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by raldi 3y ago
Is that the Chevrolet logo at the end?
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by raldi 3y ago
A handy utility I’ve written a few times is a tool that can quickly extract a range of logs from a timestamped, ordered file without reading every byte. This would be a good feature to add to this.
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by raldi 3y ago
It probably took you 20 seconds to write your comment; why not hire a team of people to divide up the typing so you can get it done in three seconds?
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If we’re ignoring the second sentence of my reply, Anchorage would probably be the winner.
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Check out https://www.flightsfrom.com/explorer/LAS — particularly comparing its direct flights from all over the continental US to the same for other American cities.
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If you make something that lives on the web and doesn’t support all platforms, please consider showing the unsupported platforms a screenshot or video.
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by raldi 3y ago
Correction: 11; I misread the Wikipedia page.
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And the NBA, with the strictest cap, has had eight different champions this century.
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HN comments from the week the iPhone launched (2007)(hn.algolia.com)
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What about a school of fish?
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Bold karma move, submitting this to HN right after the United States went to sleep.
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The text of the official standard explicitly mentions floods, defining Level 5 to be when the software "can operate the vehicle on-road anywhere within its region of the world and under all road conditions in which a conventional vehic
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The bet specifically exempts natural disasters and emergencies.
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Done; the sun is a 7cm disk 10m above my head
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In that case, you’ll love tom7’s Reverse Emulation video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ar9WRwCiSr0
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What about that image is a smoking gun?
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I loved these books as a kid and had a great time rereading them with my then-seven-year-old. One of my favorite bits was the description of the difference between the club's two smartest members: One was adept at figuring out ways to
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by raldi 3y ago
Upsilon is pronounced “oo”. Make that sound and relax your mouth at the end and you get “oo” + “eye”, which is very close to “wye”. Or say, “Not the usual I, but the ooh I” enough times and the end sounds like Y. (Warning: I am not a lingui
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Thanks. The first three words on the page should be, "A transputer is..."
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Should an employer be free to enter into a contract with a union where they agree to waive some of their firing rights?
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> In nearly any big discussion that even remotely involves video streaming there will be numerous posts from people explaining why they pirate (usually with ridiculous justifications like "subscribing is not an option because even
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by raldi 3y ago
Makes sense. If you mail a friend a clipping, or post it on the corkboard, only so many people are going to see it, but then even though posting the "clipping" to HN may feel like the same thing, it's hard to appreciate the m
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by raldi 3y ago
I would broaden the question beyond HN to society as a whole. In 1990 it would have been considered normal and appropriate to clip an article out of a newspaper and post it on a communal corkboard. What are the key differences between that
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I’m reminded of Steve Yegge in 2009 saying, “Everyone these days, when debating the merits and demerits of marijuana legalization, seems to have completely overlooked the fact that it's HARD. It's a project of vast, nearly unimagi
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As we used to say at the other site, it’s okay to be a redditor with a website; it’s not okay to be a website with a reddit account.
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It's complicated: https://andrewmayne.com/2023/11/14/is-the-reversal-curse-rea...
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That’s a known issue with LLMs; you can train them hard on “The capital of England is London” and they’ll consistently give the correct answer for “What’s the capital of England?” but then fail miserably at, “What is London the capital of?”
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This is how I play through the Ultima series with my eight-year-old. She doesn’t have a device of her own to look up spoilers, she takes notes and draws maps on paper, and looks through them when I’m not available to play with her.
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That’s just a quote of a sentence from Wikipedia with no citation.
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The email doesn’t seem to me to be coming from a place of anti-corporate sentiment, but you be the judge: https://web.archive.org/web/20030614022228/http://ops.ietf.o...

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