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Sam playing the regulatory capture game.

we need to kill off fire departments. my house has never burned down and i will never get my money's worth.

data can also be treated as signal. for example, if they know you are claiming a different income than is verifiable it signals something - good, bad, or indifferent - that they wi…

i would happily pay. i already pay for monarch.

it means the person/people firing you are so far removed from impacting the business they don't know why you were hired in the first place or why they are firing you now.

are you talking about the diff hunk view? you can generally just smash Esc to back out of everything in lazygit

i forget where i found this in an HN comment, but you can use this in uBlock Origin under Filters: news.ycombinator.com##body:style(background: black) news.ycombinator.com##td:styl…

This article is giving Kurt Vonnegut and I love it.

My own (anecdotal) experience tells me that increased social media use is directly proportional to increased bad feelings. Common sense tells me that increased bad feelings over ti…

Sam and all the others. At this point, there should be required courses in college to teach this seemingly required skill to future corporate USA.

I had to do similar during the first summer of COVID to get my boat onto Lake Tahoe. Lake Tahoe (and most lakes in CA) requires boat inspections immediately prior to getting onto t…

Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E work. On macos w/ Karabiner you can remap Home and End to those for the Slack app.

I guess it depends on how and why they are used by the developer. Most of the code I write isn't bleeding edge stuff, and using a copilot as a thought partner is pretty useful.

Neal Stephenson wrote a book in 2021 aptly named "Termination Shock" where sulfur is intentionally added to the atmosphere to influence the climate.

Here's a nice series of articles if you haven't seen it before, which can help you to reduce your compilation times: https://medium.com/multiverse-tech/how-to-speed-up-your-elix...…

try hammerspoon. it isn't a tiling window manager, per se - it's more of an all-purpose desktop extension framework. it is fully customizable, has a well-documented API, and a larg…

Telecoms lobby against this because they generate big revenues servicing SMS spammers whom end-users aren't able to effectively block since the ID is trivially spoofed.

If your org has a software consultancy sales arm, you can make this shift by becoming a solutions architect. You'll get to work with sales and product to create solutions for prosp…

Instead of running each small write query as the event occurs (a vote), collect them in memory and at some time interval (1m, 5m, or whatever your UX will tolerate) write them to t…

Ha! I fell into the same trap. I meant crypto is not a low-risk investment.

What is your definition of safe when it comes to investing in crypto? In the broader sense of the word, it is absolutely not safe because crypto is not safe.

"Why are you taking my picture?" "I'm not, I'm checking if you are too close to me."

This is awesome. You'll probably want to at least cross-reference this with the dew point, as temperature is only part of the story when it comes to being a comfortable human. Humi…

I remember picking these out of the sand on beaches in Southern California in the late 80s. We even called them nurdles then, but I thought us cool kids had come up with the name.