knolax

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by knolax 5y ago
Someone needs to sue these people into bankruptcy.
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by knolax 5y ago
Dumb expression. CGI is cheap and easy. A Mars rover is easy to detect by other nation-states.
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by knolax 5y ago
I do not see the point of reading translated literature, let alone translated poetry. It's like trying to appreciate an IOCCC submission by looking at a Java port that does the same thing. The beauty of it tied up in the specifics that
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by knolax 5y ago
> This implies that brown skin is an indicator of diversity. To use your method of reductio: ...only if you think that diversity is determined by superficial attributes like skin color. I started my comment by mentioning skin tone. It&#x
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by knolax 5y ago
Only if you think that "diversity" is somehow abnormal. Why is it a calculated move for companies like Google, whose CEO has brown skin, to have some of their advertisements include brown skinned people? The real cynical move woul
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by knolax 5y ago
If you're going to make people jump through so many ridiculous hoops just to use a pager then you might as well do away with the screen entirely and make it beep Morse Code. I feel bad for the all the non-programmers in your country if
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by knolax 5y ago
> multi cultural inclusive visual banality > It lets companies look diverse > Not sure what skin color to use? Make them blue Seeing cartoon SVGs of brown people really hits a nerve for some people. IMO if you walk around the Bay A
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by knolax 5y ago
Products made by people who take no pride in the product are rarely good. It's the difference between enterprise slime and the software that you actually use on your personal computer. Most software really doesn't exist in a compe
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by knolax 5y ago
I've never seen anybody argue that inflation doesn't exist.
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by knolax 5y ago
In my experience, people who are quick to accuse others of shilling are usually actual shills themselves, or arguing for a position for which there are many obvious shill accounts.
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by knolax 5y ago
Did you know that people who speak other languages exist? GP had a very valid concern. And yes, pagers that use other encodings do exist.
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by knolax 5y ago
I stand by my words.
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by knolax 5y ago
> Linux desktop experience isn’t a pile of UX trash. Desktop Linux is the only bearable desktop UX. Anyone who actually prefers the UX of desktop Windows is mentally deranged and should not be allowed to make user facing software.
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by knolax 5y ago
From "Iraq has weapons of mass destruction" to "Russia is using energy weapons". I wonder when they'll start claiming Kim Jong Un is in contact with hostile extraterrestrials.
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by knolax 5y ago
> 90% of children never waking up to the sounds of birds around their house? As someone who grew up in such an environment, 90+% of my peers spent the entirety of our adolescence doing as much as possible to get away from suburban hells
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by knolax 5y ago
> they don't fuck up an entire city Skyscrapers fuck up a city how???? Do you expect Manhattan to consist entirely of 2 story suburban homes? It's attitudes like yours that are the reason the streets are full of so many homeles
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by knolax 5y ago
> I remember the moment when lag killed my hard core Diablo2 paladin. This is why I don't play roguelikes.
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by knolax 5y ago
I thought Birmingham was a small city.
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by knolax 5y ago
I don't get the scientific value of this. What can be learned from doing this opposed to observing normal human embryos? If it's done for ethical reasons then I don't see how injecting human cells in an monkey embryo then kil
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by knolax 5y ago
What if I belong to a monkey worshipping cult whose god commands man to create hybrid monkey-men?
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by knolax 5y ago
> When you feel like using state violence to harass drunken college kids you create a campus PD. Someone's never been mugged on campus before... Campus PD exist to give special protection to the children of wealthy upper-middle clas
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by knolax 5y ago
There's a selection bias here. Parents whose children killed or mutilated themselves as toddlers are too busy or too aggrieved to be posting anecdotes on HN.
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by knolax 5y ago
How is not having railings negligent? Isn't it negligent to stand so close to the edge?
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by knolax 5y ago
Instagram and Youtube did the same with TikTok. Maybe one day all the FAANG companies will have massive identical apps with a gazillion features cobbled together. The social media equivalent of Emacs.
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by knolax 5y ago
Yes.
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by knolax 5y ago
Classic HackerNews to have the top comment be an anecdote from 10 years ago.
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by knolax 6y ago
Ah yes, famous non-white females Albert Einstein and Lewis Carrol.
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by knolax 6y ago
IMO autocorrect only works well if all of the following are true: 1. You only speak one language, and never find yourself in a situation where you encounter transliterated foreign words or names. 2. You never use any obscure or technical wo
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by knolax 6y ago
I will never understand the HN crowd's deification of the internet. Out of all the methods of communication out there it doesn't seem particularly special, and definitely not special enough to supercede the sovereignity of nations
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by knolax 6y ago
It's a figure of speech...

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