BitwiseFool

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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
>"It can’t possibly be the case that US has its own solar system." Have you heard of Manifest Destiny?
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
Admittedly, I was lazy and didn't bother to play around or experiment after I had copied it. This is a nice update.
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
Personally, I can't stand how distracting YouTube thumbnails are. I found this list to block them from the sidebar when watching videos. ! Hide all of the recommended videos on the right side of the page, except for the first up-ne
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
>"Don’t act unethically in business and you’ll be ok too." Easy to say, but the real world is full of grey areas, judgement calls, and interpretations. We don't have a law that says "don't act unethically" b
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
There are folks in my life who aren't comfortable with computers and either wouldn't know that changing the default search engine was even possible, or wouldn't feel comfortable with going into the settings because they would
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
>"The answer is sitting there for you if you'd just believe your government acted like humans" What are you trying to say? I can read this as either 'humans are trustworthy', or 'humans are corrupt'.
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
What a horrible decision. With this change I get the sense that the user has a dead account, or the page is broken. Definitely not some compelling "top hits" compilation that would make me want to sign up for 'X'. What a
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
Yes, it happens to all profiles I visit and I can rule out the pins/highlights feature. There's a weatherman in Texas who is a prolific tweeter and his page shows a random assortment of years old retweets (~2015), some tweets from
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
Whenever I visit someone's Twitter profile without being logged in, I see an assortment of years old tweets and nothing current. Do other people experience this too? I assumed that I was being A/B tested with some limited view aft
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
I've heard a lot of developers know that Amazon is a terrible company to work for, but having Amazon on your resume is a career booster. So they'll work there for a year or two just to enhance their future job prospects. Is this s
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
I like to think the government has a unique and sophisticated rubber-hose attack, just auditing you.
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
I've always found it amazing how advocacy groups like MAD pop into existence and they're already extremely organized, well prepared, and well funded. Is there some cottage industry for spinning up groups like this?
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
I'd also like to add that the Windows user experience is my "native language", if you will. I have no major problems using macOS, but I'm definitely not as fast using it, I find its window management cumbersome, and my m
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
My understanding was that the name would be pronounced the same way, but as a native English speaker I don't even know what the umlaut does to the sound of the u. So I'm not even sure how the pronunciation would actually change. I
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
>"because reality has a liberal bias." An expression which is only said by those with a liberal bias.
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
Let the War of the Eighth Coalition begin!
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The comparison I like to use is that being a passenger on an airplane doesn't make someone an aviator.
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Hawaii also has the very unfortunate problem where highly flammable invasive species have basically taken over all of the dryland habitat.
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
I don't have access to HN's or Reddit's data, but I suspect that it only takes a few dozen people to accomplish the "heavy lifting" you had mentioned. This is particularly noticeable on city/state subreddits, w
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
Google either gives me the most generic results imaginable, or it fixates on what it thinks I want while completely ignoring my old google-fu techniques.
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
I set out to try a wide variety of local 'mom and pop' pizza restaurants and I quickly realized that all of them used the same supplier. In fact most of them even use the same sauce recipe.
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
Such a thing is easier said than done. While self control and concentration can be taught, it is probably the case that schoolchildren just aren't up to the challenge of resisting smartphones at such a young age. Especially when it s
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
>"What do you lose? 2-3 years of goofing off at a country club." Now that I've been living in the real world for quite some time, I yearn to return to the goof off at the country club. I acknowledge that I am definitely lo
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
I think we're looking at the concept of "full agency" differently. In my view each person has their own level of agency, or willpower if you will, that is mostly biologically determined. I do believe that people can exercis
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
I think this is a sign that the matter half of mind over matter is much more powerful than people realize. For most addictive or maladaptive behaviors I think the solution is rarely additional education or being upfront about the choice tha
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
It's certainly possible that this situation might sway Congress to pass some sort of lead wiring replacement act.
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
I feel like crypto mining is the computer equivalent of rolling coal.
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
How exactly does $100 Million dollars get spent on lobbying? The article doesn't say, and I'm genuinely curious as to whether or not this sum is accurate, and where the money actually went.
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
I wonder how many times the Earth appears on alien "List of potentially habitable exoplanets" articles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_potentially_habitable_...
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by BitwiseFool 3y ago
That means they would have no way of discovering that the universe is expanding, right?

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