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In my case there wasn't. I had a fraudulent account opened in my name at Bank of America and it took over 5 hours of talking to different people, going into a local branch, and waiting on hold to get to someone that could actually do something about it.

vicarrionon Organic and regenerative agriculture are revitalizing rural Montana economies

At Indigo we're working on incentivizing farmers to adopt regenerative practices and get paid for sequestering carbon.

There's a number of open positions, most with the option to be remote!

https://www.indigoag.com/carbon

https://www.indigoag.com/join-us

vicarrionon The Year in Volcanic Activity

That first photograph is incredible

vicarrionon What Unity Is Getting Wrong

100% agree with this.

Everything they’ve done in the last 5 years I’ve been using Unity has felt half baked. You’ll try any number of the things they’ve released recently (networking, 2d animation, and vector graphics are the ones that come to mind for me) and they’ll work fine for their demo case but then fall apart with so many cases that you need to actually ship a game. I think one of the bigger problems with the company is that they’re not actually making games themselves and eating their own dog food.

vicarrionon Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

https://dillonshook.com/

I've been mostly posting game dev related things lately but try to add posts whenever I come across something that would be helpful to many people.

vicarrionon The Geocities Gallery

Only 216 requests & 3.5mb transferred!

vicarrionon Google Announces Pixel 4

The photo improvements are a result of taking multiple pictures and processing them into one image which you can't do with video.

vicarrionon Joel Spolsky and Clive Thompson discuss the past, present, and future of coding

Haha it mostly makes me think how frustrating it is to work in excel

vicarrionon The Architecture of Open Source Applications

Redis would also be nice

vicarrionon The toll climate change is taking on oceans

Great talk. I was expecting him to be working on some of the areas mentioned in the video but seems like he's just doing seminars now... https://www.prototypethinking.live/

vicarrionon Austin Is Building a Mini Silicon Valley

With even fewer viable public transportation options!

vicarrionon Sharpest bread kitchen knife in the world [video]

From my own experience slicing slightly overripe tomatoes that have some give to them are much harder to slice with a non serrated knife than a firm cucumber. Wonder why cucumbers became the standard haha.

vicarrionon Which Face Is Real?

Knowing that one is fake you can take the time to pick it out, but these could easily pass as real photos in a context where you're not looking for them.

vicarrionon Hannibal’s route across the Alps (2016)

Why wouldn't there be horse or elephant bones to find?

vicarrionon Ask HN: Which tool do you use to create beautiful diagrams?

I've switched to Affinity Designer recently and have been pleasantly surprised. There's some really bad and clunky Adobe UI in Illustrator which affinity improves on. There's only been one or two thing's I've missed from Illustrator that are in their feature pipeline so hopefully they'll be coming soon.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/

vicarrionon Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

I would definitely love to have tabs for multiple repositories. Source tree on windows has this which is great for managing lots of different projects, but infuriatingly on osx sourcetree has one window for each project.

vicarrionon Ask HN: What just happened to the internet?

Level 3 seems to be having a major outage

http://downdetector.com/status/level3/map/

vicarrionon Learn GraphQL by querying JSON

This is the static vs dynamic type argument at its heart. When making small apps, dynamic wins out from not having to declare or think too much about types. After some threshold in complexity having static types is much better.

vicarrionon ITER is a showcase for the drawbacks of fusion energy

Very interesting video. I've also been watching the progress that General Fusion has been making https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3zcmPmW6dE

I think they're building a full size generator right now working off of all their smaller scale experiments.

vicarrionon Robinhood Crypto – Invest in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

I would be extremely wary about trusting robinhood now. I have a stock account with them and back in October I used their new feature to transfer stocks from other brokerages. However, there was never any selection for _which_ stocks you wanted to transfer so it transferred all of them without confirmation. After 4 back and forth support emails each taking multiple days to hear back on I finally gave up with them and got Vanguard to transfer some of the stocks back. Robinhood responded by deactivating my account until the transfer was complete, which it did a week later. Here I am mid January still waiting for my account to be reopened after creating a new support ticket for them to respond to.