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The main theme is survivorship bias: https://xkcd.com/1827/ There's nothing wrong with telling your story in a book. But telling it as a half truth is just as bad a lying.

The inkscape extension link is to a empty page: https://inkscape.org/~MarioVoigt/%E2%98%85imagetracerjs-for-...

Are there economists here? If you could make (non radioactive) gold AND keep it secret, how much (oz?) could you produce a year without substantially affect gold's market value? As…

That's very interesting, two comments: - Automatic black box with autocomplete is a deal breaker for me. It'll drive me mad. - I only use the mouse in the terminal if I have to (it…

> in the Netherlands all kids are basically expected to bring their own cold sandwiches every day Nothing wrong with that. But there's a massive difference of everyone bringing the…

> The thing about witnessing a 7-year-old having their hot lunch tray yanked away and replaced with a cold sandwich It's bizarre that this happens in America.

That's simple. It's so simple that it uses the word simple 12 times in that simple short text. That must be very simple. Simple as that! I like simple stuff.

Would handling governmental data make you a high value target?

I highly recommend MangoJelly Solutions's tutorials. Here's a playlist for FreeCAD 1.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_yh_S31R9g&list=PLWuyJLVUNt... But he has a bunch of other …

There is never silence. Software buttons can do two things, a) what they say they do, or if not, b) trigger my rage response right away.

Seriously cool! A Linux build on the horizon?

Yikes! Sorry!

I click "Download the App" and fuck all happens. How the hell did you fuck up that simple app?

Lord jesus fucking christ. I love this motherfucking shit.

> Note added January, 2022: This document was written for Go's release in 2009, and has not been updated significantly since. Although it is a good guide to understand how to use t…

> China will definitely blink first There are other countries in the world apart from US and China. US has effectively alienated most of these with tariffs (save for Russia). So pr…

Apparently it isn't unlimited: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42713451

It's really hard to find stuff from the "old internet" on google. I know it's there. But instead it feeds me garbage marketing articles that just touch the surface and then try to …

No. The guy showed up in Bows & Arrows contest with M1 Abrams.

Pretty much every time I add a new contact to my phone I start to get really strange ads online. I figured it out when I added a guy who's retiring for the army. I started getting …

This was foreseen 3 years ago: https://ghuntley.com/fracture/

What does it cost to lose the control over it? I'm sure the an equivalent database could be maintained in another country for a lot cheaper, like in China or Russia.

> they all seem to do a great job Yeah right.

Microsoft loves open source, remember? It doesn't love you.