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I think I’m done with HN(twitter.com)
74 points by smacktoward 6y ago|54 comments
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by smacktoward 6y ago
AKA the Osborne effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
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The Aircraft Carrier We Need(nationalreview.com)
1 points by smacktoward 6y ago|0 comments
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by smacktoward 6y ago
Once upon a time (aka the early '90s), Gopher and WWW were both simple systems for publishing hypertext. Neither one was appreciably more complex or ambitious than the other. WWW eventually pulled out into the lead, due largely to lice
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by smacktoward 6y ago
One reason it can't happen today is because it never ends well. Ion Storm was a huge disaster; it produced Deus Ex , but it also produced Daikatana , one of the truly legendary bad games. The studio mismanaged itself so badly that by
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by smacktoward 6y ago
Webpack's general design philosophy is to dump a bag of tools on your head and tell you to use them to assemble a build system. So anytime the bag gets larger, I cringe.
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by smacktoward 6y ago
As with most things Apple, it is a joy as long as you restrict yourself to only plugging the device into official Apple peripherals, preferably ones that are available to buy right now. It’s when you start hooking your Mac up to old hardwar
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by smacktoward 6y ago
Of all the complaints that could be lodged against PHP, performance is a weird one.
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by smacktoward 6y ago
> The Times can claim that a harsh tone and a small factual error in Senator Tom Cotton’s recent op-ed was the reason the entire paper had a meltdown, but the staffers who revolted initially claimed that Cotton’s argument for bringing t
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The Cheese That Stands Alone: The Sad Fate of Limburger Cheese(laphamsquarterly.org)
2 points by smacktoward 6y ago|0 comments
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by smacktoward 6y ago
I used the title the author of the article gave it. I generally try to do that when submitting, unless there is a very very good reason not to -- e.g. it's something completely incomprehensible to someone who isn't a regular rea
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Nukes, Nubs and Coners: The Unique Social Hierarchy Aboard a Nuclear Submarine(thedrive.com)
1 points by smacktoward 6y ago|0 comments
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Against Cop Shit(jeffreymoro.com)
103 points by smacktoward 6y ago|68 comments
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Why They Say They Were Fired(lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com)
1 points by smacktoward 6y ago|0 comments
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by smacktoward 6y ago
We've had forty years for people to build features like this on top of IMAP, and nobody has done so. This would seem to be a decent indication that the Unix philosophy is not going to produce much innovation in this market.
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by smacktoward 6y ago
In every company, no matter how obscene the margins they're making on a given product, there is someone arguing that those margins could be even larger if they just cut a few corners. Eventually someone listens to that person, and de
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by smacktoward 6y ago
> Is YOLOv5 the Correct Name? > Candidly, the Roboflow team does not know. It seems like, unless you can say with certainty that you have a legitimate claim to use an existing name, the right and safe thing to do would be to not u
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by smacktoward 6y ago
... he asks, in his column in a prominent national magazine.
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Deep State Mapping Project(deepstatemappingproject.com)
1 points by smacktoward 6y ago|0 comments
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by smacktoward 6y ago
Schoolteachers (in the USA, anyway) get paid next to nothing, and frequently have to buy classroom supplies out of pocket because their school system doesn't have the budget to buy them. Nobody becomes a schoolteacher to get rich.
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by smacktoward 6y ago
> rather expensive editions that are rarely discounted substantially, such as the Criterion Collection Criterion's web store ( https://www.criterion.com/shop ) has sales all the time. There's one on right now t
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How Can You Make It Safe to Go to the Gym Now?(slate.com)
1 points by smacktoward 6y ago|0 comments
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The Great New York City Police Riot of 1857(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by smacktoward 6y ago|0 comments
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by smacktoward 6y ago
The root account is a loaded gun. Sudo su is a loaded gun with the safety engaged. You can still shoot yourself with it, but you have to take an affirmative action first (disengaging the safety/sudo su), which cuts way down on the numb
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The headstone read, "Killed on Smoot’s Dredging Machine." What did that mean?(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by smacktoward 6y ago|0 comments
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25 years of PHP: The personal web tools that ended up everywhere(theregister.com)
1 points by smacktoward 6y ago|0 comments
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An Ex-Cop's Guide to Not Getting Arrested(citylab.com)
1 points by smacktoward 6y ago|0 comments
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by smacktoward 6y ago
If you are taking your epidemiological guidance from a site called "Conservative Review," which appears to exist mostly to provide Google juice to other sites in Glenn Beck's media network, do me a favor and don't come w
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Mythic Markets: Invest in iconic pop culture collectibles(mythicmarkets.com)
1 points by smacktoward 6y ago|0 comments
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Police are out of control. It’s time to hit them where it hurts: their budgets(craigcalcaterra.com)
4 points by smacktoward 6y ago|12 comments

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