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by cliglot 3mo ago
I recall an HN post from some years back: Someone was describing their time in Navy around the 70s or 80s. They’re job was to perform maintenance on some sort of electronic system on ship. They mentioned the training in electronic design re
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by cliglot 3mo ago
> I’ve been scraping dating sites and feeding them to ChatGPT, and it’s amazing how few of the profiles still say anything about the person. I’ve long described dating apps as “distilling an entire person into a few curated photos and a
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by cliglot 3mo ago
> and the situation for Republicans looks dire. I thought this at first, but I’m not sure at this point. The republican establishment has slaughtered the more populist anti-war wing of the party in primaries across the country. The democ
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by cliglot 3mo ago
> I can open a zip in a normal file explorer window just fine. I was even under the impression they added support in explorer for extracting other types of archives (tar, maybe 7zip).
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by cliglot 3mo ago
> A lot of HN is folks in their late 30s, 40s, and early 50s (and sometimes even older!) And? Doesn’t make it on topic. > A lot of folks here were involved in making YouTube/Instagram/TikTok, not listening to it. I hope they
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by cliglot 3mo ago
> If they just expelled cheaters instead of trying to sweep it under the rug and ignore it that would go a long way. You can’t treat paying customers like that. They’ll just go somewhere that will let them cheat!
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by cliglot 3mo ago
> there won't be enough entry level jobs for anyone to get into. You know, I was reading an article about falling labor force participation rates, and one thing was pointed out was there seems to be a supply mismatch. Plenty of jobs
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by cliglot 3mo ago
> History reveals that every war is won by the nation with superior industrial capacity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichimeca_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet–Afghan_War https:&#x2
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by cliglot 3mo ago
> whereas you could get a good-paying job as an engineer at a relatively lower percentile. Well, at least until recently.
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by cliglot 3mo ago
> there is an oversupply of SWE and a dwindling supply of jobs which pushes wages down Which is exactly what every one on HN with a working brain predicted a decade+ ago.
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by cliglot 3mo ago
Now let’s see if there will be any real consequences for such reckless stupidity: my bet, nah.
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by cliglot 3mo ago
Interestingly I was watching a body cam where an off duty cop road raged punched a driver. During the investigation the investigating officer had become worried that the assailant would use police resources to further track and harass the v
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by cliglot 3mo ago
You can’t even parody these people anymore for fucks sake.
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by cliglot 3mo ago
Better get yourself a gun.
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by cliglot 3mo ago
> So your family would prefer to be illiterate subsistence farmers dying in war at age 40 in 1960s Algeria? Or maybe they'd prefer to be illiterate subsistence farmers in two-tier French colonial Algeria, working as landless servant