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DoctorOW
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About DoctorOW
me @ orawalters.com
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Comment #49208995
Even then you're watching them from those broadcast stations. The live channel feeds in those apps is from your local station, and if you're watching any local news it's also clips…
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Comment #48680572
All this debate about how politics are defined or how bias is measured. My question is why should I care? Grok identifying as Mechahitler didn't drag me any further right, why woul…
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Comment #48639975
I'd say about half of Steam players aren't male. The "video games are for boys" thing is kind of a self fulfilling prophecy because anyone who believes that will obviously not play…
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Comment #48580966
This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. I've been feeling like HN feels more and more repetitive.
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Comment #48300922
This looks cool, and one of the first posts I've seen on HN in a few months where I genuinely wanted to try it.
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Comment #48256100
> For your specific question: Why is Linux not supported in the BASIC tier? > This is AMD's marketing decision. > Kind Regards, > Anatoli Curran, > Xilinx/AMD Forum Moderator I mea…
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Comment #48216701
In my experience, HR is all too willing to explore gray areas for company benefit, so any "problems" created are likely actual laws.
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Comment #48055699
Hey I'm sorry for the confusion. This isn't my project, that's why I didn't use a Show HN or anything. I'm not in a position to make changes.
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Comment #48049691
> I used Typst for a few weeks. It already feels much more understandable, consistent, hackable, and customizable. I guess that is the difference between an ad hoc macro system and…
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Comment #48045018
Kind of ironic while he as an investor is suing OpenAI right now
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Comment #48030546
A very important note about being charged with something, it's not evidence of guilt but rather an accusation. As an example, of all unsolved murders in the United States, I theori…
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Comment #48006922
This is such a HN blog post it's almost funny. You wanted to selfhost and you can but it wasn't easy or particularly Linux friendly, so you got a Rust server from the community, bu…
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Comment #47947926
> I'd rather hear "the code is bad" than "the post sounds AI-written". Of course you would. Reading through and judging the quality of AI output is the largest amount of effort in …
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Comment #47946558
You can absolutely install Linux on a Mac. Back before Apple made custom CPUs they supported and even advertised installing Windows. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Camp_(softwa…
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Comment #47934573
Missed opportunity to call it Vopilot
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Comment #47934566
I absolutely do, every single time it comes up.
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Comment #47848422
Let me just say the performance is absolutely incredible, and the persistence is so transparent. I actually was given access to an in-browser video editor that chokes pretty quickl…
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Comment #47847789
I wonder if since IR is invisible you could theoretically, in an intellectual exercise, blast IR light in a room and mass change them surreptitiously if that was your goal.
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Comment #47840449
> You can only use one library card at a time with OverDrive, and don't have access to the audioboks or periodicals on Libby. I personally was fine with the limitations, after all …
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Comment #47836118
> If a metric or signal matters, there is already an ecosystem built to fake it, and faking it starts to be operational and just another part of doing business. https://www.xkcd.co…
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Comment #47779667
Here's the thing, you absolutely can do this in exactly the same way: Make the background transparent and draw within the bounds. You can argue about whether or not you should , bu…
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Comment #47678605
> (single point of failure to... another single point of failure) I feel like you missed what the author meant with that phrase. The author wasn't talking about for their website, …
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