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Re:OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era on Monday September 18, 2023 @12:02PM (#37558041)
Is part of the AI the worms? such is life on Arrakis ;)
Re:“Off Switch” Makes Explosives Safer on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @02:48PM (#35250677)
See Remington EtronX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qP6Q9ZEsEo (but it obviously was a commercial failure)
That picture looks like hospital food
Understand that everyone suffers from some degree of this and the world up to this point was still built on procrastination. “If it wasn’t for the last minute, nothing would get done”
Re:Internet Movie Firearms Database on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @05:39PM (#29642978)
Thank you for your opinion and service. I too served and was privileged be trained during relative peace time but also had the liberal budget thanks to the GWOT. Our country doesn’t really give out medals for just shooting, but my competence and appreciation in marksmanship is owed to the wonderful cadre I had teaching me, and their passion in marksmanship in addition to the weapon system.

I’m not going to deny your point on killing. That is one application of firearms, also a powerful one, but I don’t feel that’s a reason to absolutely prohibit them for the common folk. As we’re both on HN I’m sure you also don’t “get” why folks just love some things like I do.

For me it’s the history, appreciation of the engineering, and my now civilian hobbies of hunting and competition shooting. They are one of many things that bring me joy that I would hate to lose in my healthy years.

Re:Internet Movie Firearms Database on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @04:48PM (#29642536)
Guns are cool. You should give them a try, I recommend at an outdoor range too. America is one of the last countries with a liberal mindset (in the true definition) that allows private ownership to exist. Like driving fast, flying or diving, there are few pleasures in life that match firing guns outdoors.
As a Canadian who never grew up with standardized testing, and also graduating with an IB cohort (from a public school) whom none of them actually went to the US (just took their boosted canadian grade equivalents or went somewheres in europe), I really fail to see how this could be that bad of a thing. The first year, or semester even is a great filter that cuts a significant amount of folks where school isn't for them.

I can also see this as a move like china did to kill tutorial services to give kids back their teen years. In a land where school is so expensive I think its worth it to spend summers working a job (and all the merits that come with that) to better prep for possibly the biggest financial decision ever for a still developing brain.

Re:Cardstacker Bryan Berg on Friday December 10, 2021 @11:33AM (#29511839)
I don’t relate to the active destruction part but I enjoy looking at the twisted metals and frames of car wrecks and the like. For me it’s the reconstruction of the aftermath
Re:Controlled indoor cultivation of black morel on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @08:48PM (#29480433)
500 server error :(
Re:Ask HN: Is Airbnb Scamming Users? on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @02:20PM (#29476982)
Maybe its super fast bots?
You don’t use email on your phone?
What if parrots also charged interest but the rates are just that low?
Re:Used car market gets even more bizarre on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @07:04PM (#29182685)
I feel like my Lexus is300 has actually appreciated the least out of all the vehicles I’ve looked at. So there’s that :(
Re:International Mail Service Suspensions on Saturday October 02, 2021 @01:47AM (#28726278)
I am Canadian and I just learned about this, wow
i like hackaday.io but maybe thats too specific
Was it the m60 or m240? Was it delta force BHD? Good times :)
Re:A Curated List of Products Not Made in China on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @11:59PM (#26720450)
As China becomes more wealthy they'll move out of manufacturining. There should be an list of economic colonies of China.

oh wait...

Re:Learning to Suffer on Monday January 18, 2021 @11:18PM (#25829950)
The army is structured suffering that even pays, feeds and shelters you
they wanted to restart the print job?
Great app! It's very clean and aesthetic will no doubt build trust in your user demographic.

idk why but every wife beater combo makes me chuckle https://www.twelve70.com/outfits?category1=top&item1=tanktop...

Re:Nearly 28M licensed Texas drivers hit by data breach on Sunday November 15, 2020 @12:47AM (#25098621)
Perhaps some sort of correlation to password strength for dictionary type attacks
Re:Ask HN: Are you depressed? on Saturday November 14, 2020 @09:32PM (#25097700)
I am also surprised by the numbers. At first I thought numbers would be lower.

I wonder if an equally useful question is “were you ever depressed?”

Im interested in seeing if there is an overlap of those that answered no. If they’ve overcome their depression and more importantly recognize what real depression feels like for them.

Re:Try Design Thinking on Monday November 09, 2020 @11:44PM (#25042868)
This person may have been a victim of IBM design thinking workshop and is bitter
Re:Alex Trebek has died on Sunday November 08, 2020 @02:39PM (#25028300)
RIP Alex

This is still one of my favourite moments https://youtu.be/OpKOm-LLRhA

This might not be for you, and not for me either.

But it's for the 13 y/o me that was figuring out how to use alcohol 120% to burn the latest games or fix my computer from all the viruses I got downloading movies and music at that time from p2p.

And if it wasn't for that pursuit that led to many other skills and opportunities, I know a lot of us wouldn't be in the financial situations we are in right now.

I guess Google and now Microsoft know I can't do basic math :(
Re:Web based Windows XP desktop recreation, built with React on Saturday October 31, 2020 @06:14PM (#24955636)
NO PINBALL?!?!

Other than that well done :)

Re:Why some people suffer from a stutter on Thursday September 24, 2020 @01:45AM (#24575613)
I still stutter once in a while, much worse as a kid, heres what helped me:

1) Public speaking, I finished up to the old ACS level at a local toastmasters

2) Subconsciously building a wordlist that I stutter more than others, and using synonyms that don't

3) Playfully smiling and saying "Bleh!" out loud if I do catch myself stuttering, and repeating what I was trying to say.

Finally: To the well intentioned non-stutterer telling us to relax and slow down, go fuck yourself

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