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by absurdo 1y ago
Semi-rant: I’m very disappointed to see such wide adoption of pets, especially dogs, as “replacements” of children in adult lives. I do not think it’s healthy for adults to do this because it infantilizes the adult. It is actually very sad,
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by absurdo 1y ago
Poor HN. Is there a glimpse of the next hype train we can prepare to board once AI gets dulled down? This has basically made the site unusable.
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by absurdo 1y ago
Yup. This is what we’ve had to endure on HN for the last decade. It’s been an incredibly frustrating site to comment on and frankly I want dang and tomhow to just prohibit political and quasi political articles. Other sites can be used for
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by absurdo 1y ago
> That's what we all thought about Walmart too and I think most people would agree that the west could have handled the transition to mass imports and overseas manufacturing without destroying local businesses overnight in a better
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by absurdo 1y ago
Not quite. Look at how some countries value/treasure things like soft hands and paler skin tones, and how it relates to social status. It’s not that simple.
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by absurdo 1y ago
> This is literally the path that led the USSR to ruin. Or China to current-day prosperity. It’s hard to admit but it’s a double edged sword and there are winners and losers. Choose your poison wisely.
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by absurdo 1y ago
Unfortunately a lot of this kind of writing teeter-totters between being a massive coping strategy or a circlejerk. Using the lives of exceptional people as a blueprint for the everyday person is ridiculous. I’m reminded of people following
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by absurdo 1y ago
I’m disappointed and confused as to why countries would impose things like 100% tariffs on vehicles, especially Chinese ones. Their labor force is massive and they can iterate and build much better machines than anyone else, so rather than
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by absurdo 1y ago
I’ve trained our support staff on basic markdown syntax and while we do use it predominantly for spitting out documentation and guides and whatnot, its usefulness far exceeds the original intent. And that’s okay.
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by absurdo 1y ago
The broader issue here seems to be that C.Y. isn’t a random online person venting, in that allegedly the VP endorses his stances [citation needed]. If he was a random kook with a blog nobody knew, we would pay no attention to it. But active
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by absurdo 1y ago
As satisfying as it may be to pile on Reddit for this, I’ll wait for an IP lawyer’s take. I’d like to know if Reddit actually has solid ground or if it’s just puffery and Google et al have already done this via crawling/indexing algori
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by absurdo 1y ago
I read the original article. I feel like the author of this retort got nerd sniped. “Cracks knuckles”? I can find better things to grind an axe about. The original article is an opinionated rant. It’s not a scientific or a philosophical tre
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by absurdo 1y ago
I don’t expect life and death to care about the philosophy a human ascribes and it’s not a treatment to anything. It’s beyond human beings.
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by absurdo 1y ago
For the young players: this is what hacker in “Hacker News” stands for. This is 101 and it’s very simply explained which makes it a great step by step example of a typical journey. Hack-a-day is full of these if you want more. The author is
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by absurdo 1y ago
People have been blowhards for as long as there have been people. Live and let live.
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by absurdo 1y ago
HN does the same. We don’t really have a platform on the internet for good discussions so we mostly get regurgitated talking points and a lot of flags/downvotes if it’s deemed a serious enough issue (f.e. pandemic) that taking a contra
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by absurdo 1y ago
Basically if anyone has an iota of sensibility you should have never taken sama, Zuckerberg, Gates, or anyone else of that sort at face value. When they tell you they’re doing things for the good of humanity, look at what the other hand is
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by absurdo 1y ago
Basically yeah. You live in a world of layered servitude and, short of a financial windfall that hoists you up for some time, you’re basically guaranteed to work your entire life, and grow old, frail and poor. This isn’t a joke, it’s realit
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by absurdo 1y ago
IMHO actual worry has to be tempered by action. Blog posting is a short term relief from the pent up emotions. There are doomers that doompost and doomscroll, and doomers that prep and give themselves a buffer. The world’s wealthiest people
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by absurdo 1y ago
> Anchor Electronics in Santa Clara Looks about right! I thought Sayal was scattered across US so my bad :l A big box product store opening that sells plug and play stuff is to me, personally, not worthy of bearing the title Electronics.
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by absurdo 1y ago
I wouldn’t go that far but I do like the analogy. I just think if someone is this hung up on a tool or technology or a process taking over their job, or the jobs of the world, probably doom-ranting through a blog is a short term relief to t
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by absurdo 1y ago
I am afraid of asking but what does Sayal classify as? I figured it would take negative time for someone to post Radio Shack in commentary because it’s basically a knee jerk reaction, but I do appreciate a store like Sayal although they’re
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by absurdo 1y ago
See flight sim book counterpart called “Flights of Fantasy”.
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by absurdo 1y ago
I miss this late 80s early 90s jazz fusion.
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by absurdo 1y ago
On the flip side, I cherish my torn and beaten up copy of The New Masters of Flash. RIP Macromedia.
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by absurdo 1y ago
Like other posters I feel this change is way behind the curve, but not because others did it already and long ago; rather, because as a dyed in the wool Win32 API/Petzold Acolyte, the age of desktop apps ended at least a decade ago in
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by absurdo 1y ago
> Edit: Alright, as I get further into the article I see more and more what you're mentioning... I was waiting for this edit but didn’t want to be mean about it :-)
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by absurdo 1y ago
I am going to nitpick this but I’ve come to expect this kind of posting style from medium, substack and others. It has no coherent thesis, it throws way too many links, it uses meta titles that reference memes. The SNR is incredibly low for
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by absurdo 1y ago
Of course, Chromehounds! The one and only prequel to Chromelords.
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by absurdo 1y ago
This is more or less what SimCity tried to teach us all along, wasn’t it?

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