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by mkr-hn 5y ago
What did you think the "hacker" in Hacker News meant? While the actual activities rarely match the "learning to understand and control systems" sense, it's 100% in line with that niche usage. That usage also frequen
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
Classic off-by-four error.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
I use these for both without issue.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
The lists are more like an automatic targeting system for your world-saving flame thrower. Both are vital since the slime killed everyone who knew how to use it, so now you have to enlist average people who only use them to clear weeds and
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
Submission statement: the article collects all the best info on the situation and offers a little context, but the on-page title is a little linkbaity. I went with a shortening of the title tag content that conveys the only 100% certain thi
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NASA ends a pilot program for displaying pronouns(slate.com)
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
This is 100% it. Expectation setting is the missing key in a lot of these conversations. Asking to ask is about not being rude. There are better ways to do this in an asynchronous conversation. It's right up there with "we need to
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
A good move. Way too many people think unbiased means unfiltered. If outright propaganda overwhelms good information, that is bias. It's a relative of the paradox of tolerance: if you don't clean the garbage out, everyone else w
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
I'm American and don't think I know anyone who uses that kind of toaster. Lots of variety of experience in this country.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
Best toaster: https://shop.panasonic.com/kitchen-and-home/kitchen-applianc... It is, in fact, a 20+ year old design that's had some minor updates but is still essentially the same as the one it replaced.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
They keep turning Bluetooth back on with every update, so you can't even avoid this if you don't use Bluetooth unless you're vigilant.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
>> "I'd be curious to know what fraction of NFT enthusiasts had previously commissioned a piece of art, and of those how many were truly aghast at the dire state of payment systems without NFTs or at their inability to asse
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
Both would fall under Stripe's list of prohibited businesses.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
Your post reads like you're disagreeing with something I said, but the sentence you quoted isn't in disagreement when considered in context. Maybe you need to re-read the whole thing.
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A large part of startup pitches boil down to "what if [thing already done well for decades in Asia and/or Europe], but worse, and expensive?" Ugly patches over the existing horror show might be the only option until there&#x2
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
Meanwhile, there are millions of wrecks every year in the US alone. I'm sure a large portion of those drivers said the same until they got hit. You need only browse /r/IdiotsInCars for a few minutes to witness the full range
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
No Joro spiders inside so far. At least 50 around the house, going by webs, but none inside. They kept their distance outside.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
Some attempts to explore this on the worldbuilding Stack Exchange: https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/128160/wha...
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
Those are the local variety. The new ones are much, much bigger.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
We've had them for a couple of years. They keep to themselves, eat bugs you do not want that their local cousins can't while coexisting, and make great photo subjects. https://twitter.com/givemefoxes/status&#x
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
I still would like to see people wear masks when they're sick and can't avoid going out, and I want them to be able to use their phones.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
Capitalism has only done all the good things it's credited with if you ignore the externalities starting to come due in the last decade. There's a cost, and capitalism only works by socializing it. Even the good stuff is built on
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
It reminds me of that time I was somewhat viciously verbally assaulted and accused of "self-censorship" for saying strawperson instead of strawman. I just like it better and have always said it that way, but that person was so dee
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
The school was built in 1979. It was probably the original playground. All chippy-paint metal aside from the rubber swing seats.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
I still remember the school shutting down the playground to get rid of lead paint back in K-12. In the 1990s.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
They'll be back with the inevitable next major variant just like Delta and Omicron. Some countries always had enough mask usage to justify a feature like this.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
The original SE was 2016. 2020 was the first update.
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No wars, only special operations.
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
Digikam appears to have a Mac version, but I don't know if the port is any good. It has a lot of what was lost when Google killed Picasa. https://www.digikam.org/
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by mkr-hn 5y ago
It's still their home. You're applying your outsider judgement and not considering how the actual people involved might feel. A lot of those refugees are leaving for safety while someone stays behind to fight for a place they can

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