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by caconym_ 4y ago
What percentage of pedestrians killed by motor vehicles in any recent time window of your choice were jaywalking when it happened?
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by caconym_ 4y ago
I think Vellum's whole value proposition is typesetting ebooks and other "rich" formats. I've never tried to sell my writing, so Pandoc with a bit of custom CSS has worked great for me, but if I ever feel the need to bui
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by caconym_ 4y ago
I think you are misunderstanding me a little. My car has a manual transmission and driving it is (oddly enough, since it's not a very fast or powerful car) one of the greatest joys in my life. It's wonderful to be so "close t
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by caconym_ 4y ago
Whenever I encounter the "Robb Report" I am reminded of an occasion in college when some friends and I noticed one of its issues on the newsstand in a grocery store. It came in a special plastic bag with an opaque rectangle printe
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by caconym_ 4y ago
Last year I decided to exit the Kindle ecosystem after buying quite a few books in it, and cracking the DRM was a pretty near thing. I was lucky to have an older Kindle device sitting around that didn't support Amazon's latest DRM
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by caconym_ 4y ago
For a start, you should probably read OP's article. I know often HN commenters don't read the article before commenting, and I'm sometimes guilty of this myself, but in this case the linked article offers fairly important con
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by caconym_ 4y ago
"Big Tech" is a distraction. They barely even "sell" data; rather, they use it to power platforms where advertisers can target users without learning who they are. At such a large scale there are obviously exceptions (se
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by caconym_ 4y ago
Yeah. "I was going to be a novelist, but..." doesn't really track. It's an investment of years and (at least) hundreds of thousands of words just to figure out if you're theoretically capable of writing a novel peop
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by caconym_ 4y ago
I have pretty bad astigmatism in my left eye (which I wear glasses for) and suffer from other visual issues like ghosting, floaters, and eyestrain reading text that doesn't hit my personal sweet spot for contrast. A couple of weeks ago
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by caconym_ 4y ago
> When you're writing / reading, it's much easier to parse complex sentences. All other things being equal, I think this is only true because you can reread them at will and puzzle over them until you think you know what t
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by caconym_ 4y ago
It's absolutely a workable idea. Standby instruments are typically a requirement for glass cockpit aircraft, and before electronic standby instruments came onto the scene mechanical instruments were used in the standby role in (AFAIK
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by caconym_ 4y ago
I think you are overstating the impracticality of mechanical standby instruments. Even glass cockpit GA aircraft typically came with fully mechanical backups until fairly recently---check out this SR22 cockpit as an example: https:/&#
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by caconym_ 4y ago
> You could set up AutoModerator to remove all posts by a user but they will be visibly removed. Is shadow comment deletion not available to AutoModerator? My own experience suggests otherwise, though not conclusively.
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by caconym_ 4y ago
I'm not talking about deleted comments, I'm talking about shadow deleted comments. The only way (without external tools, I guess) to know it's happened to you is to notice a suspicious lack of engagement with something you
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by caconym_ 4y ago
100%. The reality of moderation on Reddit is absolutely horrifying, like flipping over a rock and finding a pile of decomposing rat carcasses underneath. It's unbelievable, for instance, how often comments going against the grain are &
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by caconym_ 4y ago
What is your point? Suborbital tourist launchers are essentially irrelevant to efforts like Commercial Crew, SLS/Orion, and so on. They differ enormously in complexity, cost, and addressable market. By a similar token, an article fro
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by caconym_ 4y ago
I have been hearing about Lightning as a solution for Bitcoin's scaling issues for _years_. Far from being "ignorant of the major content of the article", I think my comment in fact echoes the article's admission of ex
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by caconym_ 4y ago
I prefer to call them "transaction fees" myself. I believe that's what "gas" refers to; people apparently call it "gas" these days so I have adopted that terminology so that everybody knows what I'm t
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by caconym_ 4y ago
I'm sick of hearing about what crypto "could" do. I used BTC to pay for a few lunches back when transaction fees were in the cents rather than hundreds (?) of dollars or worse, and it was pretty neat, but it's clear toda
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by caconym_ 4y ago
High power (~100W) charging with USB-C has been a game changer for me. I barely even remember the days when every electronic device came with its own grotty little power brick I had to keep track of and carry around with the device. I guess
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by caconym_ 4y ago
Honestly? The top half of a signpost bearing the name of a Welsh village in white on green (likely an artifact of my actual local signage standards). The tops of some broadleaf deciduous trees, possibly ash, are visible in the background, b
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by caconym_ 4y ago
When I read the words "serkle nufding" I pictured in my head, with zero perceptible delay, a weird little goblin guy with pale green skin and long ears and a pointy hat.
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by caconym_ 4y ago
There's a time and a place for everything. Maybe I'm just an image quality freak, but the only zoom lens I've ever owned that I actually enjoy using and like the pictures from is big, heavy, and as expensive as several nice p
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by caconym_ 4y ago
Oh, that's actually good to know, thanks. My only experience with a nice modern transreflective display is (IIUC) the Playdate, which looks great. Since you seem to know about these things, do you have any suggestion(s) for where to bu
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by caconym_ 4y ago
Damn, this looks awesome. I'll have to pick one up when they're generally available. Thanks for the tip. edit: Actually this seems to have an LCD screen like their other models, rather than the DM30's e-ink, which is a shame.
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by caconym_ 4y ago
I almost ordered a Freewrite a few years ago but I got a whiff of the jank at the last minute, and thought better of it. My use case is writing fiction, probably around 100k words a year, and I am easily distracted (especially since pandemi
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by caconym_ 4y ago
Ironsource is a malware vendor. I'm not sure in what sense you think people are overreacting, but I think that fact alone is worthy of a raised eyebrow or two. Unity has merged with a malware vendor.
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by caconym_ 4y ago
It's consistent with the other branding I saw on their website, but that doesn't mean it's good. It makes me think of laser tag and go-karts. If it works for the people who actually buy their products, or those people don&#x2
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by caconym_ 4y ago
The typography really threw me off. Obviously this is subjective, but it gives me a really cheap vibe, like something you'd find in one of those travel gadget stores at the airport. It looks like they just didn't give a shit. I do
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by caconym_ 4y ago
> I removed my original reply upon realization the poster to whom I responded was likely too angry for debate Strong arguments don't lead with transparent emotional projection. If it's important to you to imagine that I am &quo

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