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by acheron 3mo ago
One great genre of HN comment is where people insist subscriptions are the only way a software business can work, as if commercial software sprung into existence fully formed in 2012.
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by acheron 3mo ago
This is what HN is now, sadly.
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by acheron 3mo ago
Netcraft confirms it.
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by acheron 3mo ago
Yes, I remember, I had lasagna.
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by acheron 4mo ago
The article is about a marketing data breach, not passwords.
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by acheron 4mo ago
It’s always great when years of medical and scientific studies are instantly debunked by HN’s top JavaScript developers. One wonders why we even bother having research universities.
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by acheron 4mo ago
Maybe you should have looked it up before posting?
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by acheron 4mo ago
TVs were unsubsidized by ad tech up until 10 years ago, and I’m pretty sure most people bought TVs back then.
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by acheron 4mo ago
Pretty easy. 1) Have a phone number with an area code from a place you haven’t lived since 2004 and nobody legitimate would ever call you from. 2) entirely block that area code. That takes care of 98% of it.
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by acheron 4mo ago
> ununionized Wouldn’t that just be “ionized”?
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by acheron 4mo ago
“Suddenly”? Remember all the “net neutrality” bullshit years ago that was all about begging the government to regulate the Internet? This has been going on since the early 00s probably. If you’re old enough to remember the 90s and earlier I
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by acheron 4mo ago
Hope all your programs are written in machine code. Wouldn’t want to be proud of compiler output.
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by acheron 4mo ago
Wait, he didn’t have to import 237 NPM packages?
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by acheron 4mo ago
I know laptops have a bit of a different standard, but for real keyboards, IBM perfected keyboard design in 1985 and all deviations from that are a mistake.
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by acheron 4mo ago
There are several? Venues around here use AXS, Seetickets/Eventim, Opendate. I buy more non-TM tickets than TM.
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by acheron 4mo ago
There’s also the one that almost ate the Enterprise . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immunity_Syndrome_(Star_Tr...
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by acheron 4mo ago
“So you hate waffles?” https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-bitch-dats-a-whole-new-x-w...
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by acheron 4mo ago
More formally that's an "F attachment", lowering the key of the instrument (assuming a standard tenor trombone) from B♭ to F. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trombone#Valve_attachments See also https:&#x2
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by acheron 4mo ago
On iOS you don't have to do anything, -- gets autocorrected to an em-dash. This has been in iOS for almost 10 years IIRC.
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by acheron 4mo ago
“I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them. I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable
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by acheron 4mo ago
Breaking news from 2005
52.
by acheron 5mo ago
Freenet 3.11 for Workgroups
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by acheron 5mo ago
It’s a troll. Just flag and move on.
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by acheron 5mo ago
“We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into
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by acheron 5mo ago
Feet and inches long predate imperial units, and the US has never used the imperial system, btw. “Imperial” has a specific meaning and isn’t just “anything not metric”. Anyway, base 12 is also built into most Germanic languages which have u
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by acheron 5mo ago
Eh, Microsoft got bored of developing their own browser and just pushes Chromium on their users now. Probably they would have just turned Windows Phones into another Android too.
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by acheron 5mo ago
We didn’t have Costco in our area when I was a kid, but iirc that’s why my parents stopped going to Sam’s Club: any money they saved on buying cheaper bulk things went into buying random extras.
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by acheron 5mo ago
I resisted joining Costco for many years, because it seemed too culty, or just too popular in general (with my assumption being that most popular things are bad). Eventually they sucked me in though, and yes, it really is good.
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by acheron 5mo ago
Costco actually has a better checkout experience than most places IMO. They always have basically all lanes open, and the employees are efficient at moving people through. I love Wegmans for most groceries but their checkouts seem to be get
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by acheron 5mo ago
Huh, really? Re: Wegmans. For me they still have the best produce quality by far. Agree their prices have gone up in general though.

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