whoooooo123

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   by whoooooo123 4y ago

   This is why, in the UK system, you're only allowed to apply to five or fewer universities in the same academic cycle. (It's possible to enforce this because all applications go through the same centralised system.) You're als
2. 62.▲
   by whoooooo123 4y ago

   This is an interesting video about how hard it is to effectively animate just one small aspect of human motion: walking through a door: https://youtu.be/AYEWsLdLmcc
3. 63.▲
   by whoooooo123 4y ago

   Can't read this site on mobile because the "dismiss" button on the stupid email capture popup is hidden behind the fixed navbar so I can't click it. Why do designers do this?
4. 64.▲
   by whoooooo123 4y ago

   https://is-truss-still-pm.uk/
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   by whoooooo123 4y ago

   Nor when May took over from Cameron, when Major took over from Thatcher, when Callaghan took over from Wilson, when Home took over from MacMillan, when Churchill took over from Chamberlain or when Chamberlain took over from Baldwin. It&#x27
6. 66.▲
   by whoooooo123 4y ago

   I'd say it's 1688: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution
7. 67.▲
   by whoooooo123 4y ago

   > Front-bench party members now routinely and openly using words like 'scum' and 'detest' to talk about their colleagues on the other side. No, only one front-bench political party routinely refers to the other as &qu
8. 68.▲
   by whoooooo123 4y ago

   No-one wants elected officials running the government? Then why do we elect them?
9. 69.▲
   by whoooooo123 4y ago

   Then how do you distinguish between "long" and "two shorts"?
10. 70.▲
    by whoooooo123 4y ago

    I think you're missing a "not"
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    by whoooooo123 4y ago

    Also, if I want to know how good someone is at playing a musical instrument, I can usually get a good idea from just a few minutes or even seconds of hearing them play. There's no similarly fast way to judge how well someone will perfo
12. 72.▲
    by whoooooo123 4y ago

    Ask James Damore how well that went for him.
13. 73.▲
    by whoooooo123 4y ago

    4) used their free time to burn cities down
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    by whoooooo123 4y ago

    Is that a JS-free Wikipedia? Looks fantastic; thanks for sharing. While we're on the subject, I'm a fan of Nitter[0] as a JS-free Twitter UI. Can anyone recommend any other JS-free frontends to popular apps? [0] nitter.net, and it
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    by whoooooo123 4y ago

    Is that your speculation or has that actually been confirmed somewhere?
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    by whoooooo123 4y ago

    Where do you work? Are you hiring? (I am an Elixir dev)
17. 77.▲
    by whoooooo123 4y ago

    If you can't tell the difference, then the AI scriptwriter just passed a Turing test.
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    by whoooooo123 4y ago

    Maybe there's more training data available for Rogan. The guy pumps out hundreds of hours of content a year in which he's recorded discussing every topic under the sun. I can't imagine there's a similar quantity of recor
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    by whoooooo123 4y ago

    I had to look it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsomal_ethanol_oxidizing_s...
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    by whoooooo123 4y ago

    The war is "between" Russia and Ukraine but the US is funding and arming Ukraine because the US wants to hurt Russia. How is that not the dictionary definition of a "proxy war"? Swap the US and Russia and replace "U
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    by whoooooo123 4y ago

    This is why I read HN: someone starts a discussion about a high-profile tech company, and gets a thoughtful reply from none other than the CEO. Thanks for taking the time.
22. 82.▲
    by whoooooo123 4y ago

    Oh, it's working now. For some reason the page wasn't displaying anything when I tried earlier :shrug_emoji:
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    by whoooooo123 4y ago

    I don't understand. What am I supposed to be seeing? This link just takes me to an empty screen.
24. 84.▲
    by whoooooo123 4y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33131243
25. 85.▲
    by whoooooo123 4y ago

    I stand corrected.
26. 86.▲
    by whoooooo123 4y ago

    One of the many reasons why I switched from GMail to Fastmail.
27. 87.▲
    by whoooooo123 4y ago

    Your first link doesn't work.
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    by whoooooo123 4y ago

    Biden has been in politics for 52 years. Has he ever, at any point in his long political career, shown any concern whatsoever for the plight of non-violent minor drug offenders until five minutes ago when it became politically expedient for
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    by whoooooo123 4y ago

    Fun fact: in some countries it's illegal for citizens to take illegal drugs even if they're abroad in a place where it's legal. E.g. if a Korean smokes weed during a visit to Amsterdam, they can be prosecuted for it upon retu
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    by whoooooo123 4y ago

    > World War II started... when Hitler invaded Poland. The Chinese might disagree.