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I’m glad you think highly of your poetic abilities, but I have no desire to engage in that pointless argument. Edit: and yes.. uh comment deleted as charged, since you had edited a…

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I’m amused that a number in this thread saw these observations as a “diss”... that’s more on you then me. I didn’t pass any value judgement on these differences, merely that they e…

I don’t think that is an indictment of the moderation system. You can’t replace a dead community with excellent moderation. Slashdot’s dead because it failed to produce worthwhile …

> The last time it hit, at a Chinese restaurant in SF, Not to not take it seriously, but isn’t there a lot more stuff in American Chinese food other than MSG? Like of the 1000s of …

> the language designs are so similar that I could just as well imagine a world where Python is the web development lingua franca, and Ruby has all the machine learning libraries. …

Old 78 records were produced with equipment from recording to cutting and pressing that is long since obsolete. Even if you overcome the challenges of dealing with laser equipment …

> This is the trouble with audio in general: people not only prefer different sound profiles but also perceive sound differently, which makes it difficult to get rips (at least in …

This is about C, not C++. Though I haven’t been there in years, I chuckle to think what would have happened if you made this mistake on that news group.

You have no evidence to back this claim up, because it’s not true.

Um.. no it wasn’t. Git was a complete trash fire on Windows when GitHub was founded for one. I started using git when I was working on embedded Linux professionally in 2005, witnes…

My guess, probably because they’re idiots. “ A lightweight, standard publish/subscribe mechanism should be identified; possibly something like MQTT (which would have the added bene…

I mean git is wildly popular because of GitHub, and probably that was something to do with it in the Rails community... a community that if anything is culturally the opposite of t…

Love that it was a “hacker” rather than a bored teenager or some casual idiot, or even a disgruntled former or current employee. Invoking the hacker term I guess is supposed to mak…

Have they really though? iOS has always shared the same underpinnings as OSX. Although much hyped with Big Sur, iOS features have dribbled into OSX since at least Lion (more than 1…

> railrodders are fun What is a railrodder? This is the first time I’ve heard of its use outside the title of this film, and I’m pretty sure it’s referring to the Keaton character.…

Is it really? Or is this just availability bias. You choose to hang out on HN and read whatever e-rags cover startups. Meanwhile there’s probably a new plumbing proprietorship or s…

https://www.apple.com/rss/ Open this on an Apple or android phone. On iOS this will even prompt you to open the App Store to find a feed reader (#1 is still Feedly). RSS icons were…

> A big one, that was the case even before social media, is the inherent geekiness of it. "RSS" is an acronym after a geek's heart, most people don't like it. Like WWW, RCA, GE.. (…

No idea what you’re talking about. There was the run up to the communications decency act and obscenity prosecutions but these were far more risky for the peddlers, not the consume…

Names are not copyrightable in any case. You mean trademark.

It never did. The difference is that you can use logical replication since 10 to prevent downtime during upgrade. Which if you were using it a year ago could have been done.

The point with referring to a review article/meta is that you are free to look at the references themselves. Adverse effects secondary to dissociation can obviously be troublesome …

I thought the “beauty” of Bitcoin is that it is free.. unshackled, unregulated. So in your mind how is that not an open invitation for powerful and well funded interests to manipul…