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by dhosek 6d ago
But that’s because that’s a situation where there’s only one president. If you were in a situation where there were multiple presidents you would definitely say he’s a president.
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by dhosek 6d ago
My kids find mechanical disks (let alone things like CDs/DVDs or (gasp) vinyl) to be bizarre concepts. The fact that the disk drives for the IBM mainframe that I worked with in the mid-to-late 80s were the size of a washing machine abs
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by dhosek 9d ago
Ugh, TIL that Python doesn’t have labeled breaks. Now I’m wondering what other languages in current use don’t have this functionality.
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by dhosek 9d ago
I’ve not quite had the same dramatic change of weight (only about 20% gain), but my fingers have retained their diameter through that. I was genuinely curious about what caused people to need resizing.
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by dhosek 11d ago
Infinite distance and travel cost too!
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by dhosek 11d ago
Odd, I was married for almost twenty years during which I think I took off my ring twice (maybe not even that much—if I recall correctly, I persuaded the surgical staff to tape my ring rather than have me remove it when I had surgery). Neve
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by dhosek 11d ago
I think Nepal is the only flag that cut a corner.
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by dhosek 11d ago
I’m surprised that the near-identical flags list omits Slovenia and Slovakia which both have white-blue-red horizontal stripes and a coat of arms (albeit with slightly different placement and different background colors on the coats of arms
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by dhosek 12d ago
It’s a warning of what it’s going to do next…
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by dhosek 12d ago
Weather is not climate. Not to mention we really don’t have roughly the same weather anyway.
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by dhosek 14d ago
Kind of reminds me of a college classmate back in the 80s made a Hypercard game which he had called Escape from Harvey Mudd but which the college asked (maybe demanded?) that it be renamed as it started to get distribution so the more commo
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by dhosek 16d ago
There’s also the depth. A crt monitor would have a depth at least equal to the diagonal measurement which meant a lot of desk space lost to the monitor. On the other hand that also meant some prime cat nesting space that was lost with the l
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by dhosek 17d ago
You’re absolutely right, but I need to go to the bathroom/get some coffee/take a smoke break/get back to this task now so we’ll have to discuss this further later.
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by dhosek 17d ago
There is a link to the paper in the article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05283
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by dhosek 21d ago
I have managed to at least momentarily create a stop in spam at my specialist mediawiki. I’ve had to do IP blocking against meta’s IP block (as well as much of the Azure IP space) because they were hammering the site with crawler hits that
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by dhosek 23d ago
There end up being some weird edge cases where there are some countries which have both the equivalent of .co.uk but also allow registrations directly under the two-letter country code as well. .mx is one such case where most business are,
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by dhosek 23d ago
In my twenties, I had decided that I didn’t want to have side projects or a job that followed me home. I wanted to just go to work, come home and be. Shortly after I made that commitment, there was a notice published that I was starting a t
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by dhosek 24d ago
He’s doing exactly what he said he would do when he ran. People who voted for him can very much be held accountable.
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by dhosek 25d ago
From what I’ve seen of what AI can do for coding, the part of software engineering that I like is going to be automated out of existence, much like the ability to do serious calculations by hand got automated out of existence with the devel
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by dhosek 25d ago
Yeah, I’m pretty much on a trajectory of building up as much retirement savings as possible before AI completely kills my career. The sweet spot seems to be about three years out. I honestly don’t know how to guide my 12-year-old son who lo
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by dhosek 25d ago
Presumably this is on their roadmap. The Jobs-era thing would be to come in with something that people on HN would say, “yeah, I could do this myself with open source tools” but in practice falls into the category of “I could build this $30
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by dhosek 25d ago
Apparently, yes: https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/ivbwoo/cur/multimedi...
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by dhosek 25d ago
There’s a partisan floor¹ that’s in the neighborhood of 25–30% where people will vote for their party no matter what. The 2004 Illinois Senate election was a good test case where when the Republican nominee went down in self-inflicted flame
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by dhosek 26d ago
I was thinking that this was included in the Apple ][ Integer BASIC ROM, but when I checked it was Woz’s own special instruction set, SWEET-16 which gave compact (if slow) ability to do 16-bit coding on the 6502. These sorts of things are l
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by dhosek 26d ago
Sorry, no luck tracking down your ex-girlfriend, but we do have a line on an ivory-billed woodpecker.
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by dhosek 26d ago
Come on man, let us have a nice little alternate universe without peeing in our Cheerios.
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by dhosek 27d ago
There was a sentence early on in the article, “San Francisco has always been a place people came to re-create themselves — running from something, running toward something exciting and unknown, going as far as they could for a shot at a new
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by dhosek 29d ago
Yeah, there’s a tendency not to know with sufficient time, especially with heavy traffic.
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by dhosek 1mo ago
His first wife too.
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by dhosek 1mo ago
When I first bought my current car, I downloaded GasBuddy, intending to use it to find the best gas prices and the reported prices on the app were uniformly wrong. After the first couple times I used it, I gave up and stopped using it.

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