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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
And accept that there’s a good chance this will accomplish nothing but getting you on their naysayers list. People can continue behavior where all they really need to do is stop actively harming themselves for no gain at all for years. It
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
People breaking the first rule wasn’t enough for me to crack into the scene. The weird two-paid-services thing required to use it effectively—a search service of some kind, and your actual content provider—and the jankiness of the software
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
> The Trump campaign could only deploy the "Trump is for you, Kamala is for they/them" slogan because Kamala herself, in 2020, felt the need to conform to then-prevailing winds and declare that she would fund gender-change
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
I think every time I’ve been (or even been moving toward) excellent at something, it’s because I found very little or none of it boring. Even very-focused drilling and such, or studying “boring” material (it wasn’t, to me—I didn’t have to d
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
No personalized feed driven by anything other than user selections. User identities downplayed. Profiles, but barely. Can’t “follow” people. If HN is social media, the term’s being used so broadly we’ll need something other term to refer to
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
Those two things already barely exist. I’m skeptical it’s possible, in a nation of hundreds of millions, to get them much closer to not existing than they already are. So if those are the parts really bothering people… it sure seems like a
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
Is there some kind of reader-mode filtering site one can put a URL in to get a version that undoes this extra effort to remove capital letters? From what I’ve gotten of this piece I think it’s up my alley, but reading it is unpleasant. [edi
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
You may enjoy “Dabblers and Blowhards” from IdleWords, if you’re not already familiar with it. https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm Reading that helped me come to terms with how most of the tim
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
> Undemocratically, performatively, anointing behind closed doors a weak but social justice signaling candidate to run on the democratic ticket You’re just stringing together bingo-card words. I don’t think this is going to be a producti
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
> Ironically the Wokeness article does what most people accuse "wokeness" of doing, predetermining its conclusion, and then shoehorning in a bunch of loosely connected facts and phenomena to support that assertion. This basic a
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
This one’s footnote #2 addresses PG’s definition of “woke”, which I agree is useless (I’d go further: that kind’s so inconsequential that it’s nonsense to bring it up unless you’re using those complaints to attack other actions that do
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
Worse, it’s an attempt to get us to agree that humans only do things for profit, in order to advance an ideology and make our thought more malleable when an author turns around and starts writing about public policy and ethics applied to th
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
Thanks to you and your sibling poster, helpful info!
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
Two bananas to a potato (I assume we’re talking something like a russet, not a little red potato?) sounds generous to the potato, if we’re talking volume equivalence. A potato’s a meal. A banana’s a lightish snack.
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
Restricting who can own what, however… that’s long been fair game. In my dream world we’d get something like the rules we had, until fairly recently, restricting max broadcast media audience control in a given market for a single owner, but
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
The copy-the-.git-dir trick works for worse issues than can be solved with a single reset --hard. Damn near anything, really, as long as you haven't touched any remotes. It also works if you don't remember/understand how you
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
The broader question of why companies are able to keep pushing us ever closer to the maximum we’d conceivably be willing to pay for a given good, is probably best answered with “we stopped trust-busting a few decades ago, so competition suc
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
Good lord. He put a bunch of things in that that he'd use in Twin Peaks: The Return. Wild.
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
I'm about 95% sure that if I ask my two school-age daughters if it's weird to address girls and women as "bro" or "bruh" in informal circumstances, they'll say no. Since I hear them do it with some regular
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
I've been using Git for almost 15 years, and have twice built programs/products that use Git internally to achieve certain results (that is, the program/product itself uses Git for things, not just using Git to manage the s
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
Is boarding at Moynihan what another poster is alluding to with the possibility of avoiding the choke-point boarding by simply not using the main waiting area? Or is that considered a separate stop, possibly requiring a different ticket (an
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
Some of the people who returned for it died not long after it wrapped. The "Log Lady" might have died before it wrapped, even, can't recall. Miguel Ferrer wasn't around much longer. Even with Lynch living a good while pa
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
James-hate is common even among the more devoted fans of the show, I think. https://www.tinymixtapes.com/features/why-we-hate-james-hurl... I think about the "Watching Twin Peaks" comic around 2/3 down t
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
It's OK to just not care for things. Sometimes those things will be good. It's still OK to not care for them. It's also OK to like bad things. I like lots of bad things.
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
I appreciated the change to make Chani fill a role like Sherif Ali in the film Lawrence Of Arabia (the book Seven Pillars of Wisdom , if not the film, is plainly a huge influence on Herbert's Dune , and it's probably impossibl
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
Last few episodes are great again, and then we got Fire Walk With Me which is awesome. Also check out the feature-length The Missing Pieces composed of scenes cut from Fire Walk , if you haven't. Frankly I find even the "bad&
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
My biggest problem is I'll finally get a chance to sink enough hours in to start something AAA, do maybe 4-10 hours over two or three days, and then have life get in the way and not touch it for a month or more... and completely forget
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
I kinda think that way when buying. The Nintendo console is the Nintendo console. If you want what they do, you're buying it. The other two are where the competition is and where there's a decision of which one , not buy this si
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
> Not gonna happen. I’ve had insight into a bunch of businesses in multiple industries putting stupid money into trying to find a use for this, caught up in the hype and worried about falling behind. While also being sold AI features by
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by spokaneplumb 2y ago
The government’s banned owning media with too much reach before, placing limits on audience size per owner. We no longer know how to actually govern the country, but it used to be entirely possible.

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