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Zircom

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Zircom··on 10TB portable SSDs on Amazon UK are scams
You're absolutely right, my point was that Amazon makes it even easier by removing what is by far the largest hurdle with stolen goods, which is the actual distribution and selling of them.
Zircom··on Firefighters forced to smash window of driverless Cruise taxi to stop it
I think never is a strong word. You genuine believe that we'll never create an equivalent or even comparable intelligence to our own artificially?
Zircom··on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
Absolutely. People are human,and to be human is to make mistakes. You can't claim to love someone if you can't accept them for their imperfection and extend to them the same grace you allow yourself for your own mishaps and fuckups.

Back a long time ago, about a year into my relationship, my partner managed to spill an entire crockpot of apple cider all over the backseat of my car she was borrowing to take to a friend's place. I reminded her several times to make sure to shut it tight and to secure it somewhere on the floor in the middle of the rest of her stuff so it wouldn't tip and spill.

Of course she didn't do any of that and it got absolutely all over my seats and was a sticky gross mess. I later heard she spent the whole rest of the night over there fretting and worrying about how mad I was gonna be when she got home. And she was literally dumbstruck when my only response was "Alright no worries, sounds good" when she'd gotten back and offered to pay to get the interior detailed after explaining what happened.

"Aren't you mad," she asked and I just said "Not really, it's fixable and you already said you'd fix it, not much to be mad about."

Zircom··on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
Get one with a separate tank and controls on the actual handle part, much easier to manoeuver and can turn toggle it on/off quickly while switching areas of your mouth.
Zircom··on 10TB portable SSDs on Amazon UK are scams
Tide laundry detergent is a big one. People steal it by the cartload, and either relist it themselves or sell to unscrupulous resellers who list it themselves.

Pretty much any fungible commodity that grocery stores sell that's easily stolen, if it's available on Amazon almost certainly has stolen instances mixed into the supply chain, especially with FBA items.

Guarantee there's plenty of people making decent money doing this in San Francisco and other cities that no longer prosecute shoplifters, there's literally no risk or downside.

Zircom··on Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?
Okay except I didn't say anything about people with literal shit stains or exposing themselves, stop putting words in my mouth. Both of the things you mentioned can apply to ANY kind of clothing.
Zircom··on Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?
>being a grown-ass adult in pajamas out in public

I'm with you about all the other things but people wearing whatever clothes they want to affects you in literally no way shape or form.

Zircom··on Ask HN: What're the craziest hacks you've done to launch?
Doesn't really count as a product launch, but my freshmen year of college in my first ever programming class we had to present an app we designed to the rest of the class.

I'd designed a small little casino game that had a few different games(roulette, poker, etc), and at some point in time a couple of nights before it was due I somehow managed to fuck something up and when it was displaying the results, the string somehow had the number repeated over and over and over with it running off the screen. Like "The wheel stopped on 66666666666666666666666". I had no idea what the fuck I had done and for the life of me couldn't chase the bug down, not that I put much effort into it because I didn't really have the time given the other 4 finals I had to be studying for.

So I changed the string generating function slightly to append the result + 200 spaces instead of just the result, so the repeating digits past the first one would all just get pushed off the edge of the screen and not be visible.

Got a 100% and a fun little email exchange with my professor when he saw the print statement, he thanked me for the laugh and wished me well hoping this would be the first of many last minute hacks in my career.

Zircom··on The Science of Sword-Swallowing (2007)
To be fair I don't think much has changed in the sword swallowing world since it's apparent inception in 2000BC.
Zircom··on Ask HN: How do ADHD people cope on here?
Time wasted would be an accurate assessment so I won't bother continuing this discussion, you have yourself a nice night and/or day.
Zircom··on Ask HN: How do ADHD people cope on here?
You guys can stop fighting. ADHD is an broad label for what is becoming increasingly obvious are separate conditions, and I think they are up to at least 2 different types and then a third with mixed symptoms of both.

What works for someone else may not work for you and vice versa, that's okay, it doesn't have to turn into you two being condescending assholes to each other or accusing the other of faking ADHD.

The question was how you personally deal with your ADHD and they answered with what they do personally to deal with their ADHD, stop shitting all over them and talking down to them for being on topic. If you wanna give constructive advice you can do without being a jerk about it.

Zircom··on Show HN: Names
For sure here:

https://imgur.com/gallery/aKaOqIh

Zircom··on The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3
Assign workspace to specific screen->assign specific window/program to workspace and area within the workspace ->set i3 to open whatever programs/windows you want on start up and they're automatically arranged. That's more or less my set up and it's pretty persistent as far as I can tell?
Zircom··on Zelda: Link's Awakening game engine documentation (2021)
The original hardware prevented it in the sense it's impossible to push both the left and right button at the same time on the Gameboy dpad, not through any software means.
Zircom··on Tallow in plastics – why? (2016)
Where do you buy the STP?
Zircom··on How the Steam Deck breathes life into underrated old games
Just an FYI but the Switch actually does have all the Jackbox games, we play them all the time on ours.
Zircom··on The US-Canada border cuts through the Haskell Free Library and Opera House
And Lockheed charges $2500 a foot.
Zircom··on Social media may prevent users from reaping creative rewards of profound boredom
https://youtu.be/hv1Hnmt1GBo

You're 'search engine prompting' needs some work, next time try "tédio Brazil song" :p

Zircom··on The Hobbit: Riddles in the Dark – The Lost Version (2001)
Glen Cook has an absolutely fantastic series called The Black Company where the entire series is framed as being the recorded annals of a mercenary company, with who is writing them switching occasionally between books to different characters, which let's you see the narrating character who usually writes them from a different, and sometimes less flattering, perspective.

In any case, unreliable narration is obviously a big of the series, and the concept that just because something is written down doesn't mean it happened that way is pretty central, and I think it's outright brought up by the narrator at least a few times, and reading between the lines/making inferences that don't line up exactly with what is recorded is pretty much necessary to understanding the plot of the series sometimes.

Cook also served for 10 years, not sure if he ever saw active combat but the series is constantly praised by veterans for it's accurate portrayal of what life in the military actually feels like.

Zircom··on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
I believe truthers is what they call themselves.
Zircom··on Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
The killer feature is the Plex app is already available on pretty much any device you can think of and at least from the user side, setting it up is as easy as just signing in and it's all ready to go.
Zircom··on Washington faltered as fentanyl gripped America
The guidelines also say not to comment complaining that a submission is off topic or inappropriate for HN, so you need to make up your mind on whether you actually wanna follow them or not.
Zircom··on SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities
Most crime that we have records for to use for studies is committed by men you mean. Who is to say how much crime by women goes unreported and uninvestigated, and therefore has no presence in our statistics.
Zircom··on FTC seeks to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard
So by 10 years I don't mean playing casually for a decade, it's literally 90,000 hours. And Diablo Immortal is a little different being a PVP game, having good gear doesn't just let you solo dungeons, it means people paying their way into kicking your ass every time.
Zircom··on Globalization is dead and no one is listening
>The US was not founded on slavery and genocide, this is bullshit history. Half of the original colonies barely ever had slavery and had banned it before the revolution.

>Half of the original colonies barely ever had slavery and had banned it before the revolution.

>Half of the original colonies

So.... you're saying that half of them had full on slavery, and the other half had reduced to no slavery....to me it seems "founded" on slavery is absolutely accurate, especially considering that is literally enshrined in our highest governing document via the 3/5ths compromise, and went on to be the heart of the southern economy, becoming near and dear to enough people's hearts that half the country went to war to preserve it. And what would you call what we did to Native Americans if not genocide?

Zircom··on The silent struggles of workers with ADHD
You might try switching to strattera or Adderall for a month or two, there can be a dramatic difference between the effectiveness of ADD medications on individuals.
Zircom··on The Uninhabitable Earth (2017)
Yeah, grass and bushes and trees and shrubs can, have, and will continue to grow in any but the most extreme conditions sure and those are going to be fine for herbivores who can digest and extract nutrients from them, but for the food crops that we can eat, they need pretty specific climates for us to successfully cultivate them at the scale needed to sustain sizable populations.
Zircom··on The Uninhabitable Earth (2017)
Uninhabitable as in unable to support modern civilization and population levels, probably in large part due to agriculture no longer being viable due to lack of water or weather related issues I'd assume.
Zircom··on EU-wide maximum limit of €10K for cash payments
Blocking domestic and international commerce, and more importantly access for emergency services, goes a little beyond just "protesting" as most people see it, and it also probably isn't protected by whatever right to assemble/protest people have in Canada, if any(?).
Zircom··on EU-wide maximum limit of €10K for cash payments
Scenario one - Person A bank transfers Person B $10,000 for their classic car at the car show. Person A leaves, and then several days later the money is clawed back from Person B's account as it turns out it was sent from a stolen/compromised account. They now have no money and no car.

Scenario two - Person A gives Person B $10,000 in cash for their classic car at the car show. Person A leaves, and Person B could give a shit about anything to do with Person A as soon as they are out of sight.

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