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I think you mean M31 instead of M3, and assuming northern hemisphere viewing only. I think the Magellanic Clouds are visible in the southern hemisphere.

Now this kids is Hacker News.

You're asking the right questions.

I’d vote shuffle with space bar.

It's a very common error that happens in both written and spoken language. I've wondered if it's because weary is kind of "in between" wary and leery, like an incorrect mashup, or something.

"Just quiet determination."

Few can top the opening line of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

But there were brave souls who tried, in the now-defunct Bulwer-Lytton Contest [0].

Where else could you find gems like these?

  > The day I lost my tractor was the same day I found out my wife was moonlighting as a hooker when she gave me a wad of cash and told me, “It’s from a John, dear."

What is arguably worse is hearing these phrases from humans who have been inculcated with the notion that their usage is idiomatic and appropriate.

And we thought "robust", "circle back", and "to leverage" were grating...

Another one is "surface", like in "across all product surfaces". I've been in the field for 15 years and have never heard that particular usage before.

Thank you to the author for writing a GitHub page in 2026 that is entirely devoid of emoji.

And 60 years ago we thought Steve McQueen was the shit.

Wow, indeed, this is it! Great sleuth work, detective!

We cant even get 10 dentists to agree which toothpaste to use.

The 1 in 10 who didn’t recommend $PASTECORP made up the 9 in 10 who recommended $NUTRAPASTE

I'll have to spend some time trying to find it if it's on there, but I had one at one point called "Pimeer" where the text was rendered in such a way to look like a Pioneer stereo. Fooled me at the time.

predate the invention of popcorn

Popcorn's been around for thousands of years.

From the first sentence and image on jerrysmap.com I seriously thought it was Jerry Garcia's doing for a second.

And it's gonna be like that in this space for the next decade-plus.

as if duplication would be the root of all evil

And instead it gets replaced with the actual root of all evil, complexity.

Wow. Talk about a storm in a teapot...

Hence, natrium.

OT, but the image in TFA is not of a yak, but Highland cattle [0].

Yaks [1] have a shoulder hump you can't miss.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_cattle

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yak

Can you adjust the weights with a Shake Weight™?

The irony of a group of crows being called a murder while they are gathered for a funeral, going over their own post mortem of a fallen comrade.

Trump has pardoned a number of people who have donated large sums to his political campaigns.

It will be interesting to see how he'll be able to spin his well-documented donations to Democratic causes and sell that to the current administration:

"He personally gave at least $40 million to politicians and political action committees ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, mostly to Democrats and liberal-leaning groups, making him the second overall top donor to Democrats, only behind George Soros, according to the Center for Responsive Politics" [0].

0: https://time.com/6241262/sam-bankman-fried-political-donatio...

I read it as an argument from the end user’s perspective. Kind of like this:

  - trying to do X, getting software error: bug
  - wishing the software did Y, even though it’s not implemented: bug

It's so easy a grug brain can do it.

Username checks out?

Why stop there? We can dream of a future where math is bent to our will [0] for the betterment of all mankind!

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill

Or a side hustle of exorbitant P&C insurance.