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by tclancy 11mo ago
Yeah, I remember reading an issue of Planetary from about (GOD HELP US!) two decades ago where the plot involved baddies who had invaded a fictional universe. In the time since then, I went from thinking "What a crazy idea for a plot&q
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by tclancy 11mo ago
This is nice and all, but I want to revisit I, II and III! Edit: Ask, and ye shall receive https://archive.org/details/ultima-1-gfx
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by tclancy 11mo ago
As an old, I feel for the author. Her bio suggests she is or was sympathetic to the working class, but she done got old and moved to Silicon Valley so I wonder. “The Ford CEO's grandfather was one of the company's early employees,
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by tclancy 11mo ago
Not sure why this is downvoted. It doesn’t even qualify as a rounding error. There are individuals that spend more than this sending other peoples kids to college.
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by tclancy 11mo ago
I feel like your username really brings something extra to the party. Now go home.
936.
by tclancy 1y ago
You’re gonna need a bigger boat.
937.
by tclancy 1y ago
That doesn't undermine their point though.
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by tclancy 1y ago
Oh wow, thanks for that, makes things even easier than “Find app and ctrl click”.
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by tclancy 1y ago
You’re totally right!
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by tclancy 1y ago
I was hoping this was going to be advice for being a good citizen of the ‘net, but this week seems to be Brought to You by Tiger Beetle, so here we are.
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by tclancy 1y ago
> clicks in to read what others thought > _that_ comment somehow has floated to the top and cannot be closed or hidden with ESC > ⌘+w
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by tclancy 1y ago
For those interested in how the river came to be a person, I highly recommend Robert McFarlane's latest book, "Is a River Alive?". https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218569826-is-a-river-ali...
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by tclancy 1y ago
Warn him before you do. Don’t want to scare him.
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by tclancy 1y ago
I’ll finally accept I’ve been replaced when they start leaving #TODO notes to themselves that never get fixed.
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by tclancy 1y ago
Is that true? Feels like you are begging a huge question and also assuming everyone has to exist in a capitalist society forever.
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by tclancy 1y ago
Next thing you know, people want to not work on weekends!
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by tclancy 1y ago
If you’re here to kink shame, I think you should leave.
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by tclancy 1y ago
Yes. It’s called “being held to a higher standard”. In the past, we kinda thought we were sending out best and brightest to enforce our laws. The good news is a much larger swath of the country knows better now.
949.
by tclancy 1y ago
Your 80s homage makes me think of Opus assaulting mimes with an olive loaf.
950.
by tclancy 1y ago
They apparently ate lunch in the middle. You’ll never guess what they had.
951.
by tclancy 1y ago
Because so much nuance can be lost in writing, especially if both parties are working in a second language. There is a lot of value in actually talking to someone, especially in a fraught situation like this. Hearing the other person expres
952.
by tclancy 1y ago
Because they’re meeting the patients at their own level. Plus while using PG for everything is a currently popular meme on HN (and I am all for it), it’s not something you see all that often. An app server, a database and a cache is a prett
953.
by tclancy 1y ago
"You take a chance getting up in the morning, crossing the street, or sticking your face in a fan." - Shirley Jackson
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by tclancy 1y ago
I know it makes me an old and I am biased because one of the systems in my career I am most proud of I designed around XSLT transformations, but this is some real bullshit and a clear case why a private company should not be the de facto ar
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by tclancy 1y ago
I get your skepticism and I know nothing about the field, but if the round thing in the press release picture isn’t designed to fit in a wheel, I’m confused. https://yasa.com/news/yasa-smashes-own-unofficial-power-dens.
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by tclancy 1y ago
> since people like the OP can't understand them and we never have people try to bully us Yes well, glad to hear there’s no one bullying people there!
957.
by tclancy 1y ago
Sounds like someone never read Sun Tzu. (Not really, I just know somewhere out there is a LinkedInLunatic who has a Business Philosophy based on being hungover.)
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by tclancy 1y ago
This is some fine astroturfing. They don’t exist anymore because they were commie-funded and also they exist and are cheering for Hamas to kill Israelis. Yes, peace movements are famous for that.
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by tclancy 1y ago
The speed thing can’t be overstated. At first I thought it wasn’t actually running for some things.
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by tclancy 1y ago
And electricity and running water and oh the inconvenience. How is this worse than getting a script file that expects you to install modules?

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