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starkparker

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    One can do that without posting it to a public GitHub repository, and then posting it to HN and wasting everyone else's time with it.

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    > Crowd Supply’s fulfillment was the exception. Crowd Supply is now part of Mouser, a billion dollar distribution machine which routinely handles products in tape and reel. The Mou…

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    Comment #49112394

    This is a 52m video presentation on the RCade. Blog-post submission from its creator Frank Chiarulli Jr. (fcjr); 5 months ago, 10 points, 2 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/i…

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    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgYx8k428sTnDkWtc8kIv...

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    Dealing with mold in an archival environment is a nightmare, and yeah, the only thing sealing the books in plastic does is make it easier to either throw them away, or to freeze th…

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    Comment #49002295

    Happy 10-year anniversary to this repo being shared on HN. Most significant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048945 , 652 points, 145 comments on July 7, 2016 All…

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    Comment #49000657

    Can't help but see hurricane-prediction spaghetti plots in those charts.

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    Comment #48983133

    It's wild how differently the press release you linked to frames that. > WASHINGTON, D.C. – Nearly half (49%) of cancer patients and survivors report being burdened by medical debt…

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    Insurance refused to cover imaging to identify my spouse's squamous cell carcinoma on an ovary because initial bloodwork didn't come back positive for ovarian cancer (squamous cell…

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    Comment #48961351

    So effectively a downtime session of D&D where everyone levels up and goes shopping for gear.

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    Couldn't find a discussion yet on Wikipedia about how slop books with ISBNs and publishers are more authoritative sources than primary sources by the letter of its rules, but I exp…

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    Comment #48851193

    Beyond previous submissions, this includes further confirmations of the layoffs' scope and more detailed claims on the departments affected. In particular, this unconfirmed but det…

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    Sounds like Digital Foundry's also looking into it, without much detail or confirmation: https://bsky.app/profile/dark1x.bsky.social/post/3mpyvnrbwds...

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    We might not hear much on that until tomorrow, since most iDTech development was out of the Frankfurt studio. If they're shutting down Frankfurt, it'd be worth getting antennae out…

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    ZeniMax, the parent holding company of Bethesda Softworks/Bethesda Games, bought iD in 2009.[1] Microsoft bought ZeniMax for $7.5B in 2020 and assigned it to the Xbox division.[2] …

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    I've seen Brandon James (KillMe) credited in multiple places.[1][2] James left iD mid-development of Quake 3, so the rest of the level design team likely also contributed after tha…

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    "Sorry, Sandy" Sandy Petersen's side of it comes out in a few interviews, like https://medium.com/@unkndoomer/back-to-the-past-e3c421fb2e70 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUeu…

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    About half of Americans lack any access to intercity transport that isn't a private car.[1] About 15% of rural Americans aren't within 25 miles of any intercity transit, much less …