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Frank Capra's America and Ours (2015)(imprimis.hillsdale.edu)
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by js2 2y ago
It's on his site as well in HTML and eBook form: https://arachnoid.com/sailbook/index.html I read it years ago and still think of it from time to time. It's a great read. HN submission: https://new
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by js2 2y ago
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/movies/val-kilmer-dead.ht...
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Apple calls these Smart App Banners. Webkit cooperates with iOS to present them according to a meta tag in the page: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/promoting-a... You can get rid of them with the
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by js2 2y ago
> I knew this happened pre-COVID, but it was actually in 2013. Real-time collaboration was added in Keynote 7.0 released in Sept 2016. https://www.macworld.com/article/228811/keynote-pages-and-nu...
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by js2 2y ago
I don't think it was suppressed by a "a cabal of moderator/admins". I think it was flagged by regular HN users who think you're a dicknose[^1][^2]. Regardless, none of us can tell you for sure. Only dang knows. Why
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I recently helped my sister upgrade from an extremely old MBP that couldn't upgrade past 10.13 to a pre-retina MBA that couldn't upgrade past macOS 12. Her ancient version of Office from the MBP wouldn't run on the MBA. I was
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by js2 2y ago
The paranoid part: "there now exists a cabal of moderator/admins with their thumbs on the scale, and their personal predilections are the primary steering force." What exactly does Gruber think this cabal has against him? He&
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Yes, he can manually merge duplicate submissions and their comments. But there's times when I've submitted items that are dupes and it just takes me to the recent submission and adds an upvote. Now here's something weird: I j
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by js2 2y ago
Usually it does de-dupe any submission with "significant attention", but I'm not sure what the threshold for that is. I'd think the submissions from two days ago (206 points, 93 comments) would have qualified. (It's
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This is paranoid conspiracy-theory stuff. Or it's bait. It's also not falsifiable. Dang can disclaim it but Gruber's next step would just be to write "of course dang would say that." Frankly, I find this submission
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It must work that way. When I flag articles and they don't immediately show as `[flagged]`. I would guess the number of flags is weighted by upvotes, maybe (but less likely) by the karma of the person flagging the article. The software
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by js2 2y ago
Have you tried emailing hn@ycombinator.com and asking? From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html How are stories ranked? The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted. Comments
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by js2 2y ago
> But usually the dialog is the exact same so it’s not noticed That's not the case for the films I'm describing. Here's the start of La Strada : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jSewbxyHYM Quinn isn'
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> Their mouths looked so stiff and unnatural and out of sync with their expressions that all me and my wife could talk about was how bad it looked. Everything old is new again. Classic Italian films were almost always dubbed by their ori
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Jeff mentions it in the post: > Another third option is somebody has reverse engineered this protocol and built HCPY, a Home Connect Python library. > But here's the problem: I already spent like four hours getting this dishwashe
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by js2 2y ago
Jeff mentions it in the post: > Another third option is somebody has reverse engineered this protocol and built HCPY, a Home Connect Python library. > But here's the problem: I already spent like four hours getting this dishwashe
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> Some of the time this fiber failure is (probably) because a raccoon got into your machine room Or into your handhole/vault, along with her babies: https://old.reddit.com/r/FiberOptics/comments/1ji3rr
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Overdue library book returned 98 years later(wvxu.org)
1 points by js2 2y ago|0 comments
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by js2 2y ago
Pipeline in Python w/o invoking the shell: username = input("Hello, what's your name? ") p1 = Popen(["figlet", f"Welcome, {username}"], stdout=PIPE) p2 = Popen(["lolcat", &quot
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by js2 2y ago
I'm not sure I've ever read a piece while nodding along so violently in agreement. Thank you for sharing.
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Yes, uv is well suited to that use case by declaring your Python version and/or dependencies right in the script itself: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/#declaring-script-d... You can use an alt
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> I prefer using python interpreters installed by linux package manager. uv will defer to any python it finds in PATH as long as it satisfies your version requirements (if any): https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts&#x2
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It's Okracoke, NC. The Okracoke Brogue (1997, 20 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Uuzr_gl4Oo From the mountains to the sea, NC has quite a range of accents ("Voices of NC"): https://www.y
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Nit: "How we archived" subheading should be "How we achieved".
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It's fine to have it, but you can also tell them you're managing your own retirement and they'll back off. In my experience, it starts with them just making sure you have a plan. You can use their web-based free retirement pl
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yes-this.com is available: https://domains.cloudflare.com/?domain=yesthis Register with Cloudflare. Use their email routing service: https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/products/email...
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I was one of those SAs, circa 1998-2000. We also had an on-call kit with a Nokia Communicator so we weren't completely stuck at home while on-call. Fast-forward to 2025, and I now have dual 1Gbps symmetric fiber connections (AT&T,
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Home theater hobbyists do this for sure. Recent example: https://www.avsforum.com/threads/double-stacking-two-epson-l...
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Here's some shorter reporting for you if that's what you want: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/a-timeline-of-cultlike-z... https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/02/15/northe

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