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by donw 11mo ago
That’s nothing, ‘node_modules’ has been linking the math of infinity to my filesystem for years.
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by donw 11mo ago
If I didn't need CUDA support, I'd be on FreeBSD all the way. No systemd, built-in "containers" before they were cool, basically just good 'ole UNIX.
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by donw 1y ago
Who says we don’t have a sense of humor.
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by donw 1y ago
I'd love to see open-source firmware / hardware that can slot into existing inkjet or laser printers, if only to remove the tracking dots added by all printers since the mid-to-late 2000s, but also because I'm sure the hardwa
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by donw 1y ago
I’m the same way. That’s a good guy to be.
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by donw 1y ago
I can think of a couple of factors. One, there's a big urban/non-urban split in American culture. The former are far less likely to know anything about working on cars, nor are they likely to have a friend or uncle that can help.
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by donw 1y ago
Also worth factoring in that top-spec hardware will have a longer usable life, especially for non-power users.
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by donw 1y ago
True across the board, and unfortunately the average lifestyle promoted here on HN is one of massive, unavoidable stress, both inside and outside of work. Fixing your diet is one of those sort of flywheel problems. It takes time to figure o
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by donw 1y ago
I’m also curious if the tech is real, or if this is just yet another scam designed to separate well-meaning people from their money.
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by donw 1y ago
Fun fact: MythBusters used shock watches extensively when testing anything involving impact, because they were massively more reliable than any of their digital instrument.
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by donw 2y ago
It's a bit of both. Police aren't going to arrest you unless they're pretty sure the charges are going to stick, but once you're in custody, they are... well, let's just say "highly motivated" in getting y
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by donw 2y ago
I’m confused. If you are born and raised in Japan to at least one Japanese parent, you are Japanese.
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by donw 2y ago
Last year, less than 9,000 foreigners naturalized into a population of 123 million. In order to naturalize, you must present a compelling case to do so: you must speak, read, and write Japanese to the level required by compulsory education,
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by donw 2y ago
Simply put: because it's full of Japanese people. Everybody speaks the same language and has the same cultural norms, which are the foundations for any high-trust society. Japanese culture has an exceedingly high focus on the appearanc
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by donw 2y ago
That's why the Irish pronounce it "Salesfarce"
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by donw 2y ago
Japan has private insurance companies and private hospitals, many of them, and does just fine.
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by donw 2y ago
... are you joking? Healthcare is one of the most regulated industries in the United States. Want to be a doctor? You've got the aptitude, the knowledge, the mindset, and the will, but a government-guaranteed cartel of medical schools
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by donw 2y ago
This fits with my experience living in SF: people might look different, but if you were to be blindfolded and talk to a group of them, you would struggle mightily to pick out any substantial differences between individuals.
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by donw 2y ago
Comcast has to be supplying their people with bulk lots of experimental aerospace-grade ganga if they can say this without immediately bursting into laughter.
50.
by donw 2y ago
Gotta cover all the bases and tell them you're Jewslamic Rastodox Sikhamish.
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by donw 2y ago
Pre-COVID, our office building in Tokyo organized a disaster-preparation day every year. This was run by the building management team, which politely informed every corporate tenant in the office section that, yes, they would be participati
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by donw 2y ago
A really thorough ethnic cleansing is generally more difficult without modern government structures and mass media to really gin up the hate: in Rwanda, ordinary Hutu slaughtered half a million Tutsi in three months -- 2/3 of the entir
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by donw 2y ago
This is why I still come to HN. The articles may or not be useful, but you can bet that someone in the comments will link to a bunch of other related work.
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by donw 2y ago
Housing is only part of it. Most people on the streets aren't capable of maintaining a house, mostly thanks to drug use, with mental illness as a smaller-but-still-significant secondary cause. Fixing this would also put a bunch of ac
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by donw 2y ago
Not "have come to expect". Try "are mandated by regulators".
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by donw 2y ago
> They could make it half the size and remove $10k from the price, but they don’t seem to want that. People keep bringing this up. The massive size of American-market cars is thanks to regulations introduced by the Obama administration.
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by donw 2y ago
Please tell me I'm not the only person that thinks this thing is unfathomably ugly. There is am amazing wealth of design language that could be used for electric cars, but for some reason, most manufacturers seem to land between "
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by donw 2y ago
We are very careful with our kids in terms of they interact with technology for this reason. Raising luddites that can't type won't serve them well over the course of their lives, but neither will allowing them to become tap-and
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by donw 2y ago
Be careful with the name, McDonald’s might sue you for copyright infringement.
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by donw 2y ago
Unsure, but I don’t see anything related to it these days

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