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by devindotcom 25d ago
no, it's the current administration, among others like musk.
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by devindotcom 25d ago
heh, no. Eco is referring to how the white house casts groups like academics, immigrants, socialists, and trans people.
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by devindotcom 25d ago
and sometimes it isn't.
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by devindotcom 25d ago
>one's chosen enemies must be simultaneously terrifyingly powerful and incompetent dunces I've got some bad news for you.
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by devindotcom 25d ago
nothing about its shape strikes you?
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by devindotcom 25d ago
I suspect most would point to The Garden of Forking Paths as his "main labyrinth story" if he could be said to have such a thing. The Library of Babel is also a labyrinth of sorts. I recall another where a guy faked his own murder
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by devindotcom 25d ago
I'm glad they're doing well but I would guess only a tiny fraction of the people who use Spotify would be capable of setting up Navidrome. I tried and went back to Plex. I wish it were otherwise but if something takes more than a
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by devindotcom 25d ago
I get around the lack of such a mode by still using winamp!
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by devindotcom 26d ago
why even bother with this "you know what I mean" stuff? if you're going to say things like this have the conviction to say it straight. you come off as a bigot AND a coward this way.
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by devindotcom 29d ago
I was pretty young so I barely knew how to operate the telnet terminal - we used one called White Knight. I recall it had a white background by default (hence the name, I suppose) and a green and yellow pie chart download progress indicator
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by devindotcom 29d ago
>attempted improvement that only makes things worse Unless I'm mistaken, Russian has a wonderful idiom for this: "bear job"
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
I need the Star Trek modules, which I recall waiting overnight to pirate from a BBS on my 14.4k. "Do NOT pick up the phone, mom." Also Lunatic Fringe - somehow and for some reason a full top down space shoot-em-up in After Dark. P
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
it's funny that this came up on HN only an hour after I finished writing about Oscar Wilde's advice from the late 19th century. It is hard to two such lists being more different, in fact they are only similar in that they are numb
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
Personally not at all interested in these new features - an F-91W that needs a smartphone to operate properly is madness to me - but I do appreciate the way they implemented them, with a focus on longevity and simplicity.
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
I don't think Gene Hackman was suggesting it was a Calvinist joint
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
no one uses ai for writing at tc. you're gonna end up chicken-littling yourself
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
funny to see you here rather than mefi jessamyn. thanks for everything!
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
"known" by whom, and documented where? if you're going to just parachute in and say this paper by domain experts is dead wrong, at least link to what you believe shows this to be the case.
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
accounts from ICE are not trustworthy or factual.
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by devindotcom 1mo ago
If you're at all interested in this stuff, Atmospheric Optics is a fantastic resource that illustrates and explains these phenomena with both depth and accessibility. Note that the menu on the left hides lots of layers. https:/&#
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
Oh, how wonderful. I've been meaning to pick this up but was worried about the accuracy and completeness of the old edition (not that I'd be able to tell, really). So this is great to hear: > This new edition – the publication
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
look up the actual origin and purpose of the turing test, you may be surprised
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
yeah, this is good advice unless you really want to get deep into it. the people doing the colors on these know what they're doing. that said it can be fascinating to look at the process and try it yourself so go for it. I bet it'
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
oh perhaps you're right. i thought they were clones, not alternative domains. i had that captcha issue as well, it disappeared through no action of my own. hope the same for you.
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
there are variations but some are shady... archive.ph, archive.today, etc. there's probably a central list somewhere.
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
heh yeah I ran into this with one of the few times I used claude desktop. it had no idea what features it had and didn't have, where buttons were in the app, etc. isn't that kind of a core category of knowledge you'd want the
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
no one understands what you are saying
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
your suggestion to cash strapped people who can barely afford rent is "just buy a house in new york"?
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
abominable
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by devindotcom 2mo ago
Lol. Imagining someone sneaking across the border from Mexico so they can work under the table to afford a $4k/mo 1BR in Hollywood

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