virgil_disgr4ce

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by virgil_disgr4ce 3mo ago
The Freakonomics podcast did a series on rats and their relationship to cities and humans and talked about Alberta's approach—it was really fascinating, I'd recommend it: https://freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/s
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by virgil_disgr4ce 4mo ago
> Except you can check the differences easily Huh? No you can't. Without regulation or oversight, companies will simply lie about what's in their product. The libertarian vision really handwaves the practical reality of "I
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by virgil_disgr4ce 4mo ago
+1 for Purelymail. Most things that appear to be too good to be true are not true. Purelymail is the real deal.
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by virgil_disgr4ce 4mo ago
> Actually, I don't think it's a good idea to bring your politics into a an enclosed pace like this Ah yes, the classic "your politics," but of course the person having this opinion's politics are perfectly fine,
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by virgil_disgr4ce 4mo ago
> Things which look effective on the surface, but has real UX problems in the underneath, are getting prioritised because someone in the room can talk better and enrol a leader to align with the idea This has always existed. The ability
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by virgil_disgr4ce 4mo ago
> After that I worked with vendors to get it in ecommerce storefronts ASAP to not let the hype die out Give yourself credit for this move, because it might seem obvious to you, but I suspect a lot of people wouldn't have bothered! I
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by virgil_disgr4ce 4mo ago
> “are you ready to be bad at this for a long time?” Oh, I love this so much. It communicates so many important things in one go. My kids must be absolutely sick of me saying in a dozen different ways "you just have to do it a lot.&
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by virgil_disgr4ce 4mo ago
Well... "hobby electronics" is extraordinarily broad :) It depends massively on what kind of DX you want. If you want to work with a 'regular' operating system, you're looking more in the RPi direction. If you want
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Show HN: I made a vi-like modal keyboard plugin for Figma
2 points by virgil_disgr4ce 4mo ago|0 comments
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The Universe is a Sheet of Paper (and Some Sand)(t3db0t.substack.com)
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Slow Code, a monthly meetup to practice coding by hand(inventbuild.studio)
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by virgil_disgr4ce 4mo ago
> Nobody wants to pay for anything Congratulations, this might be the single most trivially-disprovable statement I've ever seen on this site
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by virgil_disgr4ce 4mo ago
This is so funny, as though wanting to boycott specific entities is some kind of absurd notion, and as though saying "Sure, what ELSE don't you like?" is some kind of proof that it's an absurdity
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Show HN: Slow Code, a monthly meetup to practice coding by hand
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by virgil_disgr4ce 4mo ago
From another comment, the author did ask the recipient, who also did not know the best way to ship the laptop
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by virgil_disgr4ce 4mo ago
I'm gonna echo the sibling comment here because you're conflating different things. The point is that all of these seemingly weird things that were sometimes failures were part of more or less elaborate plans, and most importantly
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by virgil_disgr4ce 4mo ago
Way back in something like 2002, I was in college. One day at my then-girlfriend’s apartment east of campus, she got a phone call. An old friend of hers was in town, so she told him to come over. I don’t know his name, but let’s call him J.
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by virgil_disgr4ce 4mo ago
> If I can do it on iOS then it's must be 10x easier on macOS. I strongly doubt this. I suspect it's the exact opposite situation. But I'd like to hear from someone who knows.
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by virgil_disgr4ce 4mo ago
> Archaeologists have recovered more than 1,500 of these historic hexes that were secretly directed at rivals If only we had the ancient greco-roman newspapers archived so we could check and see if any of the hexes worked
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by virgil_disgr4ce 4mo ago
> too irresponsible and immature what, the university using default passwords on freaking cameras? agreed!
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by virgil_disgr4ce 4mo ago
yes, but that's future us's problem
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by virgil_disgr4ce 4mo ago
* gigamesh
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by virgil_disgr4ce 5mo ago
> So LLMs are good enough to make personal software, but not good enough to maintain them? I mean... yes? Maintaining software means looking at issues opened on github, keeping your own list of feature requests and bug fixes, deciding if
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by virgil_disgr4ce 5mo ago
> it _should_ force some hardware advancements I'm very curious what kind of hardware advancements you're imagining. Because we're already kind of near a physical wall regarding heat dissipation on phones. I mean hey, mayb
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by virgil_disgr4ce 5mo ago
it detunes guitars?
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by virgil_disgr4ce 5mo ago
heh, a subacoustic G#?
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by virgil_disgr4ce 5mo ago
Is there a framework—any framework, however hypothetical—that actually makes police accountable and subject to the laws they supposedly enforce?
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by virgil_disgr4ce 5mo ago
I concur that the ChatGPT voice mode is excellent. I can't even think of anything to knock it for other than for whatever reason it never 'hears' my kids, but that's probably because it's not intended to be used in
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by virgil_disgr4ce 6mo ago
This is one of the least convincing homepages I've ever seen. It doesn't help that there are no x margins at the largest media query. In fact nothing about this page encourages me to spend more than one second looking at it.
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by virgil_disgr4ce 6mo ago
Making the user completely inured to its message is not doing its job

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