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by chimeracoder 7mo ago
> hopped on a plane for SKO in LAX. United delayed the plane departure by 2 hours (of course) and diverted the flight to Honolulu. I'm assuming there's a typo here, because I can't imagine a flight from LAX to SKO at all,
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by chimeracoder 7mo ago
> Salesforce acquired them and just let it die, baffling. This is a common misconception, but it's actually not true. The reality is even more bizarre. Most of Heroku's successful years came after the acquisition, not before.
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by chimeracoder 8mo ago
> In the unlikely, for San Francisco, event that the day is too hot, less-urgent tasks can be delayed, or some of the racks can have their clock rate reduced, disks put into sleep mode, or even be powered down. Redundancy means that the
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by chimeracoder 9mo ago
> The whole concept of nationalism and border sovereignty has been with us for essentially all of human history, Quite the opposite. The modern concept of "border sovereignty" as intertwined with the nation-state is a Westphali
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by chimeracoder 9mo ago
> And exactly because it's the only keyboard that just lets me type in two languages without having to "switch", and it does that well. Right now my spacebar just says "NL - EN" and it lets me combine Dutch and
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by chimeracoder 9mo ago
> Six nesting levels for tables? Hacker News uses nesting tables for comments. This comment that you're reading right now is rendered within a table that has three ancestor tables. As late as 2016 (possibly even later), they did so
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by chimeracoder 10mo ago
> Have you seen JPEG XL source code? I like the format, but the reference implementation in C++ looked pretty bad at least 2 years ago. I hope they rewrote it, because it surely looked like a security issue waiting to happen. At this poi
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by chimeracoder 10mo ago
> No, it isn't. “Men’s vitality” doesn’t mean “getting pumped with testosterone regardless of indications” When I Google "men's vitality clinic", the top result I see is titled "Your experts for testosterone repl
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by chimeracoder 10mo ago
> If someone shows up with a testosterone level of 700 you can (and should) explain that low testosterone is not the explanation for whatever they’re suffering from. I'm not going to say TRT clinics are the best actors here, but to
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by chimeracoder 10mo ago
> Unless you went on when you weren't really low because the men's vitality clinic pushed you into a treatment protocol Saying that the men's vitality clinic "pushed you" into a treatment protocol is like saying
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by chimeracoder 10mo ago
> He set up two computers and manually played low-res DRM-protected MP3 files out of one and into the other for weeks, documenting the process on BoingBoing. He touted this not only as freedom but "preservation." I see. When I
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by chimeracoder 10mo ago
> So is Warren being an asshole here? I mean, we haven't seen a Dick Tracy movie since the 90s. I am out of the loop so trying to understand. Well the rights were held by Disney from 1988 until 2005, and then they were tied up in co
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by chimeracoder 10mo ago
> It does, however, make providing housing more profitable, which, on the margins, will drive more landlords and home builders into the market, decreasing long term costs Landlords are, by and large, not the ones who create new housing u
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by chimeracoder 10mo ago
> He once sat in his basement for an entire month "playing the DRM off" his record collection What are you referring to here?
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by chimeracoder 10mo ago
> How do you know the father never said he was gay? I don't, which is why I didn't say that. I said: > as far as the essay mentions, the father never said he was gay.
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by chimeracoder 10mo ago
> It does not sound as such if you read the content of the post. It's hardly a misconception to suggest that gay men do not generally fall in love with women. Aside from the fact that this premise is incorrect, it's also inappl
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by chimeracoder 10mo ago
> (6) Online child sexual abuse frequently involves the misuse of information society services offered in the Union by providers established in third countries. It's quite wild to see child sexual abuse continue to be cited as a ju
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by chimeracoder 10mo ago
> Why not a mixture of both? CA for instance had their populace vote to ban gay marriage in prop 8, CA then just told the voters to go fuck themselves and tied it up and overturned it in court. > So you can see even if you literally a
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by chimeracoder 10mo ago
> Vehemently disagree. I would much rather take our most contentious issues (abortion, M4A, etc) put them on a national ballot and let the general public decide The problem with true direct democracy isn't how people would handle hi
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by chimeracoder 10mo ago
> Also profiles can be configured and used with CLI, no need for UI (old or new). AFAIK, they can only be created at the command line, not configured. If you want to do things like change default settings or install extensions from the
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by chimeracoder 11mo ago
LLMs have serious problems with accuracy, so this story is entirety believable - we've all seen LLMs fabricate far more outlandish stuff. Unfortunately, it's also worth pointing out that neither Marsha Blackburn nor Robby Starbuck
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by chimeracoder 11mo ago
> Being found not guilty supports my contention. Not necessarily. Being found not guilty just means that the facts of that specific case, as determined by the jury, did not fit a guilty verdict. It doesn't mean that someone who did
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by chimeracoder 11mo ago
> a businessman who was modestly famous in his lifetime and now is pretty much unknown. This is quite an understament about who John MacArthur was and what is impact and legacy has been. You're talking about a guy whose name appea
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> I'm sure that Hacker News would love to delve into the arguments instead of trying to downvote or flag your posts into non-visibility because they disagree with you. I've been a member of this site for fifteen years. I know t
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> Why do you believe that description applies to Singal? His work is well-researched, grounded and reasonable. Perhaps his journalistic output conflicts with your beliefs, but that's no reason to cast false aspersions on him. Singal
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> They're not going ban people that break the TOS outside the S, because that's practically unenforceable. Before they amended the ToS, they did do that. It's completely possible to enforce, especially when the person in
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
Doxxing people off-platform used to be against the ToS. When people began reporting him for that, Bluesky amended their ToS.
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> Do you mean "misandry?" No, OP is being transphobic and referring to trans women as men: > Note that the "banning controversy" is that they're not banning enough people for having entirely mainstream politic
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> The problem, if you can call it that, is Singal hasn't broken any of their TOS. Well, no, he did unambiguously break the TOS back when he originally joined. Then Bluesky amended their TOS, which gave them an avenue to avoid bannin
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> Right, but it's not the serum levels that matter: it's the agonistic effect on various receptors. (Most) hormones don't have direct chemical effects on the body. According to Wikipedia: >> Relative to testosterone,

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