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by psd1 2mo ago
People in 2026 have never seen duct tape unless they work in hvac. Duck tape, on the other hand, is in every household. On which topic, i think you're missing the point: duck tape is never the best solution, but it's good enough i
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by psd1 2mo ago
I sensitised my hands with a single exposure to acetone, and now even isoprop gives me painful flaky fingers for days. I wish I'd worn chemical gloves.
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by psd1 2mo ago
You can't have _any_ BR all in one line.
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by psd1 2mo ago
I worked at a company that was pathologically thirsty and had only hard drinkers above entry-level. For those people, just drinking was the bonding. It reinforced the tribal affiliation. Casinos often provide free drinks. QED
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by psd1 2mo ago
Amen. I only got my first job in tech because i put away 6 pints in the pub after the interview. We conducted interviews after lunch, for this exact purpose. I saw good candidates interview but decline the pub afterwards - they did not get
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by psd1 2mo ago
No, the dollar is not an SI unit. 0 AED == -32 USD.
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by psd1 2mo ago
You know you've done it right when the entire untidy queue pops into an even straight line
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by psd1 2mo ago
In the first line of the précis: > Modern air conditioning isn’t the only way to keep cool in the summer TFA is unobjectionable, but you've taken it as an attack on your identity as an enjoyer of AC. Nobody here is stopping you. Nob
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by psd1 2mo ago
I was perfectly diplomatic, and you've responded with yet another rant. You've flooded the comments with your California railing, none of which offers any new insight. I don't believe you've put any work into understandi
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by psd1 2mo ago
It's hard to layer meaning over social media comment, but what i wanted to express was the nonsensicality of reducing history to "yay capitalism". There's a common strand of thought that goes "America is emphaticall
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by psd1 2mo ago
I have compiled a list of vibecoders who have impressed me with their consideration for other people. Here it is:
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by psd1 2mo ago
Me too, in the general case, but the square display was a key requirement. And i can see it; op is displaying LP covers; it needs to look good I think i'd just make the bezel for the display and putty an SBC onto the back with an HDMI
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by psd1 2mo ago
A purely logic circuit with impedance-matched chips, sure. However, when you need to drive a load, you quickly need to learn about flyback diodes, pullup resistors, and chokes. You find yourself on forums reading posts like "yeah, that
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by psd1 2mo ago
> It makes no sense other than lobbyists and environment lawyers and other ticky-tack bullshit Those other countries also have lobbyists and environment lawyers, so your thesis reveals a lack of discernment. The poster child in the west
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by psd1 2mo ago
You two have put multiple constituencies in a small box so you can beat more people with a single stick. Even just in America, the only overlap between fundies, incels, and technolibertarians is the "R" they tick. Likewise, on the
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by psd1 2mo ago
Care to explain?
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by psd1 2mo ago
The USSR performed _somewhat_ well, but i wouldn't say it clearly outperformed the west given the whole "collapse" thing. I could argue the point, but only weakly. It's more illuminating to pick the two exemplars, Americ
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by psd1 2mo ago
It's a flat plate of material, typically a ceramic square with decorative finish, arranged in regular patterns as a floor or wall surface in rooms expected to be exposed to water, where it is bonded to a substrate with cementitious adh
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by psd1 3mo ago
A vinegar soak gets rid of almost all smells, and a sodium bicarb soak gets rid of the rest. Air freshener spray is incrementally effective for items you don't want to soak.
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by psd1 3mo ago
Is it, though? Rule of thumb: when a fanboy asserts that any person holding an alternative view is defective, you should immediately abandon the fanboy's position and adopt the alternative view. It's heuristically more likely to b
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by psd1 3mo ago
According to ciphertalk, VCs charging high premiums: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48917135
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by psd1 3mo ago
I'm with you inasmuch as the frothiness is, while massaged a bit, sufficiently perceptible for emptors to caveat. My concern is that the subprime mortgages were not perceptible to even savvy fund managers, and the same thing could happ
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by psd1 3mo ago
To be precise, market perception of future growth. All other things being equal, debt is a downward force on that perception. That is a general point, although I'll stipulate it isn't a factor in AI picks because they are approxim
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by psd1 3mo ago
You're damned right - much better is possible than the gnu tools. I'm one of the savages using pwsh on Linux (the other two are still on reddit). I have no need for sed/awk ascii salad, and jq can fuck off into the far distan
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by psd1 3mo ago
> this Dune/Blade Runner future we keep trying to attain That's grossly inaccurate. We are speedrunning a William Gibson future.
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by psd1 3mo ago
Then: well played, you got me
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by psd1 3mo ago
I'll wager that rabbit and that pheasant that you see skinned and cleaned in the shop were shot by a man in a field. I'm open to counterexamples, so let me know what your butcher tells you. I like your attitude of charity - we sho
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by psd1 3mo ago
Europe is a fractal mix of polities ruled by a constant flux of elected representatives, and consequently exhibits political behaviour from a wide range of constituencies. Each citizen agrees, presumably, with some policies and disagrees wi
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by psd1 3mo ago
> Well, most of Europe simply has banned guns in the hands of civilians instead, so that's some data as well No, that's some bullshit. How do you think we eat pheasant and rabbit and venison? Show me a pheasant farm and I'
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by psd1 3mo ago
Have you accepted Bertrand Russell into your heart? Here's a pamphlet.

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