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huffmsa··on The strange business of hole-in-one insurance
You've described part of the 2008 financial crisis.
huffmsa··on Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020)
Apple effectively has infinite money, they could make more man-hours
huffmsa··on No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing
> Most older generations did not choose to have children

Birth control and family planning aren't a new invention.

huffmsa··on Companies are buying washing machines to take the chips out and repurpose them
Soylent green figured it out
huffmsa··on Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't remove it
Is your child logged in with a CPS managed email address?
huffmsa··on Kodak factory tour: How does Kodak make film? [video]
You know he did / does work for the US military, right?
huffmsa··on Why America can’t build quickly anymore
We can't disturb the habitat of the western red land grouse in the name of progress.

How dare you.

huffmsa··on Home Depot Finds DIY Success with Vector Search
I bought a house in the past year and have become a regular at Home Depot. Now that I'm aware, I have noticed that I've had very little issue with their online search. And the site tells me exactly the aisle and bay # to get it
huffmsa··on I’m not convinced by the new lab leak debunking
> it would be an odd coincidence for a lab-leaked virus to have its first big super-spreading event at a live animal market,

Not really if the market is literally next door. The infected lab worker goes over to do their after work shopping for a few days in a row and you've got your outbreak.

huffmsa··on Ask HN: Any piece of hardware that was more of game changer than you expected?
Impact driver
huffmsa··on A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar
And here I've been complaining that my WRX has one switch for sunroof tilt and a different one for opening and closing it.

Inefficient, but I can operate it without having to come to a complete stop

huffmsa··on Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online
The only advice he gives is to stop being a fatty McFatty and try to be more healthy, which is exactly the right suggestion.

Also routinely says not to listen to him, they're his opinions and probably wrong.

huffmsa··on Phone is still the best way to order pizza
Large pizza = large plain pizza Large pepperoni = large pepperoni

Lots of traditional pizzerias will understand that and not offer much else.

huffmsa··on Phone is still the best way to order pizza
Not only that, but they know me by number and how I sound so I get a 20% employees and family discount. (Which I more than offset by buying beer when I get their early and the tip)
huffmsa··on Why don't we use the math we learn in school?
Yeah I immediately failed it and started thinking of physical ways to do it. Totally forgot I could just multiply the fractions.

Though my mind was also in reading mode and not math mode

huffmsa··on The clock does not measure time; it produces it
> after finishing a hunt

Which doesn't necessarily happen at the same time every hunt. There's no post-hunt retro at 1300 every day.

You're agreeing with the article that until very recently, event times were flexible and determined by processes that aren't the vibration of a piece of quartz.

huffmsa··on Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (2018)
Scuzzy rent seekers
huffmsa··on The medieval habit of ‘two sleeps’
If my cats are any indication of their larger wilder relatives, 1-3am is prime attack time. Might have been beneficial to be on guard during those hours when the felines were larger and more murderous.
huffmsa··on Reporter likely to be charged for using “view source” feature on web browser
If a government clerk brings you a stack of papers with SSNs on it and you read it and tell them, it's not your fault.

Just because the browser only renders certain parts of the returned document doesn't mean that the government site didn't send you the whole document

huffmsa··on Companies that had successful pivots
With a brief foray into the hat making business in-between
huffmsa··on Ask HN: What are you predictions for 2022?
I think you mean Google Tok Messenger, their 900th iteration of a messaging service
huffmsa··on In 1930 the Indiana Bell building was rotated 90°
They'd probably laugh at the absurdity of the question and say "for as long as it needs to be"
huffmsa··on Anti-Patterns to Avoid in Lambda Based Apps
We use them for things that require unpredictable but immediate bursts of scaled parallel processing
huffmsa··on Pre-industrial workers had a shorter workweek than today's (1991)
Right, you're likely never going to hoe so many days in a row that you develop RSI.

The guy who did develop it is likely the guy who invented the plow

huffmsa··on OSHA to require employers with 100 employees vaccinate or test workforce
Citizen, our records indicate you ate more than your mandate controlled 100g of chocolate and only ran 2.95mi of your mandatory 3mi on our freely available sidewalks.

Your employment has been terminated. You many apply for unemployment benefits after our records show compliance.

Combating obesity is for the good of society.

huffmsa··on Reining in the thundering herd: Getting to 80% CPU utilization with Django
In the early stages:

Speed of development is far more important than optimizing CPU usage.

You can fake your way to fast responses with good caching, but there's not really many ways to fake having the best features.

huffmsa··on Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”
Like how the surgeon general and head of infectious diseases said masks were no good.
huffmsa··on Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”
Having a government backed monopoly is the best business to be in.
huffmsa··on Valve Steam Deck
You can plug it into a display, and plug in a mouse + keyboard.

I'd be inclined to buy one of these for gaming and an ultra light laptop for laptop stuff when the time comes, versus getting a gaming laptop or desktop.

huffmsa··on Sriracha hit revenue of $150M a year with no sales team or ad spend
I actually don't remember eating that many tomatoes last time I was in Italy. I did go to the North, which has a bit more butter eater influence, but even in Rome there weren't that many tomatoes. Olives, cheeses, cured meats abound, but not tomatoes.
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