MonkeyClub

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by MonkeyClub 8mo ago
Consider yourself compiled /s
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by MonkeyClub 8mo ago
Up to a couple years ago you could get them included in a £10 Nokia in Tesco and pay with cash, no ID required.
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by MonkeyClub 8mo ago
Depends on which data center you're hosted. The one under US jurisdiction operated by Hetzner US LLC must comply, while the German ones are operating under the GDPR, which has extraterritorial clauses can can deny or challenge the requ
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by MonkeyClub 8mo ago
> when opening directories with more than 100-ish files 99 files should be enough for everyone.
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by MonkeyClub 8mo ago
> I saw this coming and that’s why I’m running for Congress. Well, that's one way to go for that next job.
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Doin' It with a 555: One Chip to Rule Them All(aashvik.com)
145 points by MonkeyClub 8mo ago|89 comments
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by MonkeyClub 8mo ago
Probably the reverse: obnoxious people who seek badge-given authority but fail police entry exams (e.g. the psych part), carry on to other forms of employment that offer badges and uniforms, but have lax standards.
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by MonkeyClub 8mo ago
May be a case of PEBKAC.
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by MonkeyClub 8mo ago
LOC per day metrics are bovine metrics: how many pounds of dung per day.
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Painless Software Schedules (2000)(joelonsoftware.com)
67 points by MonkeyClub 8mo ago|36 comments
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by MonkeyClub 8mo ago
The same is true with the "In other news..." technique of seguing to the next story: its end result is overall desensitization and passive consumption.
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by MonkeyClub 9mo ago
Yeah, I checked the URL expecting this was an Onion post.
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by MonkeyClub 9mo ago
In the past 12 days, this has been posted 3 times: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsusam.net%2Fwriting-... It's a nice piece, but come on, ease off a bit.
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by MonkeyClub 9mo ago
> and killing people. I wasn't aware of that, what are you referring to?
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by MonkeyClub 9mo ago
You can absolutely see this pattern in Gemini in 2026. Btw, is the injection of "absolutely" and "in $YEAR" prevalent in other LLMs as well, or is it just in Gemini's dialect?
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by MonkeyClub 9mo ago
> but when they pull a Super Mario Brothers trick I see what you did there :)
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by MonkeyClub 9mo ago
> I’m not willing to pay the apple tax any longer. Problem here is that when you decide you no longer wish to pay the tax and want to exit the walled garden, you discover that there's a heap of functionality and convenience you&#x27
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by MonkeyClub 9mo ago
It is different, but it serves to elucidate that the rules we're living under aren't set in stone, they're only there because we, unlike the "no it's okay" bunch, can't or don't want to shirk them. Th
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by MonkeyClub 9mo ago
Imho the indirection ends up removing the democratic aspect.
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by MonkeyClub 9mo ago
True, they're not alike, nor are the subtribes that are funneled into the two quasi-distinct groups. But I think the methods by which they're being manipulated are quite alike, and ultimately forced to side with the current tribal
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by MonkeyClub 9mo ago
I get what you mean, and agree that > Harris and Biden are heavily held in contempt by most of the Left. To be absolutely frank, I don't consider the Democrat party as "Left" in any (traditional?) sense at all, even though
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by MonkeyClub 9mo ago
Yep, EC rather than EU, my bad.
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by MonkeyClub 9mo ago
Yep, I came down to a similar conclusion in my thinking, and assumed they wouldn't have thought of the cost of restarting local industry, or of importing foreign (tariffed) materials for the local industry to work with.
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by MonkeyClub 9mo ago
> A lot of Americans believed the guy they wanted to believe in, because they didn't want to believe the people they didn't want to believe in. It's sad but true. Deep down, political thinking is influenced by tribal think
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by MonkeyClub 9mo ago
> but I also have to say... to the surprise of absolutely no-one with even the most basic grasp of how economies function. Exactly: tariffs are taxes in another guise. They only serve to create an (artificial) price advantage of local ov
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by MonkeyClub 9mo ago
Masks have been of for a while, but as long as the EU people can't vote the EU presidency out of office, it's to no avail. It was a (steel and coal) corp affordances union to begin with, so it's no wonder it's pandering
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by MonkeyClub 9mo ago
> A friend of mine has all these failed hobbies he tells everyone he’s going to do IME over years, when you're talking about doing something your actually doing it is thwarted. I've noticed that that both with myself and with o
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by MonkeyClub 9mo ago
Granted, that wee bit 3.1% increase corresponds to an extra 135 TWh of demand. T for tera. The mind boggles.
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by MonkeyClub 9mo ago
Funny, I was thinking the same thing.
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by MonkeyClub 9mo ago
https://archive.is/7uCnb

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