "A copilot for entrepreneurship is now possible" mean here?

No -p flag for netstat on Mac and -l has different purpose. Closest you can get is

  netstat -anv
And then you need to filter for LISTEN.

I'm sure there is a few ways to skin the cat, but on Mac the most equivalent to the ss command would probably be:

  sudo lsof -iTCP:8000 -sTCP:LISTEN -n -P
lsof is available on Mac's by default, ss is not, so significantly smaller depends on your platform I guess. I believe ss is not available for Mac at all, where as lsof is widely available.
Re:Ask HN: What's Your Biggest Regret? on Friday October 07, 2022 @07:23AM (#33119802)
Bought a family home I don't like and don't think I will be ever to sell leaving us stuck here.
Re:Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @10:40AM (#31423350)
It was link:, and unfortunately Google removed support.
IO game https://krunker.io. Fun game that you can start playing immediately as a guest, but also has some depth to it.
Re:AWS Tools Suck on Friday December 17, 2021 @06:18AM (#29590700)
It only has to be as good as it's competition. Haven't used GCP, but would pick AWS over Azure when it comes to tooling (and a few other categories). AWS documentation tends to be better - for example, Azure fails in giving quick example output for CLI commands. The AWS Console is better than the Azure Portal.
Re:(Risp (In (Rust) (Lisp))) on Monday July 12, 2021 @12:02PM (#27811651)
I think in a real parser your instincts would likely serve you well.

For example, if a string data type was added, our tokenize method could not be this simple.

To the actual question, I think one good approach when cutting corners or doing a quicker sub-optimal approach, is to document the limitations and assumptions in some way. You could then evaluate and prioritise you efforts and time from this, rather than getting stuck in the weeds early in the process.

Re:The most precious resource is agency on Thursday July 01, 2021 @10:34AM (#27699423)
I also have a similar memory as a teenager swimming in a river. A young boy was on his own, with only his face above the water, with said wide-eyed expression. I asked him if he needed help, he managed to say yes, and I pushed him to the river bank. He ran back to his family.

I heard his mum giving out to his older brothers for not watching him. There is a good chance that young boy would have run out of energy and slipped under the surface with no one noticing. It's a nice thought that I may have saved his life and also saved his family from all the grief and guilt that would have caused. I doubt he remembers it - not that it matters.

Re:Why the Wuhan lab leak theory shouldn't be dismissed on Monday March 22, 2021 @05:48PM (#26547692)
What is your opinion the open letter, as mentioned in the article: https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/COVID%20OPEN%20...

Would you say the signatories are being irresponsible or are not qualified to suggest the lab-leak theory is worth investigating?

Re:I sold Baremetrics on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @10:41AM (#25047163)
$85k budget a year without touching the $3m principal. I'd say he'd have a great chance of never needing to work again if he wishes, especially if he already has some retirement savings and/or assets such as housing.
Re:Dark’s new backend will be in F# on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @04:16AM (#24987521)
The CV appears old. His recent position is listed as starting July 2010 to present, but looking at his LinkedIn we see his finished at Mozilla in 2011. https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbiggar/

Can read about how CircleCI's continued use of Clojure in 2017: https://circleci.com/blog/tips-for-optimizing-docker-builds/ And again in 2019: https://circleci.com/blog/update-how-circleci-processes-over...

Re:Dark’s new backend will be in F# on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:58AM (#24980768)
The author, Paul Biggar, was the founder of CircleCI which does use Clojure(Script). I don't know if he has written on why he chose not to use the same stack for Darklang.

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