abanana

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by abanana 6d ago
Exactly. Don't use "mental illness" as an excuse, he's just incredibly arrogant.
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by abanana 7d ago
Makes sense to me. Their motto was "Write less, do more", i.e. its conciseness was a major selling point, but that seems to have been forgotten now that its other selling points have been rendered obsolete. I recall scripts ending
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by abanana 7d ago
Indeed, I don't know what to make of such a bizarrely nonsensical assertion. Age and lack of experience doesn't really explain it, because all the poster needed to have done was make the simplest sort of web search. It's so
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by abanana 8d ago
Regarding investments, I can't believe how often people fail to understand that to make money by investing, you have to have money to invest in the first place! Getting rich by investing is a way to turn a small fortune into a bigger o
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by abanana 11d ago
The end of that post came out in such a mess, it must be a typo for something - "compatriot" maybe? I like the other standout neologism in there though, I can see it in a dictionary now: astrocized - banished to outer space.
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by abanana 15d ago
Exactly, I'm amazed at the naivety on display here.
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by abanana 16d ago
> xkcd's "Ten Thousand" effect True in general, but Hacker News isn't a school for beginners to technology.
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by abanana 16d ago
Agreed, except IME this is "junior web developers" rather "(real) programmers" in general.
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by abanana 17d ago
In the UK at least, furniture panels from B&Q, Wickes, Selco, etc, are very much inferior to the stuff some IKEA (e.g. METOD and PAX) furniture is built from. That was why I used PAX carcases to create built-in wardrobes. Plain furnitur
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by abanana 23d ago
Fully agree - see also Stack Overflow's relative date display for comments. They all just say "Over a year ago". Mouse over and find it's from 2012. You need that context especially for e.g. web dev, where CSS and JS hav
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by abanana 25d ago
You're not, I'm sorry to say! I was only quickly scanning the HN front page, but still. Does that say something about steps required in our own maturation processes?
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by abanana 25d ago
An annoyance: clicking an image transitions the tiny image to a bigger size, then it gets replaced with a larger image file. The result is: the image slides bigger (but blurred), then immediately disappears, and reloads slowly from the top
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by abanana 26d ago
Well, the first Amigas had only 256KB of RAM. Doubling that to 512KB (via a memory expansion card) was a luxury!
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by abanana 27d ago
You started that off by raising an interesting point. Pity you had to ruin it by telling us you're exceptionally thoughtful and profound, and that those who disagree, suck! It's true, the amount of work that would be needed nowada
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by abanana 27d ago
Although I've used that phrase myself in the past, I've come to hate it. Somebody will post it on every HN thread where any form of suggestion has been made. If it's part of a paragraph of insightful commentary, it's m
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by abanana 27d ago
Yes, absolutely, and UX experts such as those at the Nielsen-Norman group have for years been advising against auto-closing the already-opened options when opening another. For good reason - user frustration in their research. If I clicked
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by abanana 1mo ago
Yes, that's all you could do. Sounds like just a slight memory fault exaggerating it, something I'm sure we're all guilty of. Booting "exclusively to amigaDOS, without the ...windowing system available" was not poss
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by abanana 1mo ago
There's a wide spectrum from "outright hoax" to "very slightly exaggerated" (which is the point where I sit on this subject), but it all tends to get lumped together and criticised as one. I've always said I&#x
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by abanana 1mo ago
I'm sick of seeing this standard AI look to websites, but malware is more scary - can you give us any more info? Nothing detected malware for me.
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by abanana 1mo ago
> The need for all the content, Moar!! Feed me "MOAR input!!!" - Johnny 5, Short Circuit. That was a great film. Seems it was unexpectedly prescient too.
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by abanana 1mo ago
It's great for the retailer, although I think that example was picked out because it's an extreme example of a book that'll never sell. But the volume of these orders shows another way the AI companies are pissing away their
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by abanana 1mo ago
There are, but, quoting from the article: > Anthropic said: "None of our data acquisition programmes buy and destroy rare or antiquarian books." This statement was clearly carefully worded, using the words "rare or antiq
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by abanana 1mo ago
What on earth have you misread here? He's saying they want to be in a warm room (so they'll work up a sweat), not in a cool room (so they won't). What are these pseudoscientific and mystical beliefs you've read before an
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by abanana 1mo ago
What? There's no abuse going on here, because (1) the technical economic definition of "shortage" is simply demand exceeding supply, exactly the same as the everyday meaning; and (2) even if the meanings were different, techn
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by abanana 1mo ago
It was first-year GCSE (age 14-15) economics for me. But yes that's exactly it, the author appears to have discovered the price elasticity concept, as a refinement of the Law of Demand.
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by abanana 2mo ago
Thanks, it's a bit frustrating when a piece of old news is reported without a followup. Happens all the time, and due to news agencies not bothering to report the not-so-interesting stuff, it's often difficult to find out what hap
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by abanana 2mo ago
> way less than $200 per month... $2k per year For the vast majority of consumers, these prices are insane . > trivial amount of money... I’m not even an extreme outlier It's also true that the majority of high-earners refus
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by abanana 2mo ago
> They don’t have to be financially responsible They do if you don't have the money to throw away. That's the whole point - far too often, the people who throw their money away on these things are the same people who spend al
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by abanana 2mo ago
Yes exactly, that jumps out as a strange thing to say. The enjoyable part of programming is the puzzle, the act of figuring out how to solve the problem elegantly and well. Although I can't speak for artists, surely the joy of painting
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by abanana 2mo ago
Please don't change expected behaviour! Excel does, as the author mentions, and it's a massive pain in the arse because it doesn't do what it should. The "cut" action is supposed to immediately put it into the cli

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