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by netsharc 4d ago
Ah, yes, skills like reading and maths. Outdated in 2026, just ask AI to do it for you!
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by netsharc 5d ago
Sorry for your non-existant attention span. (Not actually sorry)
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by netsharc 5d ago
Feels like you wrote this without reading my comment to the end, where I do point out with Americans it's not much different.
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by netsharc 5d ago
A lot of Chinese do have a policy of "as long as we're comfortable (economically, etc), we'll let the government do whatever they want.", some justifying it by saying "society needs their government to be a strict p
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by netsharc 5d ago
Samples, or sampling of each typewriter's idiosyncracies? This post https://foxfire.blog/explorations/the-typewriter-that-became... claims "specific machine": > The forensic science behind this was ge
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by netsharc 5d ago
Also not an expert, I wonder if there's some rule where a "Go around!" order has precedence over any other activity anyone in the cockpit wishes to perform. As a passenger I had my first go around a few days ago, but we were
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by netsharc 6d ago
I remember reading that Clinton's team was very concerned about Al Qaeda, but the Bush team ignored their warnings. It might have been very different with Al Gore in command. But this article portrays it differently: https:/&#x2F
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by netsharc 7d ago
"They wanted us to hide female staff" would get French society to support them again..
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by netsharc 7d ago
And there's respecting of guests' religion. What if the Hindus had said "we are vegans, please don't serve us meat" - probably reasonable enough, although I seem to recall some rightwingers getting angry about some
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by netsharc 7d ago
Regarding 3) This is France, where in some areas swimwear on beaches is regulated. No "burkini", even non-tight-fitting swimshorts were disallowed. So to shake your head and think "Woke Europe" would be too simplistic.
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by netsharc 7d ago
As a thought experiment, perhaps someone there thought not fulfilling the Indian group's request would be seen as insensitive. I suppose the decisionmaker needs to know what societal values one has to uphold, and in which order of impo
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by netsharc 7d ago
Probably not HN-relevant... But I find it flabbergasting that in 2026 someone in the management thought it'd be okay to tell female staff to hide, just because some delegation demanded it. But for the tech-relevancy angle; They could&#
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by netsharc 8d ago
I've read that if you give FB/IG/WA access to all files/photos, and you have GPS metadata for photos (I do, hey it's useful to know where I took a pic), it can trawl that data to see where you've been and when.
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by netsharc 8d ago
My suspicion is that things like URL previews, or when the app calls a handler to open a link (YouTube, browser), are still monitored. So e.g. opening a link to an Amazon product that a friend sent makes you a target for ads in that categor
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by netsharc 9d ago
If Russia financed a German who's fed up with his government, is it Russian sabotage? Seems there's plenty of those around, on the left and on the right.. (there was a left-anarchist sabotage of power distribution in Berlin in win
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by netsharc 10d ago
Faith that the blog poster chose carefully to convey meaning, including with images. A huge image, 95% of it white, just for "I want to show you the address bar" is incoherent communication. Technical issues like "It's b
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by netsharc 10d ago
As far as I can tell it's not AI slop, but I wish this author had asked one LLM if his example is A/B testing, because the AI would've told him no, and we wouldn't have to have read this garbage.
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by netsharc 11d ago
Somehow it feels like social media spread ever more FOMO for this year's eclipse, there were long queues for eclipse glasses at local opticians, although where I lived we only had 90% totality (people think each person needs a pair, no
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by netsharc 11d ago
The fact that the first screenshot is a totally empty browser window (just to show the address bar) made me lose faith about reading the rest of your writing...
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by netsharc 12d ago
Well, that reads like the justification you want to give to yourself after the fact.. the interesting question is what's the real reason...
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by netsharc 12d ago
"Both sides are just as bad" is copium for when the guy from "your side" is revealed to be a corrupt piece of shit. You don't like it, so you justify to yourself that the other party is also full of creeps and assho
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by netsharc 14d ago
So, are any of the sane-ish governments of the world preparing for the upcoming disaster? Maybe prepare for international deployment of help? I guess the Chinese government would do it quietly. Maybe Australia, Japan are doing something...
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by netsharc 14d ago
A universal tool (well, since I use Windows, a Windows tool) to modify the clipboard would be cool. So, copy text to clipboard, press a hotkey to popup the menu, and it'll offer options depending on the detected text. For example chang
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by netsharc 14d ago
I want to laugh at an "IT professional" not doing backups, but hmm, the article turned to a mirror...
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by netsharc 14d ago
Hah, what a timeline, that the makers of entertainment like The Godfather series, Forrest Gump, Ferries Bueller's Day Off, Star Trek, Transformers (1) is now part of a genocide-supporting mahinery. But this is barely "hacker news&
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by netsharc 15d ago
I suppose the only good solution is like those "game streaming services": move all the logic to the server and use the client only as a rendering device. Even sending metadata so the client can use local sprites to render the enem
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by netsharc 15d ago
Duh and duh... You're commenting on a comments thread about the possible desertification of Europe, a conversation we're having in the context of the record hot summer. The extremist parties offer scapegoats and solutions for the
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by netsharc 15d ago
As Oscar Wilde didn't say: "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious": https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/06/28/patriot/ How do you have pride when the leader of your tribe is a liar, swindle
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by netsharc 17d ago
The Github page has a link to a Discord chat. Hah, where's the dogfooding?
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by netsharc 17d ago
I like low prices, but I'm not looking forward to the chaos (political, social, what else) and deaths which I'm guessing will affect me within in the next 10 years.

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