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hallman76

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About hallman76

Based in Boston. Director of Engineering for Breaktime Media.

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    Comment #49115291

    Obligatory video from theonion: Blockbuster Offers Glimpse Of Movie Renting Past https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TrPwOrf4sM "What's so poignant about this time is the uncertainty"…

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    Comment #48887220

    > a) a sizeable fraction of voters are not able to recognize AI-generated text b) many who notice don't care, or are willing to overlook it if the premise is interesting enough. ag…

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    Comment #48615146

    My brother in tech. If anyone wanted to prove voter fraud it's President Donald Trump. Trump's campaign filed 62 lawsuits. 61 were lost, dismissed, or dropped. The other was a tech…

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    Comment #48615090

    I've always wondered if we could find a way to add content website's content without it turning into a shitshow. MLS listings / Zillow is an interesting use-case. A realtor might d…

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    Comment #46701199

    Go a step further and switch to Mint, T-mobile's pay-as-you-go subsidiary. I'm paying $180/year for a single line. I've been on mint for ~3 years now. On Mint your traffic is route…

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    Comment #45716926

    I inherited an S3 bucket where hundreds of thousands of files were written to the bucket root. Every filename was just a uuid. ls might work after waiting to page though to get eve…

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    Comment #44524457

    There is a nascent movement of families bringing back landlines for exactly this reason

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    Comment #43980118

    We will never get back the collective man-decades of time that has been burned by this format. When will the madness stop?

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    Comment #43535676

    TIL that there is a W3C WebMonetization spec - thanks for sharing. Taking a look, it seems quite underwhelming[0] :( Lack of monetization on the web gave us the ad-driven content m…

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    Comment #43074812

    For desktop folks, I use the Stylebot Chrome Extension https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbmk... I crank up the font size and set a serif font on the index pa…

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    Comment #42833859

    I had the same issue. Was able to use it to join via the discord app ("add a server").

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    Comment #42784166

    > because say the CEO of a company is friendly to the President OP didn't give say politics had anything to do with it. Let them nerd up if they want to. Centralization around spec…

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    Comment #42629200

    He's flooding the zone and media is once again failing us.

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    Comment #41722776

    I really like this idea! Could you share more about your letters? What sorts of things do you include? I assume different topics for different people. Do the loved ones know that t…

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    Comment #41692984

    I'm pretty sure that the owners of Belmont Books in Belmont, MA also opened their store out of a love of bookstores & the community surrounding it. Best of luck to you! https://www…

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    Comment #41665303

    Gatsby gets shit on a lot - which I think is a but unfair. I find it to be a solid, well-documented platform. It has some rough spots, but show me a platform that doesn't. The auth…

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    Comment #40955843

    Mineis called README.md or notes.txt I use a similar hierarchical format - I use tabs for the hierarchy. I use markdown for most notes, but I find it somewhat incompatible with the…

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    Comment #40812507

    Keynote has had real time collaboration[0] for years. It's great. [0] https://support.apple.com/guide/keynote/intro-to-collaborati...

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    Comment #40526607

    dumb question - why not create smaller language-specific models?

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    Comment #40465825

    > Android tablet is a tough sell for my employer due to compliance, security, and such From a compliance POV what's an acceptable alternative? Would some unix variant be any more p…

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    Comment #40225320

    > Self hosted option? I'm sure that would drive people to adopt the likely great tech behind this. It's a pretty compelling product. At my org we have a ton of components that we'd…

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    Comment #39404993

    As does SourceTree. Also recommended.

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    Comment #39297589

    There's no lens of "good" or "interesting". Its just whether something is in wikipedia. This site is showing us that existence is wikipedia isn't that high of a bar to distinguish …

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    Comment #39284136

    Just in case folks aren't familiar, this site breaks down jQuery features into web standard code: https://youmightnotneedjquery.com/

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    Comment #39263905

    I set up a raspberry pi + SDR antenna to publish a streaming audio feed just so I could listen to Red Sox games on my Sonos.