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by frereubu 2y ago
This is one of the few HN articles that have profoundly moved me. Such a beautiful and simple use of technology to make a clear and big improvement in someone's life. As a side note on his mother remembering that the tablet exists, it
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by frereubu 2y ago
And the weather wasn't nice - "A pilot who ejected from a malfunctioning F-35B in heavy rain over South Carolina last year..."
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by frereubu 2y ago
Sure, but then shouldn't the universal vitriol cancel itself out somehow? Democracts have been on the receiving end of a lot of name-calling too. This doesn't feel like a good enough explanation. It feels much more like the Democr
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by frereubu 2y ago
@whoitwas The point of this comment was that not all Republican voters are MAGA.
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by frereubu 2y ago
This is a confusing comment that I don't think answers my question.
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by frereubu 2y ago
How is this different from what Trump supporters were saying about Democratic voters? Genuine question - I'm not in the US and from my perspective the vitriol was pretty universal.
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by frereubu 2y ago
Yeah, "retain" was the wrong word - what I meant was that it replaced one thing that tastes nice with something else that tastes nice. But like GP I find almost every processed food too sweet these days.
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by frereubu 2y ago
This was an interesting film that talked about how fat was demonised in the 1960s(?) so food companies started taking it out as much as possible but replacing it with sugar to retain taste: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by frereubu 2y ago
Exactly. Even when building websites for clients they often ask for mututally incompatible things within the same sentence, and there's often hidden complexity buried in the most innocuous-sounding sentences.
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by frereubu 2y ago
It should be "just wasn't". Not sure how anyone could miss that, particularly given "jusn't" would be picked up by spell checkers...
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by frereubu 2y ago
> I have a similar feeling to when you hear your voice back in a phone: completely disabling your thought process. This is a fantastic description of how it disturbs my coding practice which I hadn't been able to put into words. It&
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by frereubu 2y ago
Yeah, while I generally agree with the direction of the article, not including someone like Taylor Swift make the argument too easy to dismiss.
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by frereubu 2y ago
> The ridiculous amounts of money they have are their investments. C'mon, you know what I mean. I bet there are plenty of non-polluting investments that they hold too. They're not suddenly going to become bankrupt because of in
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by frereubu 2y ago
They don't personally need the money from their investments any more given they have almost unimaginable amounts of it. However, if they collectively invested that wealth into realistic renewable energy companies / projects they c
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by frereubu 2y ago
This sounds like hocus pocus to me. I presume the "headset" band is some kind of EEG given that it's "non-invasive", and if so EEG signals are very crude, far too crude to map to anything like language beyond, per
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by frereubu 2y ago
The definition I've heard of his for "food" in this sentence was "things your grandparents would recognise", although by this point it might be "your great-grandparents".
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by frereubu 2y ago
I can't speak to Apple Music or Tidal, but I did a test between the Spotify and CD versions of Xtal from Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by Aphex Twin and the difference would be clear to absolutely anyone - the Spotify version is very ti
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by frereubu 2y ago
> “Social birds . . . are constantly chatting to each other,” Mike Webster, an animal-communication expert at Cornell, says. “What in the hell are they saying?” Whenever I hear this question I always remember the Eddie Izzard skit about
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by frereubu 2y ago
My point, perhaps badly made, was that copyright law has expired, therefore it should be in the public domain.
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by frereubu 2y ago
Understandable perhaps, "good" enough to completely ignore copyright law, no.
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by frereubu 2y ago
Man, Plantronics. That brings back some memories!
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by frereubu 2y ago
This reminds me of my first job in London looking after the network of a recruitment agency. The consultants got headsets for the first time and one got so annoyed about being interrupted when on a call - because you couldn't tell when
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'I'm suing the council for £495M because they won't give me back my bin bag'(walesonline.co.uk)
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by frereubu 2y ago
Marginally quicker to type: @r vs site:reddit.com After a few tries, I also find the first more intuitive.
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by frereubu 2y ago
I query that in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41796257
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by frereubu 2y ago
I guess this is probably a rhetorical question. But if you've been a victim of domestic abuse you may not want to read about it when you think you're just reading about a gov.uk web component, particularly if the abuse was recent
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by frereubu 2y ago
1. A large number of people who need this service are likely to be victims of various forms of coercive control. This is a decent, quick summary of what that means in practice (PDF): https://www.leeds.gov.uk/docs/One%20
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by frereubu 2y ago
Thanks. Interesting to note the "interruption page" and "safety content page" parts, which I think deals with quite a few queries in the comments about how people will know what to do. Also just a note that the first two
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by frereubu 2y ago
Oh. I thought that was a light mode / dark mode button... Unlikely on a retail site I guess, but discoverability feels pretty bad. It's not like you couldn't just write "suffering from domestic abuse?" on there beca
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by frereubu 2y ago
Many people in abusive situations have very limited opportunity to use computers, and may well not have time to learn about things like "tab close" actions. This doesn't stop people who do know about those shortcuts from usin

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