npongratz

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by npongratz 23d ago
Many of us did, and I certainly still do, but there obviously weren't enough of us rebelling to convince them of how reprehensible it is to sue your own fans and sic the guns of the state on them.
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by npongratz 3mo ago
"Abysmal", but that's beside the point. Suppose a US citizen, residing and working in the US and never traveling to China, crosses The Powers That Be. Which Power is more likely to do worse things to said citizen? Pretty unli
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by npongratz 3mo ago
Not only that, but given how I would phonetically pronounce it... ew.
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What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000(movq.de)
235 points by npongratz 3mo ago|208 comments
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by npongratz 3mo ago
I suspect it's more accurate to say the private equity that bought out dental practices everywhere have the cash to burn. At least for now.
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by npongratz 3mo ago
They don't use their own product, and they don't want their engineers to use their product either. They want velocity , and you can't have velocity if you're bogged down by doing end-to-end testing and finding frictio
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by npongratz 4mo ago
Just remember: "NO KIBITZING"! Sadly, it appears ChatGPT 5.5 did not implement this crucial feature for this javascript port.
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by npongratz 5mo ago
That's awesome! I had a somewhat similar experience (shared previously [0]): > I proved a topology theorem in a dream once. > Before I went to sleep, my inability to prove it had been bugging me all day long, and I suspected it&#
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by npongratz 5mo ago
That's just a straight-shooter with "upper management" written all over him.
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by npongratz 5mo ago
> The PTO shaft is a spindle on the back of the tractor which drives things like your flail mower, wood chipper, etc. ... and kills/maims anyone with lose clothing trying to step over it!
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by npongratz 5mo ago
I believe you mean r/datahoarder: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ r/datahorde is different, and a ghost town.
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by npongratz 6mo ago
Mirror here: https://isoc-sig.freifunk.net/systemd/systemd%20birthDate%20... (confirmed still up at the time of writing this post.)
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Systemd BirthDate Merge: Conflicts of Interest(tboteproject.com)
23 points by npongratz 6mo ago|23 comments
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by npongratz 6mo ago
It might be mere semantics, but the 1814 burning of Washington has been depicted as an invasion. https://archive.org/details/burningofwashing00pitc
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by npongratz 7mo ago
> And that error is that they look for technical compliance when so much of the law is subjective and holistic. I know it sounds like an oversimplification, but "got off on a technicality" is a common thing among the well-conne
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by npongratz 7mo ago
Poor performers get put on PIPs, right? Did that person's poor performance "ruin it for everyone" and put the rest of the working plebs (the entire company or department or whatever) on PIPs? No, of course not. The poor perfo
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by npongratz 8mo ago
Regulation is theater, effectively, thanks to regulatory capture.
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by npongratz 8mo ago
The progression of the cable TV industry shows many people are more than happy, or apathetic enough, to allow the industry to double-dip.
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by npongratz 9mo ago
pingfs has similar inspiration, where storage capacity scales with latency. https://code.kryo.se/pingfs/ Discussed in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9844725
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by npongratz 11mo ago
Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39884821 195 points | 2 years ago | 66 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23902124 196 points | 5 years ago | 100 comments
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by npongratz 1y ago
Same results for me. Absolutely awful, vision consistently began failing by becoming noticeably blurry about 8 to 9 hours after taking night lenses out, and I couldn't drive at night because of headlight and streetlight halos even afte
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by npongratz 1y ago
Not completely unheard of but I get your point :). Babylon 5's pilot's animations (and I believe opening credits) was rendered in 1993 on sixteen souped-up A2000s, each with 32 MB of RAM. https://www.generationamiga.c
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by npongratz 1y ago
> The AI race seems more defined by spending more money than the other guy, regardless of results. Reminds me of the much-vaunted, then widely maligned and derided, burn rate metric of the dot-com bubble.
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by npongratz 1y ago
> You can always get a plugin if something is missing. To my great consternation, I have not found this to be true in the cloud version: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-72631 Special thanks to Matt Lachma
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by npongratz 1y ago
Words mean things. Please don't call it "unlimited" if you limit it.
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by npongratz 1y ago
> (After 8 months they told me to pick up all my gear, they found nothing, but thanks for traumatising my kids)
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by npongratz 1y ago
From TFA, they're using LIDAR results to determine features suggesting indigenous farming practices. Researchers are doing the same in tropical rainforests around the world, where there's far more vegetation, finding similar evide
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by npongratz 1y ago
There are no native water buffalo in Alaska. Are you perhaps thinking of American bison?
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by npongratz 1y ago
> Everyone loves pie! Oh gosh, no! Count me among those who greatly dislike pie charts in almost every context. "Almost never use a pie chart for data" https://theconversation.com/heres-why-you-should-almost-nev
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by npongratz 1y ago
I disagree. I highly appreciate @alterom's perspective and clear elucidation, and think the discussion has been fantastic.

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