linehedonist

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by linehedonist 2mo ago
The atomic time radio station WWVB does in fact broadcast a daylight saving time bit. A good atomic time clock should accurately update for DST (though Amazon reviews for a clock like this one is pretty mixed: https://www.amazon.
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by linehedonist 2mo ago
sounds a bit like Grammarly Authorship https://www.grammarly.com/authorship "Authorship creates an originality report you can share with your professor, boss, or editor. It also lets you replay your document’s creation
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by linehedonist 2mo ago
I think this is unnecessarily pessimistic. I think there's actually a surprisingly large number of people who are interested in and have the discipline to study something on their own, and there's value in pursuing a whole course
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by linehedonist 6mo ago
Israeli civilian death ratios are actually terrible, worse than Bosnia, Syria, or even WWII (including the Holocaust!). I assume it’s because Israel wants to kill as many civilians as possible, while still claiming the faintest hope of plau
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by linehedonist 6mo ago
It’s not a bad critique on its own! Yea, good to engage on the merits, but also good to acknowledge the messenger’s allegiances and biases.
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by linehedonist 6mo ago
Of course they did. It’s called inheritance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ellison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton_family https://www.forbes.com/profile/haas/
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by linehedonist 6mo ago
For a French-leaning list I’m surprised not to see Memoirs of Hadrian, “often considered the best French novel of the 20th century”, per the recent LRB review. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n10/joanna-bi
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by linehedonist 6mo ago
1965 was 61 years ago. Are you saying you yourself had significant experiences with the pre-1965 healthcare system?
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by linehedonist 6mo ago
Attention-grabbing headline, but the article itself answers the question: very important. "Hastings was one of those battles which changed the course of history, most directly for England but also, as events turned out, for Britain and
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by linehedonist 6mo ago
But as the article says, this battle really was tremendously important. The utter catastrophe led to the quick and permanent entrenchment of the Normans in Britain, with huge and long-reaching consequences reaching to the present: first and
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The Rise and Fall of a 3-D Printing Empire(nytimes.com)
5 points by linehedonist 7mo ago|0 comments
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by linehedonist 7mo ago
some bits of LLMese in this comment, to my ears at least. Especially "That’s the kind of impact that compounds"
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by linehedonist 7mo ago
No but I’m serious. I don’t think most people found it interesting to monitor the slow assembly of the ISS. Do you think the moon setting would be more interesting or appealing?
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by linehedonist 7mo ago
If I was being graded solely on quantity, why would I bother caring at all to make anything good? Make the minimum quality necessary to be counted as a pot and move on with your life. That was basically my real world approach to ceramics ba
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by linehedonist 7mo ago
That’s just the ISS on the moon instead of space, which is also uninteresting.
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by linehedonist 7mo ago
No disagreement there!
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by linehedonist 7mo ago
sure, though New York has gotten a real honest-to-goodness winter this year. There's been a foot on the snow on the ground continuously for the last month, and it's been cold enough that the pipes in one of my bathrooms froze. I t
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by linehedonist 7mo ago
Agreed. "isn't just... It's becoming" feels to me very LLM-y to me.
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by linehedonist 8mo ago
Is there any guarantee he will actually pay out in 20 years? Is this money going into escrow, or is this just a promise that will be completely forgotten in a couple decades?
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by linehedonist 8mo ago
The Doom port itself is pretty fun, but I love the presentation of it. Brilliant idea to let people play the game themselves on the actual hardware.
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by linehedonist 8mo ago
I’ve used Macs nearly exclusively for 13 years and have not gotten used to the window tabbing. I just fundamentally don’t think windows of the same application should be grouped together.
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by linehedonist 8mo ago
Both 0F and 100F happen regularly in many parts of the US and I would not say here one is rarer than the other. NYC has seen both in the last 12 months.
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Land Grab: Israel's Escalating Campaign for Control of the West Bank(nytimes.com)
13 points by linehedonist 9mo ago|0 comments
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by linehedonist 9mo ago
Certainly the world’s climate is worse. Wealth inequality is worse. I try hard not to be nostalgic, and even so I have to admit lots of things are not as good as they were in the 60s. It’s not even like the physical infrastructure is all th
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by linehedonist 9mo ago
But why would I want the cassette experience in the first place?
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by linehedonist 10mo ago
In general I think I have a lot more faith in medical professionals than it seems you do, but I do agree that the early mixed messaging around face masks in Feb. 2020 left me with a lot of distrust of Fauci in particular: https:/&#x2F
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by linehedonist 10mo ago
The underlying article in Le Monde: https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/11/19/nico... Archive link: https://archive.is/TleMk
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by linehedonist 10mo ago
What about Gittertiere? https://www.reddit.com/r/Gittertiere/s/KIDj4EhElD
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by linehedonist 10mo ago
> Rhodian sea law, from 900 BCE, states that if a salvor rescues property from the perilous seas, they are entitled to a share of the saved property. Unlikely, given that the Greek alphabet didn’t exist in 900 BCE.
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by linehedonist 11mo ago
One improvement is a bed of concrete at the end of the runway that will catch the wheels and slow an airplane down to a stop. Pretty much everyone agrees it’s a good idea but it’s not always possible due to space needs or cost. https:&#x2F

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