cdchn

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by cdchn 2y ago
Or inhumanity as the case may be. Some of the most egregious things in human history were covered by "just doing my job."
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by cdchn 2y ago
Does 4-day week policy mean you have to be in the office 4 days a week, or that your work week is 4 days long?
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by cdchn 2y ago
Almost all good memes seem to be extracted from some random niche website.
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by cdchn 2y ago
I was looking at using moment.dev for a very similar (internal) application but the lift of using TypeScript and how the whole tool worked was very daunting. Having a simple Jupyter notebook interface (in Python) is much more approachable
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by cdchn 2y ago
Might be AI Maximalism approaching Science Fiction but I still thought it was thought provoking.
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by cdchn 2y ago
Lie to your boss and see if they put you on a pip "Please improve your inability to tell the truth."
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by cdchn 2y ago
I'm dying for a menu system like this that lets me select items old school BBS "light bar" style.
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by cdchn 2y ago
Serious lack of screenshots here.
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by cdchn 2y ago
That having impaired drivers does not absolve you of liability for unintended acceleration.
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by cdchn 2y ago
A lot of these had ASCII art in them.
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by cdchn 2y ago
I was under the impression the DIZ was because it first appeared on a BBS called DiZZYboard iirc
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by cdchn 2y ago
I'm not sure if archive.is leverages this (I doubt it has a huge database of paid accounts) but a lot of sites put up full content versions of their sites so search engines can scrape them, so there may be some legal shimmying about ta
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by cdchn 2y ago
Ahh thats what I was hoping to see. Thanks!
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by cdchn 2y ago
They mention something called Singularity which makes their environment "one file". That sounded kind of interesting but totally ungoogleable just based on the name.
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by cdchn 2y ago
Making the system clock always be the same is the ultimate is hermeticity.
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by cdchn 2y ago
I was under the impression that ICQ turned off when AIM did.,
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by cdchn 2y ago
I thought ICQ died with AIM, darn.
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by cdchn 2y ago
I lament the loss of the Old Growth Internet as well, but I feel we can never go home again.
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by cdchn 2y ago
They did a good job of describing what Oxide's product-market fit was at the beginning of this article, which I always wondered about since I couldn't see how Oxide could fit in.
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by cdchn 2y ago
Let me rephrase. Sticky lips ARE eliciting impure thoughts.
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by cdchn 2y ago
Yeah that just occurred to me too when someone posted a free-from-adult-swim link to the same thing.
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by cdchn 2y ago
The sticky lips may illicit impure thoughts.
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by cdchn 2y ago
Whats nsfw about it?
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by cdchn 2y ago
Yeah I was hoping the HN community could provide some insight there, because my searches came up fruitless.
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by cdchn 2y ago
How much? And what are other companies putting in space?
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by cdchn 2y ago
Is there any breakdown of what the total tonnage to space is used for? What % is exploration / research, telecommunications, surveillance/imaging, other?
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by cdchn 2y ago
Yeah if he focuses too much on SpaceX you get things like him launching a Tesla roadster into space. I agree with Buzz Aldrin that the exploration is better left outside corporate hands.
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by cdchn 2y ago
For every person saying the year is 02024 there are at least a few who are thinking "its not year 1044 decimal?"
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by cdchn 2y ago
60 years on we haven't forgotten how to read EBCDIC. Punch cards can still be deciphered. Most languages aren't unrecognizable from what they were 200 years ago. I don't think we'd have much issue reading an USB stick
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by cdchn 2y ago
>Plus, why would you believe that (working) systems able to read USB drives will be available in 200+ years? Unless we hit another Dark Ages, I think its safe to assume the USB standard will survive.

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