mrsvanwinkle

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by mrsvanwinkle 6mo ago
You may have convinced me that this phone tapping thing may, and I am being super serious here, lead to something much much bigger than mere social networks. I am convinced that this weird Phone Tapping thing may be the next evolutionary st
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by mrsvanwinkle 6mo ago
Is your name based on Pale Fire by chance?
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by mrsvanwinkle 6mo ago
Love it, also love how Datenschatten can also imply that it disappears when someone shines light on it
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by mrsvanwinkle 6mo ago
Heya. At first I wanted to pile on the negativity due to really. Really bad red flags from the title alone signaling slop, sociopathy (calculated sensationalism), sociopathy (guiltless artificial scarcity peddler), and some really big &quot
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by mrsvanwinkle 6mo ago
It's not a search problem it's a grammar problem: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~param/quotes/guide.html
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by mrsvanwinkle 6mo ago
JG Ballard's Crash led to Baudrillard's brand of Postmodernism (Hyperreality/Simulacra entering pop culture especially with The Matrix) and iirc Ballard was weirded out by Baudrillard's analysis of Crash (which, you know
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by mrsvanwinkle 6mo ago
Amazing recommendation! I was hooked by that most powerful New York Times Bestseller endorsement but in 1600s. "Many say: I wanted to learn, but only found madness. But those who seek wisdom will not find it elsewhere."
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by mrsvanwinkle 6mo ago
Just joined the "family member battling neurodegenerative disease" club and plunged into resigned frustration when I could not find even some vibecoded assistant that does the simplest critical dementia caregiving tasks proactivel
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by mrsvanwinkle 7mo ago
Was hoping to find that good end in your story and found it, happy for you. I'm thankfully healthy but found myself in an adjacent circumstance as the child of a newly diagnosed dementia patient who forgot who I am. I was able to reint
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by mrsvanwinkle 7mo ago
Agreed, but I'm mainly informed by the r/personalfinance article that I don't have on hand right now, which lays out the exact details of the evidently tangible difference in material reality jumping from a low ten million ne
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by mrsvanwinkle 7mo ago
Okay this lit up my life for the day
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by mrsvanwinkle 8mo ago
Like real mold on fiber or
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by mrsvanwinkle 8mo ago
Yes, reminds me of Proce55ing in its prime, used for complex webviz like this. I love this so much.
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by mrsvanwinkle 8mo ago
Agreed with other comment thanks so much for posting.
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by mrsvanwinkle 9mo ago
As an American I'm a huge fan of HHGG and Rowan Atkinson (not just his Bean character). I'm also a huge fan of Conan O'Brien and his Harvard generation's work for The Simpsons. Would be far ahead of Adams' time. Tho
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by mrsvanwinkle 9mo ago
this is the best HN thread of this year so far, loving all the comments
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by mrsvanwinkle 10mo ago
laughed and was warmed by the end reveal. i support gushing over literature in HN
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by mrsvanwinkle 10mo ago
I love that better! I was also just in Italy recently and you made me double take this tablet hanging on a canopy in one of the peregrination churches and they ARE interpuncts but for names only
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by mrsvanwinkle 11mo ago
just the fact you instinctively thought of the use case to understand and empathize with this disability better, is very cool of you
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by mrsvanwinkle 11mo ago
best HN story ive read in a while. i want a raccoon that eating tinyfist-fuls of cereal steaight from the box it opened, watching TV
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by mrsvanwinkle 11mo ago
"other people's same problem easier" i see, but have never seen messiness as example at least in communities w adhd comorbid with depression. personally the concept of other people cleaning my private mess, even/especial
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by mrsvanwinkle 11mo ago
big early-Sabine Hossenfelder energy
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by mrsvanwinkle 11mo ago
Poverty-sculpted packrat brain here. I believe this specific behavior became a nuanced social issue starting with the Marie Kondo "Cleanliness" movement from years ago to present, at least my experience of this is through the Tumb
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by mrsvanwinkle 11mo ago
This is extremely helpful to me, thanks so much for sharing.
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by mrsvanwinkle 11mo ago
snortèd
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by mrsvanwinkle 11mo ago
I can objectively say your reply minimizes the previous two posts who shared childhood traumas by the objective fact that you are implying (if they are not able to satisfy your Scientific Endeavor) that, if there is no delineation, then the
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by mrsvanwinkle 11mo ago
Thank you so much, the parent thread was truly an uncomfortably disturbing read and your post is a necessary contrast to "rational" "objective" "minds" armchairing something so delicate with gross finality.
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by mrsvanwinkle 11mo ago
+1 for kvetch
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by mrsvanwinkle 1y ago
Might be based on Arthur C. Clarke's aphorism, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Ray Kurzweil uses this as a major motif for "The Singularity is Near" about how Harry Potter can
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by mrsvanwinkle 1y ago
Not a fan of his other works but his short story The Egg (not sci-fi) is up there with Asimov's best shorts (I'm not a fan of Asimov's Foundation series either). I'm more of a fan of Frankenstein and Singin in the Rain s

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