mjmsmith

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by mjmsmith 2mo ago
For the same reason that you could tell a joke without feeling the need to explain it.
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by mjmsmith 2mo ago
I imagine that some?/many? customers of a locally-owned coffee shop are choosing it precisely because it's not a soulless megacorp. They're choosing a different vibe on purpose. Ugly AI advertising is the opposite of that vib
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by mjmsmith 2mo ago
True, in the sense that right wing extremists apparently have no agency and no responsibility for their actions or beliefs.
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by mjmsmith 2mo ago
To be intellectually honest, please name a few open communists infiltrating the other party.
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by mjmsmith 3mo ago
It's ok to keep our personal problems to ourselves.
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by mjmsmith 3mo ago
Perhaps not their best work: https://www.ikea.com.tr/en/product/gangvag-grey-170x240-cm-l...
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by mjmsmith 3mo ago
Recently published, curious if anyone has read it: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735472/the-ego-trip...
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by mjmsmith 4mo ago
How can you be sure that the undo stack is in sync with the clipboard? Wouldn't cut+paste be a more reliable pseudo-copy than cut+undo?
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Show HN: Mosey Parker – find a ride in bikeshare systems worldwide (iOS)(moseyparker.com)
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by mjmsmith 5mo ago
You might like Pitch: https://klim.co.nz/fonts/pitch/
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by mjmsmith 5mo ago
My iOS app using MapKit is smooth with ~4k annotations on an iPhone 14. My experience is that it doesn't really start to choke until you get closer to ~10k.
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by mjmsmith 5mo ago
I'd like to believe that real books would get swapped more often than stolen.
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by mjmsmith 5mo ago
The Empire Strikes Back: "I'm your dad."
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by mjmsmith 5mo ago
An interesting counter-example: https://xcancel.com/ValerioCapraro/status/206506665753442336...
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by mjmsmith 5mo ago
Still, if you're going to buy a car from an enemy of liberal western democracy, you might as well buy BYD over Tesla.
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by mjmsmith 5mo ago
I drive a manual Mazda 3 because I like the greater feeling of connection to the machine, but also because I think it makes me pay more attention. When I rent an automatic, it feels like a (literal) blunt instrument in comparison. I underst
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by mjmsmith 5mo ago
> It’s like a Redditor, it just repeats what it has seen other people say. Can stochastic parrots understand irony?
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by mjmsmith 5mo ago
If this exploit has nothing to do with AI, why haven't we heard about it succeeding before? I find it hard to believe it's never been tried.
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by mjmsmith 7mo ago
And yet your observation, contradicted by actual statistics, is apparently justification for 'IMO the "powers that be" panicked and drove the population into mass hysteria.' It's mysterious.
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by mjmsmith 7mo ago
There have been over 100 million cases and over one million deaths in the US. Congratulations to you and your acquaintances for being extreme outliers.
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by mjmsmith 7mo ago
Many Americans were traumatized by being asked to wear a mask because they’re big angry babies. Many other Americans were traumatized by the discovery that they’re surrounded by big angry babies.
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by mjmsmith 7mo ago
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if this administration thinks it sounds more manly.
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by mjmsmith 7mo ago
I think that depends on what the "extreme body modification of an unprintable and life-altering nature" was.
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by mjmsmith 7mo ago
Z Sculpt sells an updated version of Return to Dark Castle: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4054940/Return_to_Dark_Ca...
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by mjmsmith 7mo ago
It's safe to assume that racist young Republicans contribute more to the difficulty of being black in America than vice versa. What's your point?
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by mjmsmith 7mo ago
Curious how this compares to Recordly ( https://recordly.dev )
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by mjmsmith 8mo ago
"Iran, if you're listening..."
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by mjmsmith 8mo ago
Students in the 90s had also lived their entire lives under the counter-productive and utterly racist War on Drugs. That might have colored their attitude more than the leftist indoctrination bogeyman.
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by mjmsmith 8mo ago
Come to New York, we still have freedom-loving individuals who reject collectivist ideology. https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/21/drunk-driver-arrested...
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by mjmsmith 8mo ago
Why does the very existence of bluesky make so many people angry? You're free to stay at the Nazi bar if that's where you're comfortable.

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