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by zoky 3y ago
I’ve always wanted to bring some scuba equipment and dive into the one-foot-deep lake when it’s there, just so I could tell everyone that my deepest dive was 282 feet below sea level.
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by zoky 3y ago
"The Oxford, Comma, and the Internet (2013)"
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by zoky 3y ago
Can someone explain to me why “Show HN” and “Ask HN” posts are always, always in hard-to-read light gray? Is there some cabal that automatically downvotes such posts? Is there something intrinsic to The Algorithm that penalizes such pos
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by zoky 3y ago
> I'm a bit of an odd duck I guess it’s nice that you believe that, but the truth of the matter is that you are about as close to traditional right-wing mainstream Christianity as it’s possible to conceivably get. Like, if I were
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by zoky 3y ago
You're completely missing the point. Unfortunately, it seems you lack the capability to see the point—to wit, you're not special. So, as the Lord commanded us in Isaiah 1:16 — I wash my hands of thee.
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by zoky 3y ago
> Read the Bible. Specifically Revelation, 1/2 Thessalonians, and Daniel. If you haven't before, you'd be surprised how much of what's taking place now is prophesied. …said every doomsday preacher since the Bible wa
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by zoky 3y ago
Well, I guess one way of looking at it is would you rather have the guy who truthfully told you that it was okay to steal $1 from the register, or the guy who lied about saying any amount was unacceptable?
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by zoky 3y ago
> The solution to their "attribution" problem was found by directors a long time ago when they didn't want their names on a film: it's directed by "Alan Smithee." That’s not exactly how that works. A direc
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by zoky 3y ago
https://twitter.com/spacetwinks/status/965428890830344193
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by zoky 3y ago
I tried this once and ended up dying of dysentery…
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by zoky 3y ago
Is it not true, though? Is there some other language that has a list of banned (commonly used) functions[0] in a major project? [0] https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/banned.h
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by zoky 3y ago
To be fair, C is basically one giant footgun…
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by zoky 3y ago
Why do you think tagging is a thing? It’s a way for gangs to mark their turf, plain and simple. Tagging means gang activity, which means violent crime. And your assertion about the LA crime rate shrinking for years is incorrect: https:&#x2
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by zoky 3y ago
It's really weird that Hacker News has become so full of Windows apologists in the last few years. It wasn't all that long ago that Slashdot was depicting Bill Gates as the Borg. Where did we go wrong?
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by zoky 3y ago
Have you ever been mugged? You ever been put in a situation where you feared for your life? If not, climb out of your comfortable ivory tower armchair and recognize that there are bad people in this society, and you are doing nothing but en
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by zoky 3y ago
Not sure what to tell you. Only a matter of time, I guess. I once came within seconds of having to pull a knife to protect myself in that area at 2:00 AM. I can tell you, it is NOT safe.
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by zoky 3y ago
I mean, I believe you, because obviously people don’t care enough about petty crime that LAPD doesn’t do crap about it (and yes, I admit that’s a cheap target, I really mean the LA City Council and more broadly, the LA County Board of Super
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by zoky 3y ago
Yeah, says someone who doesn't live in Los Angeles. The only character this kind of crap adds is the kind of shady character that makes me not want to walk around Downtown at night. LA has been getting worse and worse. The Westside has
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by zoky 3y ago
I once wrote a PL/pgSQL function to return a 1x1 BMP file given arbitrary R, G, and B values, to display a background color for FileMaker records. Still use it to this day as a matter of fact.
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by zoky 3y ago
> it doesn't seem sensible to claim it's superior to other platforms when you don't know about them. I didn’t, I just said I probably couldn’t do so with Windows. If you feel comfortable with ZoneAlarm, then great, but I p
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by zoky 3y ago
Even assuming that blocking DNS were sufficient to stop spyware (it's not), how exactly am I going to block DNS for every single application that may or may not phone home without my knowledge, including applications that are hardcoded
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by zoky 3y ago
Now more than ever, Little Snitch comes to the rescue. Cloud-based AI is completely neutered if the cloud is inaccessible. Honestly, the biggest reason to use a Mac over anything else may well be Little Snitch. I could probably configure
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by zoky 3y ago
Because it’s not that interesting. Bad guy decides being bad is boring, and starts being good? Like, okay, but… why?
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by zoky 3y ago
I’m gonna hard disagree with you here. Having read the novel and seen the movie, Kubrick was 100% right to leave the last chapter out. With the last chapter intact, the story is no longer about Alex. It’s about some hypothetical futuristic
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by zoky 3y ago
Yeah, I laughed when I saw the location as Rolling Hills Estates; while quite a few RHE residents could probably afford this airplane, there’s not a chance in hell that you’d actually be able to get it anywhere near there. The nearest airpo
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by zoky 3y ago
If your dodecahedron were essentially your “resume”, you’d go out of your way to keep it safe from thieves. Besides, stealing one wouldn’t do you much good, as you’d be discovered as a fraud pretty quickly based on the quality of your work.
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by zoky 3y ago
Wow, he died in pretty much the same way as Owen Hart…
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by zoky 3y ago
That would require the Canadian government to admit they have a racism problem, which they steadfastly refuse to do.
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by zoky 3y ago
Admit it, you just did it because the name is perfect.
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by zoky 3y ago
Well to be fair that’s literally just water…

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