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by Anthony-G 6d ago
Here’s a decent up-to-date report on this (now-resolved) case: https://www.allergicliving.com/2026/03/03/lawsuit-against-di... Since I stopped being a poor student, I pay for media that I consume so that the
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by Anthony-G 6d ago
I’ve upvoted your comments in this thread because what you’re saying seems obvious to me. You’re also being empathetic and respectful to the man while crediting his legacy and all the work he has done in his past. I wonder if the people obj
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by Anthony-G 14d ago
I’d have probably have said that the Internet hasn’t really gone away: it’s still there in the same way that the outside street doesn’t go away when you close the curtains of your front room. That’d be my simple analogy.
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by Anthony-G 2mo ago
So true! I still think of these things as being chores and don’t look forward to doing them. Worse still, I sometimes procrastinate and let them build up into being much bigger jobs than they need to be. Every now and again, I try to re-fra
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by Anthony-G 2mo ago
I haven’t read the book but I like this idea and intend to check out the book. I’m not on social media but I find Hacker News – and even Wikipedia – to be addictive enough. When I was younger, I found it very hard to just sit there without
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by Anthony-G 2mo ago
I’ve asked people sitting nearby to stop checking their phone as the glare can be very distracting. I might be immersed in the film but keep getting pulled out of the story by the distractingly bright light. I also try to patronise cinemas
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by Anthony-G 2mo ago
As a devout Catholic, I used my confirmation money to buy a bible and read from it every morning. Some parts of The Old Testament were disturbing but this story really shocked my younger self. I found it to be both horrific and bizarre. Unt
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by Anthony-G 2mo ago
For any Hacker News users not aware of this security policy, it’s documented at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38502985
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by Anthony-G 2mo ago
Terrible article. As a European who grew up in a country that has banned¹ thousands of books, periodicals and other media for most of its existence, I was expecting this article to be about some campaign to unban books that were still being
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Scientists speak their brains: Please don't call us boffins (2023)(theregister.com)
4 points by Anthony-G 3mo ago|1 comments
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by Anthony-G 3mo ago
Yesterday, there was a meta-discussion on the use of the word “boffin” on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48661535 Not being a reader of British red-top tabloids, I assumed that the word is mostly only used in an ironi
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by Anthony-G 3mo ago
As soon as I saw this word, I guessed that El Reg was the source.
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by Anthony-G 3mo ago
Similar experience here. I grew up in rural Ireland in the 80s where you said hello to everyone but had a culture shock when I moved to Dublin for college. I quickly realised that you don’t greet everyone. I put it down to a being a matter
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by Anthony-G 3mo ago
Upvoted your comment but my inner pedant can’t help but point out that’s more an example of whitewashing rather than greenwashing (which itself is a derivative of whitewashing).
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by Anthony-G 3mo ago
I used to only rarely look at Youtube (repairs, cooking, the odd live concert) but since I started looking at it more often (for guitar and piano tutorials), I’ve found its UI to be too distracting. I added the following custom uBlock filte
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by Anthony-G 4mo ago
> … smartphone reading produced overactivity in the prefrontal cortex, suppressed sigh generation, and led to general lower comprehension scores; the authors argued that the sigh inhibition and prefrontal overload were causally linked to
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by Anthony-G 4mo ago
I noticed that in myself. I’d read a chapter and be convinced that I’d absorbed the information. It wasn’t until I learned networking from a second-hand college text-book that I realised that wasn’t really the case. Each chapter concluded w
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Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales (Grimms' Fairy Tales)(sites.pitt.edu)
3 points by Anthony-G 4mo ago|0 comments
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by Anthony-G 4mo ago
Agreed. Even if it’s not possible to know who created the images in the first place, anyone who “shares” them should be culpable.
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by Anthony-G 4mo ago
It would be good to hear examples of this effect, alright. I’d like to hear how something sounds with 1) no reverb, 2) with reverb applied and 3) with the reverb gated. The Wikipedia article goes deeper into the history; the featured articl
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by Anthony-G 4mo ago
For those with Apple TV+ subscriptions, I’d recommend Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson , a six-episode series which explores different technologies used in music production. Episode 3 covers reverb and delves into its history and how it’s
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by Anthony-G 4mo ago
I first came across Abelard and Héloïse from an episode of The Sopranos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentimental_Education_(The_Sop... The episode title itself is also a literary reference. I’m sure there are many cu
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by Anthony-G 5mo ago
Great advice but that may not always work in Ireland. The expected answer is “grand” or something similarly neutral and succinct. The asker may not even stop to listen to your answer so you won’t have enough time to provide a decent respons
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by Anthony-G 5mo ago
I had to click on your profile to see if there was any clue as to whether the ‘G’ stands for “Gillian” or not. :)
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by Anthony-G 5mo ago
> Heroin only impacts one individual I have to disagree with this. Having talked to heroin addicts in the past, I was told that the heroin addiction destroyed their relationship with their families and their friends, causing heart-break
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by Anthony-G 5mo ago
I can see how system-wide blocking would be useful. I’m personally very conservative and wary about apps that I install on my iPhone (I don’t use any ad-supported apps) so the browser is the “attack surface” that I’m most concerned about. I
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by Anthony-G 5mo ago
This sounds like good advice so upvoted. I’m a big fan of Raymond Hill¹’s products so I am curious about how much benefit Adguard provides if uBlock Origin is already blocking online trackers, ads and other annoyances. ¹ In this case, the d
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by Anthony-G 5mo ago
Off Topic: when I came across the journalist/writer, Anne Cadwallader, I used to wonder about the origin of her surname. After reading this comment, I finally decide to look it up and found that her About page at https://www
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by Anthony-G 5mo ago
Also: > Trump Responds To Controversial Image Of Himself As Jesus, Says It Actually Depicted Him As A Doctor & Slams “Fake News” For The Misinterpretation Had I not already heard this story via the mainstream media on this side of th
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by Anthony-G 5mo ago
Given the huge environmental cost involved in manufacturing a car, 20 years seems fair. I’m still driving a 26-year old Nissan Micra – though it’s now on its last legs: the Irish climate isn’t kind to steel and we’ve had to have the under-c

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