martey

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AI Listings Have Made Apartment Hunting More Debasing(defector.com)
1 points by martey 2mo ago|0 comments
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by martey 2mo ago
This is covered in the post (emphasis mine): > With similar concerns in mind, we also decided to limit the tank size to 20 gallons, as the grow-bed above also contains an additional ~10 gallons of water. Since a gallon of fresh water wei
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I Built the Only 2026 WWII Jeep(theautopian.com)
187 points by martey 2mo ago|64 comments
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by martey 3mo ago
OP's alt text makes it clear that by "Galapagos Island" they mean Vancouver. I assumed that this was some sort of local nickname, but all of the references to "Galápagos of Canada" I could find are talking about Hai
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Leaving Mozilla(blog.unitedheroes.net)
522 points by martey 3mo ago|333 comments
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by martey 3mo ago
This is a good story, but you can read both the Treaty of Ghent (which ended the War of 1812 while keeping the US-Canada border the same) and Rush-Bagot (which restricted naval fleets on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain). Neither document
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Why Stone-Faced Fascists Keep Getting Antiquity Wrong(thebulwark.com)
10 points by martey 3mo ago|0 comments
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The shooting stopped. Then came everything else(cnn.com)
2 points by martey 4mo ago|0 comments
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The rise and fall of an AI-driven 'local news outlet' in South Florida(floridatrib.org)
2 points by martey 4mo ago|0 comments
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Whither the Nerd-Bully?(nybooks.com)
2 points by martey 4mo ago|0 comments
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by martey 5mo ago
This initiative isn't about maintaining a certain population density, it's about restricting immigration and separating Switzerland from the European Union.
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by martey 5mo ago
While I agree with you that this blog post (and the "carrot disclosure" described in it) is ill-considered, the pull request is not really "new code", it adds quotes to HTML attributes that are missing them. I think it&#
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Desmond Morris has died(bbc.com)
124 points by martey 5mo ago|23 comments
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by martey 6mo ago
Unfortunately, no. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395320 .
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by martey 6mo ago
> "Its fine if the media lies to the people if the people believe the lies." That is low, but that's neither a direct quote or not an accurate paraphrase of my comment. While I realize that the comment I replied was edit
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by martey 6mo ago
It's bad etiquette to edit your comment after people have replied to it without showing what your edits were. Please do not do this.
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by martey 6mo ago
Your comment is full of historical revisionism. The Second World War has little or nothing to do with the Holodomor. The Times' lack of reporting on it has nothing to do with American foreign policy (both Duranty and Gareth Jones were
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by martey 6mo ago
> World Was 2, they uncritically accepted Walter Durranty letting Stalin ghostwrite for him, specifically w.r.t. Stalin's man-made famine in Ukraine, because America was allied with Stalin. Duranty's New York Times articles w
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by martey 6mo ago
I think this new guideline is nothing like the Bathroom Singing Prohibition Act, because that law doesn't seem to really exist: https://www.grunge.com/1710070/is-pennsylvania-strange-batht...
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Covid-19 cleared the skies but also supercharged methane emissions(arstechnica.com)
7 points by martey 7mo ago|0 comments
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I work with AI for a living. This marketing ploy is repugnant(washingtonpost.com)
9 points by martey 7mo ago|3 comments
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by martey 8mo ago
" The fundamental issue is that SendGrid’s business model depends on making it easy for legitimate businesses to send email at scale. " I disagree with this conclusion, if not only because other email service providers don't
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by martey 9mo ago
> In this case, the fact that it took 2 years. And of course now that FFmpeg is getting more exposure in the media due to their association with AI hype, now they finally get 'fair' legal treatment... I don't call that wi
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We asked four AI coding agents to rebuild Minesweeper(arstechnica.com)
6 points by martey 9mo ago|0 comments
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How the Rhinelander Trial Scandalized the Jazz Age(nytimes.com)
2 points by martey 9mo ago|0 comments
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by martey 9mo ago
A lot of comments here seem to suggest that we should discount or ignore this paper because the OLPC program had other benefits (increasing uptake of lower cost laptops worldwide, giving children computer skills, etc.). This is a reasonable
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The Man Who Was Supposed to Kill Martin Luther King Jr(slate.com)
5 points by martey 10mo ago|0 comments
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ICE Says Critical Evidence Was Lost in 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued(404media.co)
17 points by martey 10mo ago|1 comments
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Wired and 404 Media make FOIA reporting free(freedom.press)
20 points by martey 11mo ago|1 comments
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GitHub Code Quality in public preview(github.blog)
1 points by martey 11mo ago|0 comments

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