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joeyagreco··on [dead]
> The tech cuts aren’t scary at all because who can cry foul when the ice cream machine is about to replace the ice cream man? Ice cream man was never a real job to begin with.

what ?

joeyagreco··on Gene Hackman : Hollywood legend dies aged 95
> Gene Hackman, his wife Betsy Arakawa and their dog have been found dead at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

> "...at this time we do not believe that foul play was a factor"

Am I missing something or is this really strange?

joeyagreco··on Show HN: Prioritize Anything with Stacks
Belli is a restaurant rating app that uses a similar approach to ranking restaurants and giving them a score 0-10.

Really simplifies things.

https://beliapp.com/

joeyagreco··on Try thinking and learning without working memory (2008)
> see http://thankyoubrain.com

oh... oh god

joeyagreco··on DOGE to examine NASA payments – SpaceNews
Conflict of interest?
joeyagreco··on Blocking the telemetry of Adobe apps
https://www.photopea.com/
joeyagreco··on Physical media is officially back
Feel like there will be a resurgence in demand for physical media over the next 10-15 years.
joeyagreco··on Show HN: I Put Snake in my Resume [pdf]
doesn't work in firefox :/
joeyagreco··on Show HN: Anyshift.io – Terraform "Superplan"
almost all of the positive responses on here are from brand new accounts...
joeyagreco··on Nobody Cares
> I want to live in a community where everyone cares.

This summarizes the whole thing quite well.

joeyagreco··on I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back
I switched to Firefox from Chrome a few years back and I've enjoyed the experience.
joeyagreco··on Python Is the New Basic
> I don't actually like Python. [...] I find the syntax ugly (format strings

Format strings being the first supporting reason for not liking a language is so funny to me.

joeyagreco··on Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow
> The rest of the society should not participate in "delivering justice": obviously not by hitting them or torturing them, but also not by taking away their property or social capital.

Well said.

joeyagreco··on A day in the life of a prolific voice phishing crew
Some of these tactics are really clever.
joeyagreco··on Musk and Ramaswamy expose rift with MAGA loyalists over foreign tech workers
emphasis on could.

I think we could take some time to work out a solution that would not count "diploma milled" candidates.

joeyagreco··on Books I Loved Reading in 2024
The rule of thumb is: The number of pages you read every day is the number of books you will read in a year.

Read 10 pages per day? That's 10 books that year.

I read a little less than 1 page per minute (depends on book), but the way I look at it is minutes per day = books in year. Read 30 minutes every day that's 30 books that year.

joeyagreco··on Books I Loved Reading in 2024
My top 3 books of 2024:

1. Right/Wrong - Juan Enriquez

2. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl

3. How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie

joeyagreco··on Musk and Ramaswamy expose rift with MAGA loyalists over foreign tech workers
> noncitizens in the U.S. should "automatically" get green cards when they graduate from college

Personally, I think this could be a great policy.

joeyagreco··on Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2024?
Right/Wrong by Juan Enriquez

Very interesting outlook on the ethics of the near future. Gave me a great (new) perspective on many issues.

https://www.amazon.com/Right-Wrong-Technology-Transforms-Eth...

joeyagreco··on Walmart employees now wearing body cameras
Assuming this is the reason, it seems much less trivial to install more/better cameras in a store than to coordinate this effort.
joeyagreco··on Exploiting McDonald's APIs to hijack deliveries and order food for a penny
+1 to that. McDonald's is sending out a clear message that exploits and vulnerabilities in the future will NOT be rewarded when reported to them.
joeyagreco··on Dumb TVs deserve a comeback
1. If you want the functionality of a smart TV without all of the bloat, I've found Apple TV to be fast and functional. Little to no ads.

2. Running a PiHole (or something similar at a DNS level), you can prevent a lot of the "phoning home" these TVs do. That still does not solve the bloatware/speed issue, but point 1 addresses that.

joeyagreco··on Over half of long posts on LinkedIn are likely AI-generated
this claims that over 5% of LinkedIn posts in 2018 (pre GPT-2) were AI-generated

I find that hard to believe

joeyagreco··on Python type hints may not be not for me in practice
> After the code has stabilized I can probably go back to write type hints [...] but I'm not sure that this would provide very much value.

I think most developers who revisit their projects 6+ months later would disagree with the second part of this statement.

My typical flow for "quick scripts" is:

on first pass I'll add basic type hints (typing ":str" after a func param takes .2 seconds)

for more complex data structures (think a json response from an api), dict (or typing.Dict) work fine

if you want a Python project to be maintainable, type hints are a requirement imho.

joeyagreco··on Deprecating outdated issues on the GitHub public roadmap
no idea how [this](https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/552) was closed as "outdated"
joeyagreco··on 1M people have joined Bluesky in the last day
Is this worth trying? I tried Threads when it came out and very quickly regretted it. Is this a legit replacement for X/Twitter?
joeyagreco··on Dev Fonts
I currently use [JetBrainsMono](https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/)
joeyagreco··on Show HN: IMDb SQL Best Movie Finder
I've been looking for something like that dropdown / query builder on the site.. any idea what was used for that?
joeyagreco··on Tinylangs: Programming languages in 50 lines of Python
God I love Python
joeyagreco··on One Company A/B Tested Hybrid Work. Here's What They Found
Clickbait titles <<<<<
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