UpstandingUser

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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
Pretty sure he just passed the torch off to someone else (without selling it) because he was tired of it, then continued development shortly aftwards as "ublock origin". uBlock itself (not origin) got sold off the Adblocker Plus a
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
Sorry VSCoders. You just aren't griTTY enough.
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
> Pig ...was terrible, I wanted more screentime with that adorable pig...sorry Nic, you're in the shadow of a real star...
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Ask HN: Looking for an old hacker fiction short story
2 points by UpstandingUser 4y ago|0 comments
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
Or I could rip my legally purchased* CDs and give the finger to the leeches and rent seekers that fuck us almost as hard as they do the artists. Yes I support corporate genocide. * lol
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
> they eventually just gave me a beer and put a tally mark on a notepad oof
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
The second claim comes from something I heard mentioned the other day in relation to a New Yorker article about parents finding out during covid lockdowns that their elementary school kids couldn't read hardly at all. I guess they&#x27
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
While I'm inclined to agree with your point and I do think that some languages really are just more difficult, I think it should be pointed out that something like 54% of adults in the USA read below a sixth grade level. Many of them (
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
> SUV shaming is a lot like drink driver shaming. Are you drink?
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
This...was very informative. Thanks.
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
This is one of the big tragedies of Ramanujan. We have all these miraculous mathematics from him but we don't really know how he got there. A lot of this stuff we already knew, but he seems to have found it all out independently. No id
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
I'm trying to think of where I've seen this in TV and movies. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (IIRC) and there was a TV show where some Asian man had a plasma gun embedded in his wrist or something. Aliens were involved, and t
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
Can somebody explain the back story? What is Kiwi Farms?
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
You can get it at the hardware store, it'll break down tree stumps pretty quickly (and very inexpensively).
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
This is it, and holy hell it's worse than I remembered.
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
I can't find it now, but my favorite of TIWWW was this chemical that just smelled terrible and did so in exceedingly small quantities. Like, a stray drop of this gets the building evacuated kind of bad, and people are asking what that
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
Cast iron's real strength is the huge amount thermal mass and the relatively low rate of heat transmission. You preheat it, throw whatever you're cooking in it and the residual heat alone will brown it perfectly, even a huge slab
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
Say funding is a given, how do you attract the talent?
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
That wasn't clear to me
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UTC vs. UT1 time and other nuances (2020)(mperdikeas.github.io)
78 points by UpstandingUser 4y ago|30 comments
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
This comment causes me anxiety, I'll be reporting it to the authorities.
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
I'm a big fan of NetBSD. Great docs, clean design, it's just about ideal for "set it and forget it" projects. I hadn't used a BSD in over a decade but got it up and running in no time for an odd project a few years
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
Sounds like the Iron Law of Bureaucracy is at it again.
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
I've heard rumors that this was going on for a long time before it's been publicly acknowledged to have -- before OCR should have been able to handle that sort of variety of handwriting (reliably), let alone at scale. Like a snail
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
> as a community we seem to have decided that once a company has hosted some content that they should be required to host it forever at their own expense. We need something like public (book) libraries for code. Or a Library of Congress.
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
The explanation as I've heard it is that ICE's deliver pulsed power. At peak power in the engine cycle it cuts chaps easy but when the output dips it chokes on the fibers. Electric saws deliver uniform power and don't have th
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
California banned gas chainsaw sales last year IIRC. It was such a poorly worded law that firefighters and loggers have to go out of state to buy them, instead of it being a prohibition on suburban homeowners using them. The electric saws a
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by UpstandingUser 4y ago
In some places they're a hazard. They get wet, people slip. Especially cyclists when the leaves get into the bike lane.