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by brimble 5y ago
This kind of thing isn't all that uncommon. Police don't do much about crime, really (no, not even in middle-class white suburbia), as far as investigating or trying to punish anything. If you tried to bring the issue to them, you
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by brimble 5y ago
Having more rooms and more division between them is part of why older houses feel bigger to me. Modern ones also do some really stupid stuff with square footage. One house we owned had a massive master suite the size of the entire 2-car g
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by brimble 5y ago
> Agreed. Visually, it is... fine, I don't care that much and the iconization of everything is probably just trend chasing. And personally I don't care too much about theming, but either it should be supported, or not. I'd
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by brimble 5y ago
Concur. I've done some programming for a platform that gave me way less than 128k to work with, and it's not rocket science. In some ways it's a hell of a lot easier than, say, web development. It just forces you to be awar
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by brimble 5y ago
0.5's installer is a little over half the size of Mozilla 1.0 (~6Mb vs. ~11Mb, for the Win32 versions, both from 2002) which fits with my recollection that it was noticeably faster to download than Mozilla (on, say, Dial Up). I wanna s
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by brimble 5y ago
Every other browser caught up on features, and some bad things FireFox didn't have originally, it now has (ads, spyware). I don't really know why I'd recommend it to anyone these days. Early on, I was installing it everywhere
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by brimble 5y ago
Now that might be an interesting arrangement. I'm still skeptical that more focus-stealing advertising in a browser that saw early success in no small part precisely because it eliminated focus-stealing advertising from the Web, is
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by brimble 5y ago
Firefox's closest competition, feature-wise, in early versions was Opera, which was adware with a pay-to-remove-ads option and already did pretty much everything that Firefox brought to the table, and then some. I loved Phoenix/Fi
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by brimble 5y ago
How is pushing ads at users going to gain them market share? I know it'll get them more money, but it'll annoy users and I've not seen evidence that the reason they're struggling is because they're capital-constrain
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by brimble 5y ago
They'll push it as an ad pop-up, is the problem. Modern Firefox borders on being adware, like Opera was back when Phoenix was first released. And it's more aggressive about pushing ads than that ever was. At least those were const
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by brimble 5y ago
I've never paid bills from the CC side, but from the provider side. I don't even know how I'd tell my CC to automatically pay some entity on a set schedule. It's all pulled by the service providers, separately, on whatev
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by brimble 5y ago
Gods of the Copybook Headers. (edit: Head ings , of course) They may be old fuddy-duddies, but damned if they aren't right more often than not. Even when we'd rather they weren't.
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by brimble 5y ago
Filming with a small crew is more active than sitting in a chair, but only barely, I'd say. There's more standing, at least. Most of the time you're waiting near the spot where you need to be, or staying perfectly still, or m
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by brimble 5y ago
Builders have been working as fast as they can (and sometimes faster than they should) around here non-stop since maybe 2011 or 2012, and it's not enough. Tons of new neighborhoods, probably half the apartment buildings I know of were
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by brimble 5y ago
"Collectibles" bubbles have been a feature of (at least) American society for many decades. The tendency of some people to fall for marketing that describes some mass-market junk as an "investment" or "collectible&q
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by brimble 5y ago
I've found it's both achievable and a worthwhile way to operate if and only if nearly all of your emails come from humans, and not very many of them. As soon as transactional emails and marketing mailer scripts start to take ove
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by brimble 5y ago
The text in the instant-answer bar is reversed for this result. Which could plausibly either be on purpose, or a result of the character itself being inserted and not escaped, so having its intended effect.
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by brimble 5y ago
My dad picked one (edit: a Chromebook, that is) up a couple years ago, which I thought was great because most of their market is kids and old people (isn't it?) so it'd surely have great accessibility features, and as you note Win
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by brimble 5y ago
That was the craziest part to me. I was interested in both products and information, and despite deciding it was a good idea to show me almost nothing but ads, they didn't manage to show me anything worth clicking for either purpos
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by brimble 5y ago
Hard disagree. ;-) I'd concur with another post way up-thread that there's a kind of "HN voice" that gets you a pass on moderation, but you can be very nasty while staying within that, and usually threads are full of t
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by brimble 5y ago
Here (mid-tier city in the US) it's more like 80/20 or 90/10 at any normal grocery store, and I suspect there's higher product turn-over for dairy so the actual sales figures favors dairy more than that suggests.
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by brimble 5y ago
It sometimes seems like our medical and end-of-life care systems are designed to soak up all the savings of everyone but the very rich, to keep it from being inherited. What good is our higher level of income (than many other rich countri
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by brimble 5y ago
Yes, of course they do, the alternative milk market is growing fast but most people still go for cow milk if they want milk. That's why grocery stores still devote a ton of space to cow milk.
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by brimble 5y ago
Google used to actively fight the spam. Some time around '08 or '09 it was like they very suddenly gave up and never seemed to give it a serious attempt again, as if they'd simply surrendered. Unfortunately, they also made se
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by brimble 5y ago
When I'm looking into some project or piece of software I'm unfamiliar with, I really do search for HN posts on it. Fastest way to cut through (enough) of the biased material and get something genuine. Even hyped stuff usually has
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by brimble 5y ago
N = 3, we intentionally never baby talked to our kids, and spent a lot more time reading them novels and other things without pictures or simplified language than (I'd guess) most people do (we did also do plenty of picture books), and
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by brimble 5y ago
"That's sounds great, be happy to work on it. You should go talk to [my manager, a PM, whatever] to see when we can work it in. Here, I'll [walk you over, CC them on this email, whatever]." When you're getting direc
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by brimble 5y ago
The other day I was searching for a specific kind of jewelry and realized I don't know of a search engine that can do what I needed, which is to just find good results for my search. Searches for jewelry-related keywords triggered Go
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by brimble 5y ago
> We could even do that while exempting very small low-harm operations and cases in which that kind of work really is something resembling necessary (police work, say). There's no "gotcha" in "but what about police in
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by brimble 5y ago
> You seem to be advocating a position that content moderation, and services that rely upon it, should not exist. I'm not sure why Hacker News would somehow be an exception to this, so you seem to be advocating this site should not

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