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When you make a post, I think HN asks you to summarize the article in the comments (or something like that, I haven't submitted anything in a while)

Ah I see, thanks.

How do you detect that it's plugged in? Just detecting voltage would mean that you'd unplug it and it would stay energized, right?

Neither 1/36th or 1/12th are used, and the other two aren't fractions. We don't say six and a twelfth feet, we say six feet one inch. With distance, fractions are only used for fra…

Plugs and sockets have the wrong gender for this. On the battery, you'd have a male plug with live 240v contacts, ready to short against anything, or anyone, that's conductive. Thi…

When we use fractions for measurements, the denominator is virtually always a power of two. The only one I can think of that isn't is a fifth of alcohol, which is really just its o…

To know that 0.32 m is smaller than 43 cm I have to actively think, but I'm guessing you don't. I've never had to think about 3/4 vs 1/2. Even 5/16ths vs 1/4 is intuitive for me.

Let's test it out. I'll become pope, you become the emperor, and we'll see who gets there first.

Nah, ditch the wife. Become a cardinal in the Catholic church, then get elected pope. From there it should be fairly trivial to re-establish the Papal States to their largest exten…

This one burns oil, not coal.

This is Hackernews - the unreadable font size is a feature, not a bug

If you kill the lawn, won't the invasive plants take over?

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The nirvana album doesn't have a space - for me, searching for "nevermind" gets me straight to the album

Interesting in learning more - what bill is this that was passed by Clinton?

Looks like the original title is too long for Hackernews

So you just write whatever you want, then find a source for it later? I don't think you understand how this is supposed to work

Except "usually mistaken" doesn't apply here, since it's often true.

Yes, you can expect people here to read your comments and judge them by their content. Were you expecting otherwise?

Missed opportunity to call the article "ChatGPT's latest stylistic quirk isn't just sinister or infuriating—it's everywhere." This has been making its way around the internet for a…

Of course the proof in the pudding is in the eating, but just saying that they want to do this stuff is at least a slight improvement over before, where we mostly just saw apathy a…

Mountain time is ambiguous due to Arizona, and yet we still use that phrase. Hawaii-Aleutian time is also ambiguous: the Aleutian islands do daylight savings, but Hawaii doesn't. C…

Preventing pasting would drastically reduce how often people cite their sources; no one wants to hand copy a long url.

Roadster launch is supposed to be on April 1st... Hard to think of any response other than "once bitten, twice shy"

I think I've been this person before, but I've also been the person that makes the meeting go on for 20 minutes longer than necessary by bringing up stuff that doesn't need to be t…