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by macintux 10mo ago
https://www.metroweekly.com/2024/06/an-idaho-library-goes-ad...
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Florida bill 1069 allows parents to challenge the inclusion of books in the library, but only explicitly identifies books related to sexual preferences/conduct/etc. https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2
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> they're in prison for a reason. Often that reason is "too poor to afford proper representation" or "looked vaguely like the actual criminal" or "took a plea bargain because the justice system was threateni
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> The naturally curious will remain naturally curious and be rewarded for it Maybe. The naturally curious will also typically be slower to arrive at a solution due to their curiosity and interest in making certain they have all the facts
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A collection of related resources: https://gist.github.com/macintux/5354837
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~25 years ago I decided to take the LSAT. At the time, there was an essay component that was required to be conducted in cursive. I basically had to teach myself all over again. Not much fun.
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Shoveling snow is a well-established high risk factor for older adults.
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If you're fortunate, you can find companies with a passion for good code who use lesser-known languages. Picking Erlang, or Haskell, or OCaml generally filters out candidates who don't share your interest in seeing what can be don
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FEDORA is years older than Fedora.
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Some of my favorite (or at least most durable) memories are from giving hitchhikers rides. I wouldn't recommend it for everyone, and the pandemic really put a damper on that, but I've given ~20 people rides over the years and neve
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A Walk Across America was amazing reading when I was college aged. I've never forgotten the story about the accident when he and his (then-girlfriend?) were walking along a quiet highway, I think in Nevada, and they decided to walk o
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It's older than Fedora Linux.
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And predates Fedora by about 6 years.
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A friend of mine asked me why we have such precise terminology in IT; I asked her why English has so many different words for "chair".
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I would rather people who don't currently have a voice due to language barriers or simply poor communications skills be able to use LLMs than try to gatekeep them. And I'm certainly weary of "someone used an em-dash, must be
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The complaint is definitely getting old. I wonder how many HN threads at this point don't have someone speculating about AI-generated content. Hopefully @dang adds something to the guidelines to discourage it.
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I worked indirectly with such a boss, and just a few months of exposure to that toxicity was enough to leave scars.
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Walt grew up in an era when there was still a sense that wealth and power brought with it strong moral obligations to serve the community and nation. We lost that somewhere along the way.
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I think you're agreeing, not disagreeing. I also misread the comment originally. Emphasis mine: > there won’t be a niche
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> A highly social, relatively hairless bipedal ape that was once a nomadic hunter-gatherer, but has adapted to create websites
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If the phone is less waterproof or otherwise breaks more frequently, it could result in more e-waste.
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Or curse the EU, if the compromises necessary to make the battery replaceable result in a less robust product.
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I haven't visited the map, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn they didn't attempt to re-create the building shapes, just location and estimated size. The real shape seems pointless for this dataset.
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It seems like a statement from The Sweetshop, who made the ad, has also been pulled. This piece links to a Futurism article[0], which in turn links to "an incredibly defensive statement"[1] from the ad agency. > “For seven week
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I haven't checked these links for a very long time, but some presentation resources I accumulated when I was frequently giving talks: https://gist.github.com/macintux/5354837
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Arguably.
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The Apple acquisition of NeXT has (only half-jokingly) been described as NeXT buying Apple with Apple's money. That's obviously an exceptionally rare case.
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A caption for that sample, indicating it is one, would help.
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The class wasn't as interesting as I'd hoped, in part because it seemed to attract older kids hoping for an easy grade, but in my high school we had an etymology class. (My school also offered Latin, but etymology seemed a much mo
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Dollar stores around here pop up in small towns, killing off any locally-owned competition, and are far enough away from the big chains to mean they can charge quite a bit more while offering terrible service.

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