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4ndrewl

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    Comment #49211582

    They know what they're doing. The next administration will give them 1.2bn to start deploying offshore wind. Money for nothing!

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    Comment #49145105

    (b Box[T]) Map[U any](f func(T) U) Box[U] _is_ for the Arts and Humanities. Unless you're writing assembler in vim you're not STEM.

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    Comment #49142507

    It's not nerdism, it's just a general infantilism. It suits anyone with power as the plebs now don't have the ability to reason about policy when they're infinitely doom-scrolling …

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    Comment #49141803

    Isn't this just VHS v Betamax again?

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    Comment #49119545

    Tell me you weren't around during the dot com boom without etc, etc. The benefit is neither here nor there - it's whether the borrowed money will ever be repaid on the lenders' ter…

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    Comment #49107006

    First commit was only one month ago, so it's sure gained some traction...

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    Comment #49089399

    It's not really a counterpoint when it's addressed in the article. "The biggest pushback I hear from writers is: “But my website doesn’t have an audience! Substack does.” But you d…

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    Comment #49073101

    Just sociopaths doing sociopath things. Bugger civilization.

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    Comment #49040879

    Is it too late to pivot to Blockchain? https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/21/long-island-iced-tea-micro-c...

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    Comment #49011235

    So? Their business model requires building on the labor of others for free. Isn't that how it works?

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    Comment #48996746

    Missing all of the "moorish" forts in Andalusia...

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    Comment #48969759

    Peak HN comment. Barely anyone knows what a "domain" is, no-one knows what DNS is. Very few people would even know what questions to ask AI.

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    Comment #48969720

    For the vast majority of human existence 'dupe culture' was the norm. So far this is just a tiny 200 year abberation.

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    Comment #48959455

    The invisible hand of the market will rectify this of course. Nothing to see here.

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    Comment #48913545

    It's curious the number of people here who can't link these two things.

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    Comment #48905399

    New here? This is the best place to find Dunning Kruger in the wild!

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    Comment #48864600

    Code is a liability, not an asset.

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    Comment #48864581

    I guess the (war?) elephant in the room is that written history as something that attempts to record a somewht balanced, comprehensive account of an event is a modern, western, ano…

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    Comment #48863182

    Invisibility is in the eye of the (un?)beholder. I've used vim for decades. Tried using Sublime about 10? years ago. It just got in the way.

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    Comment #48860707

    It's more aligned with Baudrillard's concept of Hyperreality, than that I think.

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    Comment #48858644

    Won't somebody think of the poor people's kids?! Seriously though, it's great they're going to donate all this compute & tokens to the poor (who by definition can't afford to pay f…

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    Comment #48856851

    And that is the correct response to tedious contrarinism. Thank you!

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    Comment #48804322

    I've tried building one of these and the answer is - it's difficult. There is a message queue that you can use to identify the last reported location of a train. Depending on the l…

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    Comment #48712546

    Back in the day we'd use chroot to achieve something similar https://linux.die.net/man/1/chroot

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    Comment #48610305

    Some context - Birmingham Mail is one of dozens of clickbait-driven publications owned by Reach plc. They're not a high quality source of news - they've more than decimated their j…