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by lurk2 9mo ago
> Now you can not only ask, “how often do I do an oil change?” you can ask, “I have a 2022 Honda Pilot coming up on 30k miles. What services should I have done? This car has been sitting for the last 6 months because I’ve been overseas”
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> (1) That rule refers to things people have posted to HN in things like "Show HNs" (or their moral equivalents). There’s nothing I’m seeing in the text as it is written that suggests this to be the case. There are just a lot o
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> and while using large windows to capture sunlight and heat works great in the winter, it also leads to overheating in the summer and thus more energy for air conditioning. A lot of contemporary energy-efficient designs slope the window
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> Mass market handicrafts have never been a viable means of subsistence anywhere, ever, if we benchmark against what I think a reasonable lifestyle looks like. There were plenty of craftsmen who lived lifestyles that were acceptable for
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> none of them is based on surveillance, ads or social media. Literally all of them are.
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by lurk2 9mo ago
Mass market handcrafts are no longer a viable means of subsistence anywhere in the West. You can still produce things like handwoven cloth, bespoke rocking chairs, and novelty birdhouses, but you market them primarily to an upscale clientel
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> It is the input that continuously reconstitutes itself around whatever remains scarce, valuable and socially demanded as productivity rises. We’re nowhere near it, but there is a point at which the marginal utility of laborers is worth
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> Won’t work. How would you know when it did? You can’t “retroactively” justify an arbitrary search under the exclusionary rule, but this doesn’t exclude evidence tangential to a legally-executed warrant during the execution of that warr
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> Reporters are not federal employees and it’s not illegal for them to have or discuss classified materials. Most of what Snowden leaked was classified, and remains classified to this day, but you and I can read about it on Wikipedia. CN
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> other videos of live firing at crowds as well as testimonials I haven’t seen any of these and I have been looking. > morgues I did find this one: https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2026/jan/1
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by lurk2 9mo ago
One of my favorite blogs is a curmudgeon from a city I used to live in reporting on the gangs there. It’s his entire life and he’s been at it for probably 20 years now. Even subjects that aren’t local interest are usually produced at a loss
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by lurk2 9mo ago
The Americans often achieve the same ends with different means; use of mass surveillance to account for the threat of open communication, forcing sales of social media platforms to friends of the regime, domain seizures on pirate sites, Kno
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by lurk2 9mo ago
If they cut off the internet how did this information get out and how can it be verified? There would be video of this kind of thing if it wasn’t just the Americans building support for regime change; I have yet to see any.
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> It's not cumbersome AT ALL if you're already carrying headphones. Many phones charge wirelessly so you CAN charge them while using a USB-C headphone adapter. You are being willfully obtuse.
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> I'm only about 2000 on lichess That puts you in the top 7% of players on the site. I have a hard time believing you could get to that rating without knowing that.
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> I still can today. It's background mode, part of Youtube Premium. If you’re trying to make the case that things are just as good under Tim Cook as they were under Jobs, paywalling commonly-used features behind a monthly subscripti
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by lurk2 9mo ago
The implication being that Steve Jobs was the leader of a genocidal regime and I am his supporter?
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by lurk2 9mo ago
You’re implying that you have evidence to support your argument without actually providing any of it.
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When Jobs was alive I could still play YouTube videos with my screen locked, I could listen to music with a set of conventional headphones, and iOS did not yet suffer from the storage bug.
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> How could it be based on anything else? The point is that the capability is measurable but the capabilities we consider to be essential are based on normalcy and thus effectively arbitrary. Eugenicists make the argument that evolution
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by lurk2 9mo ago
I’ve always found this semantic argument somewhat silly as being blind or deaf is an obvious disadvantage in natural contexts, but one of the more compelling ideas here is that the fitness boundary isn’t fixed. It would probably be a fitnes
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by lurk2 9mo ago
I noticed the same thing in the last year. Tons of Reddit and 4chan colonists. Both generally lack any kind of technical background and flood to any thread remotely adjacent to politics. Old platforms always end up having problems with the
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by lurk2 9mo ago
> These points have utility: the more points you have, the more credibility you have on this platform and capacity to push a story. <1: Troll <10: Throwaway <60: Troll <300: Probably a throwaway. Quality varies widely. >50
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by lurk2 10mo ago
> Next puzzle in 4 hours What is the point of this? I’m not going to return to a site with a cooldown timer after using it once.
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by lurk2 10mo ago
> California wasn't colonised Yes it was.
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> Yes; so the idea is they fail to find the existing question, and ask it again, and get marked as a duplicate Users would fail to find the existing question not because there was an abundance of poorly-worded questions, but because ther
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It was a good idea ruined by the compulsively obtuse and pedantic, not unlike Reddit.
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by lurk2 10mo ago
> This is why all the moderation pushes toward deleting duplicates of questions, and having a single accepted answer. Having duplicates of the question is precisely why people use LLMs instead of StackOverflow. The majority of all users

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