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I had a friend call me–practically in tears–because YouTube removed his highest viewed video game montage for violating their hate speech policy. Context: WWII tank game playing as…

Hey, those are my weekend plans you're talking about!

No, seems more like remove-js and hacker news aren't playing well together. HN reference's it's one stylesheet relatively, so the remove-js output builds an invalid URL like this: …

I've had a few Big Macs lately, and from my perspective the meat is perhaps the least consequential part of that sandwich, both flavor and texture-wise. At one point I asked for 4x…

A PagerDuty family account?

K-12 is a terrible system in the US which seems entirely reliant on the desperation of people who devoted 4-8 years of education to retain their jobs in a very limited market.

A teacher friend's district claimed to be investing in training their teachers, but all it boiled down to was a high level overview of google docs, with no guidance on adapting a c…

> a "panel" of "experts" discuss how "issue x will destroy america." My friend who worked in news regarded this as the first incarnation of "fake news".

Or, more charitably, the 90s?

From what I can tell, New England IPAs–especially the coveted ones such as Heady Topper–really only work when you can control for freshness. As soon as the beer gets canned its got…

It varied episode to episode. I'd usually end up putting 10-15 hours into research and writing but with some topics I couldn't tackle in 7 days, I'd have to slap a roman numeral af…

> The biggest thing to me was that I learned that motivation was something that could come after you force yourself to wake up early and just get started I had a similar experience…

My favorite memory of FFmpeg involved wowing a friend with the "magic of computer hacking" by slicing a subsection of a youtube video, cutting the source audio, and replacing it wi…

This is a bit like saying "why would someone take a ferrari to the corner store, a honda sedan works just fine". The implementation of the task at hand is without consequence, thei…

A number of years ago, I was conducting an interview for a front end developer position. I started with a mostly algorithmic question hoping to gauge the candidate's comfortability…

I was especially irked by this the last time I went to a Lensecrafters. They said it's because Ray-Ban now makes the lenses themselves. So I was shopping at a store front for brand…

No refund on the flights so we ended up paying a ticket change fee and rescheduling for september! Some of the lodging was less flexible unfortunately :(

I just cancelled my trip _to_ Tokyo this morning at the last minute because I was worried about unwittingly bringing the virus back to the states and getting friends and family (ch…

I'm quite literally in the same position as you right now. As long as the CDC doesn't bump their warning up to a level 3, I'm going. The cost of the flight + no refund makes it dif…

A job in the hand is worth two in the bush. The friends I've had who drove for DoorDash and/or Lyft were in between proper jobs (e.g CVS and reception at a hospital or something), …

Itinerary information they get from Amadeus[1] or ITA software (which google acquired to kickstart their flights product). Prices I imagine come from integrations with the hundreds…

My friend has worked in a number of different pre-school facilities throughout Boston and most of them had a carved out screen based activity (usually tablets) for at least part of…

With both looking like they come with a built in VHS player.

Or processed cheese food [1] [1] https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFR...