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98codes··on Show HN: Jobs by Referral: Find jobs in your LinkedIn network
It's there -- go to the jobs tab, answer the first time questions if they come up, and when you get the job list, click All Filters, and scroll the filter list down (admittedly, pretty far down); there's an "In your network" toggle.
98codes··on Show HN: Jobs by Referral: Find jobs in your LinkedIn network
Primarily because LinkedIn has to bother with complying with their privacy policies and other T&Cs, and your site has none of that.

Why should I take all of my data and give it to you, a rando on the internet? Is it being stored? Will it be shared? Sold? Maybe, as there's nothing that says you won't.

Looks neat, but strong pass because of the above.

98codes··on Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux
There are definitely webcams that work with Windows Hello, and those that don't.
98codes··on Puerto Rico's Solar Microgrids Beat Blackout
I'd love to have some form of solar work out cost-wise for me here in Seattle -- there just aren't enough sunny days throughout the year to make solar financially make sense, even over a 20-year period. At least from what the solar calculators I've found on the web would have me believe.
98codes··on NSF getting kicked out of headquarters by HUD
Too far from the beach.
98codes··on Is Lovable getting monetization wrong?
End users rarely pay for the program. Someone in their management chain OKs the purchase, or there's a larger purchase with a cross-charge to the department for the license cost. the problem comes when software needs to meet every whim of the decision maker, when really the users only will ever use 20% at best.
98codes··on College baseball, venture capital, and the long maybe
Sure, but if an endowment is paying for, say, the football coaching staff, then that leaves that much more money free in the general fund to pay for other things.

If the endowment is paying for something that otherwise wouldn't be paid for generally, that's a different story.

98codes··on Should we design for iffy internet?
The only thing worse than no internet is one bar of signal.
98codes··on Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways
When I was in the 8th grade (back in the 1900s), I took a typing elective class, because I figured if I was going to be in front of a keyboard typing for a living as a programmer, I should learn to do it right.

That was a rare very good decision for kid me back then, and it's paid off ever since.

98codes··on When will M&S take online orders again?
[citation needed]
98codes··on xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app
AI models being "sold" into apps is the new version of Google paying to be the default search in web browsers.

Main difference now is that the worst version is the only one being sold.

98codes··on Microsoft dumps AI into Notepad as 'Copilot all the things' mania takes hold
Is it dumb? Yes. Can you still use Notepad as Notepad? Also yes.

We'll all survive.

98codes··on MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0
We ran out of acronyms some time in the late 2000s I think; ever since then, name collisions everywhere.
98codes··on MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0
Open standard or not, how is it a standard at all? I spent a while trying to find what the current version number of the spec is, and I could not find one. Theer were SDKs, and the SDKs have versions, but the protocol itself seems to be on v0.0.0.
98codes··on Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane
Makes me wonder if the pattern will continue to follow, and we start to find certain agents—maybe due to config, maybe due to the training codebase and the codebase they're pointed at—that will become the single one out of the group we can rely on.

Give instructions, get good code back. That's the dream, though I think the pieces that need to fall into place for particular cases will prevent reaching that top quality bar in the general case.

98codes··on If an AI agent can't figure out how your API works, neither can your users
/s, presumably
98codes··on The A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be with You Soon
100% why I bothered to stick w/ OneMedical after the Amazon acquisition. I tried to get a "New Dr/New Patient" appointment with any local doctor I could find that took my insurance, and the closest I could get was 3 weeks away.

I'm not worried about medical folks having "time to clean" any time soon.

98codes··on The A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be with You Soon
When it comes to test results, does HIPAA prevent anonymization, such that all would be provided is test input & eventual result?
98codes··on What is HDR, anyway?
Every few years I turn on that HDR toggle for my desktop PC, and it never lasts longer than a day or two.

Top tip: If you have HDR turned on for your display in Windows (at least, MacOS not tested) and then share your screen in Teams, your display will look weirdly dimmed for everyone not using HDR on their display—which is everyone.

98codes··on What Is HDR, Anyway?
My father, for one. He was entirely happy with radio in the car and CDs at home.
98codes··on Why Bell Labs Worked
Put another, I think more accurate way: hindsight is always 20/20.

Very often, the thing that seemed impossible that suddenly wasn't anymore looks "obvious" when looking back at the completed solution.

98codes··on Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders
Where do you live where vehicular manslaughter is not being prosecuted?
98codes··on Palestinian activist arrested by ICE while expecting U.S. citizenship interview
> would be classified as a criminal if they did what they're doing today... 20+ yrs ago

American that was alive and adulting in the 90s checking in: no, they wouldn't have. Even after 2001.

98codes··on Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash
Then you decide if the positives outweigh the negatives and unfollow them or not.

This particular situation is why the only thing I miss from Twitter at this point is the ability to mute an account's reposts rather than the full account.

98codes··on Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte
Getting onto the allowed vendor list for the US Government is a dire process even for the largest of global service companies, by design by the folks already on the list.

I was able to work as an individual as a subcontractor for a subcontractor for a company on the list. Rates aren't as high, but with federal regulations (for now) mandating that subcontractors be paid as soon as the primary contract holder was paid meant that there was 0 chasing after invoices which is actually very nice.

98codes··on MLB says Yankees' new "torpedo bats" are legal and likely coming
Source: Trust me bro
98codes··on MLB says Yankees' new "torpedo bats" are legal and likely coming
I'm sure there have been bat changes all along the way, and if the Yankees hadn't scored 20 runs that day we wouldn't be reading about this either.
98codes··on MLB says Yankees’ new “torpedo bats” are legal and likely coming
Remind him that he needs to turn in his interlocking NY for an interlocking LA.
98codes··on MLB says Yankees' new "torpedo bats" are legal and likely coming
The concept is out there -- different players would have different tendencies that would require slightly different adjustments.

This will make the team owners either do their own analysis, or come up with yet more excuses to hide the fact that while they could afford it, they won't.

98codes··on “The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study”
This supports the inverse square rule for seafood restaurant quality vs. being near the ocean. There are good places, but right on the water? Universally bad.
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