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I find it refreshing when someone steps downward for perspective (if perhaps also necessity), having done so myself in the past.

Turnstile fails spectacularly for me using the materialistic app to read HN articles. Not sure yet why.

There is only one "now", is there not? All else is perception of speed.

I was shocked when the local auto zone or equivalent looked up my car by plate and knew stuff I'd have objected to.

Similar experience. I bought a Kia last month. The salesman was insistent that his "delivery checklist" needed to be complete or he'd be in trouble with his manager. It included si…

> there is still room for my ilk in the tech world. There is. I'm trying to hire more of it as we speak.

I've spent many years becoming quite fluent in bash. It's not trivial. But all objections here are surmountable if not outright features. Python is the right tool for many jobs. Bu…

Org is just a shorthand as far as I know. Emacs Org-Mode works with files typically ending in ".org". I prefer to avoid the confusion by saying "Org-Mode" and "Org-Mode files" full…

A fix is indeed a change, even if minor. To be fair, my own distaste for clickbait is palpable here. But I think I can suspend it in light of the importance of this article's bigge…

I find that GV is also excellent at inbound robocall and spam rejection, FWIW.

Even an incomplete blacklist might be helpful, just in the interest of keeping perfect from being the enemy of good.

Ring customer here. I recently shared a video of crime on my property using the neighborhoods feature. I also downloaded the video to my phone, in order to email a copy of it to co…

By obscuring the real destination, it's also terrible for security.

Is there a way to exclude results that don't actually contain all of the search terms? For example, results for +chicken +neutrino should not include this [1] because the word chic…

I suspect this will continue until any such service can be successfully marketed on the actual merit of the actual service provided, without the hype (or even the mention) that it'…

In this case at least, we can thank the media for the acquittal -- if you count the magazine among the media. It's a little less dramatic than it might have been, since his artwork…

For self-hosters like me, I like and recommend Gitea [1] (based on gog). Same workflow as GitHub, but in your own hands. You can open it up to the masses or keep it close to the ve…

People seem to have much greater fear of spectacular and bizarre deaths than of considerably more likely but relatively mundane deaths.

Right. Given their size, I'm not sure how painful this amount would be to the offender. Too low, and it's just a cost of doing business. A percentage penalty (of nationwide if not …

Robert Reich has become a very compelling and rational voice on these issues, making the problems and their causes much easier to understand. I strongly recommend his documentary a…

No offense intended. By now your actual main point has been addressed, so I'll simply apologize for mistaking what your point was really about.

The randomness of the website is irrelevant to the requirement, at least as I understand it.

Let's consider the social contracts that intellectual property protections exist to fulfill in the first place. For trademarks, for me at least, that seems to center on preventing …

"Worse, the destination would say '250 OK' to every e-mail I sent them so I had no way of knowing that the messages had been sent to the big bitbucket in the sky. I got annoyed" Th…

Scrappy founder here. Telegram crushes it for low latency, instantly synched desktop/mobile flexibility, easy topic channels and groups, and trivial bot API. I've not seen anything…