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Re:Why Birds Can Fly over Mount Everest on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:29AM (#50289695)
- flight and egg shell thickness are limiting factors

- theses carbon deposits weres mostly swamps so the dead wood was under water

Re:We are not going anywhere on Monday August 24, 2026 @04:43AM (#49416922)
This seems like a pretty naive take. We "went places" in the past for one set of reasons, we'll "go places" in the future for another set.
Re:Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn on Monday December 29, 2025 @01:29PM (#46423681)
> Scheduled arrival in Bonn see that was your second mistake (first mistake was trying to use DB)
Re:Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction on Thursday December 11, 2025 @09:54AM (#46232101)
too many arm chair game devs who think they know better in this thread
Re:No ARIA is better than bad ARIA on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @07:44AM (#46204328)
This is the "Read Me First" page on a site absolutely full of documentation...
i built the same thing (though only the notifier, not all the stat tracking) for my friend group back in 2017 when PUBG came out and we were trying to play together as often as we could. can confirm it worked great.

i eventually moved the bot to glitch.com (rip) where we could collaborate on it and it evolved into a monster of in jokes and utilities. it's going offline this week unless i can find the time to migrate it off glitch

Re:Aether: A CMS That Gets Out of Your Way on Friday June 06, 2025 @10:57AM (#44201568)
> Here's a radical idea: what if your content lived in simple, readable files instead of being locked away in a database

radical 20+ years ago, maybe

> In the US, trips that are 50-300 miles are almost all done by car because that distance is too short for commercial airlines and too far for public transportation.

How can the solution be worse cars rather than better public transport?

is Tidy First? a book I can read or does it require reading the substack in reverse order?
Re:Meta to Layoff 10k Employees on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @10:47AM (#35152352)
"garbage collect some processes" is an incredibly poor choice of words to use in a post about laying off 10,000 people through no fault of their own...
money
Re:The dictatorship of the articulate on Thursday September 01, 2022 @08:39AM (#32675487)
"Inclusivity is fine, but..."
Re:The dictatorship of the articulate on Thursday September 01, 2022 @08:38AM (#32675481)
The article is arguing that the people the author agrees with should have more authority to do what they want and the people they disagree with should have less. And when those people won't leave then "we need to be okay ruffling some feathers". Sounds pretty fascist aligning to me.
Re:Shottr – macOS Screenshot Utility on Friday June 17, 2022 @05:50AM (#31776045)
I was ready to be "just another screenshot app" but then I saw the distance measure tool, that's very cool
Re:Deno Deploy Beta 2 on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @02:56PM (#28384131)
Typescript/Deno is very ergonomic and presents a lower barrier for entry for writing web servers. However, it's a relatively large and slow to start runtime which makes it less than ideal for developer tools.

You should use the right tool for the job. Not every language is good for every job or every person.

Re:Tz: A Time Zone Helper on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @03:24PM (#26559219)
Looks great! A few years ago I built basically the same thing as a simple web app: https://tz.now.sh/
I don't think you understand newspeak. The words on the right mean the same as the original meaning of the word on the left. The meanings of words change over time, languages do that.
> "I think there are very valid parts of this argument about appropriation of voice," he added, saying he believes "we do have the obligation to teach ourselves and to do research and to treat people with respect if we're going to have them feature in our work".

> He said there must be "decency towards people outside of one's own immediate experience".

This is the key point. If you are not doing your research, misrepresenting people or not showing the respect people deserve you should to be called out. From my point of view it looks like the people complaining about self-censorship are just being told to show common decency and they don't like that

Re:RIP Google Music on Thursday November 12, 2020 @11:28AM (#25071511)
I'm now on Apple Music, after a year or so of being very unhappy using Spotify. It does the streaming big catalogue of music + upload your own and stream it too that I need. I love the ease of paying for a service and streaming any music I want but there's a bunch of stuff I own from bandcamp or cds which aren't on any streaming provider and I want them to be a part of my library too. Google Music did it well for me for a long time; Apple Music is doing it alright enough for me now. Apple Music in iTunes is absolute garbage on both mac and windows, but the android app works well.
Re:Google Pixel Buds on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @09:09AM (#23006570)
That's a shame. I like my ones with the string between them
lmao the defensiveness in this thread. boiling frogs
Re:Original Source code for the Furby [pdf] on Monday August 13, 2018 @02:19PM (#17752310)
Alternative source with multiple formats including an OCR'd text file: https://archive.org/details/furby-source
Re:Mexico’s take on the Cornish pasty on Monday May 21, 2018 @01:46PM (#17120227)
Come to Cornwall for the pasties, beaches, and (tiny) burgeoning tech community
The immediate problem is that the home page is a boring marketing page and not content like reddit or hn