butwhywhyoh

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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
> If trees did not shed their leaves, their soft vegetation would certainly freeze during winter time, damaging and, no doubt, killing the tree. This is just plain wrong, and makes no sense. If the leaves froze and died during the winter
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
It would be exactly as funny and exactly as interesting, which is to say: not very. This is right up there with noticing that sometimes the "b" in certain English words is completely silent! Haha isn't that totally irrational
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
> I just don't get it. Governments around the world and spending trillions on this stuff so why is there no clear answer on this? Why would there need to be a "clear answer" on something that quite obviously wouldn't
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
It sounds like you _literally have a choice_.
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
In other words, an elaborate justification for him joining the other YouTube clickbait clowns. Been watching him from basically when his channel started many, many years ago. Was really disappointed to see him give in to this.
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
For every story like this, I imagine there's (at least) one other where some green engineer set up a simulation with garbage assumptions, and argued that since the calculation was done by <insert advanced software package>, they
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
You used the word literally four times in your post, and even twice in one sentence. What's the fascination with this word? It seems to be used to add completely unneeded emphasis, rather than anything resembling its original definitio
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
But you just said "no degradation".
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
You're right. I guess if you can't tell the difference, that means everyone who claims to be able to tell the difference is lying! I'm not particularly familiar with squirrels and something about that "photo" looks
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
I guess because you're happy with the Amazon Prime service, it's OK for them to use scummy business practices to sign up the OP? I'm genuinely confused by your take here.
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
Wait a minute. If this site is true, then everyone doesn't get everything they want out of life 100% of the time? This is fascinating!
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
Could you explain why those are things you "shouldn't have to do"? Who owes you this functionality?
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
How exactly would you expect someone to ask questions when you don't include a way for them to see what you're talking about? My first question to your original post would be: "where's the link so I can see what you buil
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
Exactly. I have never met anyone in my life with the fear they are describing in learning to cook. Is there a person on earth actually afraid of the "literal fire on their stove"? I don't think an app is going to solve that p
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
Would you give this same critique to someone who was building a go-kart in their backyard for fun? "Car companies like Honda and Ford have been around for decades, and those vehicles are going to drive considerably better than anything
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
I mean, this is generally good advice, but this reads like an infomercial where they show someone struggling REALLY hard to boil water to make a pot of spaghetti, when we all know it's really not that hard. They try to make finding you
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
You just restated what the OP said, but tried to paint it somehow in a more positive light. You yourself stated you are "eating fewer ... highly rewarding foods". So what exactly are you contradicting in their statement?
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
Since all of the other comments are just people pasting links to their personal favorite thing that is tangentially related, let me be the first to say that this looks fantastic. I often run into the same frustrations that you're attem
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
But you guys, this software isn't practicing good Design. None of those UI elements provide me with any _satisfaction_. I don't care how efficient it is if it doesn't follow solid Design principles (like massive checkboxes th
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
What if the things that were built were built right the first time and take a long time to decay? If you walk around a correctly built city where nothing is falling apart, by this logic, you'd naively think this place was dead and dyin
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
This kind of evangelizing sounds terrifying to me. I'm expecting more of these "whimsical" "fun" UI elements all done in the service of some poorly defined ideal of capital-D Design! The capital D is important. Plea
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
Multiple times a day sure sounds like the opposite of the definition of "rare"
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
> A neighbor complained, and the city cited him, claiming all the vehicles appeared to be inoperable. It also issued violations for other backyard items — car parts, generators, propane tanks and fruit that had fallen off his orange and
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
Absolutely. Came here to say exactly the same thing. The first couple of steps were clear and informative. The last step was almost a joke.
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
I suppose then you're a proponent of photographing all famous works of art and displaying them on a webpage somewhere, because if the painting is worth looking at, the medium shouldn't matter at all, right? I guess going to a muse
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
The limitations are immediately aggravating. Have to reuse correct letters and can't reuse incorrect letters.
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
For that one semester, until the cycle repeats itself. Smarter students in the future won't allow their professor to join the class chats.
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
When someone tells you a funny story in person do you respond with this question too?
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
Why does this force me to scroll through this like a slideshow? Anyone else reminded of the bad-old-days when Flash websites were common and broke all UI norms?
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by butwhywhyoh 4y ago
Teach your kids not to write follow-up articles to things found on Hacker News to gain internet points

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