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by tomhow 7mo ago
You've both been here long enough to know that this kind of sniping should be avoided here.
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by tomhow 7mo ago
You've both been here long enough to know that this kind of sniping should be avoided here.
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Done, thanks!
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47412569 .
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Please don't fulminate on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tomhow 7mo ago
> Conservatives, I assumes this means American modern conservatives, dislike this because they make French postmodernists from the 70s look like evidence based scientists Please don't engage in political battle or post flamebait on
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by tomhow 7mo ago
> This is why the left/progressive crowd is so disliked by the conservatives - they phrase any argument from an inherent view point that they assume is self-evident. Please don't engage in political battle or post flamebait on
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by tomhow 7mo ago
The guidelines don’t get disregarded just because the topic is important to you. People have been trying that trick since the beginning. The guidelines are only worth having if they enable us to discuss difficult topics without burning this
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Please don't post snark like this here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Please don't post snarky comments like this on HN. We're here for curious conversation. If you don't fully understand someone's comment, politely ask them to clarify. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguid
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by tomhow 7mo ago
> You're lacking all the brain cells. You can't comment like this on Hacker News, no matter what you're replying to. Please take a moment to read the guidelines and make an effort to observe them in future. https:/&#
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Fixed, thanks!
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by tomhow 7mo ago
> The same reason your inane question is on HN. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." https:/&#x
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Mainstream world news has a place on HN if it contains "significant new information", and as much as this site is primarily for curious conversation and gratifying intellectual curiosity, we don't want to pretend that horrifi
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by tomhow 7mo ago
What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic (1991) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23665529 - June 2020 (85 comments) What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Ar
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Done, thanks!
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Tell HN isn't for “telling” people how to interpret a philosophical concept and inciting an ideological battle. Ideological battle is specifically against the HN guidelines. Please don't post like this here. https://new
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by tomhow 7mo ago
> Ahh yes. This is a hallmark of a low quality comment on HN, as is the snarkily dismissive tone of this whole comment. It's also specifically against the HN guidelines to attack the weakest-possible interpretation of what someone s
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by tomhow 7mo ago
> Edit 2: @Dang - Flagging is not meant to be used as a downvote. Sure, but complaining about downvotes is against the guidelines, and @replies are not a way to get moderator attention. The way to get moderator attention (including askin
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Ok thanks, we've repointed the URL to the GitHub page.
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Please don't reply to a bad comment with another bad comment. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Sure, but we’re trying to have curious conversation here, whereas this is the kind of dismissive, even curmudgeonly comment we're hoping to avoid. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Previously... IMG_0416 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42102506 - Nov 2024 (324 comments)
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Yep, totally understand. It takes a lot of trial and error to know all the ways of HN.
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by tomhow 8mo ago
As much as we try to reward the first person to submit the story, we also have to give credit to the person who submits the best URL and the best version of the story. It looks like your submission was killed due to being an archive.is link
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Aha, OK. I see what's going on. For reasons to do with a yak-shaving process that was required for our HN moderation software to work, I use Chromium, and it seems that requests from Chromium user-agents are blocked on that server, per
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by tomhow 8mo ago
The content is inaccessible and I can't find any cached copy, so I'm burying this for now. Will restore if/when there's an accessible source.
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by tomhow 8mo ago
Having been reading generated comments almost daily for over three years now, I have a pretty good sense of it. There's a bunch of signals: how new the account is; how the comments look visually (the capitalization and layout of the pa

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