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by acheron 5mo ago
Probably the factory shouldn’t have been downtown, it should have been closer to the farms to minimize transport costs.
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by acheron 5mo ago
Sounds like a good way to lose all your customers to the other airlines that charge less.
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by acheron 6mo ago
Nah that’s silly, because Google has been doing all that already for the past quarter century. This “age verification” shit isn’t going to move the needle on the Google-created dystopia we already have. The time to worry about not having a
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by acheron 6mo ago
I just flag all the AI complaints. Perfect example of the guideline about “don’t complain about tangential issues” or whatever the wording is.
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by acheron 6mo ago
Worcester, MA has several classic old diners still. Some used to be manufactured there, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester_Lunch_Car_Company
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by acheron 6mo ago
Same! I got called “LPB” in Quake 2 a lot.
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by acheron 6mo ago
I've had Clojure on my resume for 10 years, mainly to see if anyone would ask about it. Nobody ever has, until an interview a couple days ago. We'll see if it actually helps in leading to an offer, I guess.
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by acheron 6mo ago
You’d better look out, because I’m gonna say “fuck”. https://genius.com/Ben-folds-rockin-the-suburbs-lyrics
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by acheron 6mo ago
Have you seen Passion of the Christ yet? Jesus dies . https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/05/as-regards-spo...
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by acheron 6mo ago
Probably thinking of “moslo”.
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by acheron 6mo ago
I read the HN title and literally thought to myself “‘disk utility’? What, like PartitionMagic?” Then this was the top comment. Thanks for PartitionMagic; what a great program.
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by acheron 7mo ago
This is a Chrome thing. It’s a safe bet that if you use Google products you don’t care about privacy anyway. “Google product collects info about you: news at 11.”
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by acheron 7mo ago
Weren’t Samsung phones doing something like this? If you tried to take a picture with the moon in it, it would just generate an image of the moon?
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by acheron 7mo ago
> ChromeOS “Boy, I hate operating systems from evil gigantic corporations that constantly spy on us. I know the solution, let’s use a Google product!”
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by acheron 7mo ago
Evergreen https://theonion.com/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesn...
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by acheron 7mo ago
Time for them to pivot to their strength: ZZT
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by acheron 7mo ago
The writer chose to write for PC Gamer and sign their name publicly to an article on the site. You don’t get to just say “oh, wasn’t my decision, tee hee” when it’s your name on the article.
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by acheron 7mo ago
A search isn’t going to lead them to a “reputable source”, it’s going to lead them to ad filled SEO garbage, because it’s not 2004 anymore and thousands of Google employees have been working for two decades to ruin the Internet. I’ll take L
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by acheron 7mo ago
It works in essentially every other profession. Programming isn’t that special.
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by acheron 7mo ago
My dad was at one of the others of the Big Eight at the time, and yeah I remember he was always slinging 1-2-3 spreadsheets. He stuck with 1-2-3 for many years after Excel had taken the crown, but eventually gave in.
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by acheron 7mo ago
Re: 2001 > Clarke wrote the movie screenplay with Kubrick I don’t think this is true? I thought the two of them sat together and worked out the plot, and then Kubrick went off and wrote the screenplay and Clarke went off and wrote the no
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by acheron 7mo ago
No, the law is that states can decide to not implement DST at all, but they can’t decide to have it permanently. At one point a couple New England states were looking at this, but for that reason it would have been implemented by moving to
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by acheron 7mo ago
/s is incredibly dumb as well. “Hey look everyone, I made a joke! Aren’t I clever?”
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by acheron 7mo ago
I disabled the emoji keyboard the first time it showed up and have never had it on since.
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by acheron 7mo ago
“Will we ever end the MySpace monopoly?” > MySpace is well on the way to becoming what economists call a "natural monopoly". Users have invested so much social capital in putting up data about themselves it is not worth their c
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by acheron 8mo ago
Congress hasn’t actually cared about this in 70 years. That ship has sailed, circumnavigated the globe a hundred times, been decommissioned, rebuilt, and then has sailed again.
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by acheron 8mo ago
Their “talent and expertise” is mostly in selling ads.
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by acheron 8mo ago
It works on mobile iOS too. Either the hold down - or just typing -- and letting it autocorrect will work.
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by acheron 8mo ago
What drew people to Chrome is that Google leveraged their search monopoly to push it, and paid other software to sneak it into installers.
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by acheron 8mo ago
Ok. In this case I was making a joke combining the earlier comments in the thread about articles titled “I hate [x]” with the time-honored article title “[x] considered harmful”. Whether that’s useful for training data, only our AI overlord

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