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deadline.com 1y ago

David Lynch Dead at 78

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en.wikipedia.org 2y ago

Publius Enigma

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english.stackexchange.com 3y ago

Meaning and Usage of “To No End”

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blog.barysas.eu 3y ago

Being A Bash Developer in the 21st century (2021)

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www.cs.nmsu.edu 3y ago

Classic SE Mistakes (1996)

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Publius Enigma

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www.atlasobscura.com 4y ago

How Vladimir Lenin Became a Mushroom

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chinadigitaltimes.net 4y ago

Chinese Thanksgiving (2016)

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Microsoft vs. MikeRoweSoft (2003)

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Quadro Tracker (1993)

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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 4y ago

Neglected Food Bubbles: The Espresso Coffee Foam (2011)

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github.com 5y ago

Single-Instruction C Compiler

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com 5y ago

Long-term study reveals harm in regular cannabis use

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Ask HN: Best Replacement for N900?

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thehftguy.com 5y ago

Docker in Production? (2017)

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github.com 5y ago

View and control your Android device from your computer

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github.com 5y ago

Show HN: Bash Framework Written for Fun

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tmate.io 5y ago

Share Terminal Sessions Securely

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Help Gmail has killed my personal email

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int10h.org 6y ago

Old School PC Fonts

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delta.chat 6y ago

Email based PGP encrypted chat

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github.com 6y ago

Docker in ~100 Lines of Bash

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int10h.org 6y ago

The oldschool pc font list

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www.kernel.org 6y ago

Linux kernel magic SysRq key hacks

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world-nuclear-news.org 7y ago

A viewpoint: why we need nuclear power

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github.com 7y ago

Mail-in-a-box: feature rich single-click self-hosted email solution

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web.eecs.umich.edu 8y ago

JPLs' “The Power of 10: Rules for Developing Safety-Critical Code” (2006) [pdf]

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web.mit.edu 9y ago

The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf]

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github.com 11y ago

Github may block content if they receive a valid request from Roskomnadzor

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Alcohol is a duretic, that is no myth. Vasopressin/ADH inhibition is well documented and studied. You are talking out of your ass about hydration by alcohol. Even miniscule amounts of alcohol increase duresis via supression of ADH.

https://x.com/tony_breu/status/1034891346069413888

I too have heard about the theory about how alcohol was safer to drink than water, however, a lot of literature also points to the fact that aclohol was consumed mostly for inebriation.

At the root of all this is a philosophical problem that encompasses all we do: unsustainable growth. We're culturally obsessed with the concept of "more". More value. More money. More features. More, more, more. This is where it gets us: over the verge of ecological catastrophe. Unsustainable systems prone to breakage. Enshittification of everything. Planned obsolescence and yearly phone upgrades, natural resources be damned!

If we are to survive, we need to slow down and instead of making "more" make "better". Follow Unix philosophy. Embrace "good enough" and learn to stop.

Who am I kidding, we're doomed.

it is a positivistic science, i.e. it studies observable phenomena using the scientific method. The days of Freud and Jung where you could just smoke cigars and fart out ideas about collective unconsciousness and anal fixation are long over. Experiments are conducted, confounding variables controlled, and hypotheses (including H0) are tested. Granted, it's not as easy as in physics where you just drop a ball repeatedly and note down the results, buf it doesn't in any way make it a "softer" science. To equate psychology with self-help books is akin to equating LLMs with Markov chains.

The Layoff 2 years ago

hahaha yes. This kind of a layoff is actually winning the lottery.

your facts: billionaires not sitting on billions. My facts: homelesness exists.

Also moving money from your left hand to your right is not circulation. It should "trickle down". Wonder where I heard this.

you know what is really funny? the neoliberal narrative of free markets and trickle-down economies and billionaires being valuable members of thr society. If humans are not needed to get stuff done, what's the use for those humans, mmmm?

AI is tipping the scales not to the favour of the proletariat. "The means of production" is in the hands of the powerful few, and I foresee a very bloody revolution.

Maybe at some size corporations _should_ become public entities to avoid dragon disease and only those corporations having the means of production. After all, they did grow enormously big by consuming public resources and labor.

Wow, man, your mental gymnastics are impressive and your gaslighting skills are formidable.

Are you saying that greed and straight-out lying is moral, and just because there is a powerful and dangerous minority of super-greedy liars it actually is the only means of social existence? LOL. LMAO even.

"Ads are just making people aware of something" is either a five-year old understanding of what ads are, or a deliberate lie.