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by boothby 8mo ago
Boggles the mind that the advice from the security was to lie on the form , which is almost certainly a felony.
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by boothby 8mo ago
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/18/china-dancing-...
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by boothby 8mo ago
Poe's law and all, but the first two responses to this are missing some sarcasm that looks pretty overwrought to me.
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by boothby 8mo ago
You mean to add bad Monte-Carlo generated slop pages which are only advertised as no-go in the robots.txt file, right?
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by boothby 8mo ago
I look forward to a day when the internet is so uniformly fraudulent that we can set it aside and return to the physical plane.
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by boothby 8mo ago
Well, maybe if I win the lottery, I'll be able to afford a Ferrari minivan? I'm so confused.
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by boothby 8mo ago
I thought I was going to look at a car when I clicked that link. I scrolled the last 80% of the way out of morbid curiosity. This secondary quest was not disappointing: no car photos. So weird. Perhaps this is a complaint about the titl
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by boothby 8mo ago
And now I'm picturing a dragon with bombardier-beetle style pulsed jet boosters. And while I'd typically question your assumptions of how big dragons need to be in order to deserve the name, I'll assert that quetzocoatlus n
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by boothby 8mo ago
Another curious historical point: gas masks were banned in Seattle, back in '99. I'm unsure if that was repealed because the majority of search results are about a new law regarding masked law enforcement. https://www.
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by boothby 8mo ago
Ye gods, we're truly in the stupidest timeline.
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by boothby 8mo ago
No, the fact is that the child sustained minor injuries. And, fact: no human driver made the decision to drive a vehicle in that exact position and velocity. Imagining a human-driven vehicle in the same place is certainly valid, but your
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by boothby 8mo ago
No, "the ledger" should record actual facts, and not whatever fictional alternatives we imagine.
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by boothby 9mo ago
Fibonacci heaps are nice. They aren't state of the art, but it's a pretty data structure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_heap
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by boothby 9mo ago
Aha, so you've misunderstood my joke entirely. We agree about the math, please reread my original comment with the understanding that I'm insinuating that the article has deviated from "ordinary map area" and is instead
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by boothby 9mo ago
Can you explain this more? It seems trivial to extrude a 2d coastline along a third dimension to produce a paradoxical areal calculation corresponding precisely to the perimeter paradox...
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by boothby 9mo ago
Only, it's members of the federal government overtly spreading disinformation and laughing about it. It will be a miracle if anything is left of the law enforcement and judiciary that would push back in three years' time.
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by boothby 9mo ago
Technically, if you're measuring surface area, it' important to remember that the earth is not a sphere. There's a bit of a paradox measuring shorelines: the shorter your ruler, the longer it gets, because you're able t
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by boothby 9mo ago
The funniest aspect of this conversation is the context: an author who made his living on telling the stories of fools he met in the gold rush. Some people can't be dissuaded by reason.
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by boothby 9mo ago
To the contrary, it's got that 90s feel that I'd expect of an 88×31 badge. https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/
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by boothby 9mo ago
> How could a bang ever bring the wealth and peace that its prior friendship with allies brought? It won't.
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by boothby 9mo ago
It still looks like a perverse incentive to me. If I were operating a gas plant and charging too much, and also building out renewables, it naively seems that I should be able to continue overcharging for gas, lining somebody's pocket
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by boothby 9mo ago
I live in vancouver and cannot install such apps on my phone. While you may have found the machine's UI unusual, I use them quite often and I suspect that people like me would invalidate your claim... if it went to court. But parking
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by boothby 9mo ago
Wikipedia links to an article with a fairly approachable looking setup for that! https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0501010
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by boothby 9mo ago
Counterpoint: if somebody builds that elsewhere, that's one fewer person posting slop on HN proper
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by boothby 9mo ago
What I'm struggling with is the hard radiation, which causes defects and even impurities even if you start with isotopically pure feedstock
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by boothby 10mo ago
My magic 8-ball says that major corporations are training the LLMs and pushing LLM features into our eyeballs at every opportunity. How do you propose we convince the average voter that our stance on AI is the correct one? If I were a pow
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by boothby 10mo ago
I mean, same, but what are you (we) actually going to do about it?
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by boothby 10mo ago
I'd argue that the populace is "ready" to be governed by the arbitrary whims of those in power, be it masked federal agents taking people off streets to social media peddling influence to the highest bidder to corporate struc
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by boothby 10mo ago
When my dad was battling cancer a decade ago, the distance from Seattle to Vancouver was maddening. In the end, I regretted not just taking some months off of school to spend time with him in what would be his last year. But now, it'
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by boothby 10mo ago
I'm annoyed by things moving unbidden, especially in clickable interfaces. This element being all over Slack, chat apps, etc. means that things are always shifting around slightly and at unpredictable times.

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