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"Abysmal", but that's beside the point. Suppose a US citizen, residing and working in the US and never traveling to China, crosses The Powers That Be. Which Power is more likely to…

Not only that, but given how I would phonetically pronounce it... ew.

I suspect it's more accurate to say the private equity that bought out dental practices everywhere have the cash to burn. At least for now.

They don't use their own product, and they don't want their engineers to use their product either. They want velocity , and you can't have velocity if you're bogged down by doing e…

Just remember: "NO KIBITZING"! Sadly, it appears ChatGPT 5.5 did not implement this crucial feature for this javascript port.

That's awesome! I had a somewhat similar experience (shared previously [0]): > I proved a topology theorem in a dream once. > Before I went to sleep, my inability to prove it had b…

That's just a straight-shooter with "upper management" written all over him.

> The PTO shaft is a spindle on the back of the tractor which drives things like your flail mower, wood chipper, etc. ... and kills/maims anyone with lose clothing trying to step o…

I believe you mean r/datahoarder: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ r/datahorde is different, and a ghost town.

Mirror here: https://isoc-sig.freifunk.net/systemd/systemd%20birthDate%20... (confirmed still up at the time of writing this post.)

It might be mere semantics, but the 1814 burning of Washington has been depicted as an invasion. https://archive.org/details/burningofwashing00pitc

> And that error is that they look for technical compliance when so much of the law is subjective and holistic. I know it sounds like an oversimplification, but "got off on a techn…

Poor performers get put on PIPs, right? Did that person's poor performance "ruin it for everyone" and put the rest of the working plebs (the entire company or department or whateve…

Regulation is theater, effectively, thanks to regulatory capture.

The progression of the cable TV industry shows many people are more than happy, or apathetic enough, to allow the industry to double-dip.

pingfs has similar inspiration, where storage capacity scales with latency. https://code.kryo.se/pingfs/ Discussed in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9844725

Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39884821 195 points | 2 years ago | 66 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23902124 196 points | 5 years ago | …

Same results for me. Absolutely awful, vision consistently began failing by becoming noticeably blurry about 8 to 9 hours after taking night lenses out, and I couldn't drive at nig…

Not completely unheard of but I get your point :). Babylon 5's pilot's animations (and I believe opening credits) was rendered in 1993 on sixteen souped-up A2000s, each with 32 MB …