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by russellbeattie 9mo ago
There are tons of avid Trump supporting MAGA Republicans on HN. Over the last decade, they've been happy to jump into threads whenever possible to spout their opinions. There are most likely thousands of people here who voted for Trump
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by russellbeattie 9mo ago
That whole "good posture" thing is future physical problems waiting to happen. For 25 years, I've always put my feet up on the corner of my desk (to the left), set the seat as high as possible (or adjust the desk lower) and l
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by russellbeattie 9mo ago
Random geek thing: Apple has used a couple different versions of its iconic "hello" image originally drawn by Susan Kare. The first one starts with an "h" that has a loop at the top, the second doesn't. If you do an
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by russellbeattie 9mo ago
Sorry for the long post, but it may be relevant to you. I would share my personal website which I owned for 25+ years, but AWS deregistered it because of $36. In case you use AWS as a registrar, be warned: If your account is "closed&qu
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by russellbeattie 9mo ago
Scott Adams is yet another example of the need to separate a person's work from their qualities as a person. It's just something we have to accept: Bad people can make great things. An example that I like (that doesn't includ
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by russellbeattie 9mo ago
I listen to a lot of Audiobooks and some authors are really, really not suited to read their own works of fiction. Some are definitive, however. If you haven't heard Douglas Adams read all his books [1], you're definitely missing
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by russellbeattie 9mo ago
Ha! I watched it for a little while on 2x and it was very cool. Then Frodo hit the river and dives in, swimming across with perfect freestyle form like Michael Phelps! I literally guffawed and thought, "Well, that's one good way o
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by russellbeattie 10mo ago
So many people in the comments arguing as if the U.S. government made a rational decision based on specified goals and policies. Trump is a pathological narcissist and sociopath. He admires dictators like Putin and wanted to emulate his inv
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by russellbeattie 10mo ago
When I was around 10yo in the early 1980s in New England, I loved to watch the Computer Chronicles - which usually was shown late at night for some reason. It's hard to describe now how awestruck I was at everything the show covered. I
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by russellbeattie 10mo ago
There seems to be a point in every large tech company's lifecycle where they decide they can replace innovation with businesses deals. Someone with no real technological vision takes the helm, and they end up listening to MBAs instead
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by russellbeattie 10mo ago
We Californians are still a few hours away from Christmas, but hope you people living in the future are having a merry holiday!
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by russellbeattie 10mo ago
Here's a really big one: TREE(3).
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by russellbeattie 10mo ago
Linus van Pelt has entered the chat. Fun tidbit: The Charlie Brown Christmas animators had Linus drop his security blanket when he said, "fear not". (I'm an atheist, but as an official GenXer™, I could almost recite this sp
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by russellbeattie 10mo ago
There's a third option: Ambivalence. Any major documents/files have been removed all together. Then the rest was farmed out to anyone they could find with basic instructions to redact anything embarrassing. Since there's abso
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by russellbeattie 10mo ago
> "Software architect Grady Booch is the Chief Scientist for Software Engineering at IBM Research Almaden and a trustee of the Computer History Museum. He offers the following observations about the Photoshop source code." OM
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by russellbeattie 10mo ago
HN being down makes you start wondering about the differences between routine, addiction, compulsion, and habit.
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by russellbeattie 11mo ago
I want to preface this by noting that as an adult, I totally understand the intent behind LOGO, its use as an educational tool, and understand its historic place in computer history. But as a pre-teen kid in the early 80s? I hated LOGO! I
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by russellbeattie 11mo ago
> "foreigners here who are net-costs to taxpayers"? This is a straight up falsehood, using any measure you'd like. Why do regressives insist on just making things up to justify their prejudices? The recent surge in immigra
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by russellbeattie 11mo ago
Housing costs? Nothing to do with immigrants. Crime rates? Nothing to do with immigrants. They commit less crimes than Americans. Healthcare costs? Nothing to do with immigrants. Don't believe lies about unauthorized immigrants getting
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by russellbeattie 11mo ago
You mean "natural" citizens. Naturalized is when one is not a citizen, but is made one. On that note, the administration has started the process of de-naturalizing immigrants, which is something I'd never thought I'd see
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by russellbeattie 11mo ago
What are you talking about? For all intents and purposes it is all innocents, and you know it. Arguing otherwise is just that - an argument, said just to try to "win" for your "side". You're advocating that we ass
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by russellbeattie 11mo ago
I'm not looking for a political angle, I'm straight up asking: Has the 70,000 people put in concentration camps and then deported made their lives demonstrably better and happier?
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by russellbeattie 11mo ago
I'm now completely torn! I always return carts just out of habit as a nice thing to do, but I totally see this as a legitimate reason not to return them! I never worked at a grocery, but I have worked at other jobs where there was that
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
> "Opinions on his coding style are divided, though general consensus seems to be that it's incomprehensible." I wholeheartedly concur with popular opinion. It's like writing a program in obfuscated code. Hmmm... hi
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
This shouldn't be a product, but a licensed patented technology like Dolby or CDMA, sold to OEMs and directly integrated into cameras and phones. It should be an industry standard system for guaranteeing authenticity by coordinating ha
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
It's easy to explain: They have no idea what's happening. Most people can't keep up with the firehose of news and don't really want to. This particular bit of unethical behavior is just one more bit of inconsequential
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
The moment of true enlightenment is when you finally decide to once and for all memorize all the arguments and their order for those command line utilities that you use at an interval that's just at the edge of your memory: xargs, find
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
Hmmm... If skills could create Skills, then evaluate the success of those generated Skills and updating as needed, in a loop, seems like an interesting thing to try. It could be like a form of code creation caching. (Or a Skynet in the maki
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
Until LLM models came along, I was convinced the first file format to gain sentience would be a PDF. It can contain vector drawings, fonts, bitmap images, formatting, hypertext, plain text, rasterization hints (for everything from watch dis
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
The reason Preview works so well is because deep inside Apple's Quartz libraries used to render, rasterize and composite graphics such as windows, docs and images is a version of "Display PDF". Basically, PDF is a native macO

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