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Re:Novellas with Groff
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @05:42PM (#50330694)
Markdown if you can get away with it, typst if you need it.
Re:FDA rushed out agency-wide AI tool—it’s not going well
on Thursday June 12, 2025 @02:10AM (#44254704)
I see what you did there.
Re:The Truth About H-1B Visas It's wage theft, pure and simple
on Friday January 03, 2025 @04:05PM (#42589458)
Australian here: I think anyone can become Australian.
Re:Twitter alerted employees all office buildings closed and badge acc...
on Friday November 18, 2022 @02:47AM (#33651614)
A few _days_ ago they were looking at 60-70 cents. I suspect those were (relatively speaking) the good old days.
Re:Understanding Jane Street
on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @05:53PM (#32324742)
I honestly can't tell exactly when the thread meandered into satire.
Re:Mutt – Text-based mail client for Unix
on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @06:23AM (#31736876)
Re:Show HN: Omnino, a windowing system for web apps, inspired by the A...
on Thursday October 07, 2021 @06:16PM (#28792794)
Very cool. I keep middle-clicking the Delwin button, which my browser interprets differently than I want.
Re:The anus is an evolutionary marvel
on Friday May 21, 2021 @12:47AM (#27230603)
If there was ever a time for the universal New Yorker caption:
https://web.archive.org/web/20060203045552/http://modernarth... ...
Re:Time spent programming is often time well spent
on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @08:12PM (#24573828)
AIUI the scenario with Jim Butcher and Dresden Files was that he was _trying_ to write some "genre hack" novel, and succeeded despite himself: https://www.tor.com/2008/07/25/sdccjimbutcherinterview/
"... struggled mightily until deciding (out of frustration) to reverse course and follow Chester’s rigorous writing techniques to the letter, doing all the plot outlining and character background sheets and so on that the English literature folks often scoff at as the workmanlike tools of genre hacks."
Re:Cory Doctorow is fighting back against Amazon's Audible
on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @08:57PM (#24499982)
> Can any English speaker remember the name of the interpreter of their favourite audiobook?
Anne Hathaway for Wizard of Oz, David Tennant for How to Train Your Dragon, James Marsters for Dresden Files are all _amazing_.
Re:NY Man Arrested for Cutting Wires to Red Light Cameras (2016)
on Monday October 29, 2018 @10:22PM (#18333591)
Towards the back of the article it talks about video from inside the house where the man shows the knife to the camera then turns off the camera.
Re:Which editor/IDE do you use and why?
on Saturday January 07, 2017 @04:35AM (#13343195)
Acme. I'm used to it.
Re:Why the FBI's request to Apple will affect civil rights for a gener...
on Sunday February 21, 2016 @05:57PM (#11147087)
>>> log(99999,2) -> 16.6
Re:Minipresso – Hand-powered portable espresso machine
on Friday October 10, 2014 @02:18AM (#8436487)
I've got (an earlier model of) http://espressounplugged.com/rok Less portable, but much less fiddly than this minipresso seems to be.
Re:Project Loon
on Sunday June 16, 2013 @08:11PM (#5890664)
What makes you think the _small_ guys will protect your data _better_?