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by dmd 5d ago
How does that even happen? HN software hiccup? Or what?
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by dmd 6d ago
Er, that sounds backwards to me. I thought you put the a on the word because it is feminine. You're saying the word is feminine because there's an a on it?
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by dmd 8d ago
Wow I’m sure glad that’s settled then.
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by dmd 9d ago
I heard a speaker once say "that's a [obvious pause] question" and the audience giggled because it was obviously a really poorly thought out question.
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by dmd 10d ago
I guess they didn't realize you're their only user!
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by dmd 11d ago
You are aware that this is the theory of a single crank, and not supported by any modern scientific thought, yes?
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by dmd 15d ago
I think there’s a difference between knowing you’re doing something wrong and not caring, and not even knowing you’re doing anything wrong. What you’re describing is usually the latter.
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by dmd 15d ago
Love this. I had something almost identical on my Commodore 64 40 years ago that you could use with the joystick or KoalaPad.
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by dmd 16d ago
One saved my aunt's life. But I suppose I didn't really need an aunt, right?
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by dmd 16d ago
You said a bunch of statements about yourself, and then made a statement about me . You should have concluded "I don't need a smartwatch." Not everyone has the same needs.
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by dmd 17d ago
Because then less stuff fits on my screen? What a question
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by dmd 17d ago
And even if it weren't super weird and creepy, it's 15 seconds, right? So what, that waitress rolledup, read the menu for less than 10 seconds, and then zoomed away, giving you a couple of seconds to get to and run the replay?
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by dmd 17d ago
Me. I love my Pro, and this year I'm switching to Max. My eyes (at 48) aren't what they used to be.
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by dmd 17d ago
Was this made by someone who hasn't actually used any of these tools in over a year?
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by dmd 22d ago
My guess is absolutely nobody on the team that made this is even old enough to remember Microsoft Bob.
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by dmd 23d ago
ad astra per stercora
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by dmd 24d ago
Literally everything you said is also true about me! and my name is also Daniel!
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by dmd 28d ago
> far too much emphasis on the places you are not going I have this issue with literally every modern nav system. They all make their fundamental display a line marked on a map, and most of the information on that map is irrelevant. More
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by dmd 29d ago
I love this. I think you should be clearer about that - it's obvious to people who have experience doing this kind of data analysis, but a lot of people I've shown this were confused, as in "huh, load-bearing and genuinely ma
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by dmd 29d ago
Sol is pretty OK too. https://3e.org/private/comparison.html
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by dmd 1mo ago
Just a nitpick - by 1926, about 20-30% of Bell exchanges were already automatic, on Strowger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strowger_switch equipment.
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by dmd 1mo ago
Re the "land lines", I think the answer to that is not "keep 100+ year old copper infrastructure running" but "make our modern infrastructure as reliable as Ma Bell made it 100 years ago". Of course, neither
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by dmd 1mo ago
I'm envious of the time you spend where it wasn't already.
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by dmd 1mo ago
From the home page of turingtest.live.
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by dmd 1mo ago
“advanced LLMs like GPT-4”
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by dmd 1mo ago
I get this sort of thing constantly because my domain, 3e.org, which I have had for 30 years, is apparently impossible. It's either too short to be real, or starts with a number (obviously impossible). And like the author, 90% of the
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by dmd 1mo ago
No, it's being downvoted because (a) who cares and (b) you wrote a wall of text that makes you look like you have schizophrenia.
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by dmd 1mo ago
It’s always been bizarre to me how bad browsers themselves are at searching their own history. This looks great.
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by dmd 1mo ago
I've still got my well-thumbed https://archive.org/details/c64-programmer-ref I spent pretty much all of the 1988-9 school year (I was 10) inhaling it.
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by dmd 1mo ago
I'm mostly amazed the author didn't land in jail, which is the normally the response to reporting this kind of thing to authorities.

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