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by js2 4mo ago
The NYT respects acronyms, but only up to four characters: Why Nascar, Not NASCAR? Auto racing fans chafe at our rules on acronyms. Here they are, from our stylebook: acronyms. An acronym is a word formed from the first letter (or letters)
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by js2 4mo ago
All of these support a single computer only, so if your home lab has multiple PCs you need a remote control KVM switch too. And separately a remote control power strip/outlet if you need that also. KVM switches are relatively cheap[^1]
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by js2 4mo ago
As of 11 minutes ago, the headline is now the opposite of that submitted: > Astronauts told to return to International Space Station after sheltering over air leak repairs.
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by js2 4mo ago
The subscription fee does not and has not covered the full cost of any magazine/newspaper I'm aware as long as magazines/newspapers have existed. They've always had ads. It was just easier to look past them in print.
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Outlanders, Raleigh's Self-Governed Homeless Community(indyweek.com)
3 points by js2 4mo ago|0 comments
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by js2 4mo ago
Here's a frankly better article from the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/climate/ocean-observatori... A few points: 1. The ocean observation system began operating in 2016 and was expected t
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by js2 4mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
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by js2 4mo ago
Sure, if it bleeds it leads. But I've been a news consumer since the 1980s and a reader of the NYT almost as long as it's had a web site. It is my strong impression that its headlines have gotten noticeably worse. The main one tha
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by js2 4mo ago
While true, NYT took a clear turn towards clickbait headlines in the last 5-10 years. It used to have more self-respect.
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by js2 4mo ago
Copy/pasta of the entire post: My father, who died in 1981, was an inexhaustible font of wisdom and wit. I don’t know when he told me this particular three-part rule, but I’ve never forgotten it. I tweeted it three years ago, but peop
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by js2 4mo ago
Both apps look like a slightly less flexible version of Divvy (which I've been using since 2010): https://mizage.com/divvy/ However, they're also cheaper ($0 or $4.99 vs $13.99).
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by js2 4mo ago
> but they should offer a way for those of us who aren't clueless to turn whatever it is off. I'm not sure if it's what you're asking for, but you can disable SIP: https://developer.apple.com/documenta
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by js2 4mo ago
Perhaps it was turned on by being jostled during take off.
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Sandra Bullock Buying a Movie Ticket Online in 1995 [video](youtube.com)
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by js2 4mo ago
Yes: $ git init foo Initialized empty Git repository in .../foo/.git/ $ git clone "file://$PWD/foo" bar Cloning into 'bar'... But it's redundant: $ git clone b
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by js2 4mo ago
How Marilyn Monroe Gave a Smart Gloss to Her Image: It was all about self-improvement for the actress, who was born a century ago next week. Two new volumes shed light on the books she collected and the intellectual she married. https:&#
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by js2 4mo ago
Apple has some minimal recommendations as well: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102766
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by js2 5mo ago
All of these annoyances and more can be blocked by StopTheMadness (available for iOS and macOS): https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness/
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by js2 5mo ago
> In fact, to make them pay as much tax as their employees, there should be a 2% wealth tax, not 1%. Indeed. Andrew Mellon writing in 1924 "Taxation: The People’s Business.": "The fairness of taxing more lightly incomes fr
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by js2 5mo ago
Programs have to run in a lot of different contexts, not just as servers, and for some of those contexts (especially say glueing together other programs), an interpreted language is more convenient and easier to work with. In fact, unless I
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by js2 5mo ago
Correct. Before the "from __future__ import annotations" behavior that converts annotations to strings became the default, they figured out a better mechanism for circular type annotations (making them lazy) that is implicitly bac
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by js2 5mo ago
AFAIK, SMB doesn't support symbolic links.
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by js2 5mo ago
What, you didn't know to search for pickaxe!? :-) Meanwhile, --grep searches the log message. Yeah, the git CLI is an ergonomic nightmare and I've been using it since the very beginning. FWIW, I can't think of a single time I
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by js2 5mo ago
Yup, "from __future__ import annotations" will eventually be removed: > from __future__ import annotations (PEP 563) will continue to exist with its current behavior at least until Python 3.13 reaches its end-of-life. Subsequen
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by js2 5mo ago
Type annotations are lazily evaluated by moving them behind a special annotations scope as of 3.14: https://peps.python.org/pep-0649/ https://docs.python.org/3/reference/compound_stmts.html#
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by js2 5mo ago
Where the heck did LLMs (Claude in particular) pick up the "load-bearing" tic I wonder? I'm over a half century old and read a lot, and I don't think I've ever seen load-bearing used so much before I noticed Claude
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Same which makes me very poor at sports. I write right-handed. For anything sports related (riding a board, throwing a ball, golf, batting, bowling, etc) I'm leftie. My dad is left-handed, mother is right-handed. I have wondered if I s
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The original paper is titled "Bipedalism and brain expansion explain human handedness". It doesn't seek to explain why we have a right-handed preference specifically (vs left-handed), but rather why humans have such a strong
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiler_room_(business)
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> Direct gdrive link I'm confused where this came from. I cannot find this link in the original article as submitted: https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/truth-power-and-honest-jo... The most I can find is &quot

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