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by macintux 1y ago
One of the teachers at my high school (40 years ago) somehow got permission to offer an entire class revolving around Connections . Several of my friends were taking it, so I decided to as well, and I had to drop band to make it fit. Both
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by macintux 1y ago
I have a suspicion that she may no longer possess or even remember the book in question. Heaven knows I wouldn’t were I her, but my memory is atrocious.
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by macintux 1y ago
Around 15:30 in this video she talks about it, and there’s a slide showing other symbols that may or may not be from the same book. https://vimeo.com/151277875
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by macintux 1y ago
> On average truck journeys in europe are only 72 miles anyway so... That’s astonishing. I’d be curious to see the median and mode distances compared between the U.S. and E.U.
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by macintux 1y ago
Right. The only way I’d accept an “opportunity” like that is if I’m unemployed.
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by macintux 1y ago
Probably inspired by the first Michael Bay Transformers movie.
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by macintux 1y ago
NOAA is not safe from political maneuvering. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/fact-checking-what-pro...
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by macintux 1y ago
On an iPhone, there should be no way for one app to determine the other is installed. Are you using Android?
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by macintux 1y ago
Trump has undermined the status quo at every opportunity. He feels the US hasn’t been compensated for its efforts.
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by macintux 1y ago
Similarly, I’ve found numerous small businesses/attractions thanks to highway billboards while traveling. Yes, I find billboards tedious and a nuisance, but I’m happy with the tradeoff. Except digital billboards, especially those that
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by macintux 1y ago
Years ago I had the misfortune of helping a company recover from an outage. It turned out that they had services in two data centers for redundancy, but they divided their critical services between them . So if either data center went offl
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by macintux 1y ago
If people who say “Hello” would follow up with the question in a couple of minutes, I wouldn’t care. They don’t.
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by macintux 1y ago
It took me a depressingly long time to figure out that when people (offline) ask me how I am, they don’t expect, or want, an answer.
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by macintux 1y ago
Because we (generally speaking) have more influence over U.S. policy than China's. And because decrying China is typically used as a rhetorical technique to absolve the U.S.
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by macintux 1y ago
I seriously doubt nostalgia for old computers correlates to perceptions of U.S. debt. Having said that, I wasn’t the only person deeply upset when Greenspan gave the green light for Bush’s tax cuts. Under Clinton we were on track to wipe ou
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by macintux 1y ago
Around 1998 I snagged an abandoned 486 and installed Linux on it for use at work; the corporate software I used the most, a ticketing system, could be run using X from a Solaris server. I don't remember what I did for Lotus Notes. Anyw
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by macintux 1y ago
This pops a lot with annual celebrations. I attended a commencement for my niece several years ago, and a speaker referred to it as the 100th annual commencement while a brochure referred to it as the 100th anniversary. Pick one.
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by macintux 1y ago
Someone being the government criminalizing miscarriages and abortions.
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by macintux 1y ago
Porn is considered a highly private activity for many reasons: societal disapproval, religious prohibitions...heck in some countries, watching gay porn is potentially a death sentence.
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by macintux 1y ago
W. Richard Stevens wrote a Forth manual for Kitt Peak in the 70s. Now I’m curious how many observatories used the language.
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by macintux 1y ago
> Any change hurts some people, harms others. Not quite the sentiment you intended.
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by macintux 1y ago
Yes, but after using Erlang, I found it very painful to switch. Easy to get spoiled by immutability & pattern matching.
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by macintux 1y ago
Except that it's contrary to the site FAQ. > If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.
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by macintux 1y ago
Thank you, I was unaware of this label. Quite descriptive.
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by macintux 1y ago
I know diddly/squat about Go, but from similar patterns in aeons past, would "nil == err" work as a way to make it stand out?
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by macintux 1y ago
Their data will never go away.
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by macintux 1y ago
This story from Central America is particularly gruesome. > In early April, an unfortunate British soldier walked into a snake that was hanging from a branch. It bit him in the eye. ‘He felt such intense pain’, a physician noted, ‘that h
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by macintux 1y ago
Probably should be.
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by macintux 1y ago
This should have an “Ask HN: ” prefix in the title, although that rule is not strictly enforced. https://news.ycombinator.com/ask for other examples.
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by macintux 1y ago
My co-workers consistently stick with UTC, but they refuse to include the time zone in strings in their databases. Drives me crazy.

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