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by pavlov 2y ago
In New York, having a washing machine in your home at all is considered a special luxury. Most apartments apparently don’t even have the necessary electrical outlets.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Well, call it machine learning if you prefer. Audits are currently performed manually, but the patterns of tax evasion are often obvious. Seems like a textbook case for AI automation.
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by pavlov 2y ago
America largely invented the modern world, but then it never took the next steps because it didn’t need to. So a lot of things are stuck in a “version 1.x” endlessly patched over. Infrastructure was built in 1920 or 1950. People still regul
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by pavlov 2y ago
They are not homophones? I’m not a native speaker and I’ve simply always assumed they are. I lived in London and the US for many years, but these are not common words in speech so I never got corrected. I guess that must mean “wear” and “we
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by pavlov 2y ago
It’s not that strange? The words are homophones and both express a reticent emotional state.
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by pavlov 2y ago
After all, people believe China and the Soviet Union colluded with the USA during deepest Cold War to hide evidence that the Moon landings were fake. It actually makes more sense if you believe that aliens must be part of that deal somehow.
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by pavlov 2y ago
The Quantel Paintbox is the usual suspect for early 1980s video graphics excesses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantel_Paintbox The wireframe 3D graphics in that video must have been rendered in something else, thoug
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by pavlov 2y ago
A diverse coalition is also what enabled the N side of the aisle to take power in Germany in 1933, so that's not exactly an argument against the comparison made by the grandparent.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Use typedef? Granted, the function pointer syntax is forever confusing (to me anyway). The rest is easily tackled by naming things. Even for function pointers, it’s just one lookup and then you can copy-paste the typedef for any other funct
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by pavlov 2y ago
I gather it's kind of a "super-app" for its region, similar to WeChat in China? (Or what Elon Musk wants X to be, but so far isn't even in the ballpark...)
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by pavlov 2y ago
The original title is much better for most audiences. It provides an immediate identification challenge and response in the reader’s mind: “Am I really bad at [X]?” The edited title is in the language of committee reports. “Delivery” and “a
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by pavlov 2y ago
Yeah. Process leadership was always Intel’s secret sauce. They could put out mediocre designs tied to the x86 albatross as long as they were consistently ahead of everyone else on process. When that stopped, they were left with mediocre des
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by pavlov 2y ago
The 500 euro bill hasn’t been produced since 2019. Apparently 25% of them were in circulation in Spain, despite the Spanish economy being only a fraction of the eurozone.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Eleven in four months?
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by pavlov 2y ago
No, I don’t have that enabled.
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by pavlov 2y ago
For me, the YouTube embed player wants a login: “Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot.” (iPhone Safari) The Ea-Nasir tablet is in a museum, but at least I can see pictures of it without giving my personal information to a multi-trillion doll
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by pavlov 2y ago
The Web Locks documentation explains that it works across tabs, i.e. separate processes: ”[…] allows a web app running in multiple tabs or workers to coordinate work and the use of resources” A locking API is much more natural and less er
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by pavlov 2y ago
Does anyone actually believe Twitter’s algorithm is public? When the company’s mercurial owner wants to amplify some voices and silence others, does he make a pull request on the GitHub repo? If you don’t think that kind of thing happens on
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by pavlov 2y ago
> “change Section 230 to force neutrality and free speech” How would that revised law look like? Would courts be tasked with determining whether a defendant in a Section 230 lawsuit had been sufficiently neutral? The standard for libel
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by pavlov 2y ago
Does Trump still want to repeal Section 230? He was in favor in 2020, but that was a long time ago. Now he’s co-governing with Musk. Both billionaires own social media platforms that benefit from Section 230 protections. What’s the incentiv
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by pavlov 2y ago
Someone else already mentioned Antigone, which is probably the most famous example of a Greek tragedy and doesn’t follow this pattern at all. Nobody is winning at any point in Antigone.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Is Google going to be around in its current form a hundred years from now? Google in 2024 feels like IBM in 1974. The brand will surely exist fifty years from now, but possibly much diminished. I wouldn’t count on any specific product survi
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by pavlov 2y ago
I don’t really see how Lerc’s comment would benefit from the critique sandwich (more commonly called the “shit sandwich”, in my experience). Lerc was providing thoughtful suggestions for features to add. That’s not a criticism of what’s alr
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by pavlov 2y ago
The best book I’ve read on this topic is “Into the Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them” by John Yorke. The author is British, so it doesn’t suffer so much from the “Hollywood has all the answers” syndrome of American screenwriting
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by pavlov 2y ago
It’s much too eccentric for the Pixar formula. They are family movies first and foremost. Characters need to be understandable and relatable to an eight-year-old. The Pixar movie with similar themes is 2016’s “Coco”. It’s a fine production,
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by pavlov 2y ago
Seems like the link on HN was changed from the original which had a more movie-worthy headline.
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by pavlov 2y ago
This is exactly the kind of headline that would appear 20 minutes into a B-rate sci-fi movie. As we approach Act II, an intrepid young journalist rushes to the hospital to find out what’s really going on… But wait, who is in the black car t
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by pavlov 2y ago
> “well-intentioned people are forced to become scammers” “Look what you made me do. You left me no choice but to hurt you.”
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by pavlov 2y ago
It’s the same in Sweden and Finland. Turns out that in a functioning society, it’s not a big deal if someone knows how much money you made last year. Thieves and kidnappers are not lurking around every corner after all. Money and nudity are
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by pavlov 2y ago
Do you think the American right wants Twitter/X or Truth Social to be responsible for misinformation?

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