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by floren 2y ago
Agreed, I was hoping for more depth, but it's the same tired old progression of Xerox -> Macintosh -> Windows
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by floren 2y ago
Mark Twain wrote some humorous bits about how chickens may be enticed out of a neighbor's tree by sliding a warm board under their feet. They'll step on happily, and can then be conveyed to a convenient sack en route to the kitche
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by floren 2y ago
And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there's always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make y
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by floren 2y ago
It's supposed to be typed with the "Orator" typeball for the IBM Selectric typewriter.
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by floren 2y ago
That's exactly the question the study was answering > The study reviewed current literature on wind farms, as well as using real construction data to take into account everything from the manufacturing of individual turbine parts, t
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by floren 2y ago
Here in the Bay Area I've been quoted $800 to clean a dog's teeth.
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by floren 2y ago
> Watched a couple minutes of this but the narrator's caustic takes are a bit long winded and distracting. Ah, your first interaction with Not Just Bikes, I take it?
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by floren 2y ago
There's still just so much fucking garbage though. Yesterday I was wondering if I ought to switch to a flipphone so my son doesn't see me playing on my smartphone so much, so I headed over to /r/dumbphones to try and get
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by floren 2y ago
America's Funniest Home Videos was a 30-minute show that was on once a week. Now with a million streaming "channels" it's presumably available 24/7, except without Bob Saget commenting.
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by floren 2y ago
I've often wondered what would happen if I plopped down on the steps of SF City Hall with a 6 pack and started downing them... ought to test it sometime.
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by floren 2y ago
> They needed it badly and fast. Lucky for them, Microsoft was happy to provide an OS badly and fast!
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by floren 2y ago
"Shit, shit, shit, shit! Dissemble!"
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by floren 3y ago
The way Radiolab chops their interviews into tiny little pieces and then glues them back together with snippets from the hosts is basically the best way to make sure your guests always tell the story YOU want them to tell...
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by floren 3y ago
All I know is that I hear a hell a lot of noise behind me. Maybe the point is to make it sound like you're working really hard but not actually go fast, I've kinda checked out of car culture.
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by floren 3y ago
I know of one huge international pharma company with a site in South SF that is reducing conference attendance with the stated purpose of reducing emissions, while simultaneously requiring all employees to be on-site 3 days a week regardles
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by floren 3y ago
It's kinda beautiful that my Volkswagen electric SUV with the baby seat in the back can out-accelerate most any farty angry-headlights car. It'll never look as good as my old Studebaker, but by god it'll outrun all but the ho
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by floren 3y ago
> My major gripe is that they manipulate emails that I've sent over the desktop bridge. If you sign your emails locally, this of course completely breaks the signature. Aha, another sufferer! There must be dozens of us, DOZENS I say
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by floren 3y ago
You haven't lived until you've done the Tomasulo algorithm on paper for a quiz.
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by floren 3y ago
> The "famous labs" you describe but don't name are _labs_, and the innovation that came out of them was a result of people with ideas and the ability to execute. and, crucially, extremely successful parent companies that
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by floren 3y ago
Hmm you make a good point, but have you considered that your health insurance provider really wants to know these things, and will pay up to $0.35 to learn them? It would be criminally negligent for Amazon not to build and sell that pro
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by floren 3y ago
People get weird about charismatic megafauna ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charismatic_megafauna ). See the struggles in the US to get e.g. wolves de-listed from the ESA in states with thriving populations.
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by floren 3y ago
In what way? "Beowulf clusters" were built out of off-the-shelf machines connected through relatively normal (if high-speed) networking, running MPI programs on Linux. That's what distinguished them from the more expensive, m
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by floren 3y ago
> For x86 community licenses, we will be transitioning to a package-based distribution model (which will also replace the student license that used to be distributed as a FreeAXP emulator package). A vmdk of a system disk with OpenVMS V9
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by floren 3y ago
It would be a little ridiculous if The Queen's Gambit, set in the 60s, and Stranger Things, set in the early 80s, didn't have smoking. Those were some smoky damn decades.
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by floren 3y ago
Somebody post the Disco Stu graph
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by floren 3y ago
I recently re-read Rainbows End, and I think "do to the world" is an appropriate phrasing. It's a strikingly unpleasant vision of a world in which every space is 24/7 running dozens of microtransaction AR games... I foun
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by floren 3y ago
Natto... funazushi... surely the Japanese should have appreciated stanky food just as much as a European.
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by floren 3y ago
"You must have been using GPT 3.5..."
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by floren 3y ago
Of course, I've been reading HN for years, and "street" + "road" isn't a particularly challenging portmanteau anyway.
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by floren 3y ago
"stroad" is just a shibboleth for people with "urbanist" in their Mastodon profiles, sometimes it slips out where it doesn't really make sense.

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