Apocryphon

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Jedi Knight fansite has been running consistently for almost 30 years(pcgamer.com)
7 points by Apocryphon 3mo ago|1 comments
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
Perhaps it’s too much of a reoccurring gimmick but his videos are squarely in the “tech-aware consumer” user profile, not a pro developer or editor. It’s like how LGR does retrospectives and deep-dives on hardware from a purely hobbyist-ent
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
You could marry your claim to an ideological framework upholding the Divine Right of Kings and traditionalist conservatism, causing it to live for centuries longer in the form of monarchy enthusiast cranks.
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
I recently watched a YouTube video from Answers in Progress where the creator made a site that does this using Hostinger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPw-gDw6Nxk https://toomuchmedia.online/
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We Need a Neural Network (2006)(thedailywtf.com)
9 points by Apocryphon 3mo ago|2 comments
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
Do those school bureaucracies require parents of students to attend customer service calls that require multiple transfers over the better part of an hour?
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
Why don't you ask it if there are similar personal stories to this happening in other countries?
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
GNOME Web, technically, through WSL.
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
I’ve used notepads as well for notebook but scratch purposes. Sometimes there’s stuff there worth keeping which I transfer over to a more permanent place. But a notepad, for whatever reason, just feels more disposable than a notebook even t
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
A decade ago Uber seemed poised to be the big tech powerhouse. Maybe not a platform per se (certainly not an ecosystem as other companies had it) but a major provider of software for all kinds of verticals beyond their core business. What h
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
Frankly, dealing with healthcare claims as an American consumer is an excruciating experience and it is at the situation where “try anything else” is worth considering. Also, as your description of overcare is happening under the current sy
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
Insurance companies basically are banks, in that while they make low profit margins they wield such vast amounts of capital, some of which they invest in, they might as well be financial service institutions. There's also other categor
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
Better one bureaucracy than many. The U.S. health system requires constant patient management of multiple moving parties, it's maddening.
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
The U.S. system is neither fish nor fowl, there is more spending per capita than other countries' public systems and endless amounts of red tape because instead of one government bureaucracy you're also dealing with the insurance
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
I am somewhat biased against audiobooks as well, but how do you justify that consuming text, language, words is substantially different between reading and listening? Particularly in novels and the like? If you aren't re-reading passag
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
I thought it was only 15% of the company.
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
Imagine if their acquisition of TikTok had gone through.
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
Indie bookshops have had a revival in the past decade, it's big box book retailers who are in trouble. https://apnews.com/article/independent-bookstores-expanding-... https://www.theguardian.com/bu
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
Hasn’t Sadiq Khan been a similar story, from a Muslim immigrant family turned popular mayor of the nation’s largest city? Though from what I understand he’s from the more business-oriented center-left, in contrast with Mamdani.
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
To be fair, that wasn't meant to be an exhaustive list of criteria for what constitutes a religion, nor is the second one really a criterion for inclusion, just a couple of points I was thinking of. For the first, I would hesitate to l
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
> Your perspective on software is that of a consumer, so you're not necessarily wrong. You're in the majority of people using software along with all those people having their "holy wars". What do either of those stat
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
Was this LLM-generated? Because the intent is garbled, each sentence going in a different direction from the previous. (So perhaps not LLM after all.)
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
Software development creates subcultures, just like any other occupation, craft, human activity. Tech holy wars is a thing, and I'm sure a lot of it dealt with articles of faith just like any other source of controversy. https:/&
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
I've addressed this idea in a sibling comment. I think at least some superstition is inevitable in any subculture. Consider how many tech 'holy wars' might involve baseless beliefs about how a text editor or programming langu
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
You could just liken it to any pop health, dietary, or environmental fad instead of trying to portray a banal "people turn consumer choices into personal identity/lifestyle" trend as a whole new class of phenomenon. Crunchy h
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by Apocryphon 3mo ago
This isn't the first time Nintendo has outsourced a disappointing Metroid game, if Other M is any indication. Remains to be seen if this is part of a larger trend for that company.
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by Apocryphon 4mo ago
Did you see the subthread that the motivation behind this union does not seem to be collective bargaining over compensation, but in response to management's decision over personnel issues: https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by Apocryphon 4mo ago
Or at least, how about five-day workweeks paired with three-day weekends?
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by Apocryphon 4mo ago
It arguably polarized the public, paving the way to today's sharp ideological divisions, because political differences suddenly were treated as matters of life and death compared to the laid-back '90s.
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by Apocryphon 4mo ago
Looking forward to it!

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