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by ineptech 6y ago
Happy new year, may you get so many up votes that you stop wanting them!
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by ineptech 6y ago
Yes, sort of, as is Freedombox and Urbit and probably a few others. So another way of phrasing my post is that I'm surprised Jeff Bezos (or one of his ilk) hasn't gotten tired of waiting for Sandstorm/Urbit/etc to get g
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by ineptech 6y ago
> but there's really no such thing as a mail server for non-technical people. Sure, and digital cameras used to be challenging for non-techies to use, and you used to need to understand port forwarding to use ICQ. There's no l
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by ineptech 6y ago
Personal server. If there were an open source project that made running server applications (personal blog, email, game server, file backups, mastodon, etc) easy for non-technical people, it would open up whole new use cases (in the same s
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by ineptech 6y ago
TFA ends with, "It’s an intriguing result, and it may lend some weight to the MOND hypothesis for further study. But it’s important to keep in mind that so far the bulk of the evidence still points towards dark matter, and it’ll take m
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by ineptech 7y ago
1. Amazon releases MyOneServer, the first AWS product aimed at non-tech end users. M1S is a VM that runs apps (like, from an app store) for server-side use cases like running a blog or hosting a minecraft server. 2. M1S gains traction from
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by ineptech 7y ago
I will take the reply-less downvotes to mean "I wish that weren't true." Feel free to search 'site:snopes.com "the onion"' if you like. Snopes and its staff may well be left-leaning (everything is left-le
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by ineptech 7y ago
"Snopes fact-checked a right-wing parody site, therefore they're biased for the left" is a meme that gets mentioned weekly on any political argument/discussion forum. It sounds persuasive as long as you don't look
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by ineptech 7y ago
You've misunderstood. I'm not saying "my site is so awesome that you should be surprised no one goes to it!". The thing I'm saying is surprising is the disparity between the reaction on day 1 and on day N. I know
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by ineptech 7y ago
> we don't even link to other websites anymore. blog rolls and guestbooks have gone extinct. I've felt this too. Example: I made a pointless little humor website that got mentioned on HN once. I got a bunch of nice replies, a
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by ineptech 7y ago
Ditto with job applicant portals. They have a bunch of weird features for doing obscure HR stuff like internal approval chains, but terrible UX for the actual applicant. Would it be so hard to handle applicants whose resume is a url?
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by ineptech 7y ago
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." - The oft-ignored HN comment guidelines
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by ineptech 8y ago
> Also: it's terrible to tell a young kid "you are very talented" and similar; positive encouragement is good but it's better to praise effort. Whether this is true or not is controversial; it's primarily based o
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by ineptech 8y ago
Also: "programateurish" - might come in handy for code reviews?
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by ineptech 8y ago
You seem to have skipped the first paragraph of the article. Governments can't keep BTC from existing with the stroke of a pen, but they can certainly keep it from becoming the primary currency and replacing the dollar.
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by ineptech 8y ago
Does Substack allow po - I mean, erotica? Asking for a friend.
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by ineptech 8y ago
I said "morally different". edit: > By definition, if you pay everything you owe, aren't you paying your share? The line between tax avoidance and freeloading is debatable. Maybe you use less tax-funded things than most p
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by ineptech 8y ago
> The fact of the matter is that, in countries where the state gives you a lot, they generally take a lot as well. The money needs to come from somewhere. The state gives a lot to you, when you're poor, and it takes a lot from you,
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by ineptech 8y ago
Somewhat different from my idea of how to get to the front page of Hacker News (from http://ineptech.com/index.html?blog&post=20 ): * Use a plainly wrong headline which you intend to weasel out of in the body of the essa
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by ineptech 9y ago
Looks great! One more piece of feedback, I got an obscure error trying to update page settings ( https://www.buymeacoffee.com/page-settings ) after having left it open while I went to lunch - presumably something timed out.
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by ineptech 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maker_culture
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by ineptech 9y ago
Ditto. I'm guessing this is getting downvoted because they're so offensive and juvenile, but man, if you're a junky for puns and clever wordplay there's just nothing better.
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by ineptech 9y ago
It's specifying a hard salary requirement.
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by ineptech 9y ago
> This can be therapeutic to persons who are suffer from... The lack of rigorous scientific support for this assertion is the entire point of this article (and the journal article it summarizes).
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by ineptech 9y ago
Eh, I think it should unlock when you play enough but I have no idea how long that takes or if it even works anymore! Thanks tho!
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by ineptech 9y ago
The sentient ones are famously docile, cowardly and manipulative. I don't think calling them female would've been striking a great blow for progressive literature.
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by ineptech 9y ago
I have this feeling too, especially around the sci-fi of my teenaged years (Niven, et al). It's important to remember that this is the expected result of progress; it would probably be worrisome if middle-brow media from a generation
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by ineptech 9y ago
If anyone wants to try Set out with their kids, I made a free[0] Android version a while back. It's called Pipster[1] and it uses dog/cat/rabbit pictures instead of abstract shapes. "Beginner" difficulty is 3 dime
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by ineptech 9y ago
very slightly relevant: Upon a stack of bits, about so tall, just think, O traveller, what we could do if every other bit was set to false beginning with (but not including) two? Now take two lowly numbers, A and
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by ineptech 9y ago
Fifth sentence of the article: > About 60 percent of the supply comes from Mecosta’s springs First google result for "Mecosta springs" > The Nestle/Perrier/Great Spring Waters of America/Ice Mountain bottling

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