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Lafcadio Hearn(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by rvrs 7d ago|0 comments
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by rvrs 2mo ago
I've just been using this for years https://github.com/rupa/z It is simple and does the job
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by rvrs 3mo ago
>A) proactively keeping me healthy, This will never happen and arguably should not be the *medical* system's problem. It is just not feasible
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by rvrs 3mo ago
Work is performance art
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by rvrs 3mo ago
what? I started school in the early 2000s, after no child left behind started, and definitely learned multiplication tables lol
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by rvrs 4mo ago
>If I'm not experiencing any particular emotion in a given moment, am I concious? Genuine question: How are you so sure whether you are experiencing an emotion or not? Are you a master of everything inside your own head?
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by rvrs 6mo ago
And I am exactly the opposite - aside from my first job out of university 10 years ago I have gotten every job since through connections
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Irasutoya(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by rvrs 6mo ago|0 comments
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by rvrs 6mo ago
Whether you like it or not you will look stupid to native speakers. It's a subconscious bias
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by rvrs 6mo ago
The Neo is supposed to be the budget version. I think MacOS is a decent computing platform for some engineering and creative endeavors -- if one more college kid gets access to it for cheaper I say it's a positive
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by rvrs 7mo ago
I work in east Asia for a western startup. My work schedule is shifted a few hours earlier, so I end up waking up at 5 and have meetings starting at 6. I work in silence the rest of the day and we have no-meetings days once a week. I love i
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by rvrs 9mo ago
Japanese has a word for green now 緑 (midori). Traffic lights use the word for blue for historical reasons
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by rvrs 10mo ago
I also live in Suginami! There's always a lot of kids running around together, especially after school, but that feels quite normal for anywhere in Japan, no?
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by rvrs 11mo ago
Enforce stacked PRs, reject PRs over 500-1k LoC (I'd argue even lower, but it's a hard sell)
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by rvrs 11mo ago
Did a coal miner write this comment?
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by rvrs 2y ago
I was very pissed off to find that my Youtube Premium didn't work when I visited Armenia. I was still paying for it, but ads played and I couldn't listen to videos in the background. WTF?
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by rvrs 2y ago
There's so much obvious evidence of manipulation on Wikipedia, it's insane that it doesn't come under more scrutiny. It's even worse on non-English Wikipedias
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by rvrs 2y ago
Is it this one? https://photos.paulstamatiou.com/new-zealand/coromandel-peni... EDIT: Any HN mods/devs reading this -- there seems to be a display bug for comment creation time? On edit it says 20hrs (accurate), w
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by rvrs 2y ago
Is there anything out there that's even close to that OG GPT-3? It was the closest experience I've ever had to magic, and I miss it dearly
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by rvrs 2y ago
Really? I feel exactly the opposite, that as a species we are extremely primitive in that regard. We underinvest into social "technology." Systems of collaboration and alignment aren't widespread, and research into it isn&#x2
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by rvrs 2y ago
>I would never create a system that placed a negative on someone's entire life. >There is always room for and chances to improve ones self. Great, then here's an opportunity for you to improve: I need you to understand that
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by rvrs 2y ago
I believe people (who are not deemed guilty of murder or something and imprisoned for life) have the right to start over, and so people have the right to lie. Having a lifelong number assigned to you is evil. This isn't solving any pro
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by rvrs 2y ago
I'm a born and raised American: I'd give anything to relocate to Europe or Asia permanently (for healthcare access reasons). Currently working a remote job from the US and exploring my options internally and externally.
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by rvrs 2y ago
1) For sites I come back to for reference or frequent utility, I use my Chrome bookmarks bar heavily. I have it synced to my Google account in the cloud, and segmented across different Chrome profiles (work email account for work things, pe
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by rvrs 2y ago
This is not news -- Reddit has been very clearly astroturfed for years now
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by rvrs 2y ago
What does your dealflow look like? Do you usually trade smaller unusuals into larger ones or are you just flipping big-money unusuals? How do you get the deals?
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by rvrs 2y ago
>I've been dipping my toes into the JS ecosystem, and I keep bumping into the fact that using mentally cheap signals of quality (such as stars or DL counts) almost never indicates the quality of the thing itself. Winners seem to be
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by rvrs 2y ago
Anything you would have done differently in the past? You're describing me but two decades younger hahaha
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by rvrs 2y ago
What's the app called? I'd like to reference it to see if I can swim when I visit :D
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by rvrs 2y ago
The holder of the credential would have to present it log(N) times. If someone asks to scan your id a bunch of times, wouldn't you find it suspicious?

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