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by erikbye 5y ago
I think the only asshole here is you. You can enjoy riding HD without being an asshole. Big engines are loud, they need to breathe. People like you are the ones who promote cancel culture. Anything that is of slight annoyance to you must be
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by erikbye 5y ago
In my country, in 90% of motorcycle deaths cars are not involved. It’s simply people going too fast or otherwise misjudge corners.
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by erikbye 5y ago
Not loud cars?
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by erikbye 5y ago
Cars are isolated? On a regular basis I drive 5 different cars, various makers, I can hear a Harley just fine in either. And from every parked car where a driver has a conversation on speakers I can hear it so well they might as well have h
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by erikbye 5y ago
Try MT09 SP.
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by erikbye 5y ago
So Russians are exactly like Norwegians in this regard, must be why we get along so well. That and our dark if not often black taste in humour. I know many Norwegians considers a laughing, smiling idiot just that, an idiot. Unintelligent. E
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by erikbye 5y ago
I regularly delete all messages and call entries. Could not care less about reading any of them more than once.
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by erikbye 5y ago
I have submitted plenty.
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by erikbye 5y ago
So what? List posts are about the least creative, effortless and worthless content on the Internet. The bar for what is considered achievements is constantly lowered. HN no longer gets interesting submissions, just drivel.
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by erikbye 6y ago
100k?
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by erikbye 6y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
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by erikbye 6y ago
They just claim it's broken.
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by erikbye 6y ago
> It's just that customizing your OS often doesn't justify the time spent. Of course it does, spending a tiny bit of time optimizing my workflows here and there, now and then, whether OS or text editor, saves hours yearly. Not
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by erikbye 6y ago
> I used to spend hours on getting things like window managers, X11, etc. set up just the way I wanted them to be. However, the older I get the less enthused I am about having to play around with config files to get basic features like s
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by erikbye 6y ago
> Congratulations on the publication, such a fantastic achievement! Eh? With all the great tools and self-publishing options available these days, publishing a book is not a fantastic achievement. In fact, anyone can do it. Writing a boo
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by erikbye 6y ago
Are people surprised to see low quality code in the wild? Guess what, most code is subpar.
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by erikbye 6y ago
Lots of uses other than pure fin transactions. Most people are blind to this. E.g. https://golem.network/
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by erikbye 6y ago
Maiar has hundreds of thousands.
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by erikbye 6y ago
Yes, people are lazy, most do not even learn from SO answers. They copy paste, move on, no greater understanding achieved.
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by erikbye 6y ago
It is much better to read the official documentation.
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by erikbye 6y ago
> Crawford is not a genius, he is a visionary. Why is it that judging someone as a genius or not comes so easy to everyone? I find making that assessment incredibly challenging.
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by erikbye 6y ago
No handwringing, I do not give a fuck what people spend their time on, it is their life. Just saying I think people are wholly absorbed in fictions these days in ways rivals anything in the past. Today fictions permeates everything, and mos
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by erikbye 6y ago
That was a niche group. Now it is most people. I should have wrote «Very few» instead of «no one.»
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by erikbye 6y ago
> It is not obvious to me we invest far more than our ancestors, I doubt it. Of course it is obvious. People waste their lives away consuming fiction in the way of books, netflix, video games, politics. The luxury of doing that en masse
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by erikbye 6y ago
Agreed, it is why I prefer Matrix. World of difference.
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by erikbye 6y ago
It is their choice, but everyone knows a project not on GH gets less visibility and fewer reports and contributors because of that decision. I know some projects do it to minimize public interaction, they feel raising the barrier improves t
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by erikbye 6y ago
You could mirror, making your project accessible while not risking data loss.
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by erikbye 6y ago
My ipod has never failed me. It stores and plays music.
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by erikbye 6y ago
A couple of Paul Davis’ submissions on HN deserve more discussion. Especially relevant to open source. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=PaulDavisThe1st
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Twenty year origin story of an open-source DAW(discourse.ardour.org)
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