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Re:Seven books I keep close because I love them on Friday August 14, 2026 @01:00PM (#49301484)
I loved the Netflix adaptation. I ignorantly missed the part about it being a book and am so excited to dive into it.
Re:Cloudflare Is Down on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:37AM (#46159015)
who else was woken up in the middle of the night for on-call pages because of cloudflare?
Re:In memory of the Christmas Island shrew on Saturday October 25, 2025 @07:48PM (#45707854)
I think I knew this deep down, but I am curious if there's "extinct (with the usual disclaimers)" and "extinct (it ain't comin back)". i.e. the Christmas Island Shrew vs. the Dodo
context... it's not just for LLMs
Re:Millennials Are Becoming Boomers on Monday August 19, 2024 @05:51PM (#41294864)
I gotta wonder how much of this wealth change is self-earned vs. inheritance (or benevolence) of our boomer parents.
Do you think you're being reasonable in saying that? I think micropayments are desperately needed, and I don't see modern payment networks doing anything to get there
I knew it was bad, I didn't know it was $14 billion bad. Did they spend it all on their two terrible streaming apps?
Re:A 45 year engineer clears up electric sauna ventilation on Saturday March 02, 2024 @11:18AM (#39573528)
been browsing r/sauna for years in the lead up to building my own sauna. Those trumpkin notes really are the key. It's unfortunate that the sauna industry has very few (if any) DIY kits that follow best practices for traditional saunas
Re:Montage Fallacy on Wednesday February 28, 2024 @12:11PM (#39540852)
I often think back to a scene in BoJack Horseman, when he starts jogging and collapses at the top of a hill. A veteran runner sees him and says:

"It gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day — that’s the hard part. But it does get easier".

The gym, self-care, flossing.The list goes on, but that scene really clicked for me.

"multiple storms have already spilled over into the hypothetical category 6"

If they do go this route, I'd like it if they future-proofed it and include categories 6-10. Seems inevitable we're gonna see the first category 7 in the next 5-10 years.

Re:The FAA's Hiring Scandal: A Quick Overview on Monday January 29, 2024 @07:18PM (#39184662)
Part of this tweet[1] stood out to me. I wish I was more optimistic about Buttigieg handling this appropriately, but I'm not aware of any significant action on his part over the Norfolk Southern freight explosion a year ago.

"He has been saddled with a messy, stupid lawsuit built on bad decision after bad decision, from predecessors who--between a rock and a hard place in the impossible task of avoiding disparate impact while preserving objective standards--elected to take the easy road and cave to political pressure to implement absurdities. He has extraordinary power to end this mess in a moment and begin to make things right for those who were directly denied a chance at the jobs they had worked towards thanks to an arbitrary and perverse biographical questionnaire."

[1] https://twitter.com/tracewoodgrains/status/17520918310959394...

Re:Ask HN: What skill do you want to develop or improve in 2024? on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @11:35AM (#38783623)
1) SQL As a mainly frontend engineer I just haven't had a whole lot of exposure, but always experience friction against it while doing side projects.

2) Woodworking

After finally diving in earlier this year, really took to it as a nice break from screens. Taking this winter break to organize my garage and set up proper dust collection so I can stop creating layers of sawdust in my garage (and probably my lungs).

Episode 390: We Set Up An Offshore Company In A Tax Haven

It's been a long time, but remember thinking how well done it was. TLDR was (as previous poster mentioned) that Delaware corps were best for anonymity.

My mind instantly went to the show "Ghosted" where Craig Robinson and Adam Scott worked at "The Bureau Underground" investigating unexplained phenomena (ghosts, aliens, cryptids).

Got a good laugh out of the line "committed to transparency". I'd hope so but I'm not counting on it