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Re:Are stochastic parrots alive? on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:51PM (#50292128)
Nope.
Re:Dr. Bronner’s became the soap for every subculture on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @06:11PM (#36702367)
...flavor?
even being pedantic, it's literally bullshit:

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bullshit

bullshit

noun

nonsense, lies, or exaggeration.

That website lists at least two locations near me that no longer exist, and the entries show they were last updated over 12 years ago.
Raise that bar however high you want; you cannot completely eliminate the possibility of a mistake.
Re:Ask HN: How many of you are open to Piracy again? on Thursday January 05, 2023 @11:37AM (#34262407)
HBO is proving that to not necessarily be the case.
Re:For Many Widows, the Hardest Part Is Mealtime (2019) on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @04:20PM (#33807868)
That's it, right there. It's less about what I imagine people around me are thinking and more about that inner critic. It's a hard thing to silence.
Re:For Many Widows, the Hardest Part Is Mealtime (2019) on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @01:10PM (#33804918)
I have my phone remind me do to all those simple things that used to be effortless, like take a shower, eat something, feed the cat, water the plants, etc.

It does tend to be a lot of the same stuff. I've made more or less the same breakfast for 7 months now.

Re:For Many Widows, the Hardest Part Is Mealtime (2019) on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @12:48PM (#33804517)
I'll be seven months in as of two days from now.

I find myself making way too much food, and having to freeze things back. Things I used to make in bulk that would last us 3 meals now take me over a week to finish, if I don't just throw it out.

If I don't want to cook, the thought of going out to eat by myself, getting a table for one, just feels pathetic and I don't want to do it. If I order delivery, I still end up getting too much.

If I make some new thing, something she never got to try, I feel like crap because it's another experience we didn't get to have together. Same for going to a new restaurant. All of this will get easier with time but I wouldn't wish this life on anyone.

That probably makes sense, but I'm sad to find that out. I've been thinking of logging back in to see if I could read the first few messages between myself and my recently-deceased fiancée. But those were years ago and I'm sure they're gone.
"The two companies had a December deadline for a renegotiation, but sources say it hasn’t been met, and as a result, new Roku devices will continue to be unable to download YouTube or YouTube TV apps."
Re:Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it on Monday March 08, 2021 @06:39PM (#26393183)
I probably created this account before I partially gave up on privacy. Thanks for listening!
Re:Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it on Monday March 08, 2021 @04:37PM (#26391964)
I haven't done much in the past year due to creative blocks and not having long train commutes that were conducive to this kind of thing, but here's a few of my better ones. I also put out short albums in 2018 and 2019 for National Solo Album Month, they're there in my soundcloud as well.

https://soundcloud.com/bill-abney/uneven-column-reasoned

https://soundcloud.com/bill-abney/floating-flux-v2

https://soundcloud.com/bill-abney/mercurial-law-v2

https://soundcloud.com/bill-abney/anomalous-metallic-state

Re:OpenIndiana Hipster 2019.10 is here – openindiana on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @12:39PM (#21516103)
Three! The three hard things are naming things, cache invaliCONCURRENCYdation, and off by one errors!
Re:Uncleftish Beholding on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @06:27PM (#19213139)
Conversely, I felt the same way about "flugzeug", "spielzeug", "werkzeug" etc.
Re:Android P on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @04:32PM (#17024743)
"Android P Beta is available today on Google Pixel." Oh, except the Pixel C which we're pretending never happened.
Re:EasyDNS refuses to host The DailyStormer domain on Friday September 08, 2017 @01:03PM (#15201941)
Because it used to be legal to own people.
Re:Kodak Ektra on Thursday October 20, 2016 @04:19PM (#12755769)
Scroll down just a bit: "Introducing Kodak's professional-quality, photography-first smartphone."