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by jihadjihad 2mo ago
If I had a boat and always dropped anchor at the same spot, regardless of tides/weather/etc., I'd name it Fixpoint .
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by jihadjihad 2mo ago
It’s a super old unit of measurement for mass [0], idea being that a “grain” is a single seed of wheat etc. 1 gram is a little over 15 grains, and there are 7000 grains per (avoirdupois) pound. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by jihadjihad 2mo ago
> then why are you building it? To make Croesus look like some bum under an I-80 overpass.
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Flesh Eating Bacteria Kills 5 in Louisiana(nytimes.com)
15 points by jihadjihad 2mo ago|3 comments
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by jihadjihad 2mo ago
> Let me guess what Palantir will tell them: your audience is dying and/or illiterate. Add cartoons. You’re welcome. And USA Today will be billed $50M for the privilege.
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by jihadjihad 2mo ago
I can’t tell if this is a troll post or not, but either way, the concept the author seems to be looking for is called the “Law of Demand” [0]. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_demand
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by jihadjihad 2mo ago
And once again we have to pinch ourselves and marvel at our timeline where genuine news headlines and those from The Onion are utterly indistinguishable.
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by jihadjihad 2mo ago
I dunno. The seams of the joke are still load-bearing IMO.
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by jihadjihad 2mo ago
> I agree LLMs are not good at abduction but very few humans are either I, too, am glad that few humans seem good at abduction.
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by jihadjihad 2mo ago
The map is a sad attempt at a choropleth with no legend, no hover or interactivity, and no information whatsoever other than opacity.
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by jihadjihad 2mo ago
For me it's the copy, it really does read as soulless slop and I think there are many people who are just tired of it.
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by jihadjihad 2mo ago
OT, but something I didn’t know is that if you go to Google, and type in “$FOO font”, it will render the entire results page in that font. Of course I had to try Comic Sans, then Georgia, and I was only a little disappointed when it didn’t
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by jihadjihad 2mo ago
“What about health insurance?” “Your enrollment will end on the last day of this month, and we will be providing every affected employee with information about extending their coverage through COBRA.” “The last day of the month, so, today?”
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by jihadjihad 2mo ago
In a similar vein, there was an interesting discussion [0] a while back about elevator buttons [1] and how timing for door close/open works, along with a bit of the history and regulations that go into them. 0: https://news.
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by jihadjihad 2mo ago
I subscribed for a year, but like a sibling comment said, it was too focused on Commonwealth news and culture to be worth my time. It was however entertaining to receive in the mail, inside a nice form-fitting cardboard box with Royal Mail
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by jihadjihad 2mo ago
Slightly OT, but nothing can beat DonHopkins’s “About” section here on HN [0]. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DonHopkins
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by jihadjihad 3mo ago
s/site/industry/g
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by jihadjihad 3mo ago
https://www.johndcook.com/blog
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by jihadjihad 3mo ago
I think you mean M31 instead of M3, and assuming northern hemisphere viewing only. I think the Magellanic Clouds are visible in the southern hemisphere.
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by jihadjihad 3mo ago
Now this kids is Hacker News.
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by jihadjihad 3mo ago
You're asking the right questions.
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by jihadjihad 3mo ago
I’d vote shuffle with space bar.
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by jihadjihad 3mo ago
It's a very common error that happens in both written and spoken language. I've wondered if it's because weary is kind of "in between" wary and leery , like an incorrect mashup, or something.
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by jihadjihad 3mo ago
"Just quiet determination."
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Library of Babel(libraryofbabel.info)
2 points by jihadjihad 3mo ago|0 comments
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by jihadjihad 3mo ago
Few can top the opening line of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas . But there were brave souls who tried, in the now-defunct Bulwer-Lytton Contest [0]. Where else could you find gems like these? > The day I lost my tractor was the same
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by jihadjihad 3mo ago
What is arguably worse is hearing these phrases from humans who have been inculcated with the notion that their usage is idiomatic and appropriate. And we thought "robust", "circle back", and "to leverage" were
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by jihadjihad 3mo ago
Another one is "surface", like in "across all product surfaces". I've been in the field for 15 years and have never heard that particular usage before.
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by jihadjihad 3mo ago
Thank you to the author for writing a GitHub page in 2026 that is entirely devoid of emoji.
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by jihadjihad 3mo ago
And 60 years ago we thought Steve McQueen was the shit.

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