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Which one?

Yeah, that's a recent change. Probably the first nail in the coffin for it.

The Seattle Times is still owned by the Blethen family (who have owned it since 1896).

Depends on the politician.

I suppose you think Chuck Norris Facts are fake too.

Interestingly, By the Waters of Babylon was written in 1937, before WW2 and the development of atomic and nuclear weapons - events that obviously and understandably triggered that …

My college was a DEC shop; I learned programming and how to use unix in labs full of dumb X terminals connected to Alpha servers. Still have a lot of nostalgia for the architecture…

I'd rather learn MUMPS or COBOL than use JS... not kidding.

The old Cree bulbs that Home Depot used to carry have been great for me. I need to find a new supplier though because the brands they have now are junk that last a year or two if I…

The Troll is in Fremont, not Ballard.

GP is listing it under exceptions to affordability.

Roombas have been a thing for many years, long before the current llm craze.

No? You can tell it to stop printing the citation notice.

>Why the hell was perl even relevant? Nothing I wrote used Perl. parallel is written in perl.

Substitute "target date fund" for "S&P 500 ETF" and that describes most retirement accounts... Not exactly niche.

What did HN ever do to him anyways?

Medical gloves are not sterile (outside maybe of ones specifically packaged for use in an OR).

That's clever.

Lots of things don't work with clisp.

The area around 3rd and Blanchard is sketchy, but in the rest of Belltown the biggest hazards are incompetent Uber/lyft/doordash/etc. drivers and drunk people on lyme scooters.

If you're talking about casu martzu cheese, Wikipedia says >Due to these risks, Italian authorities have banned the sale of this cheese, deeming it dangerous. Consequently, it is a…

>There was also a company I think who spent hundreds of millions of dollars (IIRC) in creating a large grocery website with buying large warehouses then and basically losing a ton …

People go to Costco and only get a couple of things and not a cart load? You've got more self control than I.

There's a simple solution to that. Tax the rat farms.

What do the grabbers do?