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And accept that there’s a good chance this will accomplish nothing but getting you on their naysayers list. People can continue behavior where all they really need to do is stop ac…

People breaking the first rule wasn’t enough for me to crack into the scene. The weird two-paid-services thing required to use it effectively—a search service of some kind, and you…

> The Trump campaign could only deploy the "Trump is for you, Kamala is for they/them" slogan because Kamala herself, in 2020, felt the need to conform to then-prevailing winds and…

I think every time I’ve been (or even been moving toward) excellent at something, it’s because I found very little or none of it boring. Even very-focused drilling and such, or stu…

No personalized feed driven by anything other than user selections. User identities downplayed. Profiles, but barely. Can’t “follow” people. If HN is social media, the term’s being…

Those two things already barely exist. I’m skeptical it’s possible, in a nation of hundreds of millions, to get them much closer to not existing than they already are. So if those …

Is there some kind of reader-mode filtering site one can put a URL in to get a version that undoes this extra effort to remove capital letters? From what I’ve gotten of this piece …

You may enjoy “Dabblers and Blowhards” from IdleWords, if you’re not already familiar with it. https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm Reading that helped me come …

> Undemocratically, performatively, anointing behind closed doors a weak but social justice signaling candidate to run on the democratic ticket You’re just stringing together bingo…

> Ironically the Wokeness article does what most people accuse "wokeness" of doing, predetermining its conclusion, and then shoehorning in a bunch of loosely connected facts and ph…

This one’s footnote #2 addresses PG’s definition of “woke”, which I agree is useless (I’d go further: that kind’s so inconsequential that it’s nonsense to bring it up unless you’re…

Worse, it’s an attempt to get us to agree that humans only do things for profit, in order to advance an ideology and make our thought more malleable when an author turns around and…

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Thanks to you and your sibling poster, helpful info!

Two bananas to a potato (I assume we’re talking something like a russet, not a little red potato?) sounds generous to the potato, if we’re talking volume equivalence. A potato’s a …

Restricting who can own what, however… that’s long been fair game. In my dream world we’d get something like the rules we had, until fairly recently, restricting max broadcast medi…

The copy-the-.git-dir trick works for worse issues than can be solved with a single reset --hard. Damn near anything, really, as long as you haven't touched any remotes. It also wo…

The broader question of why companies are able to keep pushing us ever closer to the maximum we’d conceivably be willing to pay for a given good, is probably best answered with “we…

Good lord. He put a bunch of things in that that he'd use in Twin Peaks: The Return. Wild.

I'm about 95% sure that if I ask my two school-age daughters if it's weird to address girls and women as "bro" or "bruh" in informal circumstances, they'll say no. Since I hear the…

I've been using Git for almost 15 years, and have twice built programs/products that use Git internally to achieve certain results (that is, the program/product itself uses Git for…

Is boarding at Moynihan what another poster is alluding to with the possibility of avoiding the choke-point boarding by simply not using the main waiting area? Or is that considere…

Some of the people who returned for it died not long after it wrapped. The "Log Lady" might have died before it wrapped, even, can't recall. Miguel Ferrer wasn't around much longer…

James-hate is common even among the more devoted fans of the show, I think. https://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/why-we-hate-james-hurl... I think about the "Watching Twin Peaks" …

It's OK to just not care for things. Sometimes those things will be good. It's still OK to not care for them. It's also OK to like bad things. I like lots of bad things.