JoblessWonder

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Not actually Jobless at the moment. Probably not a Wonder either.

IT worker by day, startup worker by night.

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Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
I feel like email overtook usernames because it was more likely to be unique/memorable. I hate when websites ask me to remember a username (even though I'm using a password manager so I should really just calm down.)
Comment · 4 months ago
So I guess the solution is just to begin to allow accounts to always register multiple emails? Although I guess the issue of multiple accounts is still going to exist if the users don't know the initial (private) email that they signed up with though unless there is a different unique ID that everyone will be able to remember.

I'm curious (and not trolling by asking) what a solution might be since email has been used as a unique account identifier for so long it is hard for my brain to think of another option at the moment.

Comment · 5 months ago
Yeah, blood in the stool should get it ordered.
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
I wish... it is much more generic and touches on the plot which the audio description track wouldn't do. I'll see if I can find one. They are extremely annoying.
Comment · 5 months ago
This isn't fully "Hidden" but I've always wondered if Ai scraping is the reason why short form videos on Youtube/TikTok/Instagram featuring film/tv clips will sometimes have 2 audio tracks... one with the actual audio from the clip a little louder and one audio track with a computer generated narrator providing running commentary of what is happening and why. As a human I'm able to tune it out but it is very weird/jarring.

In case anyone hasn't had the displeasure of viewing these I'll link some in a comment below once I scroll through my feed and find one.

Comment · 8 months ago
One of our vendors started charging a 10% tariff fee for parts ordered from Switzerland... we passed that fee directly on to our customers as a line item. I can't imagine the headache when (not if) they come to us expecting a refund for that.
Comment · 8 months ago
If it was still uploading events then why did it take so long to recover?
Comment · 8 months ago
She apparently didn't have a subscription so it shouldn't have been uploading anywhere... however things get murky with notification settings.
Comment · 9 months ago
Yeah… I didn’t say they both weren’t true due to a mathematical error… I was insinuating that the survey is probably flawed because if 20% of Americans can’t read… they likely aren’t even taking this survey.

It is also my uneducated guess that the actual percentage of Americans who haven’t read a single book in the past year is MUCH higher than 40%. Maybe a survey of HN commentators but not of the general population.

Comment · 9 months ago
? What's going on man? I... didn't use any math in my comment?
Comment · 9 months ago
1 in 5 Americans is functionally illiterate so.... yeah. There is no way this is true.
Comment · 9 months ago

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