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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising
on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:42PM (#21403112)
> and yet he's generally leaning left of course
Words clearly do not have meanings anymore
Re:Twitter to ban political advertising
on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:41PM (#21403105)
Telling the government "I know you've told me to take it down, but we specifically designed it in such a way that we can't take it down" sounds like an incredibly good legal strategy that will definitely not backfire.
Re:Nokia’s collapse turned a sleepy town in Finland into an internet w...
on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:18AM (#21396843)
I didn't mean it like that.
Re:Nim: Scripting Ease in a Compiled Language
on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @08:24PM (#21393506)
I used Nim for a few projects. My best description is that it's fun, but everything feels kinda off when writing stuff.
Re:AirPods Pro
on Monday October 28, 2019 @01:12PM (#21379020)
I disagree; this website is awful. If you hijack the scroll event to do something like this, instead of just... letting me scroll, you're very much going to hell.
Re:Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing the Oil Gian...
on Sunday October 27, 2019 @11:47AM (#21370445)
Let us assume that a situation that will never happen will happen. Suddenly, everything is bad! Therefore you are all filthy virtue signallers.
Re:Exxon accurately predicted 2019's climate change and CO2 emission i...
on Sunday October 27, 2019 @11:23AM (#21370266)
> My bet is whoever figures out a carbon capture -> green oil solution is in for big wins.
Otherwise known as a tree
Re:Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think
on Saturday October 26, 2019 @04:21PM (#21365944)
> by saying that, yes, in fact a Dutchman is worth 11x a Nigerian.
I'm pretty sure economists actually genuinely believe this statement.
Re:Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think
on Saturday October 26, 2019 @01:38PM (#21365063)
Everything is only going to get worse
Re:Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think
on Saturday October 26, 2019 @01:07PM (#21364846)
Opened the article expecting it to be a more abstract cost. Turns out it's about economics. Christ alive.
"Yeah, billions are gonna die, but what really matters is my house prices are gonna go down."
Re:Google attempted to shut down a unionization meeting in Zurich
on Monday October 21, 2019 @05:12PM (#21317430)
> you’re comparing a highly homogeneous culture
Are you talking about a different Switzerland than everyone else? A country literally made out of three different cultures (French Swiss, German Swiss and Italian Swiss)?
Re:Ask HN: What are the most fundamental books on computer science?
on Monday October 21, 2019 @12:14PM (#21313991)
Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation
Re:Show HN: Nginx Image with HTTP/3 (QUIC), TLS1.3 with 0-RTT, Brotli
on Sunday October 20, 2019 @10:04PM (#21308814)
/mu:sul/
Re:Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index
on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @07:08PM (#21277045)
Didn't realise cash was suddenly outlawed
Re:Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work
on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @04:24PM (#21275106)
Or, reworded: "Please put 300 weasel words to sneak it past the Civility Detector 3000"
Re:How to pack a Norwegian sandwich, the world’s most boring lunch
on Monday October 14, 2019 @11:09PM (#21255236)
> Assume you need 2,500 calories/day
Well, your first mistake is there
Re:What men eat and drink may affect their babies’ health
on Monday October 14, 2019 @11:02PM (#21255208)
> Something that has been mushed up from its original form to the point of being unrecognizable
Sauces are the enemy!
Re:Show HN: Bel
on Sunday October 13, 2019 @04:27PM (#21242739)
> that all other things being equal, the debuggability of a language, and the pleasure one feels in using it, will be inversely proportional to the length of programs written in it.
Busting a gigantic nut when I see a blank file
Re:I tried to hack my insomnia
on Friday October 11, 2019 @10:04AM (#21224460)
> I did that last night, got tired and went to bed around 10pm. And then I woke up at 1am. Now that it's approaching 6, I'm getting tired. But this happens to me occasionally and I know from past experience that my two options are:
This is how your sleep schedule is naturally designed to work. Sleep for a bit, wake up, sleep again.
Re:Function Currying in Go
on Friday October 11, 2019 @08:39AM (#21223724)
In 3 months time: Off-topic: I see 'dev.to' and I don't tap because I can't face the pop-ups and nag modal. Sad to think, at one time Medium used to be the cleanest reading experience.
Re:Function Currying in Go
on Friday October 11, 2019 @08:38AM (#21223717)
Ah yes, the Go mantra. Make your code as dumb and long as possible.
Re:Changing Your Diet Can Help Tamp Down Depression, Boost Mood
on Thursday October 10, 2019 @09:58AM (#21214546)
I eat every 20 hours or so nowadays, I think that qualifies as "intermittent starvation" for people here. I still feel like shit.
Re:Changing Your Diet Can Help Tamp Down Depression, Boost Mood
on Thursday October 10, 2019 @09:57AM (#21214528)
> still good to teach them their importance and that they should eat some things even though they don’t taste good
I remember my parents trying this on me one night until I vomited their mank vegetables all over the dinner table. Never again.
Re:No Radical Changes in GNU Project
on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @02:00PM (#21205964)
Love too be friends with a war criminal and mass murderer.
Re:Sea 'Boiling' with Methane Discovered in Siberia
on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @11:04PM (#21199610)
Nothing. We're fucked. The world will die in the pursuit of expanding growth and profit.
Re:Street by Street, Amsterdam Is Cutting Cars Out of the Picture
on Monday October 07, 2019 @05:41PM (#21186247)
Dying from air pollution to own the citylab writers
Re:Void Linux (musl) on the Huawei MateBook X Pro
on Sunday October 06, 2019 @10:31AM (#21172253)
It's cheaper. I don't care about the ethics. Steal away!
Re:Paypal Withdraws from Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency
on Friday October 04, 2019 @09:30PM (#21163269)
If your bank provides an API, sure.
Re:Pricing niche products
on Friday October 04, 2019 @10:42AM (#21158189)
Whereas I own a £1 keyboard and I prefer it vastly more than any mechanical KB I had before.
Re:Auto-Antonyms
on Thursday October 03, 2019 @01:11PM (#21149270)
It's been fully co-opted everywhere except in the headspace of internet prescriptivists.