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blairandersonon Apple Vision Pro

please flag this post. An earlier has 20x more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36201593

blairandersonon Severance payments at Wikimedia Foundation

These are the smallest parachutes to make headlines.

blairandersonon Ask HN: Amazon account is suspended and I lost all tax documents. What to do?

they'll send your 1099 at end of year.

blairandersonon Walmart’s redesigned website looks better than Amazon

That article is spam. Please flag this post.

blairandersonon Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI

Honestly your "idea generator" blew my mind. Would love to see a section that includes a larger catalog of prefilled prompts.

I'm thinking: What would a GPT project manager do? What would a GPT money manager do? What would a GPT logistics manager do? GPT Data Analyst, Etc.

blairandersonon Disinfection with Far-UV (222 nm Ultraviolet light) (2020) [pdf]

I recently visited a national trade show for HVACR folks and found this company:

https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Tube-UV-Light/dp/B00D48XDO0/

Thought it might be applicable to computers, but realized that UV breaks-down PLASTICS as well, which is why you mostly find in ducting.

Very cool stuff if you're into clean/sterile living.

Note: Most of the dust in your home is comprised of human skin. Unless you've had an industrial vacuuming, other people's skin is moving around your house or gumming up the walls of your ducts. UV lights (and chemicals) are the only way to break that shit down.

blairandersonon Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B

here to complain about bloomberg.com - couldn't find any content to read on that page.

https://www.figma.com/blog/a-new-collaboration-with-adobe/

blairandersonon Ask HN: Any Experience with Pioneer.app?

They have some scraping system with github, because I have gotten 3 emails from different projects, all the same text.

blairandersonon TIFU by using Stripe as a payment processor for my small business

Alternatively, I use Stripe as a payment processor for my small business and it works flawlessly.

blairandersonon Ask HN: Why not have reverse life insurance that rewards longevity?

yes and simple calculators are everywhere: https://www.schwab.com/annuities/fixed-income-annuity-calcul...

Its basically 5% Annually... to which stock-people say "why not put into a dividend earning fund" and analysis paralysis kicks in...

blairandersonon Show HN: Shopify's headless commerce stack now GA (Hydrogen and Oxygen)

I have major respect for whoever created this landing page.

The scrollspy using hash changes to represent difference sections of the page, and unique graphic on top to show progress. baller shit.

blairandersonon Twitter Notes

https://twitter.com/i/notes/1539613004370788352

https://twitter.com/i/notes/1535469588846092288

https://twitter.com/i/notes/1534297736597618689

blairandersonon Ask HN: Is the EULA on my new $30k RED cinema camera legal?

Dude they're not trying to take ownership of the content.

Everyone with software needs you to agree to them capturing analytics data.

blairandersonon Show HN: Stacktape – Full power of AWS with Heroku-like experience

As someone that is happy paying 5-10x more for heroku, you can easily get me (and people like me) if you focus on onboarding.

Automatically generate the first yaml/config file from looking at my codebase? Heroku-like CLI that generates/updates the YAML file? Heroku gives me "redis" without me needing to learn anything about AWS/YAML-config shit.

One-Click starter file for 10-most popular apps...

- rails/postgres/redis

- create-react-app

- static site generator

- node/serverless

blairandersonon Ask HN: Starting a Career in Programming at 61?

I would say yes absolutely. He doesn't have anything to lose.

blairandersonon Launch HN: Living Carbon (YC W20) – Trees that capture and store more carbon

Screw the haters. The same complainers forget most of their fruit/veg/meat has been modified/spliced by humans in some way for better yield. I see no difference between farmers that spend 15 years creating a new apple, and you. Please keep building.

blairandersonon Ask HN: I'm So Lonely

http://www.paulgraham.com/todo.html

blairandersonon Google Search Is Dying

Distribution will come if the product is better, but it is a hard problem. I try every new search engine I can and they are always worse/slower than google.

blairandersonon Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?

he's not talking about ADVERTISING. You need to reach out to people yourself, cold email, tell them you have a product that does XYZ and think it might solve their problems.

blairandersonon Ask HN: Messed up my education, now 30 and regretting it. What to do?

brother, crack open a damn Brene-brown audiobook about vulnerability.

https://brenebrown.com/book/the-power-of-vulnerability/

Never feeling qualified, feeling like a screw-up for attending college in your 30's... these are stories you've made up in your head for how people gauge your worth.

close your eyes and think about where you want to be sitting in 5 years, work your way backwards, and start checking boxes...

blairandersonon A foreign seller has hijacked my Amazon Klein bottle listing

Hi Cliff, I'm an independent amazon consultant.

Your Amazon problems would be solved with a regular USPTO trademark. They don't recognize common-law trademarks because they are heavily arguable in litigation.

USPTO is a database of trademarks already scrutinized by trademark attorneys and government. It's not perfect, but it is a collection that Amazon recognizes.

You can do this for $2000-ish and never think about it again.

then GS1.org for barcodes

Now you can sell your bottles in museum gift-shops!