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by xxr 2y ago
I love that tvtropes has the same effect on me that snopes did in 1998
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by xxr 2y ago
How did you figure out what was going on?
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by xxr 2y ago
Really cool. What’s with the wipe effect on the images?
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by xxr 2y ago
Y’know, I’m inclined to agree here, but I don’t think it was always this way. Over the last few years I’ve been feeling really fatigued, I suppose, by April Fool’s Day, and I think feeling this way has coincided with the rise of fake everyt
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by xxr 2y ago
A few months ago, I had to use street parking in Long Beach, California. They no longer had individual meters along this particular street, but rather one parking sticker machine. The parking sticker machine was broken, so I had to download
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by xxr 2y ago
See also: music. I often hear people express how much better music in the past was than the music of today usually to compare Led Zeppelin to Ice Spice[0] or whatever. They don't take into account the survivorship bias that the music w
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by xxr 2y ago
I just mean the fluffy thought leader/influencer junk that doesn't go much deeper than the obvious
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by xxr 2y ago
Yeah, it sounds like the author is referring to the “thoughtlord” strain that evolved out of self-help over the last decade or so.
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by xxr 2y ago
This one lets you play the bass on the left hand of a keyboard and the square waves (should really be PWM) on the right hand: https://aframe.itch.io/famikondo
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by xxr 2y ago
You're welcome--this was on the HN front page earlier this week, so my taste here is crowdsourced.
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by xxr 2y ago
"At this point, we have to accept that younger generations—precisely the people who have been raised on quantified audience feedback for their every creative gesture—have an unrecognizable conception of authenticity."[0] [0] https
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by xxr 2y ago
https://youtu.be/0T7huuYNEBA
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by xxr 2y ago
“Grafana Cloud” sounds a little limiting in the context of a weather app, no?
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by xxr 2y ago
How do you figure “blue and yellow” instead of “blue and red and green” or “magenta and green” or “red and cyan”?
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by xxr 2y ago
First pull was a surreptitiously recorded conversation that sounds like it was being held as blackmail.
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by xxr 2y ago
Plus Wikipedia offers arguing about widgets with other widget enthusiasts/detractors as a first-class feature via the Talk page.
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by xxr 2y ago
Cooks love the sense of pride and accomplishment they feel when they unlock new modes and temperatures, and they really go nuts over learning about exciting new products and services by the appliance’s partners in a way that is uniquely tar
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by xxr 2y ago
I was obsessed with Richard Scarry’s intricate drawings as a very small child (which led into devouring all the cutaway books of all sorts of machines as a slightly older child), but I didn’t pick up on the goldbug thing until someone point
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by xxr 2y ago
I would love to hear more of these from your doc
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by xxr 2y ago
I believe most timeshare owners are contractually bound only to sell to individuals, not to LLCs or some other legal entity for this exact purpose.
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by xxr 2y ago
>It interests me that demand is increasing I admire your embrace of the “curiosity, not disparagement” principle.
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by xxr 2y ago
This is another great introduction to the piece that provides an economic background to the subject: https://youtu.be/hGxIS6Vj0cM . In a way it’s similar to a lot of the WPA posters in the US or socialist realist labor poste
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by xxr 2y ago
My wife is a critical care nurse, and she used to work at a hospital in an area with a lot of tech workers about five years ago. She saw a lot of heart attacks in men in their late thirties and early forties that she rarely saw elsewhere.
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by xxr 2y ago
Bookmarked and going in the webring
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by xxr 2y ago
“Midnight Sun” at the end of Black Sails always gets me
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by xxr 2y ago
Somewhat related, a few years ago I noticed that an image with gaussian blur applied to it takes up significantly less space in JPEG than does the original image. I suppose it works out because the blur diffuses information throughout a par
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by xxr 2y ago
> We certainly want the case to be dismissed, but were it to go to discovery, it is possible we would discover things that merit an additional blog post. Seems like either her team is confident that Harvard will settle before discovery o
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by xxr 2y ago
Yeah, I think this is one of those things where there can be pretty wild deviation from the mean. One of my uncles quit a 30-year smoking habit about 10 years ago, and the only reason he waited so long was because he had heard for decades h
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by xxr 2y ago
This is really helpful advice—thanks for sharing it.
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by xxr 3y ago
That’s what I felt, and the points about extremely preoccupied execs and sudden interest in buttoning down security were big components of our lead-up to series A.

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