<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: lowercased</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lowercased</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 01:02:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=lowercased" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lowercased in "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I got elastic (?) self-holding laces for my running shoes, which effectively make them a slip-on as well.</p>
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<p>I just switched to slip-ons the moment I could buy my own shoes.</p>
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<p>"In large organizations it becomes harder and harder for individual contributors to see how their work fits into the larger organization."<p>... because the planning and reasoning and vision aren't shared?  As an IC - in small and large companies - I would often get this "you just don't understand" and "you don't see the big picture".  Well.. because it's not shared.  Decisions made in secret, or in boardrooms without any transparency... yeah - of course I don't have the full picture.  I bet half the upper management doesn't either - they all just have their slices.<p>Some companies - typically smaller - <i>sometimes</i> have shared details on direction/vision/etc enough so that everyone could have a common shared sense of purpose and goals.  But I've found that to be relatively rare.</p>
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<p>Sure you can.  It's what we as vendors were told to do by the show organizers.  They told us the rates to collect and gave us info as to how/where to remit the money.  States absolutely would take the money.</p>
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<p>Correct.  We were in Michigan, then later North Carolina.  We did collector shows in a few states.  The organizers told us to collect the tax and gave us vendors information on how to remit to the state agency.  We didn't do it at first, then later, as more money came in, we did it for a few years in one state, then another, trying to be 'good' about the whole thing.  Was a massive headache.<p>What would have made so much more sense is for a state agent to have someone come on site to trade shows like this to make it easy/simple to fill in the proper forms, take money, and increase state inflow.  Two people working for a couple days would be a few hundred dollars(?).  At a tradeshow with 200 vendors, most doing thousands and some tens of thousands in sales... it would be relatively easy money.<p>That obviously becomes intrusive to some folks, but... would have helped those states and made things easier on us.</p>
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<p>My spouse did business at a collector show in Illinois years ago.  We filed some sales tax thing, as we collected sales tax (as we were told to do) and remitted it.  Did that for... 2 years, IIRC, then didn't do that show again.  We got letters threatening that we would be penalized if we didn't fill out the form and remit our collected tax.  There was no option to say 'nothing'.  I mean... we <i>did</i> one year - put 0.  Then we stopped the business.  Had multiple emails, physical letters, and hours on the phone being bounced around between places to say "we don't run the business any more - we're not operating".  And... no one seemed to have a way to decidedly <i>stop</i> these.  We'd get "OK" then... 6 months later got a letter saying "you owe $x and penalties for failing to file"... I was slightly concerned about driving through Illinois at some point, thinking they might have an arrest warrant out for one of us.  It took 2 years of not getting these to finally believe we're not in their system any more.  Similar story for New Jersey, but it wasn't <i>quite</i> as bad.  Still required a lot of manual work.</p>
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<p>Perhaps the name "ZpJuUuNaQ5" makes it harder for people to be able to do casual chit chat and introduce you to their friends?</p>
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<p>I do the opposite in a few.  There's some I follow weekly and it's only an hour or so each.  I drop it to .7 or .8 because I want to get a bit more time with the hosts. Possibly stupid but I've sort of got used to some of these folks at that speed, and the normal speed is 'weird'.  One is a political podcast, and when they play clips of Trump, he does always sound very drunk, but the hosts themselves (to me) don't sound drunk, just... measured. Some of it may be audio quality - I'm getting their microphone directly, often the audio clips are from field recordings.</p>
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<p>Maybe I dislike a party because they're wrong, not that I think they're wrong becuase I dislike them?  I usually don't have any reason to like or dislike a party until I see behaviour.</p>
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<p>might not be 'insider trading' with respect to the court decision, but Lutnick had influence with the president and could affect tariffs being paid by the various companies who were squeezed in to considering selling (or actually selling) their tariff refund rights.  And tariffs changed many times over months, so... looking at what companies actually sold to CF might reveal some patterns that raise eyebrows.  But nothing will be done about it.</p>
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<p>64 m3 max.  64 is probably <i>too much</i> for about 90% of what I do, but will likely become 'just right' in the next year or so.  I was coming from 16g m1 mini, and i got a refurb m3 max mbp for $3k even, which was at the time a decent deal.  1.5 years in and it'll see me through for a while longer, barring some physical destruction.</p>
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<p>"Changed to a stronger one"<p>Changed to a stronger one what?</p>
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<p>I've got a tracker and it keeps showing "sharp turn" right in my neighborhood.  It's counting the turn in to my driveway - a 90 degree turn - as a "sharp turn".  It doesn't seem to matter how slow I go - I'm not racing in to the driveway - generally slowed to walking speed by that point - and I'm still getting 'dinged' every day for this.</p>
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<p>Please bring this back as a separate feature.</p>
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<p>I <i>need</i> to run Print Shop and Oregon Trail on my m-series iPad.</p>
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<p>Happenstance, but that press release you linked to was December 4, 1995 - exactly 30 years ago today!</p>
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<p>When you interacted with a 'computer' once or twice a week, perhaps... seeing "please" is ... neat?  A 'wow' factor ("wow! It knows English!")?<p>Peppering input fields and forms and folksy welcoming language scattered thoughout might be useful now and then, but for systems where people are using it repeatedly hourly/daily/weekly... it's (at best) clutter and noise.</p>
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<p>> For example, Livewire components don’t support slots<p>IIRC, Livewire 4 will support slots, but... that's still a few weeks away from release.  There seem to be a number of perf and qol improvements in LW4.</p>
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<p>That's a lot more involved than the c64 version I remember!</p>
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<p>The docs up through version 3.x explicitly called this out as not recommended and a poor choice, but the justifications were... sort of lame.  "You'll have to come up with class names, your css bundle might be bigger, etc".  I did read a more technical github issue on @apply vs theme() which called out the apply behaviour as doing a bit more than expected.  I don't recall 'theme' being a thing in earlier tailwind versions, but I'm not an expert at it, so I might have missed that.</p>
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