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Apocryphon

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About Apocryphon

on HN, but not of it

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    Comment #49217949

    One would think the true efficiency gains are better quality cars that last longer and require less replacement

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    Comment #49205654

    People like to maximize time they see their families

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    Comment #49201940

    Tech workers have the IEEE, and the ACM. We need an IEEE/ACM with teeth.

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    Comment #49201911

    Without film industry unions, might the offshoring have been undertaken even earlier?

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    Comment #49201704

    For all of the high compensation tech workers can make in specific regions, at specific firms, how is it that they lack the leverage to demand something as basic as remote work, or…

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    Comment #49201660

    Within the last four years?

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    Comment #49201628

    ZIRP era perspective

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    Comment #49187514

    "probably in our lifetime" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jroQCyWwEgE

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    Comment #49186348

    Their lack of sovereignty is blocking the .eh TLD from being realized: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.eh

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    Comment #49186020

    Is it any different from Disney being criticized for filming Mulan (2020) in Xinjiang? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/disney-criticized-for-film...

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    Comment #49152338

    Okay, well I don't mean the sense of a perfect notebook that's pristine, so much one that is a panacea for one's knowledge-management needs. Like any productivity trend, it seemed …

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    Comment #49148661

    I think it’s less notebooks or typed notes, and more the issue of cargo cults built around frameworks and systems. Bullet journals are a handwritten PKM, aren’t they? And they were…

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    Comment #49135461

    From the comments: > I will concede that using LLMs in software development is a different category from fiction, insofar as the languages and APIs are much smaller and more tightl…

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    Comment #49113996

    What is the (unlabelled) left line even doing.

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    Comment #49113862

    Hey, worked for Richmond. https://www.nlc.org/resource/reimagining-public-safety-impac... https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/19/health/cash-for-criminals-ric...

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    Comment #49041245

    Perhaps it’s too much of a reoccurring gimmick but his videos are squarely in the “tech-aware consumer” user profile, not a pro developer or editor. It’s like how LGR does retrospe…

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    Comment #49014857

    You could marry your claim to an ideological framework upholding the Divine Right of Kings and traditionalist conservatism, causing it to live for centuries longer in the form of m…

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    Comment #49011285

    I recently watched a YouTube video from Answers in Progress where the creator made a site that does this using Hostinger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPw-gDw6Nxk https://toomuc…

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    Comment #48982854

    Do those school bureaucracies require parents of students to attend customer service calls that require multiple transfers over the better part of an hour?

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    Comment #48982770

    Why don't you ask it if there are similar personal stories to this happening in other countries?

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    Comment #48974452

    GNOME Web, technically, through WSL.

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    Comment #48958762

    I’ve used notepads as well for notebook but scratch purposes. Sometimes there’s stuff there worth keeping which I transfer over to a more permanent place. But a notepad, for whatev…

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    Comment #48948100

    A decade ago Uber seemed poised to be the big tech powerhouse. Maybe not a platform per se (certainly not an ecosystem as other companies had it) but a major provider of software f…