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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
Ukraine was not a NATO country, never mind a EU country. I’m all for speaking truth to the weakness of the eu and its indecisive pussyfooting on the military front but let’s not start getting high on our own supply: Russia absolutely does n
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
given that you get feedback on every coordinate independently you can solve them all in parallel-- afai understand you should always be able to solve a 2^6 space, / 2 because you don't get green per coordinate, and / 2 becaus
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
Instead of the native format for e-mail archives? Supported by every MUA ever made? Not really, no.
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
I don't disagree with the first part, but income tax falls into the exact same logic of "why punish people because they contribute to the economy by [working]?"
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
Author confirmed they used an LLM: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46427769
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
I agree with you, but: > I think it's ok to use the up and down arrows to express agreement. Obviously the uparrows aren't only for applauding politeness, so it seems reasonable that the downarrows aren't only for booing
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
No. If you purely advocate for collective action and explicitly against individual action, people won’t hold you up as a personal martyr with higher moral standards. This happens when the conversation turns to blaming the individual. Stay o
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
> why is a guy with so many frequent flier miles telling me to fly less? Maybe this is nitpicking but just to satisfy my own record more than anything: that would be individual action and I agree Al gore shouldn’t be telling anyone to
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
Individual action cannot solve a tragedy of the commons. Refraining from consuming the commons literally just leaves more for others to consume. Which they will. A tragedy of the commons can only be resolved through collective action. Carbo
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
Grandparents also said it about a lot of technologies that actually were worse and didn’t survive. Those are just not around anymore to be the subject of survivorship bias. I’m not sure when we’re started dismissing the elderly’s advice as
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
Tip: in accessibility , enable High Contrast and disable transparency. Optionally disable animations. Decent experience imo. I can now see what areas are clickable.
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
You did make out like a bandit. 100% returns is incredible.
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
plug your computer in via hdmi? Or am I too old?
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
You said "right now". If you want to change to "will be able to do in the near future, before the end of his second term", that's a (slightly?) different list. But it's also a different comment. You said "
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
> is there a single thing “President” cannot do right now Stand in the middle of fifth Avenue and shoot someone :) Have political enemies executed Get his face on Mount Rushmore Disband congress Disband the Supreme Court Keep Jimmy Kim
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
> being targeted during an RCA explaining why you chose some random zone no one ever heard of. “Duh, because there’s an AZ in us-east-1 where you can’t configure EBS volumes for attachment to fargate launch type ECS tasks, of course.
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
CloudFront certificates
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
You're close: they should have called it "freedom software". Which they wanted to, but couldn't, because it was trademarked. Source: I e-mailed richard stallman to ask why they didn't, he replied. You're welcom
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
> Words have meaning and all that. Ironic put down when “open source” consists of two words which have meaning, but somehow doesn’t mean that when combined into one phrase. Same with free software, in a way. Programmers really are terr
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
Sure, in a world where you can effortlessly make that work without waste or moral lossage through faceless bureaucracy on the enforcing side, that seems like a great model. E.g. a parent setting some rules around a large monthly stipend for
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
How do Hawaiians feel about this? Just in case: what would you consider a valid qualification for Hawaiians, for their opinion on this matter to be material? And how many of them support an independent Hawaii? I looked online but didn’t fin
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
>> The difference is, Europeans used to trust their US partners > There never was a relationship of mutual trust Technically, you're not disagreeing with GP. :) Or :( I guess.
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
Funny I ride a bike in Manhattan & BK (but only post COVID) and I very rarely experience cars going through reds. IME cars here respect traffic lights and stop signs. I try and count cars actually running a red ("speeding" thr
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
Yes totally agree, I now see a crucial auto correct typo in my original comment wherei was trying to say the same but failed xD. “sod” = “diff”. 100% agree with your comment.
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
This is a hill I’m going to die on, but I find 9/10 times people use the pr description for what should have been comments. “Git blame” and following a link to a pr is inferior ux to source code comments. The North Star of pr review is
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
Sure, on the other hand sometimes people take a with-us-or-against-us position, and trying to remain neutral means you have become political. I don’t know which of the two happened here, maybe both, but if we’re mentioning one let’s also me
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
I thought this was always true? What’s new about documentation being important?
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
>> Don't be rude. > What, there's an issue because I'm not being underhanded about it like [that] guy? Wow you’ve put something into words here I never consciously realized is an unwritten rule. Sounds silly but yea
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
Citation not needed at all. This is not a scientific journal; it’s a discussion forum. If you disagree feel free to share your own opinion.
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by nothrabannosir 10mo ago
In the same way that winning at roulette does. Is roulette wealth creation and destruction?

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