ChainOfFools

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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
People have, for the past thousand centuries or so, somehow managed to eliminate their waste without carrying an internet-connected pocket supercomputer.
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
and the extremely difficult to access mechanism for moving anywhere from one to three small, perpetually damp pipes into position inside the bowl, themselves accessorized with numerous little hinges, cavities, crevices to collect and accum
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
> sneak peaks at their phone or take it to the restroom on that note why the shit are students permitted to leave the testing area during critical exams (midterms, finals) , ostensibly to use the restroom. but with phone in pocket, obv
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
can't imagine the chaos unfolding in high school and college freshman English composition classes, where for the sake of grading ease, "fairness" and simplicity (and more than any of these, instructor complacency) students ar
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
time to dust this off again, is it? --- Car company CEO, after giving a visibly exasperated UAW boss a tour of his company's brand new 100% automated factory: "So Bob, looks like you have quite the dilemma: how will you get your w
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
Why can't they just be covered with blackout film until they're ready to be activated?
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
What happened to the incredibly futuristic basis in the smartphone space that Japan had with NTT docomo back in the mid-late 90's? Was it motivated purely or mainly by a need for a workable kanji/kana interface for mobile texting,
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
A description versus price equation, where there's a lot of variables on one side and only one on the other, does seem to be the model. I guess I would add that it may only be a Salient as it is with respect to certain things like flig
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
This seems to be rooted in a generalized problem which I'll hastily call the conscious abuse of polite understanding, or abuse of economic consensus. Another possible rubric for this, a bit more sensationalized, would be "destruct
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
> Not what is in the candidate's brain on the day of the interview. A close sibling of this mentality lives in academia as well, manifested as that professor who bases 50%+ of one's grade on the final. Also, pass/fail filt
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
> Which is what every language with an alphabetic writing does, and it works just fine. It is not "another layer of cognitive load", Disagree. Once you get accustomed to reading kanji, and did not learn to visually parse (excep
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
it is called a legal code after all
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
> while a guy whose only contribution is to complain about imagined grievances and sabotage his coworkers gets promoted to CEO. This post has a rather keen personal edge to it, as if this fail-up template was inspired by firsthand witnes
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
Unfortunately a citation, especially as a prestige or impact metric, carries associations of quality to observers outside its domain. A resource having been selected for citation implicitly signals that it wad the best choice among a field
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
If that's the case then detectable (if a magnitude or two weaker) pulses of the same phenomenon should have followed the widespread availability and access to the printing press and perhaps the telephone.
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
> What does Elon have to say about this? "Dogecoin officially isn't considered money by the US, so Tesla officially won't be selling any cars"
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
The few people are the same as listed in my original reply. There may be others, but these are names I recognize as proponents to varying degrees. Yes of the three you are comparatively a very minor influence, just as they are likely even
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
not a front-end developer, so this is not something I'd be directly interacting with although it sounds interesting. But I was struck by the preponderance of questions from other HNers in this comment section, all of which seem to be c
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
submitted by walterbell nearly all criticisms responded to by a (the?) toomim brother, (who styles himself an independent psychology researcher, interesting) plus an appearance by mike_hearn. Why is this proposal to significantly extend t
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
Wow! To expect that a meaningful signal can precipitate out of such a wide noise field seems almost comically credulous. I'm most impressed that they had the temerity to recruit that figure as 'support' for their conclusions.
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
It turns entirely on what is meant by 'controversial.' Applying a 1950's sense of the word would indeed be hard to square with the rest of the statement. But a 2020's sense of the word completely aligns with my own exper
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
doesn't this break DKIM?
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
> "Blank Tape" back in the 90s a punk inversion of this would have been naming one's band "various artists" in the early years of MP3 players. In fact I'm fairly certain I've heard of a group actually d
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
MS-DOS had debug.com built in from 1.0 onwards. a:\DEBUG < FOO.ASM -a (press enter until you reach the end of your source code at whatever address) (enter a blank opcode to mark end of assembly range) -g =100 voila, your (naturally, bug-
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
$5,000 is nowhere close to accurate for a 'typical' PC of that era. In 1985 or 1986, I don't recall the exact year, my dad purchased a rather exotic machine called a Panasonic Sr. Partner, which was one of the first all-in-o
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
From the same era was this oddball solution[0], which at the time I had thought was something that never got out of R&D but apparently did exist as a commercial product in laughably limited numbers. The a2024 monitor did not require any
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
It's been quite a few years since I last worked in live show production, but on any show at a venue where we couldn't be sure of access to clean power, humbuckers (not the guitar pickups, a nickname for what I believe was just a d
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
This highlights a problem with comments that decry the inability of the United States to produce cheap, desirable electric vehicles the way that, say, byd can. There are a lot of reasons for this but a very significant one is that our 2013
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
Some of them, like clivia, have a non-trivial lottery component to their hybridization and breeding that makes buying and crossing even a couple of relatively er, garden variety examples a potential ticket to fame, fortune and startdom in t
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
The most surprising detail of this story has has nothing to do with the wholly unsurprising fact that someone can buy off the notoriously self promoting and, err, entrepreneurial Hawass. It's that one can become a billionaire from hawk

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