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by FearNotDaniel 8mo ago
Reminds me of how often you hear Austrian Railways announcing that they apologize for the late running of a train "which was subject to delays in a neighbouring land". They never name which country but it's always Germany.
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by FearNotDaniel 9mo ago
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by FearNotDaniel 10mo ago
You’re absolutely right! It shows true wisdom and insight that you would recognise this common shortfall in LLM response tone of voice! That’s exactly the kind of thoughtful analytic approach which will go far in today’s competitive marketp
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by FearNotDaniel 10mo ago
> 80-ies eighty...ies? eightieies? why not just "80s"?
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by FearNotDaniel 11mo ago
Dude you’re not even trying, why buy muffins and eggs when you could grow wheat, grind flour, raise chickens and get eggs for free, slaughter your own pigs and cure the bacon yourself… because labour costs nothing and convenience has no val
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by FearNotDaniel 11mo ago
Austria resident checking in - since I moved here I noticed the quality of McD’s is way, way better than in the UK. And apart from the regular menu being a whole different experience, you’ve got great quality coffee and cakes. It’s a whole
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by FearNotDaniel 11mo ago
> buy a sausage roll at Greggs If that's the first thing he thinks of while transiting through a UK airport, he deserves a citizenship, no questions.
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by FearNotDaniel 11mo ago
Hey ChatGPT, please summarize this ChatGPT generated blogpost to quickly reveal the one piece of actionable knowledge without burying it in layers of fake narrative, manufactured drama and internally-inconsistent pretence at self reflection
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by FearNotDaniel 11mo ago
The author previously posted this to HN, where he tells a little of the backstory from his POV. Make of that what you will: https://medium.com/@rviragh/tech-whistleblowers-handbook-d40...
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
It's a small side point, but the skin-disease name came later: Mocha -> LiveScript -> JavaScript -> EczemaScript or whatever [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
> Syphilis caused these issues but didn't cause death According to Wikipedia it caused 100k deaths in 2015. So either the introduction of penicillin made the disease more fatal than before, or there is something fundamentally incorr
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
> just £3 Which is of course pronounced: JAST FREE PAAAAAARND
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
Partially true, in that on Safari on iOS, you can use that to enlarge the text. But that doesn't change what's really broken about the layout, which is that it forces the column width to allow only a small number of words-per-li
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
I've read this and many of the comments and still don't quite understand what is being blocked. Nobody has quite stated it explicitly, and what seems to be being implied seems too absurd to be true, but I'm assuming it must b
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
I'm torn on point 2... on the one hand, I'm insulted to be "rewarded" for my tenacity in managing to "read" what is basically a very short article with a lot of pictures. On the other hand, I'm working dai
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
> If you're reading this you probably have some idea of what slate is. Tip for anyone writing technical/product blogs: never assume readers know what your product is. They probably came in for the first time from a random link
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
Presumably they are doing that based on browser or OS language settings rather than IP-based location? As an English-speaker living in a German-speaking land nothing infuriates me more than websites that assume I would rather have German la
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
Browsing this led me to wonder if there is a font available for the Carolingian Minuscule style. Found "Dr. Pfeffer's Fonts", apparently free to download. Wasn't disappointed. I might try using one as a coding font for t
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
Not really: > Mental reservation, however, is regarded as unjustifiable without grave reason for withholding the truth. That sounds significantly different from a "perpetual exercise of disguise" that is considered "a virt
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
Specifically, it’s a subculture that emerged in the Church of England in particular - other churches in England built with big bells - Baptist, Methodist, Catholic and so on - are not built with the kind of bells that do this kind of ringin
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
It’s pronounced gay-ess. Just like GIF.
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
It’s a fundamental mistake that people make so often in politics, is to think that somebody they personally find repulsive or merely bland must be seen the same way by others. It can be a shock to recognise that figures like Boris Johnson a
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
Oh dear. Looks like I’m not taking home the party pack. Semi-seriously I’m wondering though: when did corporate rhetoric shift from “creating value” - which almost makes rapacious capitalism sound benign - to shamelessly “capturing” that va
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
I disagree strongly that this abhorrent and preventable tragedy should be categorised as genocide. The rich, protestant English looked down on the catholic Irish peasants as an inferior race, they blamed the Irish for their own suffering, s
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
Plenty of Chinese takeaways, and a good few “Indian” establishments (takeaway/delivery only, no restaurant) have operated in the same way, without chains or brand names, for decades, at least all over the UK. Many great quality, many p
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
Yes, except for this part: > The failure of the potato crops created starvation and emigration so profound in scale This bears repeating a thousand times over because the political-economic lessons have still not been learned: the famine
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
Exactly… back in 1975 Fred Brooks was advising programmers to “plan to throw the first version away” (The Mythical Man-Month) and it’s still true today. Just the tools to build that rapid prototype that have changed. Once it was Ruby on Rai
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
In London that’s also mostly true due to the patchwork history of different companies building different lines… however when King’s Cross/St Pancras was redeveloped a few years ago the “official” interchange route between Piccadilly an
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by FearNotDaniel 1y ago
> their blog _his_ blog. It’s all written by one man. But I agree that it’s a remarkable blog, so fascinating and freely given. While I’m in grumpy-old-man-shakes-fist-at-newfangled-grammar mode, I can _almost_ accept that people writing

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