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Oh. That's kind of disappointing.

Today New Zealand has lost a national treasure. Haere atu rā ki te okiokinga.

This proposed economic model creates a dystopian situation: whoever has the most capital has the right of first refusal to consume art. Current primary and secondary ticketing mark…

I love writing documentation, and I love teaching people how to solve problems. At my day job I've written a lot of the organization's most trafficked explanations and how-to guide…

My first thought too. Glad there are other indie rock folks poking around!

As someone who works in the music industry, this Snoop Dogg streaming thing is an obvious straw man. I genuinely hope people stop using it as evidence of, well, anything. For that …

FlexPats?

Unrelated to the content of this post... this looks to be hosted on Notion. Is that a reasonable option for a personal blog? I do a lot of writing in Notion for work and I would lo…

Thank you. I thought I was going crazy.

I struggled with linear algebra in college, in part because my professor had a tenuous grasp of the English language. Strang's book was our textbook, and I did a bit of digging and…

I never met Bob Lee, but I was a huge fan. Google Guice was exceptionally useful for non-Spring-based dependency injection in the early 00s. I don't know if Bob had his hands in th…

What's your proposal to enforce restrictions against this behavior?

You wrote an entire sentence that has literally nothing to do with the ticket resale market and how scalping is related. A secondary ticketing market enables scalping. There are le…

Waiting on the response here because there will not be one.

This issue isn't as cut and dry as simply banning scalping. I spend most of my discretionary income on music... merchandise, vinyl, concert tickets. At any given point in time I ha…

NYC checking in! Surely there are enough of us to put together a meetup?

Correctly but also incorrectly.

If I recall correctly, the primary method of "punting" was to send an instant message with a bunch of unclosed HTML tags, which the client's renderer wouldn't be able to handle and…

I'm wondering if people have infosec restrictions about sudo access for their work machines.

Looked interesting. Thought I would take a deep dive. README references a video behind a subscription paywall? I'm out.

> I think we can all sleep easy that the terrifyingly smart rich people made the right call on how to handle their own exposure. My personal Venn diagram of "terrifyingly smart peo…

Never use Upwork? Got it. Thanks.

I'd love to give this a read from someone with a lot of experience in the source material, but given a $50 pricetag for a book I don't need to read I'm not into it. Who are your ed…

> Docker Desktop doesn't let you decide whether you want updates or not, unless you pay them This made me uninstall Docker Desktop.