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by moistly 4y ago
You write “Ask HN: How to Reflect the Ball at an Angle?” Which is, I note, something you will have seen every day on HN. Hell, there’s even an “Ask” link at the top of the page that shows you endless examples of how to write your question.
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by moistly 4y ago
One can only conclude that there is negligible security regarding US classified documents, and that dozens of politicians have carelessly filed and discarded hundreds and thousands of documents without any regard for safety. It’s all a big,
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by moistly 4y ago
Why are so many users not using the “Ask HN” prefix for their questions?
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by moistly 4y ago
And iOS… partially
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by moistly 4y ago
It’s a 25% difference!
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by moistly 4y ago
Because “Best Practices“ and “Interface Ergonomics“ guidelines provide excellent parameters for legislation. Why would we want anything other than the best functional design/interface for something as important as our vehicle controls?
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by moistly 4y ago
Japanese pull saws have the kerf you seek and cut on both strokes. What they lack is the narrow depth that would allow for tight radius turns. Regardless, the tooth pattern for a scroll saw that cuts in both directions exists.
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by moistly 4y ago
Pinhole breaks in hydraulic systems have seriously injured/killed workers, so I believe that a water jet could be made small enough… but whether that’s practical is another matter entirely. The passage of abrading grit might wreck the
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by moistly 4y ago
Have you considered using a water jet?
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by moistly 4y ago
Dupe of a post made only two hours earlier. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34237178
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by moistly 4y ago
> I see most of the comments here expressing skepticism getting downvoted (like what you would expect on reddit) What with the many medical studies demonstrating treatment efficacy, it’s hardly surprising that scare-mongering anecdotes a
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by moistly 4y ago
Oh FFS. Vaccination greatly reduces the severity of illness, which is to say it greatly reduces how many cells get infected and how much the virus is replicated in the body. This necessarily reduces the opportunity for a mutation to occur.
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by moistly 4y ago
No “excuse” is needed to bring science to the rest of the world. If you beg to differ, please explain how we would be better served by unscientific approaches to problem-solving. IMO democracy is the least-worst political system, so no “exc
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by moistly 4y ago
Can’t reason a person out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
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by moistly 4y ago
Also a term of endearment between Aussie blokes.
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by moistly 4y ago
This opinion piece is written by an absolutely unqualified talking head, not an epidemiologist. > Allysia Finley is a member of the Journal's Editorial Board. Ms. Finley joined The Wall Street Journal in 2009 after graduating from
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by moistly 4y ago
I just want to note here that Samsung refrigerators and dishwashers are absolute shit and should be avoided like the plague. Also, their stoves are pretty crap, too, with a self-clean option that destroys the motherboard and blowers. You&
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by moistly 4y ago
And a damn shame that Kleenex® is synonymous with Scott’s Nose Tissues. You can rules-argue that no one should be saying “Kleenex” when asking for a tissue. IMO not worth debating; it would be missing the forest for the trees.
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by moistly 4y ago
Really dedicated to bringing that Reddit-quality argumentation to us, eh? You’ve been corrected on your misinformation, and jus double down on it. Thanks for nothing.
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by moistly 4y ago
The entire basis for human society is socialism: the cooperative, collective effort to produce food, shelter, and safety for one’s community (read: tribe, village, township, nation). It is a damn shame that the term has been so crudely abus
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by moistly 4y ago
As a mid-fifties older adult, every one of your points rings true.
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by moistly 4y ago
In the late seventies/early eighties we grew up believing we were going to die in a nuclear holocaust. Have you watched “The Day After” and “Threads”? Way worse on a child’s psyche than “Don’t Look Up” because doesn’t depict survival i
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by moistly 4y ago
It’s ironic? How so? ELI5 please. Anyhoo, I chose “moistly” because his reaction to saying the word was hilarious, because it’s completely unlike other aliases here, and because it’s one of those words that everyone feels a little squeamish
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by moistly 4y ago
Please, explain how disagreement over petty shit drives advancement. By my understanding, petty shit is of no value, and thus unimportant to advancement of anything but resentment and dismissal, and indeed is an inhibitor of progress. (
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by moistly 4y ago
Some sort of paddles-and-ball game that afaik is renown for its (a) endless, obnoxious, loud “THWOK! … THWOK! … THWOK!” sound and (b) obnoxious, self-entitled players. Seriously, I have never heard anything good about it from anyone who doe
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by moistly 4y ago
> Nevertheless your comment accusing me Narcissism much? When the comment doesn’t apply to you, it isn’t directed at you.
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by moistly 4y ago
Flagged and hopefully banned.
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by moistly 4y ago
GPT AI garbage. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34146109
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by moistly 4y ago
User is spamming GPT garbage to HN. Fucking shameful. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34146109
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by moistly 4y ago
GPT2 spam. Lazy-ass bullshit. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34146109

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