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by js2 1y ago
Sorry, just a silly misspelling of "historical reasons" I picked up once upon a time... http://www.catb.org/esr/jargon/html/H/hysterical-reasons.htm...
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During WWII there were wage freezes so employers started providing benefits: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-th... > In 1942, with so many eligible workers diverted to milita
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by js2 1y ago
It seems like they're being pragmatic, not haughty: > "The tz database is not authoritative, and it surely has errors. [...] Errors in the tz database arise from many sources: Sometimes, different people in the same city mainta
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin%E2%80%93Buckley_debate
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James Baldwin vs. William F Buckley: A legendary debate from 1965 [video](youtube.com)
4 points by js2 1y ago|5 comments
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I also think `retry` is the most widely known of these? https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/retry https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/retry/retry.1.en.html
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by js2 1y ago
I don't think that's true? Here's what the NYT has to say about it: Subscribers can gift 10 gift News articles per month: - On the 1st of every month, Subscribers’ gift articles reset to 10. - When an article is gifted, reci
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by js2 1y ago
> What I think the author is looking for is a combination of argparse and Pydantic Not quite that, but https://typer.tiangolo.com/ is fully type driven.
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Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/us/navy-seal-north-korea-...
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> With EVs there are tradeoffs. Even in my situation, only driving a car a few miles a day, I do take my car on one or two regional road trips every year. That's how we ended up with a Chevy Volt in 2017. 100K trouble-free miles lat
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Second sentence in the second ("Game Play") section: > Game play for 16-inch softball is mostly consistent with standard softball game play. In contrast to standard, or 12-inch (30.48 cm) softball, it is played with a ball 16
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100 Years Ago, Fictional Londoners Looked Up. They Saw Our Present Day(nytimes.com)
2 points by js2 1y ago|1 comments
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Our critic A.O. Scott takes apart a scene from “Mrs. Dalloway,” Virginia Woolf’s 1925 masterpiece, and shows why the book is a must-read now. Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/03/bo
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by js2 1y ago
That's from the Apple IIe keyboard which had "open apple" and "closed apple" straddling the spacebar: http://xahlee.info/kbd/i/Apple_IIe_keyboard_f91f4.jpg https://www.applefrit
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"The Lottery," by Shirley Jackson (1948)(newyorker.com)
1 points by js2 1y ago|1 comments
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https://archive.ph/2023.05.09-004843/https://www.newyorker.c...
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https://roadway.report/ HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41012443
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> There was actually an exercise done to work this out, at the direction of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB). [...] In the CAIB’s scenario, Atlantis would have launched with a four-person crew: two pilots, and two EVA mis
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by js2 1y ago
So it's "what is the probability both are girls?" vs. "what is the probability the other is a girl?" and most people will hear the latter and answer 1/2 whereas the question is the former and its answer is
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Remembering the Hysteria over Windows 95 Launch, 1995(rarehistoricalphotos.com)
4 points by js2 1y ago|0 comments
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I was curious about the "US Thermal Power Plant Water Use By County" graph which has a very dark square in the SE corner of NC. It's Brunswick County. I guess it's due to the Brunswick Nuclear Generating Station: https:
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A link to an even higher resolution image was posted hours earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44937613 https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2025/07/Nichole-Ayers-S...
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Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/us/robin-lakoff-dead.html...
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I've never had any trouble with it on my series 9 (purchased Dec 2023 just before the feature was disabled). It's always closely matched the fingertip meter that I have. Which is to say they both always read >= 95% for the most
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She was familiar with CDs for music but not with CD-ROMs for distributing software. I also just double-checked this with my 24 y/o daughter and much to my chagrin, she also wasn't familiar with CD-ROMs. So that lead to a conversat
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Why top and free in containers don't show the correct container memory (2018)(ops.tips)
33 points by js2 1y ago|1 comments
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I mean, it got itself written into a major motion picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ve_Got_Mail A few years back I was pacing a marathon and toward the end it was just me and a recent college graduate. Some
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> export IS_SANDBOX=1 && claude --dangerously-skip-permissions FYI, this can be shortened to: IS_SANDBOX=1 claude --dangerously-skip-permissions You don't need the export in this case, nor does it need to be two separ
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Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/us-government-...
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The FAQ answers why this exists when macOS has a similar built-in feature: > Optimized Charging, a feature that is built into MacOS, aims to ensure the longevity and health of your battery. It does so by "delaying charging the batte

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