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by jtode 4y ago
You seem like a prime candidate for a subscription to the WSJ, my good europeanguy.
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by jtode 4y ago
I feels ya buddy. I just said to someone yesterday that it's kind of a Law Of The Internet that it got ruined basically a short time after the subjective "you" onboarded, and the longer you're here, the more grumpy you g
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by jtode 4y ago
As Geoduck put it, PBS stands for Public Broadcasting Service, which is a publicly-funded and viewer-supported network of highbrow and foreign content that's been around for my whole life, not sure if or how much longer than that. It&#
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by jtode 4y ago
I loved this line, cause I hadn't looked at it from this angle before: "For some reason, people who would never read an article in the Wall Street Journal about Procter and Gamble acquiring a new shampoo company will devour conten
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by jtode 4y ago
I have only begun to dabble in board games again in the last couple years, and Wingspan was my entry point, thanks to my birdnerd wife. I heartily second this Stonemaier recommendation - we own several more of their games already, and all a
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by jtode 4y ago
I do find, like you have, that the GUI implementations one finds with Linux tend to be weirdly deficient in very specific ways. For instance, I'm running the latest release, not LTS, of Ubuntu right now, and at this point in time, I st
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by jtode 4y ago
We used to do the same thing in Newsgroups. It was a sad couple of years when the ones I used to hang out in slowly hollowed out as people migrated to web forums, which was inevitable, as more and more people came onboard and chose the &quo
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by jtode 4y ago
"Anti-semite" and "Publisher of the Dearborn Independent" are synonyms in this case; it's the paper he acquired and then used as his nazi bullhorn. I was just being subtle lol edit: Ford's Twitter, if you will.
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by jtode 4y ago
I'm amused as heck, myself, not sure what you're talking about. This is exactly the sort of genius management I was hoping he would bring to the table. Just a sec, my popcorn just dinged, I wanna see what he does next. Maybe turn
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by jtode 4y ago
I think the Henry Ford comparison is not an inapt one, but you need to have a certain understanding of Henry Ford as the guy who bought and published The Dearborn Independent for the comparison to make sense.
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by jtode 4y ago
I saw a headline of that but didn't have time, thanks for the reminder to check in on that one. I expect my wife and I will have a good cackle about it.
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by jtode 4y ago
No issue at all on desktop, I can CTRL-scroll on this site like any other, last time I checked, and my monitors are nice and large, so I mostly interact with HN here at my desk. But I get bored out in public, and as long as I'm paying
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by jtode 4y ago
What was that thing that that guy said... first they laugh at you...
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Why does HN not respect accessibility settings in browser?
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by jtode 4y ago
As one of the meatsacks whose job you're about to kill... eh, I got nothin, it's damn impressive. It's gonna hit electronic music like a nuclear bomb, I'd wager.
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by jtode 4y ago
>it fundamentally lacks an internal point of view that it can express, which places limits on how well it can argue something. Are you sure that the latter follows from the former? Seems to me that something free from attachment to a spe
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by jtode 4y ago
James Earl Jones, according to legend, had a horrific stutter growing up. If you're not familiar, he played Darth Vader and has one of the deepest, richest voices in movies - it is very much his main asset. Long story short, I read som
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by jtode 4y ago
I used to snipe my coworkers in Half Life 2 at lunch this way - part of why it worked was our terrible monitors, but on a certain level, hard to beat the classics.
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by jtode 4y ago
I can find you people of any ideological stripe who will say all sorts of outlandish and astonishingly wrong things; this does not mean that you should choose those worst examples as your exemplars. If I did that, I would have to assume tha
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by jtode 4y ago
Here lieth Lorem Ipsum, 45 BCE - 2022 CE RIP
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by jtode 4y ago
>sex change *gender affirmation (edit: which is to say, trans people never made any claim to changing anyone's sex)
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by jtode 4y ago
Ok so, this started as a flip response, but... how hard would it be to implement a small air ionizer to embed in a raspberry pi project, whose only purpose is to emit a puff of ionized air on startup? The answer, I suppose, would lie in, wh
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by jtode 4y ago
As I recall, the Amiga was already in full swing by the time this came out but I was still stuck on a C64 with no immediate prospects of affording any sort of upgrade. But even at the time, I remember looking at this, looking at even the re
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by jtode 4y ago
Back in the 90s, when mcdonalds.com was owned by some yokel who thought to register it before anyone else, I used to say that they couldn't do capitalism on the internet, and look, they pulled it off! We only had to throw every shred o
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by jtode 4y ago
For all their anticompetitive crap over the years, they keep emerging as the company that still sort of has a soul, in spite of having every reason to have long since abandoned it...
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Lol yep
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by jtode 4y ago
The same can said of Google, though with less entertainment value. For instance, somewhere in the bowels of wordpress.com, there is an old old blog post that I wrote, on the topic my having recently lost quite a bit of weight. The blog and
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by jtode 4y ago
All the existing social platforms could also implement ActivityPub and have it working in a week. Name any other organizations that are as well-positioned to make the Fediverse a reality. They [don't] do it, because they have a busines
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by jtode 4y ago
I am Canadian and I don't follow the lower-level goings on with US politics habitually, but is Katie Porter still around? Cause I remember some fantastic video clips of her interrogating CEOs awhile back, and I would really like to see
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by jtode 4y ago
Do you have a home? A family? Do you need to worry about keeping those? I'm not saying money doesn't matter cause it definitely does, but maybe you need to redefine your notion of success, without factoring in what those around yo

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