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541.
by pohl 4y ago
That’s part of the mechanism to bolster RW propaganda: pay no attention to this serial killer over here, because the person next to him double parks.
542.
by pohl 4y ago
You’re right. Clairvoyance is the only way one could possibly infer anything. My bad.
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by pohl 4y ago
“They” in your 2nd paragraph is probably making it hard to reason out. You’re imagining Russia to be a nation with somewhat rational self interest, right? It isn’t. Russia today is Vladimir Putin serving Vladimir Putin’s interests. He is d
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by pohl 4y ago
The defining characteristics of IE in the dark ages were that 1) it was ubiquitous 2) web sites developed to it and, instead of fixing sites in other browsers, they recommended its use over other browsers. You often couldn’t even log into y
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by pohl 4y ago
It would have been a pretty long talk if they had included all the WAT
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by pohl 4y ago
People do that when you do tell them the truth .
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by pohl 4y ago
This article's lede is interesting, that the it's only recently that we've been globally tracking this balloon program: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/politics/us-balloon-tracking-...
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by pohl 4y ago
I guess it wouldn't if one didn't value people. YMMV, but I think people are kind of cool — so if I hear a great song I want to know who the artist was. It helps me build a mental model of what I might be able to expect from them.
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by pohl 4y ago
Monodraw is a nice implementation of the same idea. Others are mentioned in this old thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27832910
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by pohl 4y ago
I would hope most people. I can't imagine being so incurious that I'd read an awesome comment and not wonder who wrote it.
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by pohl 4y ago
Hersh also tried to minimize the Skripal novichok poisoning story, didn't he?
552.
by pohl 4y ago
Noticing that others were scripting their labor is what got me out of RuneScape.
553.
by pohl 4y ago
It was an AIM-9X Sidewinder, with the warhead removed.
554.
by pohl 4y ago
The missile was locked [Edit: had mistakenly said “guided”] by where the pilot was looking, and guided by IR so that it could hit precisely. Also, this missile had no warhead. They removed it on purpose to limit the damage. They wanted to m
555.
by pohl 4y ago
Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out.
556.
by pohl 4y ago
NeXT faced that same possibility, and they dealt with it by making it as easy as activating a single check box, so that it would be silly for developers not to.
557.
by pohl 4y ago
Just yesterday I was wondering why — with the ubiquity of surveillance, phones, and body cams — we haven’t yet seen footage of good cops intervening to stop people like Tyre Nichols from being beaten to death.
558.
by pohl 4y ago
“Not in that headspace” sounds a lot like the asymmetry of empathy he mentioned in this article, which was an observation that resonated with me. (“…because they don’t perceive it…”)
559.
by pohl 4y ago
It’s amazing that MS, despite its vast resources, hasn’t managed to improve this situation. Tiny, beleaguered NeXT had fat binaries for 4 architectures. Surely Redmond could solve this.
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by pohl 4y ago
Us: Mom, can we get a counter-culture? Mom: We have a counter-culture at home. The counter-culture at home: 4chan incels
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by pohl 4y ago
There's also a great Adam Neely video about it (his thesis is that TRB is a "jazz shibboleth"). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD0e5e6wI_A
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by pohl 4y ago
I’d say that politicians — who really only truly represent the richest 1% of citizens — losing is perfectly fair. If they want to play to win, they should adopt policies with a broad enough appeal to win the hearts and minds of more voters.
563.
by pohl 4y ago
While mousing around in a gui to build pages of slides may have a better initial UX, it can never match the productivity of a user who knows the markdown rules creating one small file in a plain text editor.
564.
by pohl 4y ago
Yes, I'm referring to me manually restarting, not the ones that already happen when updates come out. I do it when I notice it's draining faster than it should for my normal day of use. It gives me relief for weeks — usually until
565.
by pohl 4y ago
I've found that a complete restart of the watch alleviates the symptoms for a while, so there must be some process that gets into a bad state.
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by pohl 4y ago
Confidently expressed, but doesn’t pass the sniff test. Needs quantifying.
567.
by pohl 4y ago
Imagine a world where billionaires are immortal.
568.
by pohl 4y ago
Just so no one assumes that’s all it’s about — the critique of bloated articles about bloat is really only the introduction. It’s worth reading beyond that. The writing is delicious.
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by pohl 4y ago
This is art.
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by pohl 4y ago
This heavily depends on which forum one is on, and is therefore not true in general.

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