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by satiric 1mo ago
When you make a post, I think HN asks you to summarize the article in the comments (or something like that, I haven't submitted anything in a while)
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by satiric 2mo ago
Ah I see, thanks.
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by satiric 2mo ago
How do you detect that it's plugged in? Just detecting voltage would mean that you'd unplug it and it would stay energized, right?
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by satiric 2mo ago
Neither 1/36th or 1/12th are used, and the other two aren't fractions. We don't say six and a twelfth feet, we say six feet one inch. With distance, fractions are only used for fractions of an inch (apart from trivial us
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by satiric 2mo ago
Plugs and sockets have the wrong gender for this. On the battery, you'd have a male plug with live 240v contacts, ready to short against anything, or anyone, that's conductive. This is the same reason why male-to-male extension co
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by satiric 2mo ago
When we use fractions for measurements, the denominator is virtually always a power of two. The only one I can think of that isn't is a fifth of alcohol, which is really just its own unit at this point.
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by satiric 2mo ago
To know that 0.32 m is smaller than 43 cm I have to actively think, but I'm guessing you don't. I've never had to think about 3/4 vs 1/2. Even 5/16ths vs 1/4 is intuitive for me.
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by satiric 2mo ago
Let's test it out. I'll become pope, you become the emperor, and we'll see who gets there first.
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by satiric 2mo ago
Nah, ditch the wife. Become a cardinal in the Catholic church, then get elected pope. From there it should be fairly trivial to re-establish the Papal States to their largest extent.
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by satiric 2mo ago
This one burns oil, not coal.
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by satiric 4mo ago
This is Hackernews - the unreadable font size is a feature, not a bug
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by satiric 4mo ago
If you kill the lawn, won't the invasive plants take over?
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by satiric 4mo ago
Sorry, complaints about our payment policy are handled through the Complaintly app, which is available for Apple and Android devices.
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by satiric 4mo ago
The nirvana album doesn't have a space - for me, searching for "nevermind" gets me straight to the album
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by satiric 4mo ago
Interesting in learning more - what bill is this that was passed by Clinton?
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by satiric 4mo ago
Looks like the original title is too long for Hackernews
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by satiric 4mo ago
So you just write whatever you want, then find a source for it later? I don't think you understand how this is supposed to work
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by satiric 5mo ago
Except "usually mistaken" doesn't apply here, since it's often true.
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by satiric 5mo ago
Yes, you can expect people here to read your comments and judge them by their content. Were you expecting otherwise?
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by satiric 5mo ago
Missed opportunity to call the article "ChatGPT's latest stylistic quirk isn't just sinister or infuriating—it's everywhere." This has been making its way around the internet for a while, but in case anyone hasn&#x2
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by satiric 6mo ago
Of course the proof in the pudding is in the eating, but just saying that they want to do this stuff is at least a slight improvement over before, where we mostly just saw apathy and enshittification. It's also a promise that people ca
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by satiric 7mo ago
Mountain time is ambiguous due to Arizona, and yet we still use that phrase. Hawaii-Aleutian time is also ambiguous: the Aleutian islands do daylight savings, but Hawaii doesn't. Casual speech doesn't use the city names (like Amer
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by satiric 7mo ago
Preventing pasting would drastically reduce how often people cite their sources; no one wants to hand copy a long url.
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by satiric 7mo ago
Roadster launch is supposed to be on April 1st... Hard to think of any response other than "once bitten, twice shy"
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by satiric 7mo ago
I think I've been this person before, but I've also been the person that makes the meeting go on for 20 minutes longer than necessary by bringing up stuff that doesn't need to be talked about in a big meeting. I've also
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by satiric 7mo ago
In John Adams' Harmonium, I was surprised to learn the basses go into treble clef for a second. I hadn't sung untransposed treble clef in many years! I think it was only an F#4 or A4 or something but it felt real strange to be sin
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by satiric 7mo ago
Here it is on archive.org, since the original was taken down (hey, the cat's out of the bag now): https://web.archive.org/web/20260205155934/https://mrbruh.co...
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by satiric 7mo ago
I use an addon for firefox called "Hide shorts for Youtube™". Works just fine.
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by satiric 8mo ago
The g-code is not being distributed, because it's specific to each printer, filament, etc. G-code is not the same thing as a STP or STL file.
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by satiric 8mo ago
It would have made for a great puzzler.

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