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I wonder where avocado oil lands?

caught in java garbage collection (no slight intended :) ) Congratulations on your continued existence!

to me, ai seems likely to become a new user interface, just like gui did from cli. abstract away a lot of the mechanics of working with data/information. helpful, when literacy see…

I learned early on not to trust anything with a sticker that claimed warranty supported by Fry's (that meant it was a return and tested No Problem Found and sold as is). Too many r…

I hope Synology gets its act together, it has been a convenient product to resell for clients who down-size. Very simple, very low maintenance. And very simple to set up, versus al…

"There ought to be a law" is why we have nanny-state government. I imagine that is why there have been "no spitting" and "no chewing gum" laws on the books. People going to lord it…

Having constraints may also make something more achievable. It helps avoid issues like analysis-paralysis, and helps me focus on the path through the obstacles towards the destinat…

and an oldie: https://www.zerohedge.com/

An interesting collection: https://thedukereport.substack.com/

I think that just shows our different perceptions - I, too, see many HN posts as very left. Frequently seen in assumptions about values/ethics/morals... Update: On further reflecti…

Thanks for posting this. While craziness may reign in various places, parts of the world go on healing itself, one human effort at a time, and faster when more than one do so toget…

This is also a good argument to me to continue working at being a generalist. The more disciplines I am aware of, even if not expert in, the faster I may come up with an "outside t…

"Developers choose Rails today because, 20 years later, it remains the most simple and abstracted way to build a web application." Well, then there are those of us who use Django f…

I chose to use a flip phone over a previous Android phone around 10 years ago when ISPs/Phone providers showed that security lapse issues for them was just a cost of doing business…

Both, for me. Memory not as sharp as it used to be, and more to be organized.

For me, that is the value of tags. No need to have duplicates to have items represented in multiple categories, yet each appropriate category gets a nod about the particular item.

A child psychotherapist thinks he is now much better at his job, because “increasingly I reject everything that I learned.” It’s dramatically thought-provoking: Psychodynamic Nonse…

Same, although I have been on a Linux distro (different over the years) for the last 18 years, I keep a virtual Win7 machine just to run Outlook. I have been able to do pretty much…

FWIW: I am switching from Fedora to Debian. Fedora has what amounts to almost daily updates, I prefer more stability/less changes. My work flow is usually being up for weeks in bet…

"We may wonder also what fun a determined hacker could have with Microsoft running random bits of JavaScript on their servers and allowing these to talk to the world (or to Microso…

For those who are not happy with the current state of social systems: “We cannot continue to send our children to Caesar for their education and be surprised when they come home as…

Richard Grove offers an online course called Autonomy that teaches these skills and more. Good course, I took it a few years ago. One of the topics is how to sell without being cri…

One of the original predictions that might be entertaining(?) to see would be the US having its first President "run" the country from prison... And the follow-up situation to witn…

"The messaging IS the program" (Apologies to Marshall McLuhan)

Logical and critical thinking would be a challenge to those in power, apparently the Trivium had been removed from a classical liberal education some time ago. I learned about the …