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frankthedog··on Why can't we remember our lives as babies or toddlers?
Sounds like you’re doing great and picking up a lot from your little one already. Congratulations to you all. It’s extremely rewarding.
frankthedog··on Uncut Currency
I once found a pad of tear off $2 on the ground of the departures drop off at O’hare airport. I thought it was a novelty initially but after closer inspection found the bills to be real. It’s been a 20 year mystery to me how that came to be since I’ve never seen anything like it since. Now I’m wondering if I found Woz’s pad.

That would be quite interesting because when I was very young I crank called him after finding his number online. He collects phone numbers with repeating digits and mine has 6 repeated numbers. I guess he found my number peculiar and picked up! In my young and starstruck state I panicked and hung up. How coincidental to have potentially two obscure path crossings with the Woz.

frankthedog··on The Great Flattening
Indeed, the same mechanism is used by Bloomberg for gift links. A signed JWT with expiry 7 days from creation. A fitting use case in my opinion.
frankthedog··on Investors in Airbnb arbitrage business allege they were defrauded in scheme
As opposed to Real Investments which are not made to try and make a profit?
frankthedog··on Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
If code is free speech it wouldn’t matter whether they had good OpSec or not is what I’m saying
frankthedog··on Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
Explain that to the tornado cash guys
frankthedog··on Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
I love the sound effects
frankthedog··on I wired up my bike's GPS to order me pizza during a gravel race
This is the right answer. He’s immediately closing the browser after clicking the button. He should wait for a success UI or at least that the resulting network call finishes with success or a failure to retry on. Not lambdas fault, it’s performing as coded.
frankthedog··on The past is not true
Similar message, among many other valuable bits, in the book The Courage to be Disliked. Very good read, no fluff like a lot of psychology books. The title is misleading, there’s a strong element of being helpful to others rather than being disliked. I’d recommend it to anyone.
frankthedog··on Kagi raises $670k
Finance language for million. Mil Mil aka thousand thousand. Mil is Latin for thousand hence why CPM is cost per thousand, not cost per million impressions.
frankthedog··on U.S. pedestrian deaths reach a 40-year high
The increased distance something must be from a larger car for it to be visible also contributes to accidents.
frankthedog··on Homeowners outfit their properties with cold plunges
It does. Even waving your arms in a still cold pool will feel much colder than staying still.
frankthedog··on Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more?
As a fully remote employee for years who now lives in zoom I have never seen a coworker hit a vape on a call and it would be very off putting if they did, in the same way smoking a cig while on a call would be.

Context: work at a big tech co.

frankthedog··on AI doomism is quickly becoming indistinguishable from an apocalyptic religion
Perhaps organized religion was a Chesterton’s Fence that we removed at our own peril.
frankthedog··on TaxyAI: Open-source browser automation with GPT-4
Similar to this, does anyone know if a browser extension that I can paste in (or choose from some saved snippets) a series of playwright or puppeteer steps and have it execute? I could use the saved snippets in the sources tab of dev tools but miss the auto waiting and other niceties. This project seems a bit too slow and non-deterministic.
frankthedog··on Facebook Announces Meta Verified
The group chat is the new social network. Chronological, you know who’s in there, photo sharing, reactions, reply’s. It has everything me and my close friends need.
frankthedog··on Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow
Why not both?
frankthedog··on Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow
You’re right, better have none at all than something below your standards. /s
frankthedog··on Recent improvements to Safari
I see that now after re-reading. You meant the other browser developers could add this. I first took it as saying websites could add it with some input attribute. My mistake.
frankthedog··on Recent improvements to Safari
Your link is for app development, not web.
frankthedog··on The Homeownership Society Was a Mistake
Except the additional time in your life not having to worry about repairs, soliciting quotes from contractors, redoing things, etc. and in many markets like the Bay Area where renting is cheaper than owning you could have squirreled away a sizable and liquid nest egg.

I say this as a homeowner, yeah the home equity is great but it’s not a pro without cons. Sure feels like I’m working for that equity while managing this house.

frankthedog··on GitHub Blocks – waiting list signup
Heh, OCTO. Nice.
frankthedog··on New study suggests people with dark personalities weaponize victimhood (2021)
This is the problem with favoring equity over equality. Where equality’s aim is to reduce all bias in decision making, equity’s aim is to introduce bias for the benefit of a subset of the population. Naturally, people will vie to be in the population that the equity culture’s bias favors.
frankthedog··on Mud boosts the immune system
You’re right that the vast majority of our food supply comes from industrial ag. There are also many many people with small family farms, maybe a few chickens, a sheep or goat and vegetable gardens. This is the beneficial environment. Both small scale and large scale exist.
frankthedog··on Did an NYU professor get fired because students hate organic chem?
I would argue that the university is the customer of the professor and the student is a customer of the university’s reputation. In this case the university’s reputation is now diminished so the students have harmed themselves.
frankthedog··on Facebook reportedly laying off thousands of employees
Community foundations, neighborhoods with neighbors who care about each other, recreational sports leagues, activity clubs, temples synagogues and churches. There are many, but they’re often not behind the piece of magic glass in our hands.
frankthedog··on Comfy Software: A software aesthetic for hackers with depression
Being neuro-atypical is now virtuous.
frankthedog··on Why to not use JWT (2021)
Is it acceptable for any business to allow accounts to be compromised for a half hour?
frankthedog··on Why to not use JWT (2021)
I believe GP is referring to user password not the encryption key. Rotating the encryption key would invalidate all previously minted JWTs. A user changing their password would not because it is not used to sign the JWT, therefore the old JWTs would still be valid until expiry after a user changes their password.
frankthedog··on The hyperinflation gallery
I would love to read about that if you can dig up the source
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