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You know, it might be time for me to take up woodworking...

I install Firefox and uBlock on friends/family devices as often as I can.

It doesn't need to be one or the other. You can be angry that the machine exists - and work to destroy it - but you can also appreciate people doing the work to stop orphans from b…

Grief, at least, is not necessarily a dark emotion. It is an inevitable part of love, which is itself almost always full of good and bad emotions. "Misery is wasted on the miserabl…

It's not a "gotcha"? It's just that not all calls are transcribed, and thus are not easily searchable. An extremely small fraction of them are transcribed, and I don't really see h…

You know it's the news orgs that transcribe the calls, right?

It's one of those things that I'm really hoping is sarcastic/trolling but I've been here long enough to know it likely isn't.

I'm not the one claiming anything, waving about some FUDy article. > they spend more every year They also bring in more money every year. > audacity to aggressively fundraise const…

> The WMF is clearly unable to reduce expenses. Nothing about this is clear. What makes you think that, if the donations were to significantly fall off, they would be unable to red…

Is the WMF in debt?

Putting aside that I don't believe WMF is 'wrong' here at all, it's simply not reasonable or healthy to get upset about every wrong thing. One needs to pick their battles.

It seems a bit silly to base this entire analysis on Wikipedia page views without exploring what else the WMF does. And in any event, I have a really hard time getting worked up ab…

> It has been shown multiple times. Feel free to share.

Honestly I'm just tired of the doom and gloom. I should probably keep in mind this was written in 1950.

Interestingly, I had the exact opposite reaction - I enjoyed the writing itself, but didn't find the premise all that interesting.

I thought the movie was pretty good, but I really wished I enjoyed it more. I think the casting of Jack and Stephen both really didn't work for me. I really hope they make more mov…

No. I had to find a more complete dictionary to properly enjoy them. (I also added some fantasy dictionaries like for LoTR)

> full of understated spectacle The scenes with shipwrecks always stood out to me. One ship was lost during a storm with all hands, and he simply ended the chapter with something l…

It can be both, and there can be both individual and systemic motivations involved.

Do you really find your typing speed to be the bottleneck in getting things done? I suppose that's pretty easily fixed, at least. Anyway the author did address that > Using LLMs th…

> Maybe I should look into training an AI in the audio style of Patrick O’Brian and have it read Shakespeare for me. This bothered me in ways I cannot currently put into words.

Is GP running for political office here on HN or something? Otherwise I can't really see your point.

Not only would #3 be ineffective, it would affect poor people a lot more.

> > A question about this situation to their support email resulted in assignment of a ticket number, followed by silence. Oh, my apologies, I missed that line. > I don't even real…

Did you try contacting them and asking them about it?