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A great gift for the Stellaris fan in your life!

Through a mapping of traditional paths into their GoboLinux counterparts, we transparently retain compatibility with the Unix legacy. [...] There is no rocket science to this: /bin is a link to /System/Index/bin. And as a matter of fact, so is /usr/bin. And /usr/sbin... all "binaries" directories map to the same place. Amusingly, this makes us even more compatible than some more standard-looking distributions. In GoboLinux, all standard paths work for all files, while other distros may struggle with incompatibilites such as scripts breaking when they refer to /usr/bin/foo when the file is actually in /usr/local/bin/foo.

A company that can't figure out the difference between a scam like Better Homes and Gardens and a rigorous review site like Housefresh should be pouring every spare dime it brings in into fixing this problem. Not buying default search status on every platform so that we never try another search engine: they should be fixing their shit.

This seems like the Top Best post to use to train HN's spam filters and voting ring detection tools.

It's not until the Third Law that the author names a show of his: The Middleman (2008) on ABC Family, a one-and-done cult classic comedy show. That show's quality lends strong credence to the expertise backing up his second and third laws. That show really knew what it was, and every decision top to bottom worked to convey the show's very particular tone and style.

It must have been a real trick to communicate that effectively-- The Middleman was like "X-Files meets Doctor Who, but less serious than either, and with a sense of ironic detachment, but not so much detachment that we can't tell stories about emotions, and also everyone talks like they're in a comedy sketch making fun of the dialogue in Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

There is a specific subsite there for media discussions: https://fanfare.metafilter.com/

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I like the compass! It's nerdy, but I like to carry one when navigating an unknown city, and I find it very helpful.

Yeah, but this one, if he exists, does. Crack open a piggy bank, find enough money to buy safecracking tools.

If there were a crowd of script kiddies rapping on the armour of every tank they could see, then yes, making your tank less visible would endanger it.

I don't follow. If your tank is less visible, it gets seen (and thus interacted with) less on average, regardless of how many people are looking for tanks.

That's not much of an improvement in terms of comprehensibility.

Well, yeah, someone had to teach her that flawless inverted-pyramid writing style.

Yes, yes! Everyone steal the best parts of WebOS and make 'em universal!

My Ergotron clamps onto a corner desk.

I use an Ergotron Workfit-S: http://www.ergotron.com/ProductsDetails/tabid/65/PRDID/378/D...

It's very quick to move up and down, and the keyboard tray and monitor are independent. Not much adjustibility on the monitors, but otherwise I have no complaints.

Do people who use this call it "peacock" or "pico see"?

People always say this (or the more general "take care of your joints"). What the hell does it mean? Don't skateboard? Run? Don't run? Start taking fish oil at age 25?

Just so that this doesn't stand entirely unchallenged: Gibson's newer stuff is excellent and continues to be prescient and quite a lot of fun. The Blue Ant trilogy ("trilogy", like the Sprawl books) is a very sharp look at the decade past, especially the middle book, Spook Country.

Please edit or delete this comment. It's stretching the page.

I usually nap under the pool table that no one uses.

You've missed the context of this document.

""Newsweek has not received any statement or letter from either Mr. Nakamoto or his legal counsel. If and when we do, we will respond as necessary.""

Please edit; stretches the page on 1366 width.

MoMA's industrial design section is the only part that I remember years later. Gosh, what a cool place.

What if a person or company committed a significant investment to such a project, contingent on a crowdfunding push hitting certain thresholds?

Finally, more app support for my WebOS devices!

That wasn't sarcasm, I'm legitimately excited.

I chuckled. It is, in fact, quite easy to imagine that American bureaucrats (as a collective) are that stupid. I'm not discounting the other possibility, though.

Seems awful trivial five years later. Givewell does excellent nonprofit analysis, and they don't seem malicious or unethical in any way that I've seen.

Have you considered testing these abilities in a controlled environment?

Always tricky to prove intention, especially when so many related details would be secret.