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pfgallagher

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About pfgallagher

pat at gallagher dot dev

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    Comment #45768180

    Yeah, people are definitely wired differently! It’s cool to see there’s a lot more research going into how minds like ours work.

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    Comment #45764556

    I’ve heard about that! My partner and I have both been learning to draw this year. I’m pretty decent at drawing observationally / from reference, but I haven’t tried much from memo…

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    Comment #45764382

    Your metaphor isn't bad, actually. I just don't visualize anything. It's more like a feeling of abstract relationships. It often feels like most of my brain is in RAM; I can usuall…

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    Comment #45764287

    I have aphantasia. Like many others, I am able to see images when I dream and very rarely in a hypnagogic state. My partner is on the opposite side of the spectrum; she can conjure…

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    Comment #40252642

    Yep. Directly renders HTML input and the ‘name’ validation is clientside only.

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    Comment #40247723

    No, more along the lines of it seemed gimmicky to me. Could easily just be an app.

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    Comment #40243400

    I turned down an interview with Rabbit. While I was looking into the company, I watched a product demo of theirs featuring the CEO who didn’t use the scroll wheel on the device (in…

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    Comment #39842865

    What makes a song sound “good” is another question - there seem to be countless factors. Most people can easily tell you if they subjectively like or dislike a song, but typically …

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    Comment #39709917

    What about github?

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    Comment #39550236

    Some of the largest investors in private equity REITs are retirement funds.

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    Comment #39489124

    Haha, yep. Ours is American Legal Publishing, too.

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    Comment #39488671

    Did you put this together? It looks great. The site our village uses to host its village code is an atrocity so I’ve been considering rolling my own unofficial version.

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    Comment #39235749

    Searching for: site: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/ "mozilla developer network" yielded ~115 results on Google

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    Comment #37989037

    I wasn't involved with the hardware side of things. The SoCs are from Nvidia, iirc. The widely-publicized issues with Walgreens are 'electrical,' but I'm unsure of what that actual…

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    Comment #37988054

    Unlike the starting point, a regular glass door, which effectively always accurately displays its inventory, a screen layer, by nature, introduces the possibility of inaccurate dat…

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    Comment #37986407

    Some friends worked there. The vibe was very corporate for a startup; they definitely took a lot of management cues from Walgreens.

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    Comment #37986389

    I was on the Retail Value Add (RVA) team, which primarily handles the backend providing the content to the doors, as well as an interface for clients to update said content.

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    Comment #37985928

    I used to work at Cooler Screens, if anyone has any questions :D

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    Comment #34715136

    I got it to list out some keys with example values ("context information" in chatGPT parlance): { "Current date": "2023-02-08", "Knowledge cutoff": "2021-09", "Language": "English"…

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    Ask HN: Does TransUnion really store passwords in plain text?

    As I was attempting to log in to my TransUnion account today, I went to fill in my creds using my password manager. I received an interesting error message that stated passwords ha…