Normille

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by Normille 4y ago
My prediction is that "something" will happen to move the conflict towards resolution within the next couple of months. The energy crisis in EU and UK is becoming unsustainable. Energy bill price rises are going to see huge number
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Nope. I said it too, earlier on. But no-one ever pays any attention to my words of wisdom: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32659058#32659107
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>much of this gas would have been used to feed into the pipeline grid and sold on to Europe. Because Russia has sharply cut supply to Europe... More of this Orwellian spin that Russia 'cut the supply'. The EU sanctioned
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Thanks fur posting this. A well-written read which pretty much mirrors my own thinking on the human race's place in the great span of Earth's history. And why [although I agree with many of their aims] I get irritated by the envir
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We've found dinosaur footprints, but we've not found dinosaur bootprints.
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Jeebus! --is this going to be the latest spam avalanche on HN? Everyone who's got a trial invitation to Dall-E posting their 'creations'? Please can we have a ban on 'Look what I made with Dall-E' posts!
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I've been using Neovim for several years now. Not for any real reason, other than "Let's try 'new & shiny'" when it first emerged. Last week I thought I'd finally get round to converting my existin
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>In 2001, with the economy still reeling from the U.S.-sponsored civil war, El Salvador’s right-wing government adopted the U.S. dollar >El Salvador’s politics were dominated by two parties rooted in the Cold War: One was the
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by Normille 4y ago
I always read these with scepticism. Either there is some mind-boggling stuff going on in labs that is way way beyond any kind of 'artificial intelligence' we get to experience in our own lives... or a lot of these experiments ar
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Congrats on the longevity of your MBA. I thought I was doing well, still using my trusty MacBook Air 2014 as my daily driver. It still does everything I want it to do and is fast enough --even for graphics work. I'm stuck with OSX Moja
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Another oddity is that, while the old pre-decimal system was mostly based around multiples os 12: 1/4d [farthing] 1/2d [ha'penny] 2d [tuppence] 3d [thruppence] 6d [sixpence] 12d [shilling] 240d [pound] ...and the new decimal
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>"I thought 'this is crazy,'" Joy McClain, 81, said when she saw the mountain's name in a local paper and felt called to action. ..because she's so fucking stupid she doesn't know that the swast
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by Normille 4y ago
'Reached out' is top of my list on written annoyances. Top of my list for verbal annoyances is 'beginning your answer to every question with "So..." which seems to have reached epidemic proportions [over here in U
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No. Most European countries announced that they were going to completely stop importing Russian oil & gas within the next couple of years. They also froze Russian overseas bank accounts and blocked Russian access to the Swift internatio
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I still can't understand how chess ratings work --even after 'RTFM' and having people try and explain it to me. Far far below the lofty heights of Carlsen &co., I play a fair bit on Lichess. Sometimes I'll play someo
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I've just recently switched from Homebrew to MacPorts on OSX, after using Homebrew for as long as I can remember. I got sick of having to wait several minutes for homebrew to crank into action and check for updates every time I fired i
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>Gas prices have soared to record levels over the last year as higher global demand has been intensified in Europe by low gas storage levels and A DROP IN PIPELINE IMPORTS FROM RUSSIA FOLLOWING ITS INVASION OF UKRAINE... [my emp
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Whilst I appreciate the Plain English Campaign's originally stated mission to discourage the use of unnecessarily opaque terminology, I think this is straying from the mark a bit. There's nothing wrong with having a decent vocabul
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There isn't one. Every news source reflects the biases of its owners. It's just that some do it more subtly than others. My strategy is to pretty much avoid reading or listening to news altogether. And, if some big global event d
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by Normille 4y ago
I raised this point a while back in another discussion and was assured this kind of thing couldn't happen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32178108#32178137 The biggest worry about these kind of situations is not
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>What kids in San Francisco have to walk through... Those poor kids. Having to witness a guy filming a panoramic scene in portrait mode. Oh the humanity!
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>McDonald's first opened in Russia in 1990, in a symbol of the country embracing Western food and culture... If that shit epitomises 'Western food and culture' god help us!
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Whoever made that video stuck a load of clips from different sources together. In other words s/he was a... wait for it... _why-combinator! [I'll get my coat]
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>but i am glad you found the opportunity to do the nerdiest seinfeld impression. I've no idea who seinfeld is. But I'm sure that was a very witty riposte.
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>Yeah, but that hour longer will still be an hour spent on the exercise bike Indeed. At the very least they should have gone with: Cycle for Fifty-Nine Minutes and You’ll Live an Hour Longer
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del.icio.us --must have been one of the worst domain names ever. OK 10/10 for making a clever word using the .us TLD extension. But I could never remember where the dot for the subdomain went: was it delic.io.us??... deli.cio.us?
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>because you added a non-substantial comment when a click on the "upvote" button would have been sufficient. I did click on the upvote button. But, since no-one else, apart from the original commenter, can see how many
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Wow! --three downvotes, just for recommending pinboard. Tough crowd!
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>pinboard.in This ^^

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