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I definitely read that as D-Bus hell

Apparently _you’ve_ never heard of wizards!

I have this in my “East Germany” collection along with Good Bye Lenin! and Deutschland 83 . Could probably use a few more entries.

[2022] I’d imagine a lot more empirical evidence has been generated one way or the other in the intervening two years

The ringing in my ears has always sounded like the high-voltage flyback inside old CRT tvs/monitors. Maybe I spent too long around them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyback_con…

But a good way to save pedestrians on the sidewalk

IANAD but I’d imagine with all the knee/hip/everything replacements, metal plates in heads, pins in wrists, pacemaker implants etc that it’s a manageable issue.

Ben Horowitz co-founded Andreesen Horowitz so you know, take whatever he says about his partner with a grain of salt

I would point out for centuries, I’m thinking at least through the Industrial Revolution, 10-16 hours was the norm and many families were still raised. And it was horrible. https:/…

From reading upthread it sounds like performance impact is heavily dependent on the skill of the game development team, ie: if they pick the wrong things to hook during the in-game…

We need less/more/same regulation, whichever one satisfies my desires at any given moment!

For people who like exploring, know the leaning tower of Pisa is absolutely _not_ a once-in-a-lifetime experience. There are over 100 leaning towers around the world! https://en.m.…

> The "anonymity and privacy inherent in the cryptocurrency system are what draw individuals, particularly those with illicit intentions, towards its use," 1) people vastly overest…

We already tried a temperance movement in America, it was…wildly unpopular and unenforceable to say the least.

I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make, but from looking at the last two federal election cycles the split doesn’t appear anywhere near 50/50 * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi…

Aspirin has side effects.

Android Debug Bridge, for future readers

For all the panics about shoplifting or stores claiming they’re closing because of retail loss (spoiler: that’s not the truth) it’s a drop in the bucket compared to wage theft http…

Looks like Millison is with Oregon State University https://workspace.oregonstate.edu/osu-permaculture-design

“there’s nothing that can’t be solved by another layer of abstraction”

I reread it 3 times and still left a typo in there, guess it’s good I didn’t become an editor :facepalm:

At a Winco there was a box fan full of tools and parts parked at the end of the parking lot with a hundred or so carts in front of it. It was a repairman going through every cart, …

There’s a general contrarian-for-contrarians-sake streak among us here, and prevailing sentiment outside HN was that the changes were terrible

As a random datapoint I learned recently the Solana blockchain consensus software, written in Rust and notorious for absolutely dismal performance, is being completely rewritten…in…

I see Ars Technica taking a lot of flak in the comments but lawdy, they’re still pretty great and one of the news sources I actually pay for (full-text rss feeds are a nice bonus).…