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Related question: what precisely does do? (I realize it acts like a typical terminal pager like `more` or `less`; I mean, what is the mechanism?) For example, look at https://nodej…

It's a shame they can't even acknowledge and fix bugs in their own software. I'd much rather they focus on their business. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65196498/nsrunningapp…

Conspiracy theory from an opposite point-of-view: killing off a bunch of elderly people with this experiment will save the NHS a fortune.

Great article. Now do “climate change”!

It's worth pointing out that the financial statements may be highly misleading. https://www.cato.org/blog/amtrak-guilty-securities-fraud

When I see an article on Hacker News about how macros might be dangerous to humans and other living things, I at least expect a comment from Paul Graham.

Which is why the headline is misleading. Should end "Tax us [and others like us and likely others not as well-situated, but not poor"]

They can make voluntary contributions to the U.S. Treasury in any amount they like. (So can you or I.)

Is the X at the end pronounced like the Greek chi so that it rhymes with blecchhh—like the Scottish 'ch' in words like 'loch' or German 'ach'?

Is anyone working on removing underscoring—by which I mean background music, not underlining—from video with dialogue?

Better than "No Net November".

The state endures until the emergence of "woke" drones who dedicate their time to signaling their moral superiority by decrying the colonialist nature of other community members, a…

I used to have the same problem. I solved it this way: 1. I set things up so I could trigger my "time-savior" with a few keystrokes. 2. At start, it would pause for a short, variab…

"M-x desktop-clear" ?

I thought it was a "Star Wars" thing.

Does anyone else feel this is a massive non-issue (just as it was before these rules were applied in 2015)? Have none of you visited an amusement park? Some guests pay for express …

Can someone explain what specifically triggered Google's nuclear response to Prof. Mehta?

Again: exactly my point. Most people care way more about "community" than about "truth". They are all-too-happy to throw out the Git baby with the crypto-SHA-1 bathwater so they ca…

Don't feel too bad. Pres. Clinton once used "flaunting" in that way in a televised address.

A generally reasonable guideline, but in this case, I am actually criticizing the tribalism that makes people rise to that bait. It similarly leads to the discussion of how "I can'…

Save myself from people proving my point? Why?

This, btw, is why we have e-cigarette bans. The fact that the generally high-IQ, paid-to-think-about-subtle-categorization community of software developers needs to be inoculated a…

The RMS Titanic?

Have you played "What's Your Porn Name?" You combine your first pet's name and your mother's maiden name...