rdiddly

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by rdiddly 6y ago
There's something humorous about this. We're so suspicious to see order where we expect chaos. But 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 is as likely as any other combination. Order is a subset of chaos, not its opposite. In other words, even chaos p
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by rdiddly 6y ago
They work best when there's no one around to rebut, or no one allowed to.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
The word "new" isn't exactly well placed either. Wanna go see my new car? I sold it to a guy last April.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
> We've given up on protecting our freedoms... Wow, putting it like that makes me realize it's just part of the larger societal trend toward authoritarianism. I guess this is one of those 'Stallman was right' moment
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I like how it can mean either 'confused' or 'unimpressed' which in certain situations can almost be opposites of each other. But both apply to me with this chain system!
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I'll tell ya what I see: no rollers. Pins rubbing (wearing) both sides of the tooth. Including the back side, which will never exert any forward longitudinal force on a chain unless it's made of magnets. I also see a highly suspec
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by rdiddly 6y ago
And George Floyd got the death penalty. Seems like if someone makes $46 million (arbitrary figure) from something as shitty as this, they ought to lose $46 million, either by paying back $46M, or by losing something that's worth $46M t
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Hey don't forget sctb!
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Ehhh, there are no good uses of time, therefore no bad ones. We're all just here killing time and telling ourselves it means something. Meaning is arbitrary. Corollary: You can find meaning anywhere.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Absolutely. Just saying, if that's where you focus your energy, that's what'll get attention.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Did "A money-losing business can lose money wherever it wants" need proving?
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by rdiddly 6y ago
It's a nice idea, but unfortunately also could be manipulated to make underperforming speakers sound better than they are. Wherever there's mediation, there's an opportunity for misrepresentation.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
That sounds more like the anger phase. Or maybe bargaining, ha!
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by rdiddly 6y ago
So you're the next one in line to learn that what they say is true: money doesn't buy happiness. The sweet things in life are all the things you sacrificed in the process of re-making yourself in the image of the machine you built
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Well, I checked them all out, and I must not be the target audience / a font person / very perceptive, because with a couple of exceptions they all look the same to me.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
"...or as BloombergNEF’s Colin McKerracher puts it: 'just sound and fury, signifying nothing.'" Wow that Colin McKerracher is quite the wordsmith. Quite the bard. (i.e. it's Shakespeare)
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Classic HN project. I appreciate the repair & reuse aspect too. Part of me is like "dude you could've spent the time learning to cook" but NO! It's the principle of the thing!
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Pretty funny, even the one little project I did for Intel as a contractor, apparently there was another group working on their own version of it and mine reeeeally had to beat theirs to be considered a success, and for my client to be consi
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by rdiddly 6y ago
The fruit's hilarious because if you're a contractor the fruit's not free. It's forbidden fruit.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Props to the Mod Squad. What they're doing is working. An army of bots couldn't do it better. Never underestimate the power of anthropogenic cognitive input, a.k.a. people thinking about stuff.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Is dang out of bed yet? All the flagging going on is childish.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Since we're all naming our favorite metaphors, I guess I'll name mine: It's the ol' Dull Axe analogy. There are a lot of variations and even little fables/stories around it, but the gist of it is, don't be the
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by rdiddly 6y ago
"Critics call the surcharge a blatant attempt at redistribution of wealth..." Um, yes? "Critics call John Travolta 'blatantly an actor, playing parts in movies.'"
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by rdiddly 6y ago
My usual approach is to look for an abstract. If I see one, that means I've accidentally clicked a link to a scientific paper, and can proceed to close the tab. (Hopefully you can take that as the satire it is...)
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Too bad for those of us who weren't gonna say that stuff and just end up wondering forever why you were rude.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
There was a pretty lively discussion of this issue yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24926214 ...specifically under what is currently the top comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24927
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by rdiddly 6y ago
It's also possible that the chuckler thought the guy was joking. Not as crazy as it sounds - people joke about being tired/sleep-deprived, unmotivated, and (more to the point) various negative emotional states all the time in a bu
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Is it just me or does it seem like he could've avoided it by answering their emails? You gotta keep up with your emails.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Yep, visually ̶s̶h̶i̶t̶t̶y undistracting, lightning fast, available everywhere and dead simple. Want hierarchy? Make folders. Want to cut across the hierarchy? Make links. Want to search? Use a search tool. (You can even use grep now in a W
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by rdiddly 6y ago
median my friend

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