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by phantasmish 10mo ago
On, no issue here, no apology needed at all. I didn’t take it as any kind of dig, or even necessarily aimed at me (and if it was—still not offensive in any way). I’d almost edited my original comment right after posting because it occurred
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
I… super hesitate to wade into this, but: 1) It was way before it became prestigious. And 2) An explanation of this needs to account for a great and rapid shift in favor of women, as far as proportion-of-practitioners, that was happening at
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
> Anyway,anyone who finds themselves with a problem with HN should try that out :) To be clear, I wasn’t complaining. Just pointing it out. Aside from any more speculative benefit to YC for running the site, the site does run outright ad
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
> It is not unfounded or irrational to be concerned. I ran the numbers upon having kids. It is irrational.
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
It’s ad-supported. Any post with comments disabled is definitely an ad. Probably a lot of the others are, too.
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
Opt-in product catalogues are fine for that. Plenty.
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
Can’t edit, so self-reply: the legitimate current producer of this style appears to be called “timmee toys” and a search turns up a whole bunch of exactly the army men of that type, plus a ton of vehicles and such made from the same type of
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
99% of social science or political topics and 50% of technical topics here do not… read as smart, and you’d be much better off spending the same time reading the first chapter of a relevant 101-level college textbook.
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
It’s a movement at 50[1]. [1] A. Guthrie, 1967
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
> [3] I always associated tabs with Opera, though. Yeah as someone who picked up Firefox when it was Phoenix, it was “free Opera with a less-odd-feeling UI”. That was basically the initial (great!) sales pitch. What got me installing it
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
The green army men of Toy Story and (for example) the Army Men video games were ( searches ) 1:35. The ones that were that shade of green (or a particular shade of tan—gotta have the other side) and in those poses with those exact sculp
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
Yeah I think that might be a worse statement than the one daydreaming about eliminating their remaining market share by abandoning the only thing keeping anyone around. It’s a gross premise to operate from. And bullshit.
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
22mm is a lot smaller than the standard “green army men”.
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
As a kid I had a bunch in this scale in the ‘90s, purchased in bags of something like 50-100 pieces each from an Everything’s-a-Dollar. They were among my favorite toys for a long while (and so cheap!). Certainly my favorite “army men”. So
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
For people not familiar with Japanese, finding any info about a Japanese-language game can be a pain. They may have a Japanese representation, an official romanized name, a community romanized name using a different system… plus may also go
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
Oh no. This is going to make finding specific Japanese game roms even more annoying.
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
School quality’s largely in the same place. You’re not going to make much of a dent without fixing social support, the social safety net, healthcare, mental healthcare, and generally greatly improving stability for the economically bottom t
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
I’d go farther and guess that the tech job market would be even worse today without every company with at least 500 headcount (and many smaller than that), whether a tech company or not, putting money into “AI initiatives”. I don’t think
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
Moreover: people’ve been crowing about LLM-enabled productivity for longer than it took a tiny team to conceive and build goddamn Doom . In a cave! With a box of scraps! Isn’t the sales pitch that they greatly expand accessibility and redu
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
I can confirm that they are not shy about pulling over people with regular plates that have just expired, however. They’re on top of that. N = 3, 100% enforcement within a month. But long-expired temps are everywhere. So confusing. How?
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
I think the difference is fundamental to the engine and the gap will be hard to close, too (I mean, how long has it been and the gap remains?). WebKit-based ultralight browsers remain usable after you’ve cranked hardware specs down far enou
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
Frequent risk of sudden violent murder. And, like, credible relatively-high risk, not the “well a person might be murdered at any time, too”. Like fictional humans in a slasher-movie universe. The “pleasant lies” mostly involve pretending a
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
Do any of the big-four (counting Edge as its own thing) browsers not easily allow and facilitate ad blockers? Chrome and Safari definitely do, I assume Edge does too? What a deeply weird thing to even bring up, under those circumstances.
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
Multi-model or no, “AI in the browser” seems like one of those things destined to be eaten by “AI in the OS”, even more surely and to a greater degree than Dropbox was destined to be an OS feature. Having those same tools available system-w
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
I regard the experience of most animals as being something like living in a slasher movie their entire lives, and Lovecraft’s work as coming closest to describing life writ large, stripped of pleasant lies. … but I still think it’s a notabl
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
I think it’s mostly an observation about unforced discontent, which is a notable (defining?) feature of human existence that’s apparently (at least) much rarer in the rest of nature. I doubt people much closer to nature, death, and killing
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
One way to read it: nature as a whole makes no effort. It wouldn’t even make sense to say that it does. Does a star make an effort? Yet nature encompasses all that happens. Another interpretation may be connected to Luke 12:27 (yeah I had t
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
Yeah, you can visit the EU by… sailing a ways Northeast(ish) from Maine, until you’re just south of (a part of) Canada. And by going to the Caribbean. And South America. Mostly France and the Netherlands.
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
I can just about guarantee it has nothing to do with targeting and a lot to do with making Venezuela unsure when strikes are about to start, both for security of the forces launching the eventual strikes (if any) and to harass/wear-dow
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
Yeah, exact same thing when I was reluctantly involved in a club’s leadership and organizing an on-campus event with food 20+ years ago. I think it was Sodexo in our case. Must be common.

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