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by xref 3mo ago
I definitely read that as D-Bus hell
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by xref 2y ago
Apparently _you’ve_ never heard of wizards!
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by xref 2y ago
I have this in my “East Germany” collection along with Good Bye Lenin! and Deutschland 83 . Could probably use a few more entries.
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by xref 2y ago
[2022] I’d imagine a lot more empirical evidence has been generated one way or the other in the intervening two years
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by xref 2y ago
The ringing in my ears has always sounded like the high-voltage flyback inside old CRT tvs/monitors. Maybe I spent too long around them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyback_converter
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by xref 2y ago
But a good way to save pedestrians on the sidewalk
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by xref 2y ago
IANAD but I’d imagine with all the knee/hip/everything replacements, metal plates in heads, pins in wrists, pacemaker implants etc that it’s a manageable issue.
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by xref 2y ago
Ben Horowitz co-founded Andreesen Horowitz so you know, take whatever he says about his partner with a grain of salt
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by xref 2y ago
I would point out for centuries, I’m thinking at least through the Industrial Revolution, 10-16 hours was the norm and many families were still raised. And it was horrible. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day
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by xref 2y ago
From reading upthread it sounds like performance impact is heavily dependent on the skill of the game development team, ie: if they pick the wrong things to hook during the in-game runtime checks performance can suffer greatly
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by xref 2y ago
We need less/more/same regulation, whichever one satisfies my desires at any given moment!
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by xref 3y ago
For people who like exploring, know the leaning tower of Pisa is absolutely _not_ a once-in-a-lifetime experience. There are over 100 leaning towers around the world! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_leaning_towe
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by xref 3y ago
> The "anonymity and privacy inherent in the cryptocurrency system are what draw individuals, particularly those with illicit intentions, towards its use," 1) people vastly overestimate how much “anonymity and privacy” cryptocu
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by xref 3y ago
We already tried a temperance movement in America, it was…wildly unpopular and unenforceable to say the least.
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by xref 3y ago
I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make, but from looking at the last two federal election cycles the split doesn’t appear anywhere near 50/50 * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_president...
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by xref 3y ago
Aspirin has side effects.
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by xref 3y ago
Android Debug Bridge, for future readers
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by xref 3y ago
For all the panics about shoplifting or stores claiming they’re closing because of retail loss (spoiler: that’s not the truth) it’s a drop in the bucket compared to wage theft https://www.tcworkerscenter.org/2018/09&#x2
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by xref 3y ago
Looks like Millison is with Oregon State University https://workspace.oregonstate.edu/osu-permaculture-design
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by xref 3y ago
“there’s nothing that can’t be solved by another layer of abstraction”
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by xref 3y ago
I reread it 3 times and still left a typo in there, guess it’s good I didn’t become an editor :facepalm:
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by xref 3y ago
At a Winco there was a box fan full of tools and parts parked at the end of the parking lot with a hundred or so carts in front of it. It was a repairman going through every cart, took several days as he made his way through all the carts a
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by xref 3y ago
There’s a general contrarian-for-contrarians-sake streak among us here, and prevailing sentiment outside HN was that the changes were terrible
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by xref 3y ago
As a random datapoint I learned recently the Solana blockchain consensus software, written in Rust and notorious for absolutely dismal performance, is being completely rewritten…in C. I’m curious if they’ve thought that through as it introd
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by xref 3y ago
I see Ars Technica taking a lot of flak in the comments but lawdy, they’re still pretty great and one of the news sources I actually pay for (full-text rss feeds are a nice bonus). Just to pick a few of their writers who still kill it: Lee
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by xref 3y ago
Ah the No True Scotsman argument > If people’s time was truly valuable then no one should be ______ anyway.
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by xref 3y ago
Should probably paste the second paragraph here for everyone who doesn’t wanna read TFA. Most people’s understanding of the Luddites seems about on par with their knowledge of the “idiot McDonalds coffee lady” > The Luddites, Brian shows
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by xref 3y ago
Well it sold at Christie’s, not OpenSea or something
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by xref 3y ago
He’s probably happy resting on his laurels and cashing the checks.
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by xref 3y ago
In no small part because psychiatric hospitals were wildly, wildly abused. Basically you could lock people up indefinitely with no conviction of anything because someone said they’re a danger to themselves/society/whatever. Basica

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