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91.
by acheron 8mo ago
At 2400, you could watch the characters from the BBS come up on your screen, but at 14.4 practically the whole page came up at once!
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by acheron 8mo ago
“I hate stuff” articles considered harmful.
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by acheron 8mo ago
I wouldn’t say our chickens are mean. They are incredibly stupid though. Some kinds of birds can be smart, but chickens aren’t one of them.
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by acheron 8mo ago
> A lot of really bad things are happening to our field, and Google is one of the agents responsible for much of it. I mean, breaking news from 2010, but of course never assume things are so bad that they can’t get worse.
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by acheron 8mo ago
Makes you wonder why we even have research universities when their results can be so easily DESTROYED with FACTS and LOGIC by HN’s top JavaScript developers and vibe coders.
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by acheron 8mo ago
This is silly. LLMs are not people; you can’t “plagiarize” an LLM. Either the result is good or it isn’t, but it’s the actual author’s responsibility either way.
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by acheron 8mo ago
I’m so glad ICANN added .horse for all our horse-related sites.
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by acheron 8mo ago
By the efficient market hypothesis, if a spot in another queue was quicker someone would have already taken it.
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by acheron 8mo ago
Those are almost certainly added by the mail server and not in individual signatures.
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by acheron 8mo ago
I go to local performances of baroque-era and somewhat earlier music regularly. I have noticed on occasion in a small vocal performance that has 2 people per part, occasionally a female contralto is paired with a male tenor. (I don’t know e
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by acheron 8mo ago
“Don’t trust Google” is table stakes for being on the Internet over the past couple decades.
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by acheron 8mo ago
In general the “housing is too expensive” people mean “I looked at every available house in both San Francisco and New York City, and didn’t find anything cheap!”
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by acheron 8mo ago
Yep. It’s just who/whom all the way down.
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by acheron 9mo ago
Or “epicenter”. All prefixes eventually become intensifiers?
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by acheron 9mo ago
While I laughed at the headline, it also fondly reminds me of reading Slashdot in the late 90s-early 00s, back before the Internet and programming and computers had all gone to shit. Good luck guys. At least working on this for decades is l
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by acheron 9mo ago
Follow the incentives. If I’m in charge of setting alarms, and something bad happens without an alarm going off, it’s my fault. If the alarm goes off and the operator ignores it, it’s their fault.
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by acheron 9mo ago
Vibe patching
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by acheron 9mo ago
Nah things were already going to shit then. Sure it kept getting worse, but that was well on the downslope.
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by acheron 9mo ago
Almost nobody can just arbitrarily decide to go make money in a given hour. You work 40 hours a week, you get paid for 40 hours a week, and that’s it.
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by acheron 9mo ago
Almost all software “subscriptions” are a complete scam.
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by acheron 9mo ago
Most Internet commentary about landlords and renting is very silly, yes.
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by acheron 9mo ago
I don’t do corporate work on my home computer? I don’t know who’s suggesting corporate IT departments should convert everyone to Linux. “Work computer” and “home computer” are entirely separate use cases. (Also a ton of MS Office work is be
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by acheron 9mo ago
Backup cameras are required by regulation since the late 2010s. You can’t sell a car with no screen.
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by acheron 9mo ago
Yes, I’m sure that guy made the comment so he could get advice from HN’s top minds about how he doesn’t actually know what his requirements are.
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by acheron 9mo ago
Don’t blame me, I voted for CowboyNeal.
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by acheron 9mo ago
No, it’s the shoplifting. Don’t be obtuse.
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by acheron 9mo ago
This was fascinating. Love old BBS stuff, even though this was far from what I was experiencing at the time.
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by acheron 9mo ago
Sorry, if you give the “benefit of the doubt” to anything on Reddit you are going to be misinformed. Reddit was all lies before AI; it hasn’t gotten better.
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by acheron 10mo ago
People should work out in private, not go show off with the vain assholes at a gym.
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by acheron 10mo ago
I didn’t know it was possible to not know this.

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