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by phantasmish 8mo ago
Where does the money to pay for shelf space come from if not the money we pay for food?
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by phantasmish 8mo ago
It's absolutely wild to me that people can have experienced any amount of the Internet and not think "word of mouth" will absolutely wholly suffice to fill the role of informing people about products. Of course many, many peo
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by phantasmish 8mo ago
Impossible to solve I’m sure. Probably lower priority than stopping them from putting lead in bread and selling cocaine snake-oil elixirs, or forcing them to list basic nutritional information on food packaging. Alas, we lack the tools to m
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by phantasmish 8mo ago
Oh, I know how it works. You could have read my whole comment and saved yourself typing anything about the yellow pages. You sweet summer child.
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by phantasmish 8mo ago
If I go looking for a directory of [service, in my area] that’s hardly an ad! If those include, say, reviews and pricing info, great! Yes, please! I definitely don’t want that directory to be skewed with ads in favor of those with the mos
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by phantasmish 8mo ago
This is what a fucking store is for . They have catalogs. You could ask for one. If they think people will want something they will try to sell it and will tell you about it if you go looking . I see this pro-ads argument all the time a
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by phantasmish 8mo ago
… wait, I was pretty sure the behavior used to be to paste whatever you had most recently highlighted. When did that change? Or am I crazy?
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by phantasmish 8mo ago
As a compulsive text highlighter, I’ve always found this feature more trouble than it’s worth, by a pretty wide margin. Plus, its inability to replace text means I have to be familiar with the keyboard shortcuts anyway. I find it easier to
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by phantasmish 8mo ago
Terrible productivity loss vs. signing up for a hosted Wordpress site.
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by phantasmish 8mo ago
Seriously, I’m lucky if 10% of what I do in a week is writing code. I’m doubly lucky if, when I do, it doesn’t involve touching awful corporate horse-shit like low-code products that are allergic to LLM aid, plus multiple git repos, plus ha
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by phantasmish 8mo ago
The “double checking” is a step to make sure there’s someone low-level to blame. Everyone knows the “double-checking” in most of these systems will be cursory at best, for most double-checkers. It’s a miserable job to do much of, and with A
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by phantasmish 8mo ago
Have you considered that your investment firm and other peers at the time were in an information bubble? In fact outside of tech if the dotcom bubble wasn’t being discussed it’s because most folks—being not, or barely, online yet—weren’t pa
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by phantasmish 8mo ago
Any troll or shitposter who can't operate extremely effectively on HN isn't very good at it. The site basically has a house style for those activities, and you can go crazy insulting and stirring people up all day long and not g
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by phantasmish 8mo ago
It's one of those initially unintuitive things that makes perfect sense when you consider that "burning calories" is... pretty literally burning calories. Of course CO2 is how most of the mass goes away. Similar to the &quo
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by phantasmish 8mo ago
No kidding. “Reverting” to something pretty similar to Mac OS in the late ‘90s, as far as visuals and basic UI behavior (but not removing modern features) would be a big improvement. And once they did that they could just leave it that way.
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
If I’ve understood the grandparent post correctly, they don’t need the banner. They wouldn’t need it if the only cookie they set were a functional 1st-party cookie, and since that sole cookie is just to track cookie banner status, they esp
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
I waited what I thought (and what was suggested by enthusiasts to be) long enough for the tech to be mature and approachable, and finally bought a highly-recommended beginner printer about three years ago. I’ll never touch the tech again. T
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
… but does turn it into “content”.
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
AI Economics (of money, anyway) aren't what'll kill writing. The vast, vast majority of writing is already not done for money. Approximately nobody makes meaningful amounts of money writing. The existence of a sea of AI slop makin
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
Nobody ever told me and I drove my first car for a long time, rarely drove other people’s cars, and did not have the kind of lifestyle that either supported or required rental cars. I found out around age 35, I think. From reading it online
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
Soaps had publications in checkout lanes that’d catch you up on anything you missed.
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
This is more than just trivially true for Python in a scripting context, too, because it doesn’t do things like type coercion that some other scripting languages do. If you want to concat an int with a string you’ll need to cast the int fir
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
1) Modern games are enormous and as long as services like GOG let me re-download my library it frees up literally terabytes of space on my disk array for pirated movies and other things that benefit far more from piracy than games do. 2) I
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
The Guyana that borders Venezuela is independent, but ex-British. French Guyana is on the other end of that set of three little countries.
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
The generous assignment of motivation is realpolitik anti-Russia + China stuff. Less generous but probably true as at least part of the motivation, there’s the usual factor of US companies wanting to “invest” in a foreign country to extract
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
> Replaces the standard Go runtime with one designed for the Dreamcast's constraints: memory 16MB RAM, CPU single-core SH-4, no operating system. 24 total megabytes, with an M, of memory between system and video (another 8 there), s
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
Both of these two contests were really weird. Trump is an extremely unusual Republican. Hillary was someone Republican mouthpieces had been priming the electorate to vote against for the prior 20+ years . Kamala moved to the top of the t
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
99.9% of people would be better voters if they put five hours a week toward reading about and better understanding shit from an undergrad liberal arts program (history, political philosophy, statistics, media studies, basic physical science
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
I’ve been using iOS since 2013 or so, and even spent five or so years off-and-on developing for the platform. I never use the multitasking stuff. Too confusing. I regard the loss of the single physical home button as a tragedy. One of the b
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
I can tell you that everyone I’ve met whose job it has been to communicate with and guide C-suiters across many companies has regarded them as basically super-powerful young children, as far as their reasoning capacity, ability to understan

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