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541.
by alwa 2y ago
Have you ever considered an electrified paddle? I’d recommend the kind without a guard, just bare wires… the SNAP! when you contact a mosquito is both humane (instantaneous explosion!) and extremely satisfying, as these things go… Not use
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by alwa 2y ago
This is absolutely the way. And mosquito weather tends to be fan weather anyway! Works pretty well for ventilating enclosed spaces, too—just make sure the fan points inward, pumping positive pressure into the space, so there’s a steady outw
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by alwa 2y ago
I can think of worse hobbies… Doesn’t the Financial Times periodically run a column called “How to Spend It”? A hobby farm sounds like a lovely and wholesome alternative to some of the luxury pursuits they outline.
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by alwa 2y ago
I mean I’m not a conservator of ancient artifacts, but the pictures [0] of them dunking mummy masks in dish water to decompose them so they could check whether they were made with scrap bible papyrus… those did make my stomach turn a little
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by alwa 2y ago
Distinguished computer scientist [EDIT: engineer!], seasoned writer, and longtime HN stalwart @WalterBright? Frankly I’d be willing to imagine the AI learned what it knows from him…
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by alwa 2y ago
Out of curiosity, what’s the French term for this technique?
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by alwa 2y ago
So… maybe, but to my mind counterfactuals don’t really help clarify thinking about this kind of thing. The range of futures available to us today doesn’t really depend too much on alternate futures that may have been available had we done t
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by alwa 2y ago
Or, at least, the benefits are front-loaded and the costs—if you don’t write them off as theoretical—are future-you’s problem… Made even more opaque by the way the DNA kit folks gave the impression of a straightforward, first-party transact
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by alwa 2y ago
I can’t help but suspect Starship’s recent run of spectacular explosions might frustrate efforts to launch more nuclear-powered craft like the Voyagers too soon…
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by alwa 2y ago
I get regular emails intended for my doppelgänger, and have for many, many years. I know her entire family by proxy—we’ve effectively moved through the same stages of life together, in parallel, across the globe. For a while I used to respo
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by alwa 2y ago
TFA sure looks like a huge number of its samples—which correspond to regions that had a ground-truth kind of count due to dam construction—were drawn from China…
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by alwa 2y ago
I am completely mesmerized. Locally to me, far from anywhere it belongs, an independent-spirited Japanese man operates a little izakaya as a solo enterprise. Jazz, shockingly varied menu for the square footage and manpower; the whole deal.
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by alwa 2y ago
To be fair, NYC’s MTA writes tardy slips too: https://delayverification.mta.info/ I shudder to imagine the working relationship where that’s relevant. But I very much appreciate the advantages you point out. I felt a little
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by alwa 2y ago
I’d be thrilled to have a black screen instead of ads. I suspect you assume that my motivation is to escape the interruption. To me, let me tell you—the interruption is a mild annoyance, while the ads themselves are an active assault. Espec
555.
by alwa 2y ago
What does it mean to "temporarily revoke" a diploma? It seems like you either earned it or you didn't. Measures like expulsion and suspension might interrupt ongoing bad behavior with the consequence that people can't th
556.
by alwa 2y ago
For that matter, what if you're the tenant and you think the landlord isn't doing something they should? In either role, if it's month-to-month... either of you says to the other that it's not working out, give whatever
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by alwa 2y ago
I feel like it's in the name: just like disaster responders operate in disaster, emergency rooms operate with patients in conditions of more or less emergency. Draw from a population large enough and you'll have a rolling supply o
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by alwa 2y ago
A relative’s doctor’s practice just got acquired by one of these private-equity-backed profit-hungry medical chains. I went with him to an appointment. As a condition of checking in to see his doctor, on a silly tablet at the office, he had
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by alwa 2y ago
And it takes some kind of chutzpah to claim that Habitat for Humanity has no track record or competency building affordable housing, just because this collaboration is new…
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by alwa 2y ago
Uff. I can't even imagine. I'm so sorry for you and your kids alike. And I guess it's not the precautionary floor lines that strike me, it's that this style of violence really is so pervasive—and we've concluded tha
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by alwa 2y ago
How much of this is the COVID-correlated normalization of delivery apps [0]? Anecdotally I do sometimes notice people eating quickly or taking out, but what I really notice is the nonstop flurry of app delivery folks darting in and out of
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by alwa 2y ago
Normally I’d ding a comment like this as low-effort, but… I honestly can’t think of any more appropriate reaction. I know I’m behind the times, but I was surprised recently when, at an elementary school in the US, they showed me painted lin
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by alwa 2y ago
Nothing says sneaky like hilltop mortars firing 25,000-bouncey-ball loads a hundred feet in the air… > ”[The film commissioner] goes, ‘Here’s two things I never want to see in San Francisco again — air mortars and Barry Conner.’”
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by alwa 2y ago
Maybe! To me it’s more of a “OK, that’s the end of the important stuff, this way to the also-rans if you’re extra bored today”
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by alwa 2y ago
That’s kind of the weird trap, isn’t it? That it feels like there’s normative social pressure to do your phone too, right at the moment that everyone who would notice you doing or not doing so has turned their attention elsewhere?
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by alwa 2y ago
One difference is that HN uses a ranked list. You can generally count on things getting less salient the farther you “scroll.” It’s the same way that infinitely-scrolling Google results don’t have the same effect as infinitely-scrolling con
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U.S. Housing Agency Considers Launching Crypto Experiment(propublica.org)
8 points by alwa 2y ago|1 comments
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by alwa 2y ago
I don’t totally know what this comment is attempting to communicate, but Karim Toubba apparently had been CEO for 4 months at the time of the original breach: https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/lastpass-ceo-reflects
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by alwa 2y ago
In the domain of moon spacecraft particularly, doesn’t there remain a clear distinction to be drawn between manned and unmanned spacecraft, given the power of the “man on the moon” trope in English-speakers’ imagination? “Private spacecraft
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by alwa 2y ago
On the third hand, it’s hard to develop meta-level skills—nuanced judgment and wisdom in a domain—without engaging over a long period with the peas-and-carrots aspects of the domain. I guess it’s kind of the “where’s our next crop of senior

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