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by dwringer 4y ago
I can't tell if you're suggesting that my edits were simply bad, and typically I would accept that is a possibility; but, even then, it was the fact that I was threatened essentially with being swatted. There was no feedback on th
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I once tried to edit an article about a scientist who had developed a bit of surrounding controversy over his studies in parapsychology. Having no real knowledge of the debate, I didn't add or remove any information; I just felt the in
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by dwringer 4y ago
> Most things that aren't somehow related to day-to-day software development And especially the things that are . That's what makes HN special.
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The @ is sometimes used like "apples, 50¢ @" in which it is read as "each" rather than "at". This may have faded out once email addresses popularized it as "at", but it always made more sense to me si
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by dwringer 4y ago
I think "idiot" and "moron" have lost their edge because they've been so ubiquitous for so long they don't mean anything more than, basically, a euphemism for "dumbass".* The other terms you mentione
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by dwringer 4y ago
I wonder if the telltale signs are much the same as in spam emails: a tool to filter out customers who are more discerning and thus liable to cause problems with Amazon if they get ripped off (demanding refunds, reporting seller misconduct,
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by dwringer 4y ago
I confess to also getting bugged by the repetitive "speaking only in memes" phenomemon that seems to pop up past a critical mass of community size. Weirdly to me it seems like different ones go through different phases, but I have
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by dwringer 4y ago
That explains why, looking back, I never got a satisfactory distorted guitar tone, but those were also the days of listening to 128kbps MP3's so half the time we didn't know any better.
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There was a small window between heyday of Tascam 4-track cassette recorders and the emergence of modern digital recorders/PC interfaces when Yamaha's 4- and 8-track Minidisc recording consoles were a great and relatively affordab
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I would argue every story has a vast, seemingly infinite* number of shapes, limited only by our ability to model objectives toward which events can be classified as positive or negative. Still, that doesn't make it a useless method of
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I read it as a bit of a joke about unprotected memory, human fallibility, and language complexity, in the style of a Gene Shalit review.
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This reminds me of the film Nightcrawler .
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That seems almost to be the crux of the issue. From the article: > A friend contacted Maree that evening, sharing the uploaded video. At the time, Maree “didn’t think much of it”. > But after seeing the TikTok video featured in media
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Further compounded by the fact that often if I say something and get asked, "was that sarcasm, irony, or something in between?" the best I can probably do is "Eh, more or less".
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To me it just seems like a lighthearted prank which resulted in giving flowers to someone who appears in need of cheering up. It's something that could easily have been on any comedy TV show of the last 30 years. And I think there&#x27
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by dwringer 4y ago
The easiest solution I've found is to use a Zeiss lens wipe; at this stage the lens is already clean so you don't have to worry about pushing dirt around on the lens, and the alcohol on the wipe evaporates quickly and cleanly. A b
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by dwringer 4y ago
The typical digital camera of today works the same way, just with 3 filters (R, G, B) kind of like a CRT pixel array in reverse[0]. This kind of mimics the human eye, which is sensitive to those three approximate color frequencies, but it&#
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by dwringer 4y ago
I was reading about this the other day and was surprised to learn that traditionally Sichuan cuisine used Sichuan peppercorns which are unrelated to either black pepper or new world peppers, and evidently have a somewhat different mechanism
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No, but I almost never pulled the lever anyway and it cost 80 souls to "solve philosophy". It was almost more but I didn't quite save the sentient robots because I didn't believe they were really sentient.
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Interestingly the website poll indicates two thirds of people would not pull the lever to have the train run over themselves to save five people. So if you ask the guy on the other track, he seems unlikely to assent to pull the lever in tim
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by dwringer 4y ago
This is what it did to me as well. Seemed to be picking up only the right side of my head, centered on my ear. I guess that means I can just double the number it gave me, right?
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I have definitely broken a couple by stepping on them a bit aggressively in my youth, but that's all part of the rock and roll process.
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I've seen the exact opposite of this - the self pay option would cost (for example) $300 while insurance would only get billed $150 for the exact same procedure. In the case I saw it, that meant the insurance paid out something like $1
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Always double check this, there are still some exceptions.
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I think you've nailed why I've always felt slightly uncomfortable with "steelmanning" and I vastly prefer the alternative mentioned in the above rebuttal, "benefit of the doubt". So often "steelmanning&qu
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A good cop doesn't really know why he does anything.
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In some respects it almost sounds like a late Victorian account of supposed ectoplasmic phenomena. Also reminiscent of the famous story about two experimentees sharing an imaginary cigarette.
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I agree there's nothing ridiculous about reading lines from Star Wars in class. I never had that in class but I remember English classes where we'd read parts of the script of other TV shows (an episode of Party of Five, I seem to
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There's a different article[0] from about a week ago from the Japan Times which indicates the National Police Agency is looking to distribute dust masks to local departments in preparation for a possible eruption. The site requires reg
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Now that is an interesting angle, I don't think we can so easily toss out quantum effects in the first half then follow up with such a provocative second half, though. AFAIK there are still some unsettled questions about how this would

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